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Tobacco industry tactics to retail vendors in Sri Lanka

, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation Mainly Tobacco industry depends on retail tobacco vendors. Community groups and heath people are empowered to minimize the availability of cigarettes in respective areas.
Amaranath Tenna
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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
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AGV monocular vision localization algorithm based on Gaussian saliency heuristic

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
To address the issues of poor detection accuracy and the large number of target detection model parameters in existing AGV monocular vision location detection algorithms, this paper presents an AGV vision location method based on Gaussian saliency ...
Heng Fu, Yakai Hu, Shuhua Zhao, Jianxin Zhu, Benxue Liu, Zhen Yang   +5 more
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Ball milled phosphorus modified biochar improved Nicotiana tabacum L. resistance against Phytophthora nicotianae: reducing oxidative damage, increasing defense hormone content and promoting phenylpropanoid metabolism

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionTobacco black shank (TBS), caused by Phytophthora nicotianae, poses a serious threat to tobacco production, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable management strategies.
Chunlan Ming, Yushuai Zhang, Mengze Li, Mohamed G. Moussa, Tengfei Liu, Hang Wang, Yongfei Ma, Wuxing Huang, Zicheng Xu, Jiayang Xu, Wei Jia   +10 more
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Sustainability Reporting Quality, Ethical Leadership, and Earnings Management: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the relationship between sustainability reporting quality (SRQ) and earnings management (EM) in an emerging economy and investigates the moderating role of ethical leadership. Analyzing 531 firm‐year observations from mandatory reports (2022–2024), SRQ is measured via a 51‐indicator index, while EM is proxied by the ...
Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad, Khaled Hussainey, Yara Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in the sustainable biosynthesis of valuable terpenoid flavor compounds and precursors in micro-organisms

Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
Renowned for their distinctive aromas, terpenoid flavor compounds and their precursors are widely used in medicine, food, and the flavor and fragrance industries. Rapid advances in synthetic biology, including the modification of microbial chassis cells,
Qian Li, Yibo Ning, Deyu Liu, Jie Ren, Changtong Lu, Zhifei Chen, Guanglu Wang   +6 more
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Role of media in disclosing tobacco industry interferences and building policy pressure in implementation of 90% pictorial health warning

, 2018
Background The Nepal Tobacco (Control and Regulatory) Act of 2010 mandates government enforcement of at least 75% pictorial health warning (PHW) on tobacco packaging with a provision of the yearly rotation of the pictures and a required size.
Ram Prasad Neupane
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International Evidence on How Investors Value Environmental Innovation: Non‐Pecuniary Investor Preferences or Risk Mitigation?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how environmental innovation shapes investor expectations. We propose two mechanisms through which sustained improvements in environmental innovation may influence these expectations: non‐pecuniary investor preferences and risk mitigation.
Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Dominic H. Chai, Alessandra Tanda   +3 more
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Tobacco industry interference challenging public health in India; time for the implementation of FCTC Article 5.3

, 2018
Background There is an irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry and public health. Tobacco industry use their enormous wealth and power to influence policies to market their deadly products.
Ravinder Kumar
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque, Saadia Irfan, Linh Thi Tue Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source