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Do irresponsible corporate activities prevent membership in sustainable stock indices? The case of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index world

2021

Abstract The study analyses the real-life results from the DJSI World selection process and investigates whether companies are treated differently because of sectoral or geographical diversification needs of the index; furthermore, the question whether its methodology penalises ESG-related irresponsible corporate activities is investigated. The last is an important issue, as it is not unusual to find constituents of sustainable indices implicated in corporate scandals. This is a striking fact, contradicting the ethical and sustainable imperative such companies are supposed to comply with. The authors scrutinise data from a data panel containing 2872 firms between 2011 and 2016 and estimate …

A new concept to treat lumbar spine stenosis in a mini invasive way

2017

Adapting to supply chain 4.0: an explorative study of multinational companies

2019

The aim of this paper is to examine how multinational companies from five industries can adapt to what we call Supply Chain 4.0; the supply chain created as a result of the new digital era brought ...

Digital Inequalities: A Review of Contributing Factors and Measures for Crossing the Divide

2019

Part 8: Digital Divide and Social Inclusion; International audience; This literature review focuses on the digital divide in contemporary technologically and economically advanced societies. Prior research shows that the digital divide entails more than physical accessibility and points to issues of technology acceptance and actual use. Recurring digital divide factors outside socioeconomic characteristics were identified in the articles reviewed. These factors relate to personality traits, motivation and digital skills. The factors can be used as the basis for a personality model for understanding acceptance and use of technology complementing models related to economic and social resource…

Are attachment dimensions associated with infertility-related stress in couples undergoing their first IVF treatment? A study on the individual and c…

2012

study question: Are attachment anxiety and avoidance dimensions in female and male partners in couples seeking infertility treat- ment associated with her and his infertility-related stress? summary answer: Attachment dimensions are significantly associated with several aspects of infertility stress in couples undergoing IVF treatment. what is known and what this paper adds: Attachment dimensions of anxiety and avoidance (where highly anxious individuals fear rejection and are preoccupied with maintaining proximity to their partner and highly avoidant individuals are uncomfortable with intimacy and prefer to maintain distance from their partner) may influence the well being of individuals u…

Inflation in a virtual economy – a real or virtual threat?

2014

The aim of the paper is an analysis of the way and circumstances under which inflation can occur in a virtual economy. It is also an attempt to answer the question whether, and in what way virtual inflation may be related to inflation in the real economy. The article is conceptual, because in the present state of statistical data the effects of virtual economies are not carried out, or are generated in a very small number, which makes it impossible to make reliable calculations

Health literacy, socioeconomic status and digital device use among older adults

2022

Kehollisuuden merkitys suomalaisjuoksijoiden teknologian ei-käytölle

2022

The news from the televisions by Internet: analysis of web site of Tele5 and Antena3

2005

Este trabajo propone realizar un análisis comparativo de los contenidos informativos proporcionados por las televisiones generalistas españolas a través de su página web. Aunque Internet aún no ha experimentado el desarrollo suficiente para que una mayoría de usuarios pueda acceder a los contenidos audiovisuales a través del ordenador en condiciones de calidad y velocidad equiparables a la televisión, las televisiones sí han comenzado a aprovechar las posibilidades actuales de la Red para proporcionar a sus usuarios diversos contenidos relacionados con su programación (series de producción propia, novedades, resúmenes de los programas ofrecidos cada día…) e incluso contenidos configurados e…

"Tea for two": the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages meets the CLARIN infrastructure

2020

This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the IL…