This article critically reviews and meta-analyzes the environmental performance of family firms. Using a sample 40,910 firms covering 12-year period, we conclude that average effect involvement on is negative, albeit small. negative more pronounced in primary studies measure via operational practices adopted those define business using ownership management criteria. Our findings suggest from an...

This article places Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Chiliastic concept of Three Testaments into a unified structure. The author analyzes the writer’s integral system Christological, anthropological, and historiosophicidiomyths meta-symbols. He studies religious, philosophical, aesthetic genesis semantic transformation traditional theological constructions doctrinal compilation Russian fin de siècle cultu...

This paper presents the author's personal journey throughout the inception of Soft Computing (SC) and its evolution into Hybrid Soft Computing (HSC). In 1994, Zadeh de ned the concept of Soft Computing as a loose association or partnership of components . Since then, SC has undergone several transformational phases. In our journey, we provide a retrospective view of SC past four phases, its cur...

BACKGROUND The role of evidence-based medicine in sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery is rapidly growing. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are also proliferating in the medical literature. PURPOSE To provide the outline necessary for a practitioner to properly understand and/or conduct a systematic review for publication in a sports medicine journal. STUDY DESIGN Review. METHODS T...