Effect of Diversity in the Board of Directors and Top Management Team on Corporate Social Responsibility by Priscila Prudêncio, Hyane Forte, Vicente Crisóstomo, Alessandra Vasconcelos

“…This study analyzes the effect of corporate governance, with an emphasis on gender and age diversity in the board and Top Management Team, on Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazil. The sample was composed of Brazilian firms with corporate governance published in the CVM reference form, financial information in the Economática® database, and CSR assessed by the CSRHub database, in the 2016-2017 biennium, with a total of 194 firm-year observations. …”
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Imaging, Histopathologic, and Treatment Nuances of Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma by Tyler Gleason, Michael Haas, Brian H. Le

“…Biopsy of the lesion revealed a poorly differentiated neoplasm composed of distinct epithelial and mesenchymal components, consistent with carcinosarcoma. …”
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The Effect of Governance on Donations: Evidence from Brazilian Environmental Nonprofit Organizations by Adonai José Lacruz, Alexandre Reis Rosa, Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira

“…This article uses the agency theory perspective to analyze governance, composed of a set of dimensions and measured by governance factors that influence donations to Brazilian environmental Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs). …”
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Editorial by Henri Le Prieult

“…Enfin, ce numéro se termine par une nouvelle étude de Pierre Fournier portant sur les composés savants suffixés en anglais contemporain.…”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…By involving them in a creative process that became political, the artist aimed to encourage their interaction and create an active co-presence consistent with the notion of ba (scene, place, or field). Composed of two landscape sculptures, the work was integral to the process of forming and establishing a community.…”
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KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USEOF COTTON BUDS IN SAUDI COMMUNITY by Akram Ibrahem Alwasse et al

“…A cross-sectional descriptive survey has been performed over a two weeks period on a sample composed of 93 individuals where a pre-designed questionnaire was filled by the participants. …”
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Estimated Costs and Regional Economic Impacts of the Oriental Fruit Fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) Outbreak in Miami-Dade County, Florida by Sergio Alvarez, Edward A. Evans, Alan W. Hodges

“…This triggered an eradication program and establishment of a quarantine area composed of agricultural operations and nonagricultural properties, such as residential and commercial areas. …”
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A Noble Classification Framework for Data Glove Classification of a Large Number of Hand Movements by Yuhuang Zheng

“…The movement classification algorithm is composed of downsampling in data preparation and a new deep learning network named the DBDF network. …”
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Autobiografía y educación en Mis maestros y mi educación de Federico Rubio y Galí by Marie-Hélène Soubeyroux

“…This article seeks to establish the singularity of Rubio’s work in the memorialist tradition of the time, as both a first-person narrative composed of brief sequences in which the aged narrator conjures up the first sensory experiences of his childhood and traces the awakening of his consciousness, and a social and political chronicle of the 1830s in Andalusia construed with an educational purpose. …”
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Transitivité de l’action et ses expressions en trumai (langue isolée du Haut Xingú, Brésil) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Cédric Becquey

“…This article presents a preliminary approach to understanding the complex verbal system of the Trumai language, an isolated language of Upper Xingu (central Brazil). Composed of several transitive verb categories that contrastively pair agent-patient semantic roles and subject-object syntactic functions, the language is also characterised by the possible choice of one of two syntactico-semantic alignments within the limited framework of certain processes/scenarios, both involving agency.It is on the basis of the detailed study of a representative corpus of texts that we attempt to understand, from an agency viewpoint, what motivates the choice of one or another construction, and to show their main parameters. …”
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Este Lais posemos acá” … Sì, ma dove? by Fabio Barberini

“…Regardless of the primitive order of the ‘Breton’ cantigas, it is highly probable that the Lais and the associated rubrics were composed at two different times. In particular, the rubrics could be written at the time when the Lais were inserted in the exemplar of the Colocci’s Portuguese Cancioneiros and, consequently, the last sentence of the rubric of B1 (Este lais posemos acá porque era o melhor que foi feito) could justify, not the first position that the text came to assume in the Laissammlung, but the function of “prologue in verse” that the compiler had assigned to B1 in the structure of the collection of cantigas. …”
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Study on Performance Evaluation of Service Supply Chain by Extension Method by Jun Cheng, Qiaoning Yang, Lin Lu

“…This paper, through extensive literature analysis and research on logistics service supply chain projects, established an indicator system composed of 18 secondary indicators from three perspectives of customer satisfaction, logistics service capabilities, and co-development ability, using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine the weight of each index and matter-element analysis to establish a logistics service supply chain performance evaluation model. …”
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Perceived value of organizational foresight processes: effects of the illusion of control and individual foresight by Natália Borges, Raquel Janissek-Muniz

“…The data were analyzed based on structural equations modeling with estimation through Partial Least Square (PLS). The sample was composed of 185 executives from the financial and technological sectors, and a reduction to the perceived value of foresight processes was identified, as a result of the illusion of control and individual practices of these activities. …”
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Toward a Model for Marking up Non-SI Units and Measurements by Naoki Kokaze, Kiyonori Nagasaki, Makoto Gotō, Yuta Hashimoto, A. Charles Muller, Masahiro Shimoda

“…Historical texts contain many examples of compound measurements, composed of sets of units and numerical components. …”
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Giant Lipoma Presents from the Buccal Vestibule by Yuki Sakamoto, Gohei Oyama

“…A lipoma is a benign tumor, where the parenchyma is composed of adipose tissue. Lipomas comprise 0.1%–5% of all benign tumors in the oral cavity. …”
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A Traction Control Strategy with an Efficiency Model in a Distributed Driving Electric Vehicle by Cheng Lin, Xingqun Cheng

“…For general longitudinal driving cases, an efficiency model aiming at improving the fuel economy was built through an offline optimization stream within the two-dimensional design space composed of the acceleration pedal signal and the vehicle speed. …”
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A DEA approach for measuring healthcare efficiency in medical, clinical and obstetric specialties by Fabrício da Silva Santos, Susane de Farias Gomes

“…The data used refer to the period from August 2018 to July 2019, in which the specialties of Medical Clinic, Surgical Clinic and Obstetrics were selected to compose the analysis inputs and outputs. The evaluation brings considerations and contributions regarding the public health problem in the state and in the country. …”
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DAGAN: A Domain-Aware Method for Image-to-Image Translations by Xu Yin, Yan Li, Byeong-Seok Shin

“…We assumed that an image is composed with background and instance domain and then fed them into different translation networks. …”
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Research on the Heat Dissipation Characteristics of Lithium Battery Spatial Layout in an AUV by Zhaoyong Mao, Shaokun Yan

“…To meet the power demand requirements of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), the power supply is generally composed of a large number of high-energy lithium battery groups. …”
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Political participation and voluntary associations : A hypergraph case study. by Amina Azaiez, Robin Salot

“…We also introduce the 'diversity coefficient' as an extension of degree centrality to capture an individual's ability to participate in activities composed of members from different communities. Among other centrality measures, we find that the diversity coefficient is the most significant factor in explaining political participation among members of associations.…”
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