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Ms, Preetinder Kaur, and Sukhvir Singh Dr. "CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND VOLUNTARY INFORMATION DISCLOSURE." International Journal of Marketing & Financial Management Volume 5, Issue 5, May-2017 (2017): pp 12–19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.816732.
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Under the regime of corporate governance Indian regulatory authorities are keeping update of disclosure practices to ensure the transparency, true and fair disclosure in corporate reporting. The stakeholders are also considering the true and fair corporate financial reporting as an important parameter for their analysis. The most reliable channel for this reporting is taken as published annual reports. In these annual reports corporates are disclosing all the mandatory information, but along with the mandatory information the corporates are also providing voluntary information, which is highly considered by the users. This paper has tried to examine the level of corporate disclosure on the basis of information disclosed voluntarily in the published annual reports. The Study was based on firms listed on S&P CNX Nifty. The final sample consists of published annual reports of 50 companies which were studied for a period of five years that is 2011-2016. The study concluded that these large cap companies give more importance to financial nature items, limited number of companies have considered other items of the index for voluntary disclosure .On the basis of statistical analysis the study has also concluded that no company has reached to the disclosure of more than 100 items. There is a slight change in the yearly mean disclosure of the companies.
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Viramo, Juha. "Short reports." Entomologica Fennica 8, no. 1 (1997): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83912.
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The following reports were presented during 1996 at the meetings of the Entomological Society of Finland (ESF), the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis (SEH), and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku (ECT); the reports from the meetings of the Lepidopterological Society of Finland have been published in the Society's own journal, Baptria. The present notes do not cover all the reports given in the meetings since some of them were not received in written form, and some reports with information on several species are published separately as scientific notes. For biogeographical provinces and Finnish grid coordinates, see inside back cover of annual issues 2 and 4, respectively.
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Jansson, Antti. "Short reports." Entomologica Fennica 6, no. 1 (1995): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83827.
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The following reports were presented during 1994 at the meetings of the Entomological Society of Finland (ESF), the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis (SEH), and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku (ECT); the reports from the meetings of the Lepidopterological Society of Finland have been published in the Society's own journal, Baptria. The present notes do not cover all the reports given in the meetings since some of them were not received in written form, and some reports with information on several species are published separately as scientific notes. For biogeographical provinces, Finnish grid coordinates, and UTM squares see inside back cover of annual issues 2, 3 and 4, respectively.
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Viramo, Juha. "Short reports." Entomologica Fennica 7, no. 1 (1996): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.33338/ef.83879.
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The following reports were presented during 1995 at the meetings of the Entomological Society of Finland (ESF), the Societas Entomologica Helsingforsiensis (SEH), and the Entomological Club of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Turku (ECT); the reports from the meetings of the Lepidopterological Society of Finland have been published in the Society's own journal, Baptria. The present notes do not cover all the reports given in the meetings since some of them were not received in written form, and some reports with information on several species are published separately as scienfitic notes. For biogeographical provinces, Finnish grid coordinates, and UTM squares see inside back cover of annual issues 2, 3 and 4, respectively.
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Amernic, Joel, and Ramy Elitzur. "USING HISTORICAL ANNUAL REPORTS IN TEACHING: LETTING THE PAST BENEFIT THE PRESENT." Accounting Historians Journal 19, no. 1 (1992): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.19.1.29.
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In this article, it is suggested that accounting education may be enhanced by the use of published historical accounting materials, such as annual reports. Comparing such materials with modern reports serves to reinforce the notion that accounting evolves in response to environmental change. Further, requiring students to analytically derive cash flow statements from historical published annual reports provides several direct pedagogical benefits.
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Wegman, Myron E. "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—1985." Pediatrics 78, no. 6 (1986): 983–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.78.6.983.
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Data for this article, as in previous reports,1 are drawn principally from Monthly Vital Statistics Report, published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).2-6 The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook7 and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Reports,8 both published by the Statistical Office of the United Nations, which has also been kind enough to provide directly more recent data. Except for mortality data by cause and age, which are based on a 10% sample, all the US data for 1984 are estimates by place of occurrence, based upon a count of certificates received in state offices between two dates, 1 month apart, regardless of when the event occurred. Experience has shown that for the country as a whole the estimates, with few exceptions, are close to the subsequent final figures. There are, however, considerable variations in some states, particularly in comparing data by place of occurrence and place of residence. State information should be interpreted cautiously.
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Cowley, Sue. "A look at the latest early years reports." Early Years Educator 23, no. 20 (2023): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/eyed.2023.23.20.14.
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With childcare costs, recruitment, retention, and sustainability of settings repeatedly hitting the headlines, some important reports about the sector have been published in recent months. Ofsted's latest annual report has also come out, looking at how the sector is faring post-pandemic. Sue Cowley summarises what these reports have to say.
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Adebayo Oba, Abdulmumini. "LAWYERS, LAW REPORTING AND THE SHARIA COURTS OF APPEAL IN NIGERIA." Jurnal Syariah 31, no. 1 (2023): 122–59. https://doi.org/10.22452/syariah.vol31no1.5.
