Departing from the existing literature, this study disaggregates non-executive directors with industry expertise into co-opted directors (those appointed after the incumbent CEO assumes office) and non-co-opted directors, and examines their associati...
To remain agile in response to market dynamics, foster innovation, and effectively manage potential risks, companies draw upon information from both their upstream and downstream sup-ply chain collaborators to enhance their core competitiveness. This...
Given the prevalence of dual directors who serve simultaneously on the parent as well as the subsidiary board, it is important to examine their functions, a topic largely ignored in the existing literature. Exploring the functions of dual directors h...
Superior education institutions are interested in training human resources with a holistic and critical vision, which contribute to the attention of environmental problems from the health area. The objective was to analyze, with indicators and indexe...
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a monolithic material with programmable three-dimensional (3D) morphing modes stemming from their designable non-uniform molecular orientations (or director). However, the shape morphing mode is generally fixed wh...
We examine the effect of directors’ overseas experience on foreign investors’ holdings using a large panel of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022. We find that firms with a higher proportion of overseas-experienced directors exhibit si...
The article describes the design process carried out to deliver a tool for the virtual fruition of the resources of the Puglia Regional Museum Directorate through multimedia content, within the frame of the Vi.S.T.A. (Virtual and Social heritage Tour...
Gender diversity, one of the core streams of top management team (TMT) diversity research, poses a theoretical argument valuable for firms—whether gender diversity among board members can lead to improved performance. Increased research attenti...
This paper presents a multi-problem surrogate-assisted evolutionary multi-objective optimization approach for antenna design. By transforming the traditional antenna design optimization problem into expensive multi-objective optimization problems, th...
The scope of this study is to examine the impact of board gender diversity on corporate cash-holding decisions within the European sport and leisure sector. A sample of 125 unique firms was selected for the period from 2008 to 2019, and analysis was...
In this work, an accurate numerical modeling of the diffraction properties of transmission holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (H-PDLC) gratings is presented. The method considers ellipsoid geometry-based liquid crystal (LC) droplets with ra...
This paper selects firm downside risk and firm upside risk as proxy variables of enterprise risk, and the proportion of independent directors as a proxy variable of board governance. Using the panel data of Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2019,...
As a new and innovative processing method for fabrication for fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTs), the feasibility of ultrasonic welding technology was proven in several studies. This method offers potential for the direct manufacturing...
The aim of this theoretical paper is to investigate the physical mechanism responsible for the appearance of vortex flow in a hybrid aligned nematic (HAN) microvolume with an orientational defect, excited by a temperature gradient
The board of directors’ role is paramount in businesses because it reflects the organisation’s ability to earn investor confidence and improve financial performance. This paper aims to examine the relationship between environmental and social (ES) in...
The huge dielectric constant of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) seems to bring about a difficulty of molecular alignment control in exchange for a potential device application. To obtain a satisfactory level of uniform molecular alignme...
For children with disabilities, participation in group physical activities can promote inclusion and a sense of belonging, enhance physical functioning, and improve mental health. Yet, there are very few youth sports programs that offer adaptive prog...
Highly efficient optical diffraction can be realized with the help of micrometer-thin liquid crystal (LC) layers with a periodic modulation of the director orientation. Electrical tunability is easily accessible due to the strong stimuli-responsivene...
Tunable diffraction gratings and phase filters are important functional devices in optical communication and sensing systems. Polarization gratings, in particular, capable of redirecting an incident light beam completely into the first diffraction or...
We studied the equilibrium self-assembly of an equimolar mixture of uniaxial liquid crystals (LCs) and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) using molecular dynamics simulations. The LCs are modeled by ellipsoids interacting via Gay–Berne potential, and MNPs...
In his swan song A Tale of the Wind (1988), Joris Ivens undertakes the seemingly impossible task of capturing the invisible—the wind—on film. At the same time, the film looks back over the director’s own career, in a spirit that is...
Liquid crystal (LC) grating has drawn extensive attention due to its merits, including tunability, easy preparation process, cost effectiveness, and high diffraction efficiency. However, limited efforts have been made to explore LC grating for the ge...
The utilisation of composite materials has the potential to play a vital role in the development of lightweight structures for future generations of aircraft, with the objective to reduce emissions. Ultrasonic welding is a process that has been prove...
The Fellini Museum is an exhibition hall dedicated to the Rimini film director Federico Fellini, included by the Ministry of Culture of Italy among the great national cultural projects. It was inaugurated on 19 August 2021, and it is the first worldw...
17 December 2022
Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program fosters the development and implementation of innovative research aimed at improving minority health and reducing or eliminating health di...
