A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance
Offered here is a conceptual model that comprehensively describes essential aspects of corporate social performance. The three aspects of the model address major questions of co...
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SUS: A 'Quick and Dirty' Usability Scale
Usability is not a quality that exists in any real or absolute sense. Perhaps it can be best summed up as being a general quality of the appropriateness to a purpose of any pa...
Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?
Abstract Numerous theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro...
Hallmarks of Cancer: New Dimensions
Abstract The hallmarks of cancer conceptualization is a heuristic tool for distilling the vast complexity of cancer phenotypes and genotypes into a provisional set of underlying...
Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional Temperatures and Precipitation
Greenland ice-core data have revealed large decadal climate variations over the North Atlantic that can be related to a major source of low-frequency variability, the North Atla...
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in diff...
Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges
ABSTRACT Freshwater biodiversity is the over‐riding conservation priority during the International Decade for Action ‐‘Water for Life’ ‐ 2005 to 2015. Fresh water makes up only ...
Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem
This paper introduces the ant colony system (ACS), a distributed algorithm that is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the ACS, a set of cooperating agents calle...
Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need for updated r...
2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
Hypertension is the most common condition seen in primary care and leads to myocardial infarction, stroke, renal failure, and death if not detected early and treated appropriate...
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping “ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical conce...
Fractional Integrals and Derivatives: Theory and Applications
Fractional integrals and derivatives on an interval fractional integrals and derivatives on the real axis and half-axis further properties of fractional integrals and derivative...