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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND FIRMS’ ENVIRONMENTAL PROACTIVITY

How to cite this paper: Calza, F. , Profumo, G. , & Tutore, I. (2017). Boards of directors and firms’ environmental proactivity. Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review, 1(1), 52-64. http://doi.org/10.22495/cgobr_v1_i1_p6 Copyright © 2017 The Authors This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b y-nc/4.0/ ISSN Online: 2521-1889 ISSN Print: 2521-1870 Received: 02.11. 2017 Accepted: 12.12. 2017 JEL Classification: G34, M14, Q56 DOI: 10.22495/cgobr_v1_i1_p6 The present paper advances knowledge on the antecedents of firms’ environmental proactivity, assessing the explanatory power of corporate governance issues. In particular, our aim is to explore the relationship between board structure and firms’ proactive environmental strategies, within the agency theory and resource dependence theory frameworks, in order to outline if particular types of board members could represent a stimulating driver for firms’ environmental proactivity. The theoretical analysis is completed by an empirical investigation, performed by two linear regression models, on a sample of European firms, belonging to different polluting industries that were included in the Carbon Disclosure Project questionnaire 2014. The industry choice is related to the increasing pressure for better environmental performance that polluting industries are nowadays experiencing because of stakeholders and legislation requests. The results show that board structure and composition matters in firms’ environmental proactivity and have implications for managers, shareholders, and regulators who are interested in influencing firms’ environmental proactivity.
NUTRITIONAL CONDITION IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROUPS IN SURABAYA, INDONESIA AND JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN

For over two decades, malnutrition has been reported as frequent complication in hemodialysis patients. The prevalence has varied from 25 to 75% all over the world. In contrast to other studies, the present study will compare nutrition of hemodialysis patients in a developing country and a developed country. Hemodialysis patient data were obtained from patient groups in Surabaya, Indonesia and Juntendo University, Japan. Malnutrition was estimated by serum prealbumin, albumin and retinol binding protein. Malnutrition was present in 58% of the Surabaya group and 10% of the Juntendo group. Serum pre-albumin concentrations in the Surabaya group and Juntendo were 21.19 ± 7.9 and 32.3 ± 7.45 mg/dl, respectively. The percentages of patients with pre-albumin of less than 22 mg/dl in the Surabaya and Juntendo groups were 58% and 10% respectively. Specifically, pre-albumin values of 22-15 mg/dl and less than 15 mg/dl in the Surabaya group vs. the Juntendo group were observed in 32% and 26% vs. 8% and 2%. In conclusion, malnutrition afflicts most patients on dialysis in the Surabaya group. Tthe reported incidence was 58%.
Ethnobotanical survey of plants used in the management of mental illnesses in some selected local government areas of Plateau State, Nigeria

Mental illness refers to all diagnosable mental disorders which are characterised by abnormalities in thinking, feelings or behaviours. Ethnobotanical study surveyed the different types of medicinal plants used for the treatment of mental illness in Bassa, Pankshin, and Kanke Local Government Areas of Plateau State, Nigeria. Information was obtained from traditional medicine practitioners, herbalist and herb sellers, with the aid of semi structured questionnaire. Plant samples were collected and identified by taxonomists in the herbarium section of Federal College of Forestry Jos and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. The information was obtained from a total of 35 respondents. Forty two plants were identified from the study, from 31 families. The source, uses, plant parts, and methods of preparation were some of the information derived. The family with the highest number of represented species was Lamiaceae accounting for 10% with a user value of 0.035. The dominant route of administration employed for drug delivery was oral accounting for up to 80% (56% as strictly oral). The plant parts mostly collected by the respondents for management of the conditions reported are leaves amounting to 51%. Some of the plants have recorded scientific values for neuropharmacological activities, whereas others are yet to be tested. It is important to validate these plants scientifically for possible neuropharmacological properties that may be harnessed for future use. Key words: Neuropharmacological, ethnobotanical, survey, mental illness, herbalists, traditional medicine.
Cardiovascular Diseases in Cyprus and The Effect of Predisposing Factors of Tobacco and Air Pollution

