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Does shareholder activism help or hinder shareholder value enhancement? : empirical evidence from the UK [PDF]
, 2009 Shareholder activism has increasingly become a widespread value enhancement strategy for institutional investors in the UK. However, thus far only one paper has reported a clinical study to analyse its impact on target firms (Becht et al, 2008) in ...
Broadhurst, Timothy
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Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]
, 2008 African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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Going against institutionalization : New forms of urban activism in Poland
, 2020 The first decade after the fall of state socialism in Poland was characterized by moderate aspirations to reform or oppose the dominant (neoliberal) rhetoric by social movements in the country.
Polanska, Dominika V. +3 more
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Urban Gardening: A Valuable Activity But…
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2013 Urban gardening has a high popularity among civic politicians as well as certain vocal advocates. However, there is no basis to expect that this food-supply concept could ever deliver fresher food and/or lower cost foods to most people living within the contemporary structure of a modern urbanized society.
Alan Hallsworth, Alfred Wong
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Asthma and Physical Activity in Urban Children
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2021 Abstract Objectives Asthma and obesity disproportionately affect urban minority children. Avoidance of physical activity contributes to obesity, and urban children with asthma are at risk for lower levels of physical activity.
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell +7 more
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De l’activisme urbain en Égypte : émergence et stratégies depuis la révolution de 2011
EchoGéo, 2013 We are witnessing, since the 2011 revolution, a powerful growth of urban activism in Egypt, characterized by the increasing number of complaints about living conditions in urban areas and expressed wills to improve them, especially in Cairo.
Roman Stadnicki
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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018 Recreational queries from users looking for ideas of what to do or see and where to go are very common in desktop, mobile and, increasingly, contextual search scenarios. Such queries typically contain what, where, when components as the user seeks future activities, whether in real-time or future trip planning. Often, the user will have
Stewart Whiting +3 more
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Urbanization and physical activity in the global Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract Urbanization may influence physical activity (PA) levels, although little evidence is available for low- and middle- income countries where urbanization is occurring fastest. We evaluated associations between urbanization and total PA, as well as work-, leisure-, home-, and transport-specific PA, for 138,206 adults living in ...
Kwadwo Boakye +30 more
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The Spatial Analysis of Urban Riots in Post-Islamic Revolutionary Iran [PDF]
برنامهریزی توسعه شهری و منطقهایUrban riots are violent, sudden, and economically willing-based protests that are usually based on occupying urban spaces as the main context of demonstrations.
Pegah Kheirollahi, Hamid Dehghani
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Urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe: A theoretical framework [PDF]
Slovenský Národopis, 2015 The study brings an overview of selected transdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the study of urban movements and activism placed within the framework of civil society and social movements, focused on the region of Central and Eastern Europe, and ...
Alexandra Bitušíková
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