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What Do We Know About How Companies Manage Waste? The Effect of Tenure and Diversity of Directors on Disclosures

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the effect of board tenure on firms' waste management disclosure and explore whether this effect is amplified by board gender and cultural diversity. The analysis is based on data from 832 large firms worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT IN FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WITH SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR: APPLICATION OF THE CALGARY MODEL

open access: yesCogitare Enfermagem
Objective: unveil the actions that maintain the functionality of the family of people with suicidal behavior. Method: this is a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory study, based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the Calgary Family ...
Isabela Carolyne Sena de Andrade   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

Discurso del rector, Ing. Félix Ulloa en la reapetura de las oficinas centrales de la UES en el edificio de la corte de cuentas de la República

open access: yesLa Universidad, 2017
El texto presentado a continuación, proporcionado por la familia Ulloa, es el discurso pronunciado por el Ex Rector Ing. Félix Ulloa en la apertura de las Oficinas Centrales de la Universidad de El Salvador, en el quinto piso del edificio de la Corte de
Félix Ulloa
doaj  

Coping with the diagnosis and hospitalization of a child with childhood cancer

open access: yesInvestigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2015
Objective.Find out how family members cope with hospitalization due to the diagnosis of childhood cancer. Methodology. This is a descriptive-exploratory design study with qualitative data analyses, undertaken in the Support Center for Childhood Cancer in
Tainan de Cerqueira Nóia   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses a unique panel dataset (1995-2001) of rural El Salvador to investigate the main sources of the persistence and variability of incomes. First we propose an econometric framework where a general dynamic panel model is validly reduced to a ...
Mariana Marchionni   +2 more
core  

El Salvador: A Central American Tiger? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
El Salvador is becoming an economic success story in Central America. Since the end of the civil conflict in 1992, which left the country in ruins, El Salvador has transformed its economy by implementing a far-reaching liberalization process undertaken ...
Juan Carlos Hidalgo
core  

Characterizing early behavioral and social–emotional problems in young children with SCN1A+ Dravet syndrome: Findings from the ENVISION prospective natural history study

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Dravet syndrome (DS) is the prototypic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug‐resistant seizures, developmental slowing, and many other morbidities. Detailed characterization of behavioral phenotypes and social–emotional skill development are limited.
Ingrid E. Scheffer   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Filling the Gaps in Civil Society The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Democratization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promoting democracy in deeply divided societies by examining the experience of the Catholic Church in Latin America.
Carnes, Matthew, Thiede, John
core   +1 more source

Scale-adjusted metrics for predicting the evolution of urban indicators and quantifying the performance of cities

open access: yes, 2015
More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be two-thirds by 2050. Fostered by the relevancy of a scientific characterization of cities and for the availability of an unprecedented amount of data, academics
Alves, Luiz G. A.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

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