Corporate governance and performance of state-owned enterprises in a least developed economy by Elias Kaunda, Theuns Pelser

“…The performance of SOEs is influenced favourably by board structures, director tenure, reduced government ownership and leverage. …”
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Impact of air pollutants, meteorological factors on pollen counts, and its association with patients emergency hospital visits in the North Delhi region by Raj Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Dheeresh Kumar, Anil Kumar Mavi, Kamal Singh, Parul Mrigpuri, Ravishankar Nagaraja

“…Pollen count was high (>500) in the months of March and April during the study tenure, however, October month of the year 2015 and 2017 also crossed this range of pollen count (>500). …”
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The Shift of Staple Food from Sago to Rice: A Study about Food Security and Indigenous Communities by Lengga Pradipta

“…There are many factors triggered this condition, such as the increase in population pressure and conflict, privatization and changing tenure arrangements, poverty, social differentiation and also environmental degradation. …”
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Assessing Capacity in Rural Nonprofits by Jayme Walters, Aaron R. Brown, Dorothy Wallis, Janice Snow

“…Then, descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses were conducted to understand the relationships between the organizational capacity areas and organization characteristics, including organizational age, expenses, life stage, NTEE classification, and executive director tenure. Findings indicate significant relationships exist between organizational capacity and characteristics, consistent with previous studies. …”
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Livelihoods and Land Uses in Environmental Policy Approaches: The Case of PES and REDD+ in the Lam Dong Province of Vietnam by Leif Tore Trædal, Pål Olav Vedeld

“…Addressing issues of land tenure and the scarcity of productive lands, and generating viable off-farm income alternatives seem to be crucial. …”
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Determinants of adaptation strategies to offset decreasing provisioning ecosystem services in the Savannah ecological zone of Ghana by Philip Aniah

“…Binary Logistic Regressions (BLR) modelling indicates that the ecological zone of an area and socio-economic factors such as sex, education, age, land tenure arrangement, length of stay in the community, and position in household significantly determine the choice of adaptation measures implemented by smallholder farmers. …”
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Structural Variations in the Composition of Land Funds at Regional Scales across Russia by Vasilii Erokhin, Tianming Gao, Anna Ivolga

“…In recent decades, Russia has experienced substantial transformations in agricultural land tenure. Post-Soviet reforms have shaped land distribution patterns but the impacts of these on agricultural use of land remain under-investigated. …”
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Influence of indoor environmental quality and dwelling satisfaction aspects on overall satisfaction: Findings from a Swedish national survey by Psomas Theofanis, Kolias Pavlos, Teli Despoina, Langer Sarka

“…The two clusters were significantly different across living duration, dwelling type, age category and tenure status.…”
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Impact of Farmer Participation in Production Chain Outsourcing Services on Agricultural Output Level and Output Risk: Evidence from the Guanzhong Plain, China by Shouhong Xie, Jizhou Zhang, Xiaojing Li, Zhe Chen, Xiaoning Zhang, Xianli Xia

“…First, age, gender, health, education, training, number of outworkers, land tenure, land contiguity, and subsidy satisfaction had a substantial beneficial influence on the involvement of farm families in APOS. …”
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An analysis of university academic department bylaws to measure commitment to program assessment: A U.S. case study by Deborah M. Gray, Misty Bennett, Karl Smart, Anil Kumar

“…If program assessment is truly valued, program assessment activities should be reflected in a university’s procedures that govern promotion and tenure. The assessment policies were reviewed using the department bylaws as observable artifacts. …”
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CEO Greed, Corporate Governance, and CSR Performance: Asian Evidence by Saif Ur Rehman, Yacoub Haider Hamdan

“…Concerning the power dynamics amongst CEOs (CEO duality and tenure), we found that CEO duality moderates the negative relation between CEO greed and CSR. …”
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Towards a poetics of decolonization: Mongo Beti’s The Poor Christ of Bomba by Charles Tita

“…The sixa, a church establishment aimed at grooming young female converts in preparation for Christian marriage, is Father Drumont’s signature project during his twenty-year tenure at the Bomba Mission. In practice, however, the sixa is a complete mockery of Catholicism and a subversion of African traditional marriages. …”
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Challenges and Innovations of Real Estate for Achieving Spatial Balance in Post-Disaster Countries by Mounir Azzam, Valerie Graw, Andreas Rienow

“…Through the review, the challenges embodied by the legal deficit and the multiplicity of real estate tenure systems in addition to the discrimination of access rights to real estate and the insecurity of property and, subsequently, forced migration movements are highlighted. …”
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Facilitating fertility decline through economic development: a principal-agent analysis of local bureaucratic incentives in China’s fertility transition by Shengyuan Liang, Shanmin Liu, Canmian Liu

“…System generalized method moments (GMM) and ordered logistic regression (OLM) results showed: (1) gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth (OR = 0.012) and total fertility rate (TFR) decline (OR = 0.026) increased promotion odds, while excessive TFR decline (over 37% within one term) decreased it; (2) the critical age (59) and tenure year (one year before leaving office) positively associated with GDP per capita, industrialization, and lower TFR; (3) GDP per capita and industrialization negatively associated with TFR. …”
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HR Practices in the Soccer Industry: Promising Research Arena by Faisal Al-Madi, Khalaf Ibrahim Al-Tarawneh, Marwan Ahmad ALSHAMMARI

“…This paper considers the possibility of varying ways that HR-related practices may differ in soccer teams depending on factors such as race and tenure. The growing numbers of non-European players in European teams represent a phenomenon that deserves some attention, especially as to how teams in Europe select their players, what factors influence their decisions, how pay is allocated, and what are the mechanisms through which career mobility for soccer professionals occur. …”
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Relationship between digital capabilities and academic performance: the mediating effect of self-efficacy by Rasha Kadri Ibrahim, Aisha Namshan Aldawsari

“…In addition, nursing students are encouraged to improve their sense of self-efficacy throughout their tenure in college because it is a predictor of future success.…”
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The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…The author concludes that, although European diplomats failed to achieve a qualitative improvement in transatlantic relations during D. Trump’s tenure, the EU public diplomacy demonstrated resilience and flexibility in the face of adverse circumstances. …”
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Ubuntu leadership as a predictor of employee engagement: A South African study by Kerushan Chetty, Gavin Price

“…Research purpose: This study thus investigates Ubuntu leadership as a predictor of employee engagement (EE) in the South African context, considering ethnicity, age and tenure as moderating variables. Motivation for the study: The necessity to study perceptions of Ubuntu leadership and its influence of EE lies in the need to understand how this culturally rooted leadership style can enhance organisational performance, employee well-being and inclusivity in diverse workplaces. …”
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Quality Assurance for Spatial Data Collected in Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Approaches in Colombia by Luz Angela Rocha, Jonathan Montoya, Alvaro Ortiz

“…The Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) approach uses flexible techniques under basic regulations, avoiding complicated systems and aiming to fulfill the objective of land tenure security for all. In addition, a land administration system should evolve, starting as a simple system in rural areas and gradually evolving into a more complex system in more populated areas where requirements and quality increase progressively. …”
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Analysis of age as a factor in NASA astronaut selection and career landmarks. by Gregory T A Kovacs, Mark Shadden

“…Analysis of the public-source data for all selections since the beginning of the astronaut program revealed significant age trends over time including a gradual increase in selectee age and decreased tenure at NASA after last flight, with average age at retirement steady over the entire history of the astronaut program at approximately 48 years.…”
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