Do investors get benefits from corporate green sukuk issuance by Riaz, Tabassum, Selamat, Aslam Izah, Mohd Nor, Normaziah, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi

“…This significantly positive response is observed both for the individual firm (through CARs) and for a sample of all firms (through CAARs). Thus, it can be concluded that investors benefit from the announcements of green sukuk issuance. …”
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Breast cancer prevention as social behavior : integrating individual and social motivators behind early breast cancer detection amongst Chinese women by Wang, Yumeng

“…Among the social-level predictors, social encouragement was significantly and positively associated with all three behavioral intentions, while media encouragement was found to be positively related to Chinese women’s breast self-examination intention and healthy lifestyle intention. …”
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Tablets, Pens, and Pencils: The Influence of Tools on Sketching in Early Stage Design by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria C

“…We hypothesize that participants using tablet and pencil will produce fewer drawings than those using pen due to their ability to erase and focus on perfecting drawings, and we expect participants using the tablet to produce cleaner drawings with smoother strokes due to the tablet’s ability to auto-smooth lines. …”
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Does knowledge make a difference? Understanding how the lay public and experts assess the credibility of information on novel foods by Ou, Mengxue, Ho, Shirley S.

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Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

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Sustainability risk management: exploring the role of artificial intelligence capabilities through an information-processing lens by Kong, Kai Yuan, Yuen, Kum Fai

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Security protocol design against malicious attacks in neighborhood area network in smart grid by Li, Xiaochen

“…However, despite its causal deployment and easy operation, the inherent security issues in WMN is increasingly drawing wide attention of experts and users. Without guarantee of safety, the value of this network will extremely decrease. …”
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Domain specific methods for procedural modeling of historical architecture by Johannes Edelsbrunner

“…Further it compares domain specific methods from software design to procedural modeling techniques and draws comparisons there. The basis for all the research forms a common programming language that is designed for procedural modeling.…”
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Acceptability of improved cook stoves-a scoping review of the literature by Adhikari, B, Kang, SSY, Dahal, A, Mshamu, S, Deen, J, Pell, C, von Seidlein, L, Knudsen, J, Bøjstrup, TC

“…Improved cooking stoves (ICS) are intended to reduce indoor air pollution and the inefficient use of fuel yet there is often reticence to shift permanently to ICS. Drawing on a scoping review, this article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of factors affecting the acceptability of ICS. …”

The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…<p>The Eoan Group, founded in 1933 in Cape Town, was South Africa’s first and only all-coloured opera, dance and theatre company. Its 1956 production of <em>La Traviata</em> was the first opera produced by non-white people in South Africa, and initiated an operatic career that spanned twelve opera seasons and ten operas. …”

Geobarrier system for use in underground structure by Leong, Eng Choon, Zhai, Qian, Tan, Sze Tiong, Wang, Chien Looi, Lim, Vincent Han, Kew, Jernice Huiling, Seow, Wei Kiong, Wong, Johnny Liang Heng, Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Gofar, Nurly, Mohamed, Haneena

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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Brauer, M, Roth, GA, Aravkin, AY, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Browne, AJ, Graham, SM, Rodriguez, JAB, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…Estimates reported represent the mean value across 500 draws from the estimate's distribution, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) calculated as the 2·5th and 97·5th percentile values across the draws. …”

Contentious consensus: challenges of diversity to identity-based language policies by Jain, Ritu

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Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Wang, Zhangyuan, Funk, Markus, Maes, Pattie

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Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…We illustrate each facet by drawing on cases of people and collectives that have refused data systems. …”
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Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment by Zhi-Xuan, Tan, Carroll, Micah, Franklin, Matija, Ashton, Hal

“…We then critique the normativity of expected utility theory (EUT) for humans and AI, drawing upon arguments showing how rational agents need not comply with EUT, while highlighting how EUT is silent on which preferences are normatively acceptable. …”
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Exact algorithms for continuous pricing with advanced discrete choice demand models by Haering, Tom, Legault, Robin, Torres, Fabian, Ljubić, Ivana, Bierlaire, Michel

“…We further exploit utility breakpoints to develop the BEA, which scales polynomially in the number of customers and draws, providing a fast option for low numbers of prices. …”
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Puzzling over Phula: toward the synthesis and statement of a sub-branch by Pelkey, Jamin R.

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At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: judicial constructions of the mentally dis/ordered defendant in Hong Kong sentencing judgments by Chiu, TCU

“…An outsider to the societal, clinical, and juridical norm, the individual must be normalised through all these gazes in the final sentence pronounced.…”

Negotiating power: examining the role of procedural elements in international peace talks by Coplen, M

“…All three studies validate the influence of procedural elements in shaping negotiation dynamics and outcomes. …”