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Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper investigates the controversial relationship between firms' earnings quality and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, focusing on the energy and utility sectors given their significant regulatory pressures, environmental impact, and capital‐intensive nature, which render ESG performance particularly important for ...
Antonios Persakis +2 more
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Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The housing issue significantly influences individuals' well‐being. As a crucial mechanism for alleviating the housing issue, the housing security system has garnered increasing attention regarding its impact on residents' happiness. Utilizing data from the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS), this paper seeks to thoroughly investigate the ...
Lingzhen Yao, Bei Qiao, Yuhan Hu
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Voice and Frames in the Soviet Nenets’ Auto/Biographies
European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 This article explores the narrative and metalinguistic devices used by two Nenets writers, Nikolaj Vylka and Anton Pyrerka, in the auto/ biographical novels they wrote in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Karina Lukin
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Realistic Representation, Dynamic Evolution and Determinants of Institutional Quality in China
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper delves into the role of institutional quality in bolstering China's economic resilience post‐COVID‐19, CITIC‐Entropy. It divides institutions into basic and changeable categories, establishing an index system via the CITIC‐Entropy TOPSIS model.
Susu Wang, Qidi Zhang, Jing Fang
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Slovak drama in the years 1970 - 1989 [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2000 The author follows Slovak drama in the years when Socialist Realism was violently introduced into its organism. Due to its influence it was left outside the main development streams in the world. B.
Božena Čahojová
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Enjeux idéologiques et littéraires de la science-fiction en Corée du Nord depuis 1945
ReS Futurae, 2016 Cet article retrace l’histoire de la science‐fiction en Corée du Nord depuis 1945 jusqu’à nos jours. L’évolution de l’écriture science‐fictionnelle nord‐coréenne est indissociable des transformations socio‐politiques du pays et des différentes mises en ...
Benoît Berthelier
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo +1 more
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Totalitarism, realism och historisk ängslighet
Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2019 Totalitarianism, Realism and the Anxiety of History This essay examines the problem of totalitarian art and totalitarianism by studying the relationship between art, society and history in realism, both as a historical literary practice and as an ...
Tora Lane
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