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Hart House: WHALE Agreement with Baker and Keffer, March 1987
Get PDFAgreement made in March 1987 between WHALE and Anne Baker and Douglas Keffer, concerning the dismantling and moving of the William Hart House from Faunce Corner Road in Dartmouth to a suitable location for later reassembly
Hart House: First Floor Plan
No full textFirst Floor Plan, Hart Househttps://docs.rwu.edu/baker_plans/1201/thumbnail.jp
Hart House 005: Original House Structure and SW Corner being dismantled
No full textDismantling of William Hart House -- Photo shows the original house structure and southwest corner.https://docs.rwu.edu/baker_images/1993/thumbnail.jp
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Get PDFFrequency selective low-loss transmission in negative curvature hollow-core fibers
No full textA new low-loss negative curvature fiber design, named as the pole-anchored nested tubular negative curvature fiber, which exhibits frequency selective capabilities in the near-infrared region is proposed. This unique approach involves the addition of nested tubular elements anchored by vertical poles, which serve as an in-fiber resonator. The resulting frequency selective resonant loss dips exhibit high finesse and relative loss modulation depth. The concept of frequency selectivity in negative curvature fibers introduces unique possibilities for future applications of hollow-core structures
Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and ESG Scores: Do They Tell the Same Story?
No full textThe focal point of this research is to compare two of the largest global organizations’ sustainability indices and scores, namely Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSIs) and Standard & Poor’s Global (S&P Global) ESG scores (environmental, social, and governance), which rank companies based on their sustainability practices, and to learn if they correspond to each other. Considering that Germany is the hub of large companies from leading global industries, this research compares the ESG scores of the German companies that appear on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. Several statistical analyses are conducted to determine if the German companies on the DJSIs correspond with high ESG scores. The years under consideration are 2018 through 2023. The results of this research indicate that DJSIs and ESG scores do not tell the same story and there are discrepancies regarding the sustainability practices of the studied companies that are added to the DJSIs and the assigned high ESG scores by S&P Global
Sovereign credit and geopolitical risks during and after the EMU crisis
No full textThis paper focuses on the sovereign crisis of the Euro debt crisis era, and we address the existence of the relationship of CDS and bond markets sovereign credit risk pricing for selected core and periphery EMU countries, during and after the 2009 EMU crisis. We study this relationship in conjunction to geopolitical risk as a measure of macroeconomic uncertainty. We use daily observations for several bond maturities and CDS premium with reference to the core (France and Germany) versus periphery EMU countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland Spain, and Greece) for the period 2009 to 2014. To measure global geopolitical risk, we employ the Caldara and Iacoviello (2022) global geopolitics index (GPR). Using alternative econometric approaches, we find adequate evidence of volatility spillovers between the geopolitical risk index and sovereign risk markets mainly during the crisis period (2009–2012) and weaker during the easing of the eurozone debt crisis period (2012–2014). Moreover, based on Granger causality the estimation of the short- term dynamics reveals a significant linkage during the post-crisis period rather than during crisis. During the crisis period, we found significant dynamic responses between GPR and bond yields
The impact of consumer personality and social network position on brand community engagement
No full textThis research establishes a significant interaction between network position and affective personality traits as they influence affective brand community engagement, which in turn alters branding outcomes in various dimensions. Utilizing content analysis of data from a brand community on Facebook, and an experimental study analyzed with SEM, this research shows that consumers’ network positions (central vs. non-central) influence their affective brand community engagement (ABCE) that leads to brand identification, which in turn influences consumers’ branding outcomes in attitudinal, behavioral, relational, and network and community dimensions. The findings contribute to the brand management literature by demonstrating that consumers’ affective personality traits moderate the positive effect of centrality over non-centrality on ABCE, and that the positive effect of centrality on ABCE disappears when a consumer’s (1) emotional-intelligence is low, (2) malicious envy is high, and (3) neuroticism is high. From a broader perspective, this research contributes to the branding literature by showing that communal effects (like network position) on ABCE can be altered by individual-level characteristics. This understanding is fundamental for branding practitioners to create and advance their brand communities for increased brand engagement