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The Sharia Court of Appeal (first created in 1960) is a superior court of record that hears appeals from the area courts and Sharia courts in Islamic personal law cases only. Appeals from the Sharia Courts of Appeal go to the Court of Appeal and finally, to the Supreme Court. Lawyers gained the right of audience in the Sharia Courts of Appeal and qualified for appointment as Kadis of the court in 1985 and 1999 respectively. Reports of the Sharia Courts of Appeal judgments are hard to come by. An exception is the Kwara State Sharia Court of Appeal that has published its Annual Reports for the years 1993 to 2015. The Annual Report was renamed Law Reports and the Law Reports for 2016 and 2020 have been published. This paper gives a conceptual and historical background to Islamic law reporting, analyses the 2000 Annual Report and 2020 Law Report (the maiden editions respectively) and examines the prospects of reporting cases of the court. The study finds some differences in the formats of the annual reports and the law reports; inconsistencies in the court’s referencing style and the transliteration schemes, and that the reports are useful to lawyers and academics alike. The paper recommends that the judgments in the court should not be unduly long; that the referencing style and transliteration scheme for Arabic sources should be standardized; and that while the reports be encouraged and sustained, the concept of stare decisis should not become entrenched in Islamic courts.
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White, Niki Jana. "Producing gender-blind drug knowledge and representations in prison spaces." Drugs and Alcohol Today 21, no. 3 (2021): 236–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dat-11-2020-0075.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine knowledge production and problem representation with regard to new psychoactive substances (NPS) in Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP) annual reports. Design/methodology/approach Seven annual reports published by HMCIP for England and Wales between 2014 and 2020 have been systematically reviewed drawing on thematic analysis. Findings This paper demonstrates how framing in HMCIP annual reports produced a characterisation of NPS in prisons that inadvertently obstructed gender-sensitive knowledge production and problem representation. The framing formalised knowledge silences about spice in women’s prisons. Originality/value HMCIP annual reports monitor drugs in prisons and this affects how these spaces are represented to government and other stakeholders. This paper provides theoretical and practical insights into how gender-blind knowledge is produced by discussing examples of gender-blind drug representations in a specific policy context.
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Wegman, Myron E. "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—1984." Pediatrics 76, no. 6 (1985): 861–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.76.6.861.
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Data for this article, as in previous reports,1 are drawn principally from Monthly Vital Statistics Report, published by the National Center for Health Statistics.2-6 The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook7 and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Report,8 both published by the Statistical Office of the United Nations, which has also been kind enough to provide directly more recent data. Except for mortality data by cause and age, which are based on a 10% sample, all of the US data for 1984 are estimates by place of occurrence, based upon a count of certificates received in state offices between two dates, 1-month apart, regardless of when the event occurred.
Books on the topic "Published Annual Reports"
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Tonkin, D. J. World survey of published accounts: An analysis of 200 annual reports from the world's leading companies. Lafferty, 1989.
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Arthur Andersen & Co., ed. Financial reporting by the European oil industry: A survey based on annual reports published during 1994. Arthur Andersen & Co, 1994.
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Great Britain. Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority. HFEA publishes second annual report and announces outcome of sex selection conference. Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, 1993.
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Society for Scholarly Publishing (U.S.). Meeting. Organizing for tomorrow: Reports from the think-tanks and the trenches : proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. The Society, 1985.
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committees on Arms Export Controls. Scrutiny of arms exports and arms control (2013): Scrutiny of the government's UK Strategic export controls annual report 2011 published in July 2012, the government's Quarterly reports from October 2011 to September 2012, and the Government's policies on arms exports and international arms control issues : first joint report of the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development committees of session 2013-14 : second report of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of session 2013-14 : third report of the Defence Committee of session 2013-14 : third report of the Foreign Affairs Committee of session 2013-14 : third report of the International Development Committee of session 2013-14. The Stationery Office Limited, 2013.
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Glasgow Society (in connection with the Established Church of Scotland) for Promoting the Religious Interests of Scottish Settlers in British North America., ed. A review of the Supplement to the first annual report of the society for promoting the religious interests of Scottish settlers in British North America: In a series of letters to the Rev. Robert Burns, originally published in the Acadian Recorder, Halifax, Nova Scotia. s.n.], 1987.
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Lundh, Anna, ed. An Overview of Swedish Higher Education and Research 2021. Universitetskanslersambetets publikationer, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53340/ukap-2.
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Every year the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) publishes a comprehensive overview of higher education and research in Sweden in the form of an annual status report. The report deals with what has happened during the preceding year as well as long-term trends. We also make international comparisons. The report also includes a description of and facts about the Swedish system for higher education and research. The annual report of 2021, An Overview of Swedish Higher Education and Research 2021, includes effects of the coronavirus pandemic on higher education and research in Sweden in 2020.
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Fogelman, Ryan. 5th ANNUAL REPORTED WASTE and RECYCLING FACILITY FIRES US/CAN: 2021 Report - Published 2022. Independently Published, 2022.
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Maties, Martin, ed. eSport-Recht – Politik, Praxis und Wissenschaft im Dialog. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748901907.
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In this book you will find an annual report of the Research Center for Esports Law (FeSR) and reports on the non-scientific presentations given at the conference as well as scientific contributions on fundamental problems of esports law and selected individual problems from the perspective of science, practice and politics: definition, integrity risks and applicable criminal law, implementing the organizational structures of competitive sports, legal issues from the publishers' perspective, fixed-term player contracts, specifics of drafting an esports sponsorship agreement, limits of contract drafting in esports based on the example of Tfue vs. FaZe Clan. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Martin Maties, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Kubiciel, Dr. Paul Fischer and David Menz, Felix Hilgert, Thomas Krumrey, Philipp Schlotthauer, Nepomuk Nothelfer and Max Wörner, summary of the presentation by Britta Dassler (member of the German Parliament), summary of the presentation by Benjamin Adjei (member of the Bavarian State Parliament), summary of the presentation by Jan-Hendrik Heuschkel (Freaks 4U Gaming)
Book chapters on the topic "Published Annual Reports"
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Siklósi, Veronika, and Zsuzsanna Széles. "The future of banking or the concept of sustainability in the banking sector." In Green and Digital Transitions. Szegedi Tudományegyetem, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/gtk.gdtgiss.2024.8.
