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What makes hybrid companies attractive to potential employees? Insights from a cross-country analysis
(The International Journal of Human Resource Management 2025, 36 (15), 2688-2716, 2025-09)While hybrid companies (HCs)—businesses that pursue both economic and social goals—are gaining prominence, little is known about what makes them attractive to potential employees. This study addresses ... -
Copper Coils as Efficient and Inexpensive Reactors for the Synthesis of Tetrazoles in Flow Chemistry
(EurJOC (European Journal of Organic Chemistry) 2025, 28 (36), e202500774, 2025-09-29)Sartans are an important family of drugs used to treat hypertension. A common characteristic of most of them is a biphenyl moiety with a tetrazole ring in the ortho position of the phenyl–phenyl bond. ... -
Food waste in group dining: the interplay of shame and conflict aversion in the “last piece of food” dilemma
(Journal of Sustainable Tourism 2026, 4 (1), 60-85, 2026-01)Group dining at social or business occasions frequently encounters the “last piece of food” dilemma, where a single item remains uneaten when food is served to event guests on a shared plate. Despite ... -
Advanced Skin Models for Nanomaterials Safety Assessment
(Nanosafety, 2025-08-18)The human skin acts as a biological shield against prolonged exposure to nanomaterials (NMs) and nanoparticles (NPs) coming from cosmetics, textiles, and environmental pollutants that are known to lead ... -
Emergent and growing entrepreneurial ecosystems: How do institutional logics shape fields of entrepreneurship?
(International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship 2025, 43 (8), 2025-11)This article explores two different types of entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) – emergent and growing – using the institutional logics perspective. Fields of entrepreneurship within EEs are analysed ... -
Silver-coated silicone stents as an approach to prevent bacterial colonization of central airways after tracheobronchial stenting
(Frontiers in Microbiology 2025, 16, 2025-12)Rationale: Tracheobronchial stents are used to treat central airway obstruction but frequently develop bacterial colonization that can lead to infection. Objectives: To identify the microorganisms ... -
Anti-Aging Evaluation of Cosmetics on a Tri-Layered Chitosan Membrane: An Alternative to Animal Testing
(Cosmetics 2025, 12 (6), 277, 2025-12)The search for alternatives to animal testing in cosmetics has encouraged the development of in vitro systems capable of evaluating formulation-driven biophysical parameters assessed on human skin. This ... -
In Tech We Trust? On Salvation through Technology
(Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 2025, 60 (3), 677–99, 2025-09)With its accelerated progress, technology has become the main source of hope for humanity, and so-called human enhancement technologies are the exponent of this trend. Technological progress has not ... -
A narrative review of vascular conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting
(Cell Transplantation 2025, 34, 2025-12-23)Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) involves creating new conduits to restore blood flow to the heart. Using autologous vascular grafts presents challenges, including infection risk after vein ... -
De Novo Design of Peptide Masks Enables Rapid Generation of Conditionally-Active Miniprotein Binders
(Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147 (49), 45495–45505, 2025-12-10)The widespread expression of therapeutic targets in both diseased and healthy tissues poses a major challenge for protein-based therapeutics, often leading to dose-limiting side effects. One promising ... -
Concurrence of FGFR1 mutations modulates oncogenesis in glioneuronal tumors
(The EMBO Journal 2025, 44, 7513-7540, 2025-12-15)FGFR1 genetic alterations are associated with brain malignancies, including FGFR1 mutations in familial and sporadic cases of low-grade glioneuronal tumors, suggesting intrinsic mechanisms of selective ... -
Navigating the Nexus: Blockchain technology, social Innovation, and complementary digital currencies
(ARBOR Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura 2025, 201 (813), 2025-06)This paper explores the tensions between democratic and technocratic forms of social innovation in the context of complementary digital currencies. Through an in-depth ethnographic case study of Moneda ... -
Breaking barriers: assessing the influence of female directors on financial performance beyond the boardroom
(Review of Managerial Science 2025, 19, 2025-10)The persistent under representation of women in executive committees continues to challenge gender equality in corporate leadership. Legislative interventions promoting gender quotas have led to ... -
Reimagining Tourism Education for a Sustainable and Regenerative Future
(Social Responsibility in Hospitality and Tourism Bridging Education and Practice Transitions. Bridging Education and Practice Transitions, 2026-06-05)This chapter reports findings from ERASMUS+ EcoHarmony (Ecoharmony project, 2024), a multinational initiative co-funded by the European Union that advances a comprehensive strategy to embed sustainable—and ... -
B–N axis as a facilitating agent for the synthesis of 3D structures: the paradigmatic case of BN-[4.4.4]propellane
(Chemical Science 2025, 16 (48), 22970-22975, 2025-12-28)Flat aromatic compounds containing a boron–nitrogen (BN) fragment have gained significant attention in the field of organic optoelectronics. Unsurprisingly, therefore, an increasing number of synthetic ... -
Quantitative and qualitative comparison of mRNA loading techniques into extracellular vesicles
(Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 2025, 193, 2025-12)Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly recognized as natural therapeutic delivery systems (DDS). A critical challenge in realizing this potential is the loading of nucleic acids, particularly ... -
Analysis of the relationship between ESG and labor costs: the moderating effect of the legal tradition
(Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Journals, 2025-11)This study examines the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and labor costs per employee (LCE) in firms operating under different legal traditions, specifically ... -
Programmable Shape-Directed Optical Binding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles
(Advanced Optical Materials 2025, 13 (34), 2025-12-02)Controlling the organization of plasmonic nanoparticles with optical forces is essential for designing reconfigurable light-responsive materials. However, the role of particle shape in determining optical ... -
Highly potent dipeptidyl peptidase 8/9 (DPP8/9) inhibitors designed via relative binding free energy calculations
(European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2025, 297, 2025-11-05)Dipeptidyl peptidases (DPP) 8 and 9 are emerging enzymatic drug targets with suggested applications in acute myeloid leukaemia and HIV infection, among others. In this work, we optimised a well-known ... -
Exploring How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Enable Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry
(Sustainable Development 2025, 33 (6), 7915-9487, 2025-12)The hospitality industry, encompassing operations from hotels and resorts to restaurants and event venues, faces increasing pressure to integrate sustainability into its core business practices. The ...