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From Digitalization to Sustainability: Does Supply Chain Digitalization Enhance Corporate Green Transformation Performance?
No full textSupply chain digitalization (SCD) plays a critical role in accelerating corporate green innovation, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing corporate green transformation performance (CGTP). Drawing on the practice-based view, this study examines how SCD influences CGTP and through which mechanisms, using data from Chinese A-share listed firms spanning 2013 to 2021. Applying a double machine learning approach, the results demonstrate that SCD significantly enhances CGTP. Further, heterogeneity tests reveal that this positive effect is more pronounced in firms exposed to higher technological uncertainty, led by executives with stronger green cognition, and operating in less competitive markets. Mechanism tests suggest that SCD enhances firms’ sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring capabilities, thereby facilitating CGTP. The findings enrich the understanding of digital transformation and sustainability linkages and provide practical insights for managers and policymakers seeking to leverage SCD-driven strategies to promote corporate green transformation and sustainable development
Israel’s Laws of War: The Waning of Moral Claims Among Military Lawyers
No full textThis article examines how military legal practitioners use the language of morality and when they refrain from doing so, and it considers the correlations between these presentations of morality and state violence. The article investigates such presentations of law and morality in the context of Israel’s legal institutions, exploring the impacts on Israel’s dealings with Palestinians, as well as in the context of colonial and settler colonial projects, where law and its depiction as a reflection of morality have long provided legitimation and justification. The article identifies a waning in the depiction of military legal work as a moral endeavour in the early 2000s, when the military legal system, aided by other state legal authorities, promoted a new paradigm—“armed conflict short of war”. This paradigm facilitated increased violence and integrated legal considerations and lawyers into decision-making forums. The article suggests that the decline in moral claims is a product of the intensified integration of legal work into military decision making rather than the increase in violence in and of itself. This integration changed the nature of legal work in a manner that, for some officers, proved hard to fit with a notion of morality
Is bias baked in?
Get PDFBias is built into every layer of the Al lifecycle (data, embeddings, training, system instructions, and user feedback). The fundamental dilemma is that we seek two incompatible goals: a model that faithfully reflects the imperfect world and one that corrects current inequality. The educator's role is not to eliminate bias, but to promote awareness and critical vocabulary among students to examine how bias enters and shapes responses
Integrating Sustainability in Project Management:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Success Factors and Organisational Outcomes
Get PDFThis study employs systematic and meta-analysis methodologies to examine how sustainability factors are integrated within project management frameworks and to evaluate their impact on project success outcomes across diverse organisational contexts. Following rigorous PRISMA guidelines, an extensive literature search yielded 25 studies investigating environmental and social sustainability integration in project processes and their relationship to performance indicators across multiple sectors. Complementary meta-analysis of 22 papers containing statistical datasets on sustainability adoption levels and associated success measures provided quantitative validation of key relationships. The research concludes that while sustainability integration approaches have made significant progress in addressing explicit organisational gaps, enhanced participatory oversight mechanisms, a fundamental shift to participative feedback loops, and holistic integration of technical, social, and contextual dimensions remain crucial for maximizing impacts. The implications emphasise the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, adaptive learning systems, and inclusive decision-making processes that prioritize stakeholder engagement throughout project lifecycles. Future research should focus on developing comprehensive evaluation frameworks, exploring emerging sustainability concepts, and establishing governance models that foster transparency and shared decisionmaking power
Autistic Knowledge: A Discussion from a UK Context
No full textBeing, knowledge, society, politics and powers all intersect in the construction of the concept of autism.In this article, I will present the changing and complex concept of what it means to be autistic and howsocietal structures, and the socio-political context affect some autistic individuals within the UK. Criticalautism studies will be used as a theoretical approach that interrogates power structures and enablesautistic lived experience to inform autistic knowledge within research. Neuro-affirming practice will beused as a philosophical lens to demonstrate that values and beliefs are interconnected with autisticknowledge and being
