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University of New South Wales
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About: University of New South Wales is a education organization based out in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 51197 authors who have published 153634 publications receiving 4880608 citations. The organization is also known as: UNSW & UNSW Australia.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Health care, Mental health, Silicon
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use sequential logit analysis to identify the factors associated with the decision to voluntarily purchase assurance and the choice of assurance provider and hypothesize that a company's need to enhance credibility through assurance and choice of an assurance provider will be a function of company, industry, and country-related factors.
Abstract: Globally, companies increasingly publish separate general purpose, nonfinancial (sustainability) reports. Some of these are independently assured and assurers may or may not be from the auditing profession. We seek to understand this emerging voluntary assurance market. Using a sample of 2,113 companies (from 31 countries) that produced sustainability reports between 2002–2004, we use sequential logit analysis to identify the factors associated with the decision to voluntarily purchase assurance and the choice of assurance provider. We hypothesize that a company's need to enhance credibility through assurance and choice of assurance provider will be a function of company‐, industry‐, and country‐related factors. Our results support the argument that companies seeking to enhance the credibility of their reports and build their corporate reputation are more likely to have their sustainability reports assured, although it does not matter whether the assurance provider comes from the auditing profes...
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TL;DR: Prediction of biochar stability was improved by a combination of volatile matter and H:C ratios corrected for inorganic C, and agronomic utility of biochars is not an absolute value, as it needs to meet local soil constraints.
816 citations
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TL;DR: The data suggest that the risk for MetS is similarly elevated in the diagnostic subgroups of severe mental illness, and routine screening and multidisciplinary management of medical and behavioral conditions is needed in these patients.
815 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, surface modification of natural halloysite clay nanotubes with γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) was investigated.
Abstract: Surface modification of natural halloysite clay nanotubes with γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) was investigated. Untreated and modified samples were characterized by nitrogen adsorption, X-ray diffraction, elemental analysis, thermogravimetry, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, MAS nuclear magnetic resonance (29Si, 13C, 29Al), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The modification mechanism was found to include not only the direct grafting of APTES onto the hydroxyl groups of the internal walls, edges and external surfaces of the nanotubes but other processes in which oligomerized APTES condensed with the directly grafted APTES to form a cross-linked structure. The thermal and evacuation pretreatment conditions were found to play an important role in controlling the extent and mechanism of the modification. The extent of modification is also strongly affected by the morphological parameters of the original clay samples. This study demonstrates that the surface chemistry...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examined for the first time the determinants of customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction in the context of business professional services, and the simultaneous effect of key CS/D constructs (expectations, performance, and disconfirmation) and several variables (fairness (equity), purchase situation (novelty, importance, and complexity), and individual-level variables (decision uncertainty and stakeholding) are examined in a causal path framework.
Abstract: This research empirically examines for the first time the determinants of customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction (CS/D) in the context of business professional services. The simultaneous effect of key CS/D constructs (expectations, performance, and disconfirmation) and several variables—fairness (equity), purchase situation (novelty, importance, and complexity)—and individual-level variables (decision uncertainty and stakeholding) are examined in a causal path framework. Data were obtained from a two-stage longitudinal survey of client organizations. The results indicated substantial support for the hypothesized model. The effect of purchase situation and individual-level variables (via their indirect affects) rivals that of disconfirmation and expectations in explaining CS/D. Performance was found to affect CS/D directly but not as powerfully as disconfirmation.
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Ronald C. Kessler | 274 | 1332 | 328983 |
Nicholas G. Martin | 192 | 1770 | 161952 |
John C. Morris | 183 | 1441 | 168413 |
Richard S. Ellis | 169 | 882 | 136011 |
Ian J. Deary | 166 | 1795 | 114161 |
Nicholas J. Talley | 158 | 1571 | 90197 |
Wolfgang Wagner | 156 | 2342 | 123391 |
Bruce D. Walker | 155 | 779 | 86020 |
Xiang Zhang | 154 | 1733 | 117576 |
Ian Smail | 151 | 895 | 83777 |
Rui Zhang | 151 | 2625 | 107917 |
Marvin Johnson | 149 | 1827 | 119520 |
John R. Hodges | 149 | 812 | 82709 |
Amartya Sen | 149 | 689 | 141907 |
J. Fraser Stoddart | 147 | 1239 | 96083 |