Diverse Leadership and Firm Success: The Role of Top Management Socialisation

“…Although executive teams play a significant role in organisational performance, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive exploration of the distinct effects of the characteristics of different team members on firm outcomes. Drawing upon multiple theories applied in top management team (TMT) research, the objective of this article is to determine the effects of factors such as age, gender, and cultural background on firm performance. …”
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A Space-Vector Analysis of the Twelve-Pulse Diode Bridge Rectifier Operation for the Auxiliary Circuit Current Determination Providing the Optimal Line Currents’ THD by Jaroslaw Rolek, Grzegorz Utrata

“…The fundamental approach to limit the line currents’ total harmonic distortion (THD) introduced by the diode bridge rectification systems is based on increasing the number of steps in their waveform per power supply cycle and drawing them closer to the pure-sine waveforms. This can be achieved by employing the conventional twelve-pulse rectification system composed of two parallel connected six-pulse diode bridge rectifiers, in which the DC circuit is expanded on the auxiliary circuit responsible for adequately shaping the line currents’ waveforms per power supply cycle. …”
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Youth and the pandemic: health information imaginaries and practices while navigating COVID-19 in Nigeria by Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

“…This study explores young adults’ perceptions, behaviors, and how they navigated pandemic-related information, drawing from social cognitive theory. In the digital age, young people, characterized as “digital informavores,” actively seek, consume, and share information, playing a crucial role in health communication. …”
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Basic Statistics for Radiologists: Part 1—Basic Data Interpretation and Inferential Statistics by Adarsh Anil Kumar, Jineesh Valakkada, Anoop Ayyappan, Santhosh Kannath

“…These tools are vital for evaluating the efficacy of imaging techniques and drawing valid conclusions from clinical studies. As radiology continues to push the boundaries of technology and therapeutic interventions, mastering these statistical principles will empower radiologists to critically assess literature, conduct rigorous research, and contribute to evidence-based practices. …”
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Geopolitics of Connectivity: The EU in Central Asia by Sergey V. Mazanik, Tatiana A. Romanova

“…First, critical geopolitics will be operationalized with an emphasis on analytical categories such as discourse, hegemony, identity and ontological security. Thereafter, drawing upon the long-standing academic tradition of considering the EU as a geopolitical actor, the paper clarifies how, under the sway of the ongoing debate on strategic sovereignty (autonomy), the EU deploys the logic of inclusion and exclusion in its relations with third countries. …”
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A spotlight on fossil fuel lobby and energy transition possibilities in emerging oil-producing economies by Isaac Ankrah, Michael Appiah-Kubi, Eric Ofosu Antwi, Ivy Drafor Amenyah, Mohammed Musah, Frank Gyimah Sackey, Richard Asravor, Isaiah Sikayena

“…This study investigates the impact of fossil fuel industry on renewable energy deployment in emerging oil-producing economies, using Ghana as the subject of analysis. Drawing on the “theory of lobby,” the study extends previous analyses to examine how fossil fuel production influences the possibility of transitioning to renewable energy. …”
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GEOMETRIC TERMINOLOGY IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE EARLY 17th CENTURY (EXEMPLIFIED BY “CHARTER OF MARTIAL, CANNON AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO MILITARY SCIENCE”) by Dmitry V. Rudnev, Milyausha G. Sharikhina

“…If the translator failed to give the appropriate Russian analogue or explanation, a word could have been omitted or rendered based on the information in the drawing (Centro, Hipotenusa, Cathetus, etc.). The lack of developed and generally accepted geometric terminology and models of scientific narration missing in the Russian language of the early 17th century hindered the translator’s striving for increased readability of the text.…”
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Unravelling the nonlinear generation of designer vortices with dielectric metasurfaces by Laure Coudrat, Guillaume Boulliard, Jean-Michel Gérard, Aristide Lemaître, Aloyse Degiron, Giuseppe Leo

“…Abstract Vortex beams are currently drawing a great deal of interest, from fundamental research to several promising applications. …”
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NoFumo+: Mobile Health App to Quit Smoking Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Patricia García-Pazo, Joana Fornés-Vives, Albert Sesé Abad

“…The tool includes recommendations from US Clinical Practice Guidelines (USCPG), drawing on the potential of smartphones and complying with the health App (mHealth) assessment standards. …”
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Recent advances in high-entropy superconductors by Lingyong Zeng, Longfu Li, Kuan Li, Rui Chen, Huixia Luo

