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Bacteriophages as Weapons Against Bacterial Biofilms in the Food Industry
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Microbiological contamination in the food industry is often attributed to the presence of biofilms in processing plants. Bacterial biofilms are complex communities of bacteria attached to a surface and surrounded by an extracellular polymeric material ...
D. Gutiérrez +4 more
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A roadmap to key traits of invasive Drosophilidae
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biological invasions have intensified in recent decades, mostly driven by international trade and travel, raising significant concerns, particularly regarding insect pests. Once non‐native species establish, they can disrupt natural ecosystem stability, undermine agroecosystem sustainability and cause substantial economic losses.
Gwenaëlle Deconninck +14 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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Risk and Recreation: Differences Due to Gender, Age and Education [PDF]
, 1999 Dr. Burger explores the differences in risk perception due to gender, age and education with regard to recreation activities on former U.S.
Burger, Joanna
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the strategic efficacy of corporate low‐carbon energy transition, such as through nuclear energy adoption, as a response to decarbonization pressures. Analyzing an international sample of energy firms, we demonstrate that the relationship between this form of transition and emission reductions is not technologically ...
Bilal Ahmed Abbasi +4 more
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The interaction between a shaped charge jet and a single moving plate
Defence TechnologyReactive armour is a very efficient add-on armour against shaped charge threats. Explosive reactive armour consists of one or several plates that are accelerated by an explosive.
Andreas Helte +2 more
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Primary Explosive Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury Model in PC12 Cell Culture
Bio-Protocol, 2016 While it is understood that structural damage occurs at the cellular level from the traumatic brain injury event, the effect on functional activity remains largely unknown.
Thuvan Piehler +2 more
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The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Nonproliferation Review, 2018 On July 7, 2017, seventy-two years after the start of the nuclear era, 122 states concluded the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, or “ban treaty”).
T. Sauer, Mathias Reveraert
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Political consumerism (PC) refers to consumers boycotting or deliberately buying (“buycotting”) products or brands for political, moral, or ethical reasons. This paper presents three studies that consider the intricacies of the relationship between political ideology and political consumerism.
Lara J. Greening +3 more
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An improved composite ship magnetic field model with ellipsoid and magnetic dipole arrays
Scientific ReportsIn order to simultaneously maintain the ship magnetic field modeling accuracy, reduce the number of coefficient matrix conditions and the model computational complexity, an improved composite model is designed by introducing the magnetic dipole array ...
Binjie Lu, Xiaobing Zhang
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