AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING: IS THE EU CONSUMER LAW FIT FOR THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY? by Monica CALU

“…ADM enables companies to use technology for tasks that were not long ago the domain of human judgment. AI is essential in financial services, such as credit worthiness assessment, automated investment advice (often called robo-advice) or insurance. …”
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Legal and regulatory aspects of improving the sanctions policy of Ukraine by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…The UN Security Council sanctions have been identified as mainly economic restrictions and other coercive measures imposed for violations of major international human rights conventions and instruments. A comparative legal analysis of the sanctions policy of the United States of America and the European Union was carried out, on the basis of which it was concluded that the sanctions policy implemented by the European Union and the United States of America is fundamentally different. …”
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New Insights on Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles Using Plants Emphasizing the Use of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) by Inese Kokina, Ilona Plaksenkova, Lauris Jankovskis, Marija Jermaļonoka, Renata Galek

“…Biological synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) using alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and other plants has several advantages such as lower costs, reduction of pollution, and improvement of the environment and human health. Often, biosynthesis is used to synthesize Ag, Au, and ZnO NPs. …”
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African based researchers' output on models for the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and public health interventions: A scoping review. by Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Zinhle E Mthombothi, Emanuel M Dominic, Sylvie Djomba-Njankou, Juliet R C Pulliam

“…The publication authors were found to be predominantly affiliated with institutions based in South Africa and Kenya. Furthermore, human immunodeficiency virus, malaria, tuberculosis, and Ebola virus disease were found to be the most researched infectious diseases. …”
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Implementasi kebijakan penurunan stunting di kabupaten Donggala by La Samudia Dalili, Daswati Daswati, Sitti Chaeriah Ahsan

“…The implementer resources are adequately sufficient. Competent human resources (HR) of TPPS are in place to implement the Presidential Regulation No. 72 of 2021 according to their respective duties. …”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…In the early months of the First World War, Ford wrote prolifically about the future of literature and on a broader scope, of civilisation and human psychology; in his “Literary Portraits” that were published in Outlook, he showed remarkable prescience when it came to the consequences that the war would bear on the arts and on what he termed “the mind”. …”
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Biomedical Waste Management: A Study on the Awareness and Practice among Dental Healthcare Workers in India by Ankit Mahajan, Madhura Pawar, Amol Namdeorao Patil, Sumitra Behera, Samarjeet J. Pattnaik, Jagadish Prasad Rajguru

“…Background: Biomedical waste includes waste products generated from medical procedures within healthcare centers, research facilities, diagnostic laboratories, and treatment procedures, immunization process of humans as well as animals from the production and testing of biological substances. …”
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Computing nasalance with MFCCs and Convolutional Neural Networks. by Andrés Lozano, Enrique Nava, María Dolores García Méndez, Ignacio Moreno-Torres

“…The accuracy of a CNN model was defined as the Spearman correlation between the mfccNasalance for that model and the perceptual nasality scores of human experts. In the same-dialect condition, mfccNasalance was more accurate than eNasalance independently of the CNN configuration; using a 1 × 1 kernel resulted in increased accuracy for +dynamic utterances (p < .000), though not for -dynamic utterances. …”
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Temperature during conidiation affects stress tolerance, pigmentation, and trypacidin accumulation in the conidia of the airborne pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. by Daisuke Hagiwara, Kanae Sakai, Satoshi Suzuki, Myco Umemura, Toshihