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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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Semantic analysis of the word "Savval" in the Quran with emphasis on the semantic fields of companionship and succession [PDF]

پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی
Examining the meaning of the words in the Quran plays an important and special role in understanding the purpose of God and the precise application of divine commands.
Habibullah Halimi Jolodar, fateme Qorbani laktarashani, sakineh abbasi karani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plasticity in plant hydraulic traits: An evaluation of a common‐taxa experiment across a climatic gradient in the Western U.S.

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Due to climate change, plants are experiencing both prolonged drought events and increasingly variable water availability, prompting the need for better understanding of potential impacts on plant performance, as well as the identification of low‐water‐use plants.
Amelia Keyser‐Gibson, Lloyd Nackley, Youping Sun, Jared Sisneroz, Darren Haver, Ryan Contreras, Ursula K. Schuch, Lorence Oki, Soo‐Hyung Kim   +8 more
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Resilient Flow Regimes in the Rio Grande—Río Bravo Basin

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water is essential for human development and is an indispensable resource for economic activity and a country's growth. However, current water practices, along with increasing land‐use change, climate change, and agricultural practices, have significantly altered the hydrological cycle and water availability.
Ramon Saiz‐Rodriguez, Samuel Sandoval‐Solis, Laura Garza‐Diaz, Brian D. Richter, Enrique Prunes   +4 more
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Identity Play: Middle School Youths' Provisional Self‐Making in Horizon‐Expanding STEM Spaces

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces identity play as an analytic construct for science education to explore improvisational dimensions of middle school students' STEM identity development in multiple out‐of‐school learning experiences focused on environmental problem‐solving.
Heidi B. Carlone, Alison K. Mercier
wiley   +1 more source

Transformative Pathways for Strengthening Climate‐Resilient Health Systems Among Indigenous Communities: Advancing Equity and Sustainability in Global Health

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most climate‐resilience health interventions are designed at the global level, with minimal attention to Indigenous communities' needs. The lack of consideration can lead to unintended harm and exacerbate health risks. This study aims to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely ...
Chrishma D. Perera, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Carol Zavaleta‐Cortijo, Timothy D. Baird, Korine N. Kolivras, James D. Ford, Michelle Dickson, Kerrie Pickering, Guangqing Chi, Joana Bezerra, Dhanya Vijayan, Victoria Chicamana‐Zapata, Cecil Togarepi, Kheminda G. Thilakarathne, Martha M. Hangula, Francis A. Akugre, Richard Nuwagira, Jonathan Nkalubo   +17 more
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles‐Based Formulations for Enhanced Oral Delivery of Peptide Drugs: A Case Study on Insulin

Small, EarlyView.
This work explores the tailored functionalization of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) to improve the oral delivery of insulin, as a case study. Insulin confinement within silica mesopores increased drug solubility, and co‐formulation with succinylated β‐lactoglobulin yielded pH‐responsive tablets that limited gastric release and proteolysis, while
Claudia Iriarte‐Mesa, Estelle Juère, Andrea Bileck, Thomas Kremsmayr, Michael L. Goodson, Allison Ehrlich, Adnan Hodžić, Martin Kunert, Christopher Gerner, Hanspeter Kählig, Doris Marko, Markus Muttenthaler, David Berry, Giorgia Del Favero, Freddy Kleitz   +14 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan, Thangatur Sukumar Hariharan, Nabila Khan, S. Thejaswin   +3 more
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Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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