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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing enthusiasm to reconsider the normative foundations of the stakeholder theory is spreading in related literature. Current research mainly focuses on religious, spiritual, and philosophical underpinnings to reexamine these foundations.
Roberta Sferrazzo +2 more
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Holodilʹnaâ Tehnika i Tehnologiâ, 2017 Progress on advancing technology of using liquid nitrogen for the non-polluting automobiles is reported. It is shown that the low exergy efficiency of the known engines fueled with liquid nitrogen has discredited the very idea of a cryomobile. The design
M.B. Kravchenko
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In multi‐stakeholder initiatives, actors across sectors develop voluntary standards to guide firms' sustainability efforts. While multi‐stakeholder initiatives have long been a prevalent instrument of sustainability regulation, recently, there has been an uptake of legislation that makes it mandatory for firms to acknowledge sustainability ...
Leona A. Henry, Eva van der Zee
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Improved cryogenic refrigeration system [PDF]
, 1967 Two-position shuttle valve simplifies valving arrangement and crank-shaft configuration in gas-balancing and Stirling-cycle refrigeration systems used to produce temperatures below 173 degrees K.
Higa, W. H.
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and related restrictions imposed in the UK had a significant impact on social work practice with children and young people. As has been widely reported, practitioners were deprived of multisensory information in their assessments and of opportunities to connect with children.
Heather Ellis, Ariane Critchley
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Optimizing thermodynamic trajectories using evolutionary and gradient-based reinforcement learning [PDF]
, 2019 Using a model heat engine, we show that neural network-based reinforcement learning can identify thermodynamic trajectories of maximal efficiency. We consider both gradient and gradient-free reinforcement learning.
Beeler, Chris +5 more
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Improving the use of expert opinion in disease risk analysis for conservation translocations
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation translocations are subject to considerable uncertainty and risk, of which disease is one of the most recognized. To address disease risks, several protocols for qualitative disease risk analysis (qDRA) exist and are used for responsible conservation translocation planning.
John G. Ewen +13 more
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Effects of leakage through clearance seals on the performance of a 10 K Stirling-cycle refrigerator [PDF]
The use of clearance seals is essential to achieve long life, wear free operation of Stirling cycle cryogenic refrigerators. The effect of leakage through clearance seals on the performance of such a refrigerator operating at temperatures ranging from 20
Keung, C. S., Lindale, E.
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Indicated mean-effective pressure instrument [PDF]
, 1978 An apparatus for measuring indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) of an internal combustion piston or rotary engine or of an external combustion engine such as a stirling engine is disclosed.
Rice, W. J.
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