After a great deal of preparation for their presentation on taking an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) approach to investing, Eli, Sydney, Gil join utility's weekly virtual leadership meeting. On the call are general manger (GM), chief financial officer (CFO), engineer. GM: (realizing have joined) Great—you joined without hitch. And thanks using your cameras; I always think that make...

Introduction: Facial expression to pain is an important pain indicator; however, facial movements look unresponsive when perceiving mild pain. The present study investigates whether pain magnitude modulates the relationship between subjective pain rating and an observer’s evaluation of facial expression.  Methods: Twelve healthy volunteers were recruited to obtain 108 samples for pa...

Typically local search methods for solving constraint satisfaction problems such as GSAT, WalkSAT, DLM, and ESG treat the problem as an optimization problem. Each constraint contributes part of a penalty function in assessing trial valuations. Local search examines the neighbours of the current valuation, using the penalty function to determine a “better” neighbour valuation to move to, until f...

The electrophile N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) elicits rapid K(+) efflux from Escherichia coli cells consequent upon reaction with cytoplasmic glutathione to form an adduct, N-ethylsuccinimido-S-glutathione (ESG) that is a strong activator of the KefB and KefC glutathione-gated K(+) efflux systems. The fate of the ESG has not previously been investigated. In this report we demonstrate that NEM and N-p...

Short chain carboxylic acids are well known as the precursors of fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis. Iso-fatty acids, which are important for the control of membrane fluidity, are formed from branched chain starter units (isovaleryl-CoA and isobutyryl-CoA), which in turn are derived from the degradation of leucine and valine, respectively. Branched chain carboxylic acids are also employed a...

In this paper we present the Sustainability Delta model as an improvement over existing environmental, social and governance (ESG) methodologies used in firm valuation. Starting from the question of how banks should integrate sustainability criteria into their valuation methods, we find that ESG methodologies currently do not consider the potential to generate higher future revenues due to sust...

In this study, genetic analysis was conducted to investigate the association of angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism with clinical phenotype based on differentiation-syndrome of bronchial asthma patients. Differentiation-syndrome is a traditional Korean medicine (TKM) theory in which patients are classified into a Deficiency Syndrome Group (DSG) and an Excess Syndrome Group (...

This study investigated the pattern of the electrical field potentials recorded near the prebranchial chamber of the native crayfish Astacus leptodactylus. Inside the prebranchial chamber, the electrical waves had maximal amplitude and showed 2-4 peaks per cycle. Potentials with the same frequency but smaller amplitude and simpler shape were also recorded outside the chamber, near the edge of t...

One of the most important factors shaping world outcomes is where investment dollars are placed. In this regard, there is the rapidly growing area called sustainable investing where environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) measures are taken into account. With people interested in this type of investing rarely able to gain exposure to the area other than through a mutual fund, we s...

Sustainability stock indices play an important role in guiding socially responsible funds to their constituents. Thus, find out whether the term sustainability is more than just a label, we analyze inclusion and exclusion criteria applied by indices, compare them with those conventional indices. We level of size companies included excluded from five compared control group 11 Our results show th...