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• Anti-Calvinism and the Ayrshire enlightenment 

  Kidd, Colin Craig (Oxford University Press, 2024-02-01) - Book item

  This essay locates Burns in the context of the intense and combative ecclesiastical politics of Ayrshire during the second half of the eighteenth century, a period when the county saw not only a culture of robust pamphleteering ...

• One size does not fit all : responsible investor motivation and investment performance 

  Scholtens, Bert; Willard, Fabian (2024-11-05) - Journal article

  Most research in socially responsible investing is about how it influences financial performance. Hardly any study investigates how it affects responsibility. We investigate how different motives of responsible investors ...

• What are sub-national island jurisdictions? 

  Eriksen, Steffen; Scholtens, Bert; Werleman, Stephanie (2025-01-15) - Journal article

  There is no consensus about the definition and classification of Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs). This may conflate academic and policy analysis and misguide policies to advance development. We review existing ...

• Compound exposure : climate change, vulnerability and the energy-extractives nexus in the Pacific 

  Bainton, Nicholas; Skrzypek, Emilka; Lèbre, Éléonore (2025-06-01) - Journal article

  A global push for an energy transition to combat climate change is fuelling demand for energy transition minerals and metals (ETMs) needed for renewable energy-systems. As the primary solution to our planetary problem, the ...

• Meaning making in an art context affects semantic distance : the case of semantic inconsistencies in written language 

  Iosifian, Marina; Wolfe, Judith; Wolfe, Brendan N. (2025-06-01) - Journal article

  When people know they are encountering art, that awareness may change how they interpret what they experience. However, it is not clear how engaging with art affects cognition in everyday life. This collection of studies ...

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