Environmental Regulations, Green Innovation and Performance: An Analysis of Industrial Sector Companies from Developed Countries and Emerging Countries by Jaluza Maria Lima Silva Borsatto, Camila Bazani, Lara Amui

“…This study analyzes whether the rigor of environmental regulations encourages industrial companies in developed and emerging countries to invest in Green Innovation (GI), and what is the impact on financial performance. The sample was composed of 159 industrial companies, listed in the Financial Times’ 500 largest companies by market value in 2015. …”
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A Composite Matching Layer with Anti-Reflection Characteristics for Broadband Acoustic Scattering Reduction by Shande Li, Xiaoxun Wu, Jinxiu Duan, Shuai Yuan, Cun Wang, Yane Ma, Zhifu Zhang

“…A composite matching layer composed of periodically arranged scatters with anti-reflection (AR) characteristics is proposed for broadband scattering reduction. …”
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Design of Low-Profile Frequency-Selective Rasorbers Based on Three-Legged Loaded Element by Yu Qiang, Dongfang Zhou, Qikun Liu, Zhenning Yao

“…Then, a two-layer structure model is constructed. The top layer is composed of a lossy three-legged loaded element (TLLE), and the bottom layer is composed of a square ring bandpass frequency-selective surface (FSS). …”
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Education for Sustainable Development in Primary School: Improvement of Students’ Ecocriticism Skills by Ahmet Tekbiyik, Mustafa Celik

“…A total of 15 students composed of 8 females and 7 males participated in the study. …”
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The impact of supply chain integration on the operational process performance: An empirical study under the perspective of Resource Orchestration Theory by Rinaldo de Castro Oliveira, Inayara Valéria Defreitas Pedroso Gonzalez

“…The research evaluated the dimensions that compose the supply chain integration - SCI and their impact on the performance of companies’ operational processes. …”
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Patent Portfolios and Competition Law: Some Reflections After the Recent RPSA Cases by Emanuela Arezzo

“…Secondly, they push generics to enter a patent settlement (in order to compose the very same infringement proceeding), often paying them to stay out of the market: hence, prolonging their exclusivity time, to the detriment of consumers and society at large. …”
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In Sickness and in Health: Perineuronal Nets and Synaptic Plasticity in Psychiatric Disorders by Harry Pantazopoulos, Sabina Berretta

“…Rapidly emerging evidence implicates perineuronal nets (PNNs) and extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules that compose or interact with PNNs, in the pathophysiology of several psychiatric disorders. …”
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Gawain de Harrison Birtwistle : un opéra (extra-) national ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…As far as the foreign borrowings or influences are concerned, Harrison Birtwistle’s debt to composers like Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen is once more displayed in Gawain. …”
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Identités collectives ; territoires et mémoires by Sylvie Contrepois

“…Focusing the study on them both together creates a good opportunity to analyse continuities and discontinuities in changes in work and social identities.The French advisory board is composed of the presidents of four local history and memory associations. …”
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Development and investigation of the mathematical model for threedirectional forced synhronization system by Violeta Borsuk, Jonas Rimas

“… Investigation of the threedirectional forced synhronization system, composed of four oscillators, is carried out. The exact expressions of the step responses functions for the synchronization system are derived and the transition process in the system is analysed. …”
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Investigation of the mathematical model of the automatic control system by Jonas Rimas

“… The mathematical model of the mutual synchronization system composed of 7 joined into a ring oscil­lators is investigated. …”
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Nouveaux triterpènes à activité antiplasmodiale isolés des feuilles de Neoboutonia macrocalyx L., une plante consommée par les chimpanzés du parc national de Kibale (Ouganda) by Jane Namukobe, Bernard T Kiremire, Robert Byamukama, John M Kasenene, Vincent Dumontet, Françoise Guéritte, Sabrina Krief, Isabelle Florent, John D Kabasa

“…Sept des treize composés ont montré une bonne activité antiplasmodiale avec des concentrations inhibitrices à 50% (CI50) inférieures à 5 µg/ml. …”
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GEOTURISM IN AFRICA. THE SIMIEN MOUNTAINS by K.A. Novoselov

“…The paper is dedicated to the geological structure of Ethiopia and Simien Mountains, which are located in the northern part of the North Ethiopian Plateau composed of Oligocene plateau basalts hosting Oligocene-Miocene shield volcanoes.…”
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A new optical method for control in visible light of volatile hydrocarbon media and their mixtures using data from light-shadow boundary images by V.V. Davydov, D.V. Vakorina, G.V. Stepanenkov

“…Problems that arise during the express-evaluation of the state of mixtures composed of volatile hydrocarbon media using refraction-based techniques are outlined. …”
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Petrography of Sandstone Units of Injana Formation in Al-Teeb Area South Eastern Iraq by Hasan Kattoof Jasim, Maysoon Omer Ali

“…Ten samples of these sandstone were collected in order thin sectined for petrogtaphic decribtion. these sandstone are composed from quartz (both monocrystalline and polycrystalline), feldspar (potash feldspar and plagioclase feldspar), and rock fragments (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock fragmentd), the sedimentary rock fragments composed from; carbonate, chert, old sandstone, mudstone, and evaporate rock fragments. …”
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Guidance for Processing Fresh Juices in Retail Operations by Keith R. Schneider, Victor Garrido, W. Steve Otwell, Ray Mobley

“… Juice is defined in 21 CFR 120.1; "juice"' refers both to beverages that are composed exclusively of an aqueous liquid or liquids extracted from one or more fruits or vegetables and to the juice ingredient in those beverages that contain other ingredients in addition to juice. …”
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Guidance for Processing Fresh Juices in Retail Operations by Keith R. Schneider, Victor Garrido, W. Steve Otwell, Ray Mobley

“… Juice is defined in 21 CFR 120.1; "juice"' refers both to beverages that are composed exclusively of an aqueous liquid or liquids extracted from one or more fruits or vegetables and to the juice ingredient in those beverages that contain other ingredients in addition to juice. …”
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Preface to the Special Issue: Drinking Is Not Just Fun by Art Leete, Aimar Ventsel

“…This special issue of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics is composed on the basis of papers presented at the University of Tartu’s 5th International Arctic Workshop, titled Responsibility and Authority in Drinking (May 30–31, 2014).…”
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The acceptability and validity of AI-generated psycholinguistic stimuli by Alaa Alzahrani

“…In Experiment 1 and 3, participants gave English AI-generated stimuli similar to or higher acceptability ratings than human-composed stimuli. In Experiment 2, Arabic AI-generated stimuli received lower acceptability ratings than their human-composed counterparts. …”
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De David Belasco à Giacomo Puccini : La Fanciulla del West, premier opéra « américain » by Walter Zidaric

“…This work, specially composed for the American stage, which had its world premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in December 1910, paved the way for American composers who increasingly focused on American History in their quest for a “national” opera. …”
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