Aim: The aim of this work is to study the diseases of the human circulatory system in Cyprus and their relationship to smoking and air pollution. Methods: The statistical methods were used to derive the results of this work are Mann-Whitney U test in order to check the statistical significance of cardiovascular diseases in relation to gender, One-Way ANOVA test in order to check the statistical significance of human circulatory diseases in relation to age and the Pearson correlation coefficient for the relationship between the diseases of both predisposing factors of smoking and air pollution. Results: The results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the number of cardiovascular diseases in relation to gender, there is a statistically significant relationship between circulatory system diseases and age, and in particular they occur mainly at ages 65 and over. An exception is the disease of varicose veins of lower extremities, which occurs most often in ages 45-64. Finally, there is a statistically significant relationship between the numbers of incidents of circulatory diseases with air pollution and there is no statistically significant relationship with smoking. Conclusions: This work has shown that diseases of the circulatory system vary with age, while air pollution is an important predisposing factor.
ALMANAC serileri 739 Almanac 2013 : cardiac arrhythmias and pacing

Important advances have been made in the past few years in the fields of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and pacing. Researchers and clinicians have a greater understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation (AF), which has transpired into improved methods of detection, risk stratification, and treatments. The introduction of novel oral anticoagulants has provided clinicians with alternative options in managing patients with AF at moderate to high thromboembolic risk and further data has been emerging on the use of catheter ablation for the treatment of symptomatic AF Another area of intense research in the field of cardiac arrhythmias and pacing is in the use of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) for the treatment of patients with heart failure. Following the publication of major landmark randomised controlled trials reporting that CRT confers a survival advantage in patients with severe heartfailure and improves symptoms, many subsequent studies have been performed to further refine the selection of patients for CRT and determine the clinical characteristics associated with a favourable response. The field of sudden cardiac death and implantable cardioverter defibrillators also continues to be actively researched, with important new epidemiological and clinical data emerging on improved methods for patient selection, risk stratification, and management This review covers the major recent advances in these areas related to cardiac arrhythmias and pacing. (Anadolu Kardiyol Derg 2013; 13:739-50)
Trial Treatment of Opioid-Addicted Youth : A Randomized Extended vs Short-term Buprenorphine-Naloxone for Correction

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Does historical linguistics need the Cognitive Commitment? Prosodic change in East Slavic

On the basis of a case study of the so-called jer shift in Slavic, I argue that the Cognitive Commitment is essential for an adequate analysis of language change. While the “social turn” and the “quantitative turn” open up important perspectives and provide new opportunities for cognitive historical linguistics, the Cognitive Commitment remains essential because it facilitates elegant and insightful analyses and paves the way for more general hypotheses about language change. The jer shift is a prosodic change that originated in Late Common Slavic and spread to Old East Slavic in the twelfth century. This sound change involved the lax vowels /ĭ, ŭ/ (often referred to as jers or yers), which either disappeared or merged with /e, o/ depending on the prosodic environment. Contrary to traditional practice, I argue that the jer shift should be analyzed in terms of trochaic feet, i. e. , rhythmic groups of two syllables, where the leftmost syllable is prominent. This account is psychologically realistic, as dictated by the Cognitive Commitment, since rhythmic grouping is a fundamental property of human cognition (Nathan 2015. Phonology. In Ewa Dąbrowska & Dagmar Divjak (eds.), Handbook of cognitive linguistics, 253–273. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton and Ding et al. 2016. Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech. Nature Neuroscience 19. 158–164). While the Cognitive Commitment is essential for historical linguistics, one important limitation deserves mention. Historical changes such as the jer shift can be represented as “sound laws”, i. e. , statements that summarize changes that span over many generations. Such statements are not about processes in the minds of individual speakers or speech communities at any point in time. They are therefore not directly relevant for the Cognitive Commitment, but are nevertheless among the most valuable tools historical linguists have at their disposal. *Corresponding author: Tore Nesset, Institute for Language and Culture, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, E-mail: tore.nesset@uit.no Cognitive Linguistics 2016; aop Brought to you by | Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe Authenticated Download Date | 11/7/16 3:41 PM
Nutritional value of organic raw material for poultry

The regulation asking for 100 % organic raw materials in poultry feeds will increase the organic protein demand. In order to limit the use of Soya in formulas, it will be necessary to develop alternative organic raw materials. Within the framework of two research programs, three experiments were conducted to evaluate through a known in vivo method the nutritional value of 22 raw materials (analytical and digestibility value). In the group of meals, Soya is the best product in terms of protein (content and utilization). Processing as extrusion and de-hulling improve digestibility of raw material. Animal products may represent alternatives to Soya. There are technical opportunities to reduce the dependence to Soya for poultry feeding; Technology is often requested to improve nutritional value of products, such as linseeds, cannabis and animal products. But there is a need for more specific data about organic raw material to improve sustainability.
Low Temperature Experimental Investigation of the Effect of High pH Naoh Solutions on the Opalinus Shale, Switzerland

