The majority of the 500 largest businesses in the world are neglecting their human rights responsibilities, new international research has found.
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2022
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One of the consequences of the current coronavirus pandemic is that it has brought us face-to-face with our own mortality. Not only are we vulnerable to disease, but we can also share diseases with other animals.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2021
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Researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam and IESE Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that empirically demonstrates the effects of collective layoff announcements on sales, advertising effectiveness, ...
Economics & Business
Apr 30, 2020
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To dress is a unique human experience, but practices and meanings of dress are as different as the people populating the world. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing "properly" has for centuries distinguished ...
Archaeology
Mar 4, 2019
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Students from the Department of Politics and International Relations have carried out a survey which found people are more sympathetic to Syrians settling in the UK when they are referred to as 'refugees' rather than 'migrants'.
Social Sciences
Feb 1, 2016
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Views and opinions can now be filtered out of very large volumes of online text with greater accuracy than ever before. Thanks to an automatic method developed at MODUL University Vienna, ambiguous terms in online content ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 8, 2013
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The word "money" triggers a slew of negative connotations, often including corruption, greed, power, and, most dramatically, the "root of all evil." But while we often associate money and vice, can the mere allusion to it ...
Economics & Business
Jun 21, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Andrew Barron and Mark Brown of Macquarie University, Sydney and Royal Holloway University of London, respectively, have a bone to pick with those who resort to tabloid sensationalism when creating headlines ...
While nepotism may have negative connotations in politics and the workplace, being surrounded by your relatives does lead to better group dynamics and more cooperation in some animals. That certainly seems to be the case ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 26, 2009
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