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This paper investigates the association between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure and company profitability, as measured by return on assets (ROA). We first assess a method to indexing the ESG score of a large sample of U.S. listed companies based on MSCI ESG KLD STATS data from 2000 to 2016. The statistical model is run on 17,358 observations and studies the association of ROA and the three different dimensions of ESG score. Significant differences between industrial firms and financial intermediaries emerge. We find a significant and positive association between ESG and that the environmental awareness in banks is strongly related to profitability, providing implications for policy makers and policy takers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce (Italy, 1953–56) exemplified American arrogance and intrusiveness in allies' domestic affairs. Connected to the inner circle of ‘psychological warriors’ in the Eisenhower administration, she was also a catalyst for action from Washington. This archival-based article shows how Luce's frontal attack on communist power, while often counterproductive, was also balanced by her discerning use of diplomacy, which deeply influenced the interplay between Italy's domestic and foreign policies. Luce also critically reassessed the effects of US mass culture in Italy. In political as well as intellectual circles, she did not exclusively favour Italy's unconditional supporters of the United States. Reflecting Washington's renewed flexibility, she also dealt with political and cultural leaders who nurtured autonomy and mild criticism of the United States. This flexibility, often going beyond Luce's will or expectations, helped counteract the most virulently anti-American representatives of Italian Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Little is known about parent and family well-being after acute neonatal seizures. In thus study, we aimed to characterize parent mental health and family coping over the first two years after their child's neonatal seizures. Parents of 303 children with acute neonatal seizures from nine pediatric hospitals completed surveys at discharge and 12-, 18- and 24-months corrected age. Outcomes included parental anxiety, depression, quality of life, impact on the family, post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth. We used linear mixed effect regression models and multivariate analysis to examine relationships among predictors and outcomes. At the two-year timepoint, parents reported clinically significant anxiety (31.5%), depression (11.7%) and post-traumatic stress (23.7%). Parents reported moderately high quality of life and positive personal change over time despite ongoing challenges to family coping. Families of children with longer neonatal hospitalization, functional impairment, post-neonatal epilepsy, receiving developmental support services and families of color reported poorer parental mental health and family coping. Parents of color were more likely to report symptoms of post-traumatic stress and positive personal change. Clinicians caring for children with neonatal seizures should be aware of lasting risks to parent mental health and family coping. Universal screening would enable timely referral for support services to mitigate further risk to family well-being and child development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the views of the author on the emergence of U.S. hegemony in the Mediterranean Region during 1954-1958. The region was considered by both Italy and France as an area where the two countries could indulge in a battle to gain power and status. However, the two countries never diverted their attention from continental Europe, which always pushed the Mediterranean Region in the secondary perspective.

U.S.-Italian relations in the 1950s were shaped in part by Italy's pursuit of a "Neo-Atlanticist" policy — a policy that emphasized economic multilateralism within the Western alliance and active diplomatic engagement with the nonaligned Arab countries.The Neo-Atlanticist approach led to certain accomplishments but also to some notable failures.By late 1959, when domestic political squabbles and an unpropitious international climate brought an end to the Neo-Atlanticist policy,Italy had been unable to attain its chief objective of a significant increase in its international standing. The country did, however, shift from being a mere client of the United States to something closer to a full-fledged partner. Despite the failures of Neo-Atlanticism, the policy showed that a reliance on "soft power" (non-coercive means of influence) can work in some circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]