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Difference analysis of microbial community of cigar tobacco leaves in different producing areas before and after fermentation [PDF]

Zhongguo niangzao
Using cigar tobacco leaves from Hainan, Hunan, and Sichuan as research subjects, the bacterial and fungal community structure and abundance information of tobacco leaves from different producing areas before and after fermentation were analyzed through ...
GUAN Qinglin, JIN Yixiao, ZHENG Linlin, ZHAO Liang, XIAO Weiqiang, JIANG Jian, WU Jian, CHEN Zhen, DING Songshuang, SHI Xiangdong, WANG Jun
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Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu, Yuming Xuan, Maqsood Ahmad, Sunny Sun, Yang Jinghan   +4 more
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From Circular Economy Disclosure to Circular Transformation: A Case Study From Food‐Producing Companies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changing the use of resources and the treatment of waste is an important driver towards sustainable development. While this includes transformation of production processes, it also requires the transition of complete business models towards more circularity.
Patricia Ruffing‐Straube, Ute Merbecks, Inge Wulf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparation of an exogenous additive from Psoralea corylifolia fruit and its flavor-modifying effects on cigar tobacco leaves

Scientific Reports
Psoralea corylifolia fruit (PCF) is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine and food, but its potential applications as a flavor-modifying exogenous additive (EA) for cigar fermentation has rarely been reported. In this study, a new type of PCF-derived
Tianxiao Li, Dayuan Zhang, Jinshan Lei, Lingbo Ji, Ting Zhou, Yuhong Jia, Lulu Liu, Xuewei Jia, Baojiang He, Xianghua Zeng   +9 more
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Hyperspectral estimation of magnesium content in Yunyan 87 and Zhongyan 100 tobacco leaves using machine learning

Frontiers in Plant Science
Hyperspectral remote sensing provides a rapid and non-destructive approach for monitoring plant nutrient status; however, its application for magnesium (Mg) estimation in flue-cured tobacco remains limited.
Beibei Li, Qian Zhang, Zekai Wang, Yike Li, Hanjun Zhou, Xiefeng Ye   +5 more
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Interference in public health policy: examples of how the baby food industry uses tobacco industry tactics

, 2017
Despite countries' commitments to improve nutrition, starting with the protection of breastfeeding, aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes continues to promote their indiscriminate use.
S. I. Granheim, Katrin. Engelhardt, P. Rundall, S. Bialous, Alessandro Iellamo, B. Margetts   +5 more
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Managing Biodiversity Disclosure in Global Firms: How Culture, Institutions and Risk Shape Corporate Reporting

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers of biodiversity disclosure and the interplay between firm strategies and national institutions in shaping transparency. Using a global panel of 4703 firms across 40 economies from 2013 to 2022, we integrate differentiation, signalling and institutional perspectives to explain variation in reporting behaviour ...
Chi Chen, Yaman O. Erzurumlu, Giray Gozgor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial community analysis of mildewed cigar tobacco leaves from high-throughput sequencing data

Annals of Microbiology
Background Cigar tobacco leaves contain abundant bacteria and fungi that are vital for their quality. In this study, the microbial communities were analyzed in the artificial mildewed cigar tobacco leaves of different mildew stages (healthy control ...
Min Wei, Youzhi Shi, Xuyan Song, Lin Rong, Ziwei Li, Jing Li, Bo Wang, Bifeng Chen   +7 more
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Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar, Christopher Wickert, Svetlana Khapova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding-Enhanced Graph Attention Networks for Imbalanced Industrial Fault Diagnosis

IEEE Access
Intricate nonlinear interactions among measurements and imbalanced distribution of fault samples pose considerable challenges for accurate fault diagnosis in modern industrial processes.
Chi Zhang, Yuliang Li, Lifeng Fan, Lixiang Shen, Ting Qin   +4 more
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