Circular value creation through environmental entrepreneurship initiatives: a case-based exploration by Mohapatra, Subhalaxmi, Roy, Subhadip, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil

“…The analysis of the case and within case patterns (three subcases) illustrates circular entrepreneurship as a process with motivation, action and value creation as three main stages. The motivation of the entrepreneur leads to several actions related to business processes that are aimed at circular value creation. …”
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Road surface analysis through machine learning techniques by Singh, Prabhat, Sharma, Shilpi, Kamal, Ahmed E., Kumar, Sunil

“…In developing countries, the main challenge is to maintain road conditions regularly. …”
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Hyperbolic volume estimates via train tracks by De Capua, A

“…The required distance is then, up to constants, the number of splits occurring in the untwisted sequence. A consequence of our main theorem together with a result of Brock is that, given a pseudo-Anosov self-diffeomorphism ψ of a surface S, the maximal splitting sequence introduced by Agol gives us an estimate for the hyperbolic volume of the mapping torus built from S and ψ. …”

Rhodium-catalysed carbon-carbon bond formation and carbon-sulfur bond functionalisation by Bouisseau, A

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 1</b> provides an overview of the two main areas of research discussed in this thesis that include the key developments in the field of intra- and intermolecular rhodium-catalysed hydroacylation, and the major advances in cross-coupling reactions <em>via</em> the catalytic cleavage of carbon-sulfur bonds.…”

Expressions of Ionianness in the Roman period by Hallmannsecker, M

“…They also continued to hold common meetings and festivals as members of the Ionian Koinon, which can still be seen as the main focal point of Ionianness in the Roman period. …”

Certifiers make neural networks vulnerable to availability attacks by Lorenz, T, Kwiatkowska, M, Fritz, M

“…In addition to naturally occurring abstains for some inputs and perturbations, the adversary can use training-time attacks to deliberately trigger the fallback with high probability. This transfers the main system load onto the fallback, reducing the overall system's integrity and/or availability. …”

Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…<p>The thesis aims to prove, on the one hand that the second half of the nineteenth century was the period of maximum deviation from the traditional Romanian style of icon-painting and, on the other hand, that the process following the Romanian Orthodox Church's Synod of 1889, in spite of the proclaimed return to a pure Byzantine style, actually has involved the coexistence of at least two main styles of painting: Eastern Mannerist of Byzantine lineage and Western Mannerist of <em>Renaissance</em> persuasion. …”

Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada by Fiander, J, Walker, C, Rowlands, IH, Devine-Wright, P, Wilson, C, Soutar, I, Gupta, R

“…Through descriptive statistics and t-tests, we sought to answer three main questions: i) To what extent does the public support energy democracy via new local energy systems? …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…This article will shed some light on the likely impacts of the envisaged reform and summarizes some of our main conclusions from a forthcoming study, whose objective is to quantify economy-wide impacts of public utility reform that may start by targeting the reduction of electricity subsidies. …”

AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…Our MED system achieved the second-best score of all submitted runs in the main track, and best score in the ad-hoc track, suggesting that a simple system based on state-of-the-art low-level descriptors can give relatively high performance. …”

Sampling from the random cluster model on random regular graphs at all temperatures via Glauber dynamics by Galanis, A, Goldberg, L, Smolarova, P

“…Nevertheless, it is widely conjectured that the bottleneck phenomena that impede mixing from worst-case starting configurations can be avoided by initialising the chain more judiciously. Our main result establishes this conjecture for all sufficiently large q (with respect to Δ). …”

'(Un)richtige Aufnahme': Renaissance sculpture and the visual historiography of art history by Johnson, GA

“…asked Heinrich Wölfflin in the titles of three ground-breaking articles on the subject published in 1896–97 and 1915 (plate 1).1 Few art historians have seriously considered the question, not just in regard to photographing Italian Renaissance sculpture, which was Wölfflin's main concern in these publications, but works of art in general.2 Examining both how and why art works have been photographed and otherwise reproduced, however, can tell us a great deal about what one might call the ‘visual historiography’ of art history as a discipline. …”

‘It's the little things that count’: healthcare professionals’ views on delivering dignified care: a qualitative study by Williams, V, Kinnear, D, Victor, C

“…<p><b>Findings</b></p> Forty-eight healthcare professionals took part in this interview based study. Two main themes that encapsulated how care and dignity in care is enacted by professionals were identified: focusing on the ‘little’ things that matter to both professionals and patients; and improving care by making poor care ‘visible’. …”

Tropical Deep Convection, Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity by Stephens, GL, Shiro, KA, Hakuba, MZ, Takahashi, H, Pilewskie, JA, Andrews, T, Stubenrauch, CJ, Wu, L

“…These observations reveal a tight coupling of the two main components of the diabatic heating, the cloud component of radiative heating, shaped mostly by high clouds formed by deep convection, and the latent heating associated with the precipitation. …”

Knowledge mapping and trend analysis of disaster mitigation research in the Sulawesi Islands of Indonesia: a bibliometric study using VOSviewer by Muhammad Ahsan Samad, Kadir Arifin, Azlan Abas, Tiwi Eka Sari

“…Research findings show that the four main types of disasters are floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. disaster mitigation in Sulawesi. …”
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Factors influencing Malays as a second language learning in essay writing: a case study of Iban ethnic students in Sarawak, Malaysia by Edmund Austrus, Zamri Mahamod, Norhafizah Adnan

“…The findings identified three main factors: (i) mother tongue factors influence, (ii) linguistic environment factors influence, and (iii) psychological factors influence. …”
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Examining the influence of departure levy on air travel intentions: an empirical study in Malaysia by Nur Aaina Aqilah Jamaluddin, Mohd Rizal Palil, Tamat Sarmidi, Lokhman Hakim Osman

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Characteristics of board and shariah board on risk-taking and performance: evidence from Takaful operators in Malaysia by Ainulashikin Marzuki, Nurul Nazlia Jamil, Muhamad Azhari Wahid, Wan Amalina Wan Abdullah

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Predicting EFL expository writing quality with measures of lexical richness by Yang, Yang, Yap, Ngee Thai, Mohamad Ali, Afida

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The origin of cultivated mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L. var. mangostana): critical assessments and an evolutionary-ecological perspective by Yao, T. L., Nazre, M., McKey, D., Jalonen, R., Duminil, J.

“…When possible, we support our interpretations with field observations and examination of herbarium specimens. We outline the main biological traits (e.g., dioecy, facultative apomixis, and polyploidy) of mangosteen and its wild relatives to infer traits that might have evolved during domestication of mangosteen. …”
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