Many multinational corporations develop business operations in Europe. The current research attempts to fill the gap on how corporations can increase their political influence in this geography by exploring the joint effect of corporate political activity (CPA) and social responsibility (CSR) on political embeddedness and financial performance. Based on institutional theory and on a sample of autochthonous (Eur...
A variabilidade da frequência cardíaca (VFC) é um indicador de saúde. Uma respiração lenta pode propiciar o seu aumento. Fomos verificar se crianças de 7 e 8 anos conseguiriam executar uma respiração predominantemente diafragmática, e qual o seu efeito agudo em parâmetros da VFC. Ocorreu uma redução significativa da frequência respiratória e um aumento da VFC. As crianças conseguiram executar esta técnica respi...
In the past century, millions of lives were saved by antibiotics, which treat some of the historically more deadly diseases. However, bacteria may quickly develop antibiotic resistance and the speed of development of new drugs has decreased significantly in the last decades. Filamentous fungi have a great potential for novel antibiotic discovery, given their vast, largely unexplored metabolome. The One Strain M...
O crescente escrutínio sobre o desempenho social e ambiental das empresas implica a divulgação de informação, não só nos termos dos requisitos legais, mas que também responda às expectativas e necessidades de informação dos vários stakeholders numa sociedade 5.0. Este artigo identifica e analisa os indicadores ambientais divulgados nos relatórios de sustentabilidade das empresas do setor do papel portuguesas, e...
There are no management decisions deprived of ethical or political consequences. Political corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been highlighting this assertion but research at the microlevel on this topic is scarce. This study aims to contribute to the microlevel research by proposing a behavioral framework where leaders’ political skills are determinants of engagement in strategic CSR and perceived CSR l...
Police are required to operate in complex social, political, and organizational environments. Nowadays, challenging times highlight the role that police leaders play in ensuring that the organization is effective in dealing with such environments. The purpose of this paper is to expand the systematic review of literature of Pearson-Goff and Herrington (2014, ‘Police Leadership: A Systematic Review of the Litera...
The effect that the hydrodynamic conditions under which biofilms are formed has on their persistence is still unknown. This study assessed the behaviour of Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms, formed on stainless steel under different shear stress (sw) conditions (1, 2 and 4 Pa), to chemical (benzalkonium chloride – BAC, glutaraldehyde – GLUT and sodium hypochlorite – SHC) and mechanical (20 Pa) treatments (alone ...
Objectives: dis study aims to explore quarantined individuals’ emotional well-being over time and how personal response and life activity predict emotional well-being and its change. Design/Methods: Daily data were collected from 134 participants wif 71 having 14 consecutive days’ data. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) and General Linear Model (GLM) were used to examine the primary tests. Results: Overall, po...
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