Batch reactor experiments were performed at 150°C, 175°C, and 200°C to determine the effect of high pH NaOH solutions on the mineralogy of the Opalinus shale. In these experiments, the change in solution quench pH at 25°C, solution composition, and mineralogy were monitored as a function of time for up to ≈40 days. Runs were performed in 50 ml titanium hydrothermal reactor vessels. Each reactor was charged with 0.5–5.0 g of the 80–200 mesh size fraction of Opalinus shale, and 25 ml of solution (0.1 and 0.01 M NaOH). The general sequence of reaction products observed under these high pH conditions include first the formation of analcime, followed by vermiculite, and finally Na-rectorite formation.
Title Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap : The Japanese Experience

We characterize monetary and fiscal policy rules to implement optimal responses to a substantial decline in the natural rate of interest, and compare them with policy decisions made by the Japanese central bank and government in 1999–2004. First, we find that the Bank of Japan’s policy commitment to continuing monetary easing until some prespecified conditions are satisfied lacks history dependence, a key feature of the optimal monetary policy rule. Second, the term structure of the interest rate gap (the spread between the actual real interest rate and its natural rate counterpart) was not downward sloping, indicating that the Bank of Japan’s commitment failed to have sufficient influence on the market’s expectations about the future course of monetary policy. Third, we find that the primary surplus in 1999–2002 was higher than predicted by the historical regularity, implying that the Japanese government deviated from the ∗Correspondence: Tsutomu Watanabe, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8603, Japan. Phone: 81-42-580-8358, fax: 81-42-580-8333, e-mail: tsutomu.w@srv.cc. hit-u.ac. jp. We would like to thank Laurence Ball, Marvin Goodfriend, Fumio Hayashi, Bennett T. McCallum, Shigenori Shiratsuka, Kazuo Ueda, Mike Woodford and two anonymous referees for useful suggestions and comments, and Naohiko Baba and Kazuhiko Ishida for helping us to collect the data. Ricardian rule toward fiscal tightening. These findings suggest that inappropriate conduct of monetary and fiscal policy during this period delayed the timing to escape from the liquidity trap. JEL Classification Numbers: E31; E52; E58; E61; E62
Serum Creatinine Famotidine Low Platelet Count Digoxin Serum Creatinine Carbamazepine Pancytopenia Total Potential ADEs Vancomycin Serum Creatinine Levofloxacin Serum Creatinine Enoxaparin Low Platelet Count Enoxaparin Serum Creatinine Clopidogrel

Design and Measurement: We prospectively evaluated the commercial application in a community-based hospital. We examined the frequency and types of alerts produced, how often they were associated with ADEs and potential ADEs, and the potential financial impact of monitoring for ADEs. Results: Among 2,407 patients screened, the application generated 516 high priority alerts. We were able to review 266 alerts at the time they were generated and among these, 30 (11.3%) were considered substantially important to warrant contacting the physician caring for the patient. These 30 alerts were associated with 4 ADEs and 11 potential ADEs. In all 15 cases, the responsible physician was unaware of the event, leading to a change in clinical care in 14 cases. Overall, 23% of high priority alerts were associated with an ADE (95% confidence interval [CI] 12% to 34%) and another 15% were associated with a potential ADE (95% CI 6% to 24%). Active surveillance used approximately 1.5 hours of pharmacist time daily. Conclusions: A commercially available, computer-based ADE detection tool was effective at identifying ADEs. When used as part of an active surveillance program, it can have an impact on preventing or ameliorating ADEs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:647– 653. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2634.
Environmental and Sustainability Issues of Indonesia Agriculture