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Hungarian commercial banks have been required to publish their sustainability report since 2017. The research topic focuses on the analysis of ESG disclosure at international commercial banks in Hungary based on the data of the annual reports published from 2019 to 2021. This study reports on empirical research using the method of detailed reading and manual coding after reviewing the literature. The concept of sustainability is introduced, focusing on the banking sector and the quality level of disclosures, the changes, and the progress from 2019 to 2021 as the result of the research is discussed. The European Green Deal Investment Plan and the Just Transition Mechanism was announced in January 2020. The effect of the European Green Deal and the opportunity of green investments within the framework to the ESG disclosure quality level are also discussed in the paper.
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Breeze, Ruth. "Chapter 9. Lessons learned?" In Manufacturing Dissent. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.339.09bre.
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The 2008 financial crisis severely undermined public trust in banking systems, prompting calls for widespread reform. However, irregularities continued, leading to a further succession of scandals over the following years. We should therefore ask how banks justified the catastrophe and their failure to reform. This chapter examines two large UK-based banks: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and HSBC. All the “letters to shareholders” published in their Annual Reports over 15 years are examined for commonplace arguments or “topoi” offered as justifications for their failure to comply with ethical standards. Five typical recurring arguments are analysed, with a particular focus on their use in subtle manipulations of public opinion to draw attention away from the scale and impact of corporate wrongdoing.
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Sindoni, Giuseppe, and Matteo Massenzio. "An Open Data platform for decision making in local public administration." In Proceedings e report. Firenze University Press and Genova University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0106-3.51.
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This paper presents the Milan Open Data (OD) platform as a means to provide statistics and data in the framework of “Data-Driven Milan”, a city where policy decisions are taken in an “informed and aware” way using data. Open Data are ever more important in providing citizen communities with useful information. Over the last 10 years, the municipality of Milan has developed its OD platform from an experimental portal to a fully-fledged portal with more than 1,600 datasets, implemented a Linked Open Data (LOD) system and 8 advanced data visualization projects, and produced OD policies and operating guidelines. The OD portal is based on the CKAN technology, which makes datasets available via both download and Application Programming Interfaces. It currently has about 9,000 unique visitors per month. Data are also published as tables on the statistical portal and maps on the geo-portal. A single entry point to the three portals is about to be released. The advanced visualization projects make data available as reader-friendly graphics. Depending on its topic, a project might be a storytelling of the city through key statistics, a means to communicate the administration’s achievements, or a “data democratization” operation, such as “Open bilancio”, which publishes detailed information about the municipality’s annual budget. LOD are semantically enriched and machine-readable data that help to implement data interoperability between distributed systems. The ongoing LOD automation project aims to improve the current system by minimizing manual operations in the dataset lifecycle. Three Municipal Resolutions have been issued to define OD governance: the first establishes that data are released under an Open License, to promote the digital economy; the second promotes data interoperability and quality; and the third, issued in 2021, establishes the guidelines and an operating model for OD governance, including ontology-supported data publishing.
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Victor, Viny Saajan, Andre Schmeißer, Heike Leitte, and Simone Gramsch. "Machine Learning for Optimizing the Homogeneity of Spunbond Nonwovens." In Cognitive Technologies. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83097-6_5.
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Abstract According to the Global Nonwoven Markets Report 2020–2025, published in 2021 by the two leading trading organisations representing nonwovens and related industries INDA and EDANA, the average annual growth rate of nonwoven production was 6.2% (INDA and EDANA Jointly Publish the Global Nonwoven Markets Report, A Comprehensive Survey and Outlook Assessing Growth Post-Pandemic, edana, 2021, Published September 29, 2021, from https://www.edana.org/about-us/news/global-nonwoven-markets-report) during the period from 2010 to 2020. In 2020 and 2021, nonwoven production has increased even further due to the huge demand for nonwoven products needed for protectiedanave clothing such as FFP2 masks to combat the COVID19 pandemic. Optimizing the production process is still a challenge due to its high nonlinearity. In this chapter, we present a machine learning-based optimization workflow aimed at improving the homogeneity of spunbond nonwovens. The optimization workflow is based on a mathematical model that simulates the microstructures of nonwovens. Based on training data coming from this simulator, different machine learning algorithms are trained in order to find a surrogate model for the time-consuming simulator. Human validation is employed to verify the outputs of machine learning algorithms by assessing the aesthetics of the nonwovens. We include scientific and expert knowledge into the training data to reduce the computational costs involved in the optimization process. We demonstrate the necessity and effectiveness of our workflow in optimizing the homogeneity of nonwovens.
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Ushiro, Shin, Antonio Ragusa, and Riccardo Tartaglia. "Lessons Learned from the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy: A Novel System of Data Aggregation, Investigation, Amelioration, and No-Fault Compensation." In Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_33.
