Crime and Custom in Corporate Society: A Cultural Perspective on Corporate Misconduct [PDF]
, 1997 Conley and O\u27Barr take an anthropological perspective on three cases of alleged corporate misconduct--car dealer discrimination, Archer Daniels Midland, and the tobacco industry ...
Conley, John M., O\u27Barr, William M.
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Fumigant dazomet induces tobacco plant growth via changing the rhizosphere microbial community
Scientific ReportsAfter continuous cropping for many years, crops are often subject to growth inhibition, which seriously affects their yields.In agricultural production, soil fumigation can effectively alleviate the biological stress on plants.
Qingli Xiao +12 more
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Impacts of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 on Shareholders’ Wealth in the Tobacco Industry [PDF]
This study examines the impact and efficiency of the design of the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 in deregulating the tobacco production industry.
Carver, Brian C. +2 more
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Prevalence, determinants and impact of unawareness about the health consequences of tobacco use among 17,929 school personnel in 29 African countries. [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives: To assess prevalence, determinants and impact of unawareness about the health consequences of tobacco use among school personnel in Africa. Design: Cross-sectional surveys. Setting: Twenty-nine African countries.
Agaku, IT, Filippidis, FT
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Microbial community analysis of mildewed cigar tobacco leaves from high-throughput sequencing data
Annals of MicrobiologyBackground 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 +7 more
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Industrial equipment optimization for combustion performance enhancement: a real-world case study
Frontiers in Energy ResearchTo address the issue of high NOx emission from the combustion chamber, this work optimized the industrial machine structure to enhance the combustion performance.
Tianqin Lin +6 more
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Global Regulatory Strategies for Tobacco Control [PDF]
, 2007 Recent tobacco control regulation in North America and Western Europe has had a salutary effect, even if smoking remains a pressing public health hazard.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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AGV monocular vision localization algorithm based on Gaussian saliency heuristic
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal ProcessingTo 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 +5 more
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Tobacco industry strategies undermine government tax policy: evidence from commercial data
Tobacco Control, 2017 Objective Taxation equitably reduces smoking, the leading cause of health inequalities. The tobacco industry (TI) can, however, undermine the public health gains realised from tobacco taxation through its pricing strategies.
R. Hiscock +8 more
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'Cease and desist?' The persistence of Marlboro brand imagery in racing video games [PDF]
, 2020 Since 1972, Philip Morris (PM) has sponsored motorsports. Racing video games are a popular genre among youth and often emulate the branding of their real-life counterparts, potentially exposing youth to tobacco imagery. We examined racing video games for
Forsyth, Susan, McDaniel, Patricia A
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