A functional positive relationship between the executive director (ED) and the board of directors (BOD) is crucial to nonprofits meeting their missions. The present qualitative study sought to identify factors—including traits, behaviors, proce...
This study investigates the extent of corporate risk disclosure (CRD) in Jordanian non-financial organizations while also looking at the impact of four unique board of directors’ features—namely, board size, the regularity of board meetin...
This research examines Jordanian risk disclosure policies and how board size, meeting frequency, CEO duality, and board expertise affect them, exploring how political ties moderate the link between board features and risk disclosure. In 2014–20...
This study investigates the impact of board attributes (board size, board independence, gender diversity, and nationality diversity) on corporate board diligence through employing panel data of listed firms in Muscat Securities Market from 2014 to 20...
Internal and mesoscopic variables differ fundamentally from each other: both are state space variables, but mesoscopic variables are additionally equipped with a distribution function introducing a statistical item into consideration which is missing...
Purpose: the purpose of this study is to investigate whether corporate governance mechanisms and attributes influence the sustainability performance of companies included in the BIST 50 Index. Results and contributions: Regression analysis showed tha...
1 April 1999
This article describes a curriculum that could be included in podiatric residencies to help residents function successfully in a managed-care environment. Various groups have identified and implemented the competencies necessary to function within su...
This work presents recent results derived from the rigorous modelling of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (H-PDLC) gratings. More precisely, the diffractive properties of transmission gratings are the focus of this research. This work ext...
The twist-bend nematic phase (NTB) exhibits a complicated hierarchy of structures responsible for several intriguing properties presented here. These are: the observation of a fast electrooptic response, the exhibition of a large electroclinic effect...
This work introduces a novel computational approach based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction of the solution space in optimisation problems with known linear interdependencies among solution variables. By creating synt...
In the 2019 adaptation Motherless Brooklyn, the story is transposed from the 90s to the America of the 50s. These changes were made because of star and director Edward Norton’s desire to have a less ‘ironic’ rendering of the charact...
AtmChile is an R package that permits the download and management of data from the National Air Quality Information System (SINCA, Spanish acronyms) and the Chilean Meteorological Directorate (DMC, Spanish acronyms) for multiple air quality and clima...
Cancer development requires a permissive microenvironment that is shaped by interactions between tumor cells, stroma, and the surrounding matrix. As collagen receptors, the leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor (LAIR) family allows the im...
Grounded in stakeholder and social categorisation theories, this study addresses the limited European evidence regarding how board composition and functioning drive corporate equality—a multidimensional construct encompassing diversity, inclusi...
The genetic algorithm is an optimization routine for finding the solution to a problem that requires a function to be minimized. It accomplishes this by creating a population of solutions and then producing “offspring” solutions from this...
Family firms form the backbone of most of the world’s economies. While the issues surrounding family firms are diverse, gender diversity and its impact on the strategic and financial decisions of such firms is a topic that has generated significant d...
The phytohormone auxin is one of the main directors of plant growth and development. In higher plants, auxin is generated in apical plant parts and transported from cell-to-cell in a polar fashion. Auxin is present in all plant phyla, and the existen...
The basic idea underneath the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy soft set is very constructive in decision making, since it considers how to exploit an extra intuitionistic fuzzy input from the director to make up for any distortion in the information...
In this review we describe the reversible photoalignment effect imposed on the director in nematic liquid crystals that provides an approach for fabrication of advanced optically addressed devices. Several new concepts have been developed to render p...
Natural disasters, particularly floods and landslides, can cause severe losses; however, their impacts can be significantly mitigated through proactive planning. In August 2021, a devastating flood in northern Türkiye resulted in major damage, i...
20 September 2017
Quality education in equality and equity requires the commitment of all members of the educational community. This is acquired by promoting the ongoing training of teachers, a continuous learning adapted to the needs and characteristics of the studen...
We numerically and analytically study the flow and nematic order parameter profiles in a microfluidic channel, within the Beris–Edwards theory for nematodynamics, with two different types of boundary conditions—strong anchoring/Dirichlet...
In higher education, a wealth of data is available to advisors, recruiters, marketers, and program directors. These large datasets can be accessed using an array of data analysis tools that may lead users to assume that data sources conflict with one...
Flow of molecularly ordered fluids, like liquid crystals, is inherently coupled with the average local orientation of the molecules, or the director. The anisotropic coupling—typically absent in isotropic fluids—bestows unique functionalities to the...
This work addresses the achievement of efficient control of laser light transmission through stationary microperiodic parallel stripe textures formed in films of nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) in planar-oriented cells upon a direct-current (DC) elect...
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