ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England.
Ceri Hughes +2 more
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Modal Analysis with Asymptotic Strips Boundary Conditions of Skewed Helical Gratings on Dielectric Pipes as Cylindrical Metasurfaces for Multi-Beam Holographic Rod Antennas. [PDF]
Ng Mou Kehn M, Lin TW, Chen WC.
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Multi‐objective maritime vessel routing with safety considerations
Abstract The routing of maritime vessels is a challenging optimization problem that involves finding an adequate balance between conflicting and multiple objectives. This paper proposes a methodology based on inverse optimization to find appropriate objective weights that account for conflicting objectives. To formulate the inverse optimization problem,
Nazanin Sharif +4 more
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Antiseptic susceptibility profiles of canine pyoderma-associated staphylococci in Japan: first identification of plasmid-borne <i>smr</i> in <i>Staphylococcus coagulans</i>. [PDF]
Tsunoi M +5 more
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Human and Intellectual Capital Spending Efficiency and Efficacy: Evidence from U.S. Universities
ABSTRACT We analyze the efficiency and efficacy of human and intellectual capital investment to better understand the effects of social investment. Existing literature in the corporate setting lacks analysis on the impact of human and intellectual capital investment, likely due to data scarcity.
Christopher S. Armstrong +3 more
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The Evolution of the Linkage Among Geopolitical Risk, the US Dollar Index, Crude Oil Prices, and Gold Prices at Multiple Scales: A Wavelet Transform-Based Dynamic Transfer Entropy Network Method. [PDF]
Yang H, An S, Dong Z, Dong X.
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Background We assessed the risk of anxiety disorders in children of clinically anxious parents, focusing on the influence of parent and child sex, parental care level, depressive comorbidity, and anxiety subtype, while controlling for socioeconomic factors and other parental psychiatric conditions.
Sigrid Elfström +3 more
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Estimating weaning duration from incremental dentine δ15N and δ13C using a sequence-based LSTM neural network: A deep learning framework for bioarchaeological applications. [PDF]
Ganiatsou E +2 more
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Do carbon prices affect stock prices?
Abstract We explore how carbon pricing affects corporate financial performance during Phase 3 of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We find that the relationship between carbon prices and stock prices depends critically on the proportion of verified emissions covered by freely allocated ETS allowances: For firms with a greater ...
Patrick Bolton +2 more
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Enhancing unsupervised bearing fault diagnosis through structured prediction in latent subspace. [PDF]
Liu C, Hu R, Fang X, Luo W, Zhu C.
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