Agriculture in Indonesia intensifies from the swidden to very intensive systems and expands rapidly, including to steep slopes and peatland areas. These have implications to the environment and the system’s sustainability. Cereal and pulses-based farming systems uses moderate amount of chemicals and thus poses little threats to water quality. However, these systems encroach into steepland accelerating erosion and depleting soil fertility. Intensive vegetable farming applies around 50 Mg/ha of barnyard manure, 300 kg/ha of N, and high rates of pesticides, posing a threat to water quality in the downstream areas. Plantation develops very rapidly, including to forest and peatland areas. Conversion, to plantation crops, of forest (with 132300 Mg C/ha) decreases, but of shrub (with 1540 Mg C/ha) and Imperata grassland (with < 5 Mg C/ha) increases the carbon stock to 3050 Mg/ha. The traditional tree-crop-based agriculture, characterized by a mixture of several species, reduces erosion and maintains relatively high carbon stock and biodiversity. Lowland rice (paddy) system, currently covering around 7.9 million ha area, has been practiced sustainably for thousands of years. Despite providing food security and various environmental services, this system is under tremendous pressures of conversion to industrial and settlement areas. Meanwhile, some 20 million ha peatland of Indonesia is being converted at a rate of 1.3% annually for agriculture and silviculture. The carbon-rich land rapidly emits carbon once it is cleared and drained. Indonesian agricultural development is challenged by the demand to keep a high level of production with minimal negative impacts to the environment. This can be achieved by prioritization of low carbon stock land for agricultural expansion, rationalization of fertilizer application, minimization of intensive agricultural expansion to steepland, and safeguarding paddy field from conversion.
Information Technology and Quantitative Management ( ITQM 2013 ) The Analysis of Peasant H Maintenance Behavior in t One Village , One P Program of China

establishes an important pattern of agricultural economy specialization and formalization in China. The brand is the external performance of organizational reputation. Key to the sustainable development of the program lies in whether all the peasant households maintain brand is. This paper focuses on an evolutionary game model, which reveals behavior features of brand maintenance. It is found that the peasant househ r evolved result would create the low efficiency of collective brand maintenance if they do not treasure personal reputation. It is proposed that the agricultural cooperation organizations should become the carriers of The peasant households will treasure personal reputation in the agricultural cooperation organizations, so the interaction between the personal reputation and organizational reputation could drive the peasant households to maintain collective brand spontaneously. Finally, an actual case is illustrated to support the model.
Hard-core bosons on optical superlattices: Dynamics and relaxation in the superfluid and insulating regimes

We study the ground-state properties and nonequilibrium dynamics of hard-core bosons confined in one-dimensional lattices in the presence of an additional periodic potential (superlattice) and a harmonic trap. The dynamics is analyzed after a sudden switch-on or switch-off of the superlattice potential, which can bring the system into insulating or superfluid phases, respectively. A collapse and revival of the zero-momentum peak can be seen in the first case. We study in detail the relaxation of these integrable systems towards equilibrium. We show how after relaxation time averages of physical observables, like the momentum distribution function, can be predicted by means of a generalization of the Gibbs distribution.
User Context Information Personal Context-Aware Preference Mobile User What do you need now ? + Popular

Recent advances in mobile devices and their sensing capabilities have enabled the collection of rich contextual information and mobile device usage records through the device logs. These context-rich logs open a venue for mining the personal preferences of mobile users under varying contexts and thus enabling the development of personalized context-aware recommendation and other related services, such as mobile online advertising. In this paper, we illustrate how to extract personal context-aware preferences from the contextrich device logs, or context logs for short, and exploit these identified preferences for building personalized context-aware recommender systems. A critical challenge along this line is that the context log of each individual user may not contain sufficient data for mining his/her context-aware preferences. Therefore, we propose to first learn common context-aware preferences from the context logs of many users. Then, the preference of each user can be represented as a distribution of these common context-aware preferences. Specifically, we develop two approaches for mining common context-aware preferences based on two different assumptions, namely, context independent and context dependent assumptions, which can fit into different application scenarios. Finally, extensive experiments on a real-world data set show that both approaches are effective and outperform baselines with respect to mining personal context-aware preferences for mobile users.
No justice in sight : The mental health and wellbeing of West Papuan refugees

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 50(1) guidelines, DBS is being used very much as a treatment of last resort. For example, in Victoria, the relevant mental health legislation requires that effectively all other antidepressant strategies must have been tried before patients can be eligible for treatment with a surgical procedure such as DBS. As DBS is only likely to be effective in a subset of patients who undergo the procedure, there will be a group of patients who have not responded to treatment. These patients require very careful psychological management given the likelihood that they may respond to treatment failure with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and therefore potentially be at high risk of suicide. This raises a broader ethical question as to whether patients who might be predicted to have this type of response should be excluded from participation in clinical trials of techniques like DBS where the outcomes remain very uncertain. This is likely to be a safer approach for researchers where the suicide of patients may pose considerable problems with regulatory and ethics approval of trial activities but potentially also deny access to some of the most needy patients with severe and persistent depression. In summary, conducting research into the use of DBS in the treatment of mood disorders is a highly complex endeavour which clearly requires the input of experienced clinicians as well as researchers to both maximise the likelihood of optimal research outcomes but provide the most appropriate care to our research participants as they undertake difficult and uncertain treatment.