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Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present‐day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as the potential resilience of natural and agricultural systems to a changing climate. Most previous research has focused on adaptation to individual
Marc Fradera‐Soler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic Violence in Television

open access: yes
Contemporary means of communication, and especially television have the capacity to fully exploit the primary passions. However, instead of becoming instruments of democracy they turned frequently into instruments of symbolic exploitation.
Ph.D. Student Maria FLOREA NICUTA
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From muscle fibres to muscle gears: how dynamic fascicle orientation and shape change impact skeletal muscle function

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skeletal muscle architectural design strongly affects force‐generating capacity and excursion range, and its functional importance to animal and human movement is well founded. Traditionally, this ‘structure–function relation’ has been inferred from architecture measurements with muscles at rest (from anatomical dissections or medical imaging ...
Matheus D. Pinto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The symbolic violence of 'outbreak': A mixed methods, quasi-experimental impact evaluation of social protection on Ebola survivor wellbeing. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Sci Med, 2017
Richardson ET   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Board Governance to SDGs Integration: ESG Performance and Controversies in the MENA Region

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how board characteristics influence firms' integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on the mediating role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the moderating effect of ESG controversies.
Waleed M. Alahdal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Constraints and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Do Climate Exposure and People's Climate Attention Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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