“…A perspective on this field is subsequently proposed, drawing upon insights from recently published academic literature. …”
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Design-Based Natural Disaster Education Practices for Primary School Teachers by Ahmet Oguz Akcay, Engin Karahan, Mehmet Arif Bozan, Feyzanur Ardic, Omer Garan

“…The primary school teachers' lesson plans were examined, and the themes of drawing attention, design, material, career connections, and assessment-evaluation emerged. …”
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Exploring Embodiment Form Factors of a Home-Helper Robot: Perspectives from Care Receivers and Caregivers by Katherine M. Tsui, Rune Baggett, Carol Chiang

“…Drawing inspiration from assistive devices, we designed 3 robot embodiments: a humanoid robot, a pair of robots, and a simple pole robot. …”
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Improved Particle Spray Algorithm for Modeling Globular Cluster Streams by Yingtian Chen, Monica Valluri, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Neil Ash

“…Based on these distributions, we develop a new algorithm that avoids computing the detailed internal cluster dynamics by directly drawing tracer particles from these distributions. …”
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Identification of Risk Factors Affecting PPP Waste-to-Energy Incineration Projects in China: A Multiple Case Study by Yong Liu, Chenjunyan Sun, Bo Xia, Sai Liu, Martin Skitmore

“…In light of the pivotal role that risk identification, analysis, and response play in the successful development of PPP WTE incineration projects, this paper presents a multiple case study to identify the risk factors involved in China by drawing on experience from the real-life risk events of 35 PPP WTE incineration plants. 18 risk factors are identified; the most critical of which being public opposition risk, environmental pollution risk, government decision-making risk, a defective legal and regulatory system, and MSW supply risk. …”
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Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool by Claudio Riga

“…The purpose of the research was to study the impact of street art on the residents’ life experiences. Drawing on walking and photographing ethnography, the research employed a novel method leveraging the local practice of the Graffitour–a guided walking tour based on narrating Comuna 13’s history through street art. …”
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Forest Pedagogy towards the Problem of Polish Educational Monoculture: Projective Pilot Studies by Michał Paluch

“…As it turned out, the respondents most often drew ordered elements of the urban playground infrastructure: swings, slides and sandboxes, in the vicinity of the building of the local kindergarten, which dominated the drawing. What is particularly poignant, in the analysed drawings the forest was only a symbolic background. …”
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Employees’ attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation by Maddalena Cavicchioli, Fabio Demaria, Francesca Nannetti, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Tommaso Fabbri

“…., job satisfaction, person-organization fit, engagement, and work-life interface) on stress levels.MethodsDrawing on data from Microsoft 365 activity records and an online survey of employees in an Italian AI firm, this study applies Factor Analysis and Generalized Additive Models to analyze the above-mentioned interactions in a highly digitalized context.ResultsFindings indicate that the time–space intensification and extension of the working experience has a significant impact in terms of increasing work-related stress when exceeding certain number of off-hours digital actions and virtual meetings. …”
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Measuring design mindset: developing the Design Mindset Inventory through its relationship with ambiguity tolerance, self-efficacy and sensation-seeking by Jakob Clemen Lavrsen, Claus-Christian Carbon, Jaap Daalhuizen

“…These relationships lend validity D-Mindset0.1 and, by drawing on previously established relationships between the three personality traits and specific behaviors, facilitate further investigations of what its subconstructs capture.…”
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Features of personal competence of the employees of preventive activity units of the National Police by O. Yu. Shlomin

“…The obtained results of the research should be used in drawing up programs of psychological support of police officers at different stages of professional development. …”
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Behavioral analysis of loan decision-making and influencing factors among food-producing new agricultural operating entities in China by Jingzhou Wei, Taihuang Fang

“…Access to credit loans emerges as a pivotal means to address capital shortages among farmers and enhance production inputs. Drawing on survey data from 17,745 new agricultural operating entities engaged in food production in Lu’an City, Anhui Province, and agricultural households documented in the China Household Finance Survey Database, this paper employs the Logit model and the Heckman selection model to empirically analyze the loan decision-making behavior of these entities from two perspectives: loan willingness and credit scale. …”
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