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AbstractCerebral palsy is a pathological condition whose prevention and treatment have been immensely studied by experts in perinatal medicine and pediatric neurology. Despite this, it is still one of the main concerns nowadays in many countries, not only for scientific reasons but for legal ones also. For instance, in Japan, an increase in lawsuits relating to cerebral palsy was observed more than a decade ago, after healthcare resources in perinatal medicine had increasingly shrunk and had become fragile under the growing burden for physicians and midwives to provide advanced treatment, emergent care, high-risk treatment, and so on. Young physicians did not specialize in obstetrics because of the increased burden, which gave rise to a vicious cycle of shrinking resources in perinatal medicine. To address this issue, the Japan Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy (JOCS-CP) was urgently introduced in 2009 to investigate, develop preventive measures, and award monetary compensation on a no-fault basis, with the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JQ) as its operating organization (Fig. 33.1). It has so far produced annual reports on the prevention of cerebral palsy for nine consecutive years including numerical data and specific themes relating to the occurrence and prevention of cerebral palsy. The success of the system is a good reference for responding to adverse events which may happen in and have a vast impact on perinatal care. Therefore, this chapter focuses on cerebral palsy with primary reference to materials published by the JOCS-CP in the field of perinatal medicine. The aim of this chapter is to learn about the issues mentioned above and to discuss the significance and impact of introducing a nationwide system like the JOCS-CP. It describes knowledge and idea to questions of “Why cerebral palsy is highlighted among adverse event in obstetrics?”, “How the no-fault compensation/investigation/prevention system could be introduced?”, “What has been achieved by the system?”, and “How cerebral palsy is prevented?”.
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Goel, Puneeta, Rupali Misra, Suman Lodh, Monomita Nandy, and Nandita Mishra. "B Corps in India: A Sustainable Business Model." In The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14216-1_30.
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AbstractAfter countries recognized the profound significance of assessing social and environmental performance as a prerequisite for sustainable business existence, various nongovernmental organizations as well as regulatory bodies developed measurement scales to gauge this performance. In this paper, we refer to one such assessment tool, B Impact Assessment (BIA), proposed by B Corps to benchmark the reporting framework of Indian companies for their social and environmental performance. The listed Indian companies were required to publish business responsibility reporting (BRR) which lacks generalization with other international standards.In this study, we consider BRR and propose a revised Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) framework to make it comparable and compatible with BIA, which is acceptable worldwide. Also, we introduce measurement scores of the BRR at a granular level—taking 109 items of the existing scale and 13 items identified after benchmarking with BIA, together aggregating to maximum score of 200. In addition, to support the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) to analyze the completeness, accuracy, and clarity of BRR, we apply scoring mechanism to develop sections A and B of the BRSR. The universal applicability of scale and benchmarking with internationally acceptable BIA will encourage more Indian companies to adopt social responsibilities and will make the assurance of annual report simple. Moreover, the proposed scale can also be used to identify companies that are eligible for the proposed Social Security Exchange in India. We expect that the findings will contribute to the literature on social responsibility and corporate sustainability and in practice accelerate the “CSR movement” in India.
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Fiskerstrand, Rolf, and Annik Magerholm Fet. "Environmental Management at Fiskerstrand Verft AS: A 30 Year Journey." In Business Transitions: A Path to Sustainability. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22245-0_18.
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AbstractFiskerstrand Verft is a multipurpose shipyard with extensive expertise and activities in shipbuilding, maintenance, repair and conversion/modification of ships. The yard is exposed to a range of different environmental challenges related to its business which trigged the yard to develop and implement health and safety, and environmental management systems. This chapter gives an overview of environmental management at Fiskerstrand Verft over a 30-year period, written from the perspective of the first author as CEO. The activities from 1991–94 mainly considered Level 1 in the CapSEM Model with annual accounting of materials and wastes, emissions to air and discharges to ocean. The yard participated in various R & D environmental projects and during the period 1994–99 these were extended with activities corresponding to life cycle thinking according to Levels 2 and 3. In 1999, Fiskerstrand Verft was the first Norwegian shipyard that prepared and published an environmental report. The yard was certified as an environmental lighthouse company in 2000, the first in Norway. During the period 2004–2008, the yard further developed their systems and began to transition to Level 4. The life cycle perspective for ships and technology has been at the center of the development of green technologies for ships. This journey continues today, passing the 30 year mark, and has contributed invaluable knowledge about the CapSEM toolbox and how it can be applied to shipyard operations.
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Ventura, Livia. "Social Enterprises and Benefit Corporations in Italy." In The International Handbook of Social Enterprise Law. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14216-1_31.
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AbstractItaly has been the first country in the world to adopt the US benefit corporation model (so-called società benefit (SB)), which it transplanted into its legal system at the end of 2015. The Italian società benefit statute is a mix between the US Model Benefit Corporation Legislation and the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation Act but is characterized by some peculiar features, such as the scope of the legislation, which is applicable to all for-profit and cooperative organizational forms provided by the law, and the existence of a public enforcement mechanism based on the attribution of supervisory powers to the Italian Competition Authority. A few years after its introduction, società benefit seems to have been widely accepted, and the movement continues to grow. Furthermore, the Italian legal system continues to support the spread of the SB model, e.g., through the 2019 amendment of the “Public Contract Code,” which introduced new reward criteria for tendering companies that publish the annual report required by the società benefit law to assess their social and environmental impacts. From a comparative law perspective, the Italian “for-benefit” model has been the first one adopted by a civil law system and seems to have influenced other civil law countries.
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Jansson, Maria, and Louise Wallenberg. "Experiencing Male Dominance in Swedish Film Production." In Women in the International Film Industry. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39070-9_10.
