Governments worldwide have launched climate policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). These aim enhance businesses be active actors in the process of decarbonisation. Therefore, main objective this paper is identify drivers voluntary corporate decarbonisation illustrated by target-setting practices. In particular, aims at diagnosing whether European Union (EU)-wide and country-level ...

Despite ongoing concern about substance use during adolescence, very little is known about alcohol and drug use among teens living in affluent social settings. In this longitudinal study, cluster analysis was used to characterize patterns of substance use and change in other dimensions of psychosocial adjustment within a cohort of 292 high school students (54% girls) living in an affluent, subu...

Standard setting has gathered great attention in the academic and policy circles recently. At the heart of the focus are concerns around standard setting organizations and standards essential patents. Questions have been raised about whether there are “too many” standards essential patents, on how and when to access the value of these patents, and whether their owners can cause a potential hold...

Protecting the safety and welfare of clinical trial subjects is the primary responsibility of the multidisciplinary ethics committee. In India, ethics committees have come under increasing criticism for functioning as "secret societies unaccountable to the public" (1). Yet, little effort has been made to undertake qualitative research on the ethics review bodies. This article describes the esse...

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes toward and perceptions of institutional practices that can influence patient safety between all professional groups at a university medical center. DESIGN A questionnaire measuring nine dimensions of organizational and safety culture was distributed to all hospital workers. Each item was rated on a 1 ('strongly disagree') to 5 ('strongly agree') scale. PAR...

In this paper we discuss how literacy has been positioned within the senior secondary curriculum and how different views of literacy are situated in the curriculum through disciplinary and institutional practices. We discuss a research project where we have drawn on three definitions of literacy – a print-oriented, language oriented or semiotic view – to conduct an linguistic analysis of syllab...