Naturism Stigma Scale: Adaptation of a Standardised Measure of Stigma Towards Naturism
No full textBackground: Stigma can have a significant impact on the lives of those inflicted, and stigmatisation can occur at any time when individuals commonly label behaviours and characteristics of others as offensive. Many attributes, such as homosexuality, ethnicity, race, and mental illness, have been explored using existing instruments. However, there are currently no standardised measures of stigma towards specific behaviours such as naturism. Naturism is the practice of public nudity without any intention of sexual stimulation. Though a global phenomenon, data suggest that almost seven million individuals in the UK alone identify as naturists. The rising figures of those engaging in stigmatised behaviour and the negative representations of this in the media contribute to the necessity for standardised instruments to measure stigma towards naturism. Method: The Naturism Stigma Scale (NSS) was adapted from the Depression Stigma Scale. This 18-item scale has two subscales which measure personal and perceived stigma. The sample consisted of 449 participants recruited by convenience sampling. Results: The analysis indicated that the scale had high reliability for both subscales (Personal Cronbach’s α = 0.91, Perceived Cronbach’s α = 0.93). It can be concluded that the NSS is a reliable psychometric instrument. Conclusions: Overall, this research assists in further understanding the stigma towards this minority group. Further research is necessary to explore the psychometric properties of NSS among different community samples
Does model type influence the effectiveness of combined action observation and motor imagery training for novices learning an Ankle Pick takedown?
No full textIntroduction: Combined action observation and motor imagery (AOMI) training has been shown to facilitate motor skill performance, but limited research has explored its effectiveness on motor learning and factors that may moderate the effects of the intervention. This study examined the influence of model type on the effectiveness of AOMI training for novices learning an Ankle Pick takedown. Methods: Twenty-eight novice participants (M = 28.07 ± 7.29 years) were randomly assigned to a control condition (n = 8), or to AOMI training that displayed footage of a self-model (AOMISELF; n = 10) or other-model (AOMIOTHER; n = 10). All training conditions included physical practice. A motor learning design incorporating pre-test (Day 1), acquisition (Days 2–6), post-test (Day 7), and retention-test (Day 14) was utilized. Motor skill performance, self-efficacy and mental representation structures were recorded as measures of learning. Results: There were no significant differences between the training conditions across all twelve kinematics measures of motor skill performance. Self-efficacy scores increased for all training conditions over time. Both the AOMIOTHER and Control conditions led to improved functional changes in mental representation structures while the structures for the AOMISELF condition became less similar to the reference structure over time. Discussion: Collectively, the largely null findings (n = 13, 92.86%) suggest that physical practice has the strongest influence on motor adaptations for this complex motor skill at these early stages of learning. However, the findings also suggest model type may be an important factor for novices using AOMI training. It is recommended that future research explores alternative modeling approaches, such as mixed-modeling incorporating both self- and other- footage, when designing AOMI interventions for sport
The nurture of nature: why physical and psychological differences between the sexes are greater in healthier, wealthier societies
No full textMen and women differ morphologically, physiologically, cognitively, psychologically and behaviourally, and many of these differences are getting larger. We propose a synthesis of two disparate yet related mechanisms in combination with sexual selection theory to explain this divergence of the sexes. In large part through sexual selection, males and females have evolved many trait differences, some subtle, others stark. In stressful environments (e.g. frequent nutritional shortfalls, disease risk), those differences are attenuated because in the sex where the trait is greater (such as height in men, or various forms of memory in women) the effects of those stressors are more apparent. Societies exposed to these stressors have more restrictive social mores and harsher criminal punishments for norm violations, restricting the behavioural expression of individuals and hence sex-based preferences (e.g. working with people vs. things). It follows that reduction in ecological threats (e.g. pestilence) and out-group social threats (e.g. warfare) leads to a lessening of in-group social restrictions resulting in more self-referential cognitions, emotions and motivations, and through this a fuller expression of individual and thus sex differences in various psychological domains. In this scenario, increases in bodily sex differences, such as height, are predicted to be associated with increases in psychological and behavioural sex differences (e.g. facets of personality). Our model integrates evolutionary and biological processes with social customs and mores—that is, combines nature and nurture—into a cohesive framework to explain historical and cross-cultural variation in the magnitude of many sex differences