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Abstract Sweden has been hailed for its recent success in increasing the number of female directors, scriptwriters and producers. Published reports, panel discussions and a vast number of press conferences on the pressing matter of gender equality within the industry together with a 5050 quota have all put the Swedish film industry—and its CEO Anna Serner—on the map. However, the last couple of years has disclosed several scandals regarding sexism and discrimination in the Swedish film industry—just as in other national film industries. This paper sets out to discuss how female film workers (e.g., directors, actors and producers) understand and negotiate their experiences of male dominance within their work context. Based on a series of interviews with women working in Swedish film from the early 1960s until today, we analyze similarities and differences in experiences as well as how these experiences are explained by the interviewees. Their stories are analyzed by using feminist institutional theory to understand how policy, funding schemes and other institutional aspects are intertwined with their experiences. The paper sets out to analyze three themes: (1) comments and suggestions during production and post-production regarding female protagonists; (2) experience of gender trouble in the process of fundraising; and (3) strategies used by the interviewed filmmakers to produce a more women-friendly environment during productions.
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Dhingra-Kumar, Neelam, Silvio Brusaferro, and Luca Arnoldo. "Patient Safety in the World." In Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_8.
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AbstractPatient safety is a fundamental principle of health care. However, many medical practices and risks associated with health care are emerging as major challenges for patient safety globally and contribute significantly to the burden of harm due to unsafe care. Available evidence suggests hospitalizations in low- and middle-income countries lead annually to 134 million adverse events, contributing to 2.6 million deaths. About 134 million adverse events worldwide give rise to 2.6 million deaths every year. Estimates indicate that in high-income countries, about 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care. This problem affects both high-income countries and low- and middle countries even if priorities and issues may differ. The most important adverse events concern medication procedures, healthcare-associated infections, surgical procedures, injection safety, blood transfusions, venous thromboembolism, sepsis, and diagnostic and radiation errors. Since 1999 when the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published its report “To err is human,” some progress has been made but patient harm is still a daily problem in healthcare. As a matter of fact, new threats are emerging due to population aging, along with new treatments and technologies which must be dealt with in addition to still-unresolved, long-standing problems. In this context, it is very important to adopt an international common strategy that creates networks, shares knowledge, programs, tools, good practices and develop and track indicators focusing on the specific priorities of each country and region.
Conference papers on the topic "Published Annual Reports"
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Perfect, Philip, Mark White, and Michael Jump. "Investigation of Personal Aerial Vehicle Handling Qualities Requirements for Harsh Environmental Conditions." In Vertical Flight Society 70th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0070-2014-9515.
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This paper describes the continuing research at the University of Liverpool in the myCopter project to develop handling qualities guidelines and criteria for a new category of aircraft - the personal aerial vehicle (PAV), which, it is envisaged, should demand no more skill to fly than that associated with driving a car today. Previously published research showed that a translational rate command (TRC) response type allowed a majority of 'flight-naïve' pilots to operate within desired performance limits in a series of hover and low speed tasks in good environmental conditions. This paper extends the research by exploring the impact of degrading the usable cue environment and introducing atmospheric disturbances on performance in these tasks. Results from simulation trials involving test subjects with little or no flight experience are reported, showing that, in general, task performance can be maintained with the TRC response type, although workload increases. The paper concludes that the TRC response type remains suitable for use by 'flight-naïve' pilots in PAVs, even in degraded environmental conditions.
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Vágner, Viktor. "A review of the Balanced Scorecard method through comparing the relevant literature of selected European countries." In The European Union’s Contention in the Reshaping Global Economy. Szegedi Tudományegyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kar, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/eucrge.2022.13.
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The importance of evaluating companies and measuring their performance is evidenced by a number of cases, for example, global phenomena going on currently. Not so long ago, in 2013, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Directive 2013/34/EU, which is mandatory and provides comparable and clear financial statements of companies. Therefore, the study applies mainly the method of scientific literature synthesis and compares studies carried out in various Central and Eastern European countries. They are related to the use of the Balanced Scorecard performance measurement method applied in stock companies. In parallel, the perspectives of key stakeholders are also reviewed based on their published reporting practices. The comparison shows that the Balanced Scorecard method is really suitable for external users. Important information, measures and performance indicators can be reported and analysed using the company’s annual reports.
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Voneki, Zsuzsanna Tamasne, and Gabriella Lamanda. "Gdp influence on the esg risk framework disclosure of the visegrad four banks." In 38th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. ECMS, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2024-0064.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the ESG risk management framework disclosure and GDP. We examined annual risk and sustainability reports published by 26 banks in the Visegrád Four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) during the period of 2017-2021. We applied content analysis and developed the ESG Framework Disclosure index (FD) to provide a comprehensive overview on how banks are committed to the integration of ESG aspects into their risk management system. Panel regression was performed to improve and ensure the robustness of our study. We found that our index is positively and significantly influenced by GDP per capita, as well as by bank size and capital adequacy.
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PERNICI, Andreea, and Stelian STANCU. "The Worldwide Progress of SDGs. Depicting the Yearly Hot Topics, using Language Processing." In The International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences. Editura ASE, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/icess/2024/049.
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The Sustainable Development Goals have become indispensable for the international agenda since their official launch in 2015. Corroborated, the publication of the yearly SDG reports represents a candid focal point for the gained progress, as long as a clear depiction of the global challenges, resources, and knowledge. Thus, in the 2016-2023 period, eight annual reports have been published, containing more than 500 content pages. Starting from those, we aim to design an explorative analysis framework, through the computation of several language processing techniques from the family of text mining, and sentiment analysis. Our objective will be to identify the top-level hot topics of every year, while also pinpointing certain temporal dynamics in terms of new or recurrent subjects, international threats, or social-economic discourse elements. Deep-diving into the methodological instruments, the analysis will be based on a mix of techniques, starting from the illustration of the most common terms and collocations. Afterward, we will apply the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency algorithm to highlight the importance of several words relative to the entire collection of documents, with a focus on the evolutive dimension. Going forward, we will evaluate the sentiment scores for each report, to assess whether in certain moments the general tone of the conversation has switched to a more negative or positive valence. Throughout the applicative section, we will present the results through several graphical visualisations meant to better profile the connections between concepts. Finally, we consider the current approach to be valuable for understanding the general evolutions in terms of sustainable development, creating a summative and computational-based exploration of the progress generated worldwide in the last decade.
