Calculating Sustainability Can accounting save the world?

The research proposes a new Sustainable Value Table (SVT) to reconcile the financial and non-financial dimensions (specifically the Sustainable Development Goals) of business performance and corporate reporting. The SVT is a powerful strategic planning tool that supports and guides the decision-making process within organisations globally. It shows how tensions between financial and non-financial dimensions can be attenuated to drive short- and long-term sustainable developmen

When scapegoating backfires: The pitfalls of blaming migrants for a crisis.

In times of hardship, politicians often leverage citizens' discontent and scapegoat minorities to obtain political support. This paper tests whether political campaigns scapegoating migrants for a health crisis affect social, political, and economic attitudes and behaviors. Through an online nationally representative survey experiment in Italy, we analyze the effects of such narratives through information-provision treatments, which include facts also emphasizing the alleged health consequenc...

Policy implementation and the socio-political geography of small island contexts: Challenges and opportunities for creating an enabling environment in Small Island Developing States

FAEST: algorithm specifications

This document describes and specifies the FAEST digital signature algorithm. It presents the underlying cryptographic components and specifies the building blocks used to construct the FAEST algorithm. The design of FAEST is intended to provide security against attacks by quantum computers by relying only on information-theoretic and symmetric-key cryptographic primitives. In particular, in addition to standard PRFs and PRGs for randomness derivation, the security of FAEST is tightly linked ...