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Ducharme, Caroline, and Nickolas Themelis. "Analysis of Thermal Plasma-Assisted Waste-to-Energy Processes." In 18th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec18-3582.
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Thermal plasma torches convert electricity to high-temperature thermal energy by applying a high voltage across a flowing gas stream. Plasma torches are used extensively for producing metallic and ceramic coatings and also for vitrifying hazardous materials, such as asbestos-contaminated wastes. In the last decade, several thermal plasma processes have been proposed for treating municipal solid wastes (MSW). This research is based on a critical analysis of previous work by the Earth Engineering Center and on published reports and examines the possibilities for the proposed thermal plasma (TP) processes to be recover energy from MSW as an alternative to the conventional waste-to-energy (WTE) by grate combustion. In particular, this study will investigate two prominent thermal plasma technologies that are presently under development: The Alter NRG “Westinghouse” process in the U.S. and the Europlasma process in France. The environmental impacts and the technical economic aspects of plasma-assisted WTE processes will be compared to the traditional process of MSW combustion on a moving grate.
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Ibrahim, Meram, Banan Mukhalalati, Majdoleen Al alawneh, and Ahmed Awaisu. "Qatar National Vision 2030." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0226.
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Introduction: The United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. One of these goals describes achieving a Universal Health Coverage by 2030. This signifies workforce planning in healthcare professions (United Nations, 2015). The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) published reports about pharmacy workforce planning in several countries. However, data about Qatar was not included in these reports. In 2017, FIP developed a transformational roadmap of pharmaceutical workforce and education. One component of the roadmap is the Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals (PWDGs) (International Pharmaceutical Federation, 2016). This research aims to conduct a self-assessment of the pharmaceutical workforce and education in Qatar in relation to the FIP’s PWDGs. This will be followed by prioritization of the identified gaps and recommendation of measures to address them. Methods: Three rounds of conventional Delphi technique (Hasson et al., 2000) are conducted with expert panels in the College of Pharmacy at Qatar University and the Ministry of Public Health, utilizing the FIP’s self-assessment survey. Content analysis is used to analyse and prioritize the identified gaps. Results: The lack of competency framework (PWDG5), workforce data (PWDG12), and workforce policy formation (PWDG13) are the three major gaps in the provision of pharmaceutical workforce and pharmacy education in Qatar, influencing other PWDGs. These gaps need to be addressed by the formation of Qatari Pharmaceutical Association through which academic, practice, and policymaking sectors can work together in developing a health workforce intelligence system. Conclusion: The results indicated that PWDGs are interrelated and a gap in one goal can negatively influence others (Bruno et al., 2018). Results and recommendations of this research will facilitate the implementation of strategic plans across leading pharmacy sectors to meet health needs in Qatar and achieve the third pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030 “A Healthy Population: Physically and Mentally” (General Secretariat for Development, 2008).
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"Digital competence of the modern teacher of the new Ukrainian school: 2023 (the search for solutions during the war)." In Digital competence of the modern teacher of the new Ukrainian school: 2023 (the search for solutions during the war). Institute for digitalization of education, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/lib.naes.735075.
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The collection contains materials from the reports of the annual all-Ukrainian scientific and practical seminar "Digital competence of the modern teacher of the new Ukrainian school: 2023 (the search for solutions during the war). The issues of overcoming the challenges in the educational process caused by the large-scale aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine are outlined. The experience and best practices of creating a safe digital educational environment in institutions of general secondary education are presented. Practical steps in the direction of digitalization of education and development of digital competence of the teacher are highlighted. Theoretical approaches and practical developments regarding the use of ICT in professional education and teacher training are described. For developers of educational policy, teachers, scientists, managers, teachers, doctoral students, graduate students, students, the general pedagogical public. Materials are published in the author's editorial office. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information provided.
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VanDerWall, Berend, and Gert Schmidt. "Ernst Otto Schmidt 1872-1938: Passionate Helicopter Inventor." In Vertical Flight Society 78th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0078-2022-17561.
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Ernst Otto Schmidt is practically unknown in the row of aeronautical and especially helicopter pioneers. This is because his profession was a decoration painter and he earned good reputation at the time. However, he also was fascinated by the idea to vertically take off and land with a machine, experimented more than half of his life with models and held two patents for his designs (issued 1924 and 1939). Oral reports state that one demonstration flight was performed in 1929 and a U.S. businessman offered funding that Schmidt denied. Schmidt was afraid of being laughed at and kept his experiments secret for a long time. Without a wealthy sponsor his designs never came to fruition, partly because he also lacked any aeronautical engineering education. However, some ideas he had were realized by others at much later times. A book about Ernst Otto Schmidt was published by his grandson, the co-author of this paper. Additional personal correspondence from his family archive and further material found by the author are provided here for the first time.
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Thompson, Jaylyn D., Jenna Zappetti, and Clarence Julian II Clark. "Management Strategies for Traumatic Injuries in Pregnant Women: A Comprehensive Literature Review." In 28th Annual Rowan-Virtua Research Day. Rowan University Libraries, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31986/issn.2689-0690_rdw.stratford_research_day.122_2024.
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Introduction: Traumatic injuries in pregnant women are the leading cause of non-obstetric death and affect 6% to 8% of all pregnancies. Therefore, it is imperative to maintain updated guidelines to construct a framework for the optimal management strategies for traumatic injuries in pregnant women, considering the perspectives of obstetrics/gynecology, emergency medicine, and orthopedics. Methods: To conduct this study, research was done via a database search through the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine’s research library. PubMed was the sole database used to review 8 peer-reviewed sources. Articles that were published within the last 10 years were chosen. Results: Every woman with significant traumatic injuries must have pregnancy ruled out given its unique physiologic characteristics. First responders gather history surrounding fetal movement, contractions, and vaginal bleeding. Stabilization includes fetal monitoring, fluid resuscitation, blood transfusions, and maternal repositioning. Laboratory studies and diagnostic imaging (ultrasound) do not harm the mother or baby and reflect fetal status. Sometimes, emergency cesarean delivery (≤ 5 minutes of arrest) is indicated. There are some reports of fetal survival and maternal benefit beyond 15 minutes of arrest. Domestic violence is the most common trauma mechanism for pregnant women and triggers several obstetric complications (fetal loss, pre-term delivery, and placental abruption). Conclusion: Adverse outcomes of pregnancy happen more frequently following trauma. Non-emergent trauma may be managed conservatively, delaying treatment until after delivery. Surgical positioning, medication administration, and diagnostic imaging determine the best outcomes for the mother and child.
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Zarabadi, Ladan. "Appropriation of Space – Perpetuation of Patriarchy: A Feminist Critique on Public Space Design in Iran." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.149.
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This research uses a feminist lens to examine Iranian urban public parks designed for use by women only. The purpose of this paper is to reveal translations of patriarchal cultural values from an architectural micro scale to an urban macro scale and question the (over) contextualization of these parks’ design. Although this is a multifaceted topic that also merits ethnographic analysis, this particular paper primarily examines the physicality of the space. I draw on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space, Stephen Graham’s urban militarization, and Jürgen Habermas’s and Nancy Fraser’s views of public spheres to theorize women-only parks’ existence as a hegemonic production of space. I argue that despite the Iranian government’s claim that the purpose of these women- only parks is to provide women a safe and free public space, this type of urban public space actually appropriates the design logic of courtyard houses, materializes patriarchal culture, and perpetuates patriarchal values in an urban configuration. In other words, women-only parks in Iranian cities are an embodiment of patriarchal culture in which gender segregation is used as a strategy to fulfill Islamic values and disguise patriarchal dispositions into a false sense of spatial and gender justice. This qualitative and interdisciplinary research uses a mixed method approach (alternating between formal and discursive analyses as needed) and multiple sources of data. Data collected on-site from women-only parks in Tehran (including photos and videos) serves as the primary source for this analysis. I also use reports from online news agencies and social media, as well as previously published interviews conducted by sociology scholars.
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Smith, Paul N., David R. J. Gill, Michael J. McAuliffe, et al. Lay Summary: Hip, Knee & Shoulder Replacement Supplementary Report. Australian Orthopaedic Association, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25310/kyec2765.
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This summary is an explanation of the major findings of the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry 2023 Annual Report for Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty (replacement). This is the major clinical report produced by the Registry each year. The full version of the 2023 Annual Report on Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty is available in the ‘Publications’ section of the Registry website https://aoanjrr.sahmri.com/annual-reports-2023. The Lay Summary is provided to ensure that a clear, concise, and easily understood explanation of the published findings are available to all those who may be interested. The Lay Summary also provides guidance for those who may wish to further review the full extent of the data published by the Registry in the Annual Report. The Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) believes this is especially important because of the high level of community interest in the Registry and the need to ensure that reports are accessible to all. This Report is one of 16 supplementary reports to complete the AOANJRR Annual Report for 2023. Information on the background, purpose, aims, benefits and governance of the Registry can be found in the Introductory chapter of the 2023 Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Annual Report. The Registry data quality processes including data collection, validation and outcomes assessment, are provided in detail in the Data Quality section of the introductory chapter of the 2023 Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Annual Report: https://aoanjrr.sahmri.com/annual-reports-2023.
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Richards, Robin. Can PDIA be Used at a Strategic Level in Multi-Donor Trust Funds and Across Various Phases of Downstream Projects? Institute of Development Studies, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.112.
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This rapid review investigated whether PDIA can be used successfully in Multi-Donor Trust Funds (MDTF) at a strategic level and also across various phases of downstream projects (Verheijen, 2017 and World Bank 2018). The review also identified best practices across the whole programme iteration cycle. The review found that PDIA can be successfully used in MDTF’s and across the various phases of downstream projects. There were few examples illustrating the use the PDIA approach in Multi-Donor Trust Fund interventions. The body of published research on the use of PDIA was relatively small. However, there was more literature on the use of PDIA in large scale interventions generally at system-wide level and lower down, at project level. Literature was mainly from grey sources, including case studies published by organisations; reports from multi-donor projects; university projects; online blogs; and annual reports from development and funding organisations. Sources for the review were quite recent, between the periods 2010-2021.
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Livesay, Alison, Marisa Lamb, Alexa Verardo, et al. ASER Annual Site Environmental Report Summary Published in 2022. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1902068.
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Livesay, Alison, Anne Jones, Leslie Hansen, and Jacob Hassett. ASER Annual Site Environmental Report Summary Published in 2023. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/2280546.
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Harris, Jeremy, Alejandro Ramos Martínez, and Paolo Giordano. INTrade: Latin American Trade Trend Estimates: 2013. Inter-American Development Bank, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008278.
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Latin American Trade Trend Estimates is an annual study published by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank that analyses the region's trade performance based on available national and international data for selected countries. For 2013, the study reports that Latin American exports stagnated, posting a second straight year of sluggish growth. Export increases were barely over 0%, for a total value of slightly more than $1 trillion. It is also noted that the region's exports actually declined in the first months of the year, continuing a negative trend that began in late 2012. However, in the third quarter, exports began to grow again, and current estimates point to a small positive overall growth rate for the year. Results varied considerably among countries. Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela all posted declines in exports, while Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay posted increases. Results in Central America were mixed, with exports barely growing in Costa Rica and Guatemala, declining in Honduras and Nicaragua, but expanding in El Salvador, and Panama.
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Wright, Wendy. Fixed-station water-quality monitoring at Fort Matanzas National Monument: 2013–2014 data summary. National Park Service, 2017. https://doi.org/10.36967/2247640.
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In 2010 the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Coast Network (SECN) Inventory and Monitoring Program began collecting water-quality data in the estuarine waters near Fort Matanzas National Monument (FOMA) as part of the NPS Vital Signs monitoring program. The continuous-monitoring data station is located at the visitors center dock. This station collects pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, specific conductance, turbidity, and water-level data every 30 minutes. The FOMA fixed-station water-quality monitoring site is part of the SECN estuarine water-quality monitoring program, which routinely collects data in the vicinity of seven coastal parks located along the southeastern U.S. coast (DeVivo et al. 2008). Summary data are presented in annual data reports published by the network. Information collected by this monitoring program will be used to help managers make better-informed decisions by understanding trends and variability related to water-quality conditions in park waters. Summary findings below are based on continuous data and discrete sampling collected during 1 January 2013–31 December 2014.
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Weiss, Werner, and Monika Spörk-Dür. Solar Heat Worldwide 2024. IEA SHC, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18777/ieashc-shww-2024-0001.
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The Solar Heat Worldwide report has been published annually since 2005 within the framework of the Solar Heating and Cooling Technology Collaboration Programme (SHC TCP) of the International Energy Agency (IEA). This unique series of reports documents solar thermal energy development over the last twenty years.
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Smith, Paul N., David R. J. Gill, Michael J. McAuliffe, et al. Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty: 2023 Annual Report. Australian Orthopaedic Association, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25310/ywqz9375.
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The 2023 Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Report is based on the analysis of 1,982,200 (850,603 hip, 1,046,247 knee and 85,350 shoulder) primary and revision procedures recorded by the Registry, with a procedure date up to and including 31 December 2022. As with last year’s Annual Report, to ensure that the relevance and currency of AOANJRR data are maintained, almost all analyses (unless specifically stated) have been confined to hip, knee and shoulder prostheses that were still being used in 2022. Again, historic data are still available in previous Annual Reports on the AOANJRR website. This year, the Registry is again providing an update on the impact of COVID-19 on joint replacement in Australia during 2022 and comparisons to 2020 and 2021, and to the pre-COVID year 2019. In addition to the main report, the Registry continues to publish Supplementary Reports. They include a Lay Summary of the main report and 15 additional reports on arthroplasty topics. The report introduces a special chapter addressing the challenge of infection in joint replacement surgeries, highlighting the steady increase in revision procedures due to infection since data collection began. Each year, the AOANJRR identifies prostheses with higher than anticipated rates of revision. This year, 4 total conventional hip, 3 total knee prostheses and 2 total stemmed reverse shoulder prostheses have been newly identified.
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McCullough, Bob. INDOT Research Program Benefit Cost Analysis—Return on Investment for Projects Completed in FY 2022. Purdue University, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317722.
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To demonstrate the value of research and its implementation, the Governor’s Office initially requested an annual financial analysis of the INDOT Research Program to determine the return on the research investment (ROI). The INDOT Research & Development (R&D) has continued to publish an annual Return on Investment report. The current financial analysis is for research projects that completed in FY 2022. Analyses on previous year’s projects is necessary primarily due to the time it takes some project outcomes to be implemented and verifiable data generated, extending into the following year. Therefore, the FY 2023 analysis is completed research projects in calendar 2022. The ROI analysis will supplement the annual IMPACT report by adding a more rigorous quantitative benefit cost analysis (BCA) to the Research Program. Previous financial analyses used the approach of calculating net present values of cash flows to determine a benefit cost ratio and this report uses the same approach. Additionally, an overall program rate of return (ROI) is reported and will be accumulated over time, a seven-year period.
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McCullough, Bob. INDOT Research Program Benefit Cost Analysis—Return on Investment for Projects Completed in FY 2022. Purdue University, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317723.
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To demonstrate the value of research and its implementation, the Governor’s Office initially requested an annual financial analysis of the INDOT Research Program to determine the return on the research investment (ROI). The INDOT Research & Development (R&D) has continued to publish an annual Return on Investment report. The current financial analysis is for research projects that completed in FY 2022. Analyses on previous year’s projects is necessary primarily due to the time it takes some project outcomes to be implemented and verifiable data generated, extending into the following year. Therefore, the FY 2023 analysis is completed research projects in calendar 2022. The ROI analysis will supplement the annual IMPACT report by adding a more rigorous quantitative benefit cost analysis (BCA) to the Research Program. Previous financial analyses used the approach of calculating net present values of cash flows to determine a benefit cost ratio and this report uses the same approach. Additionally, an overall program rate of return (ROI) is reported and will be accumulated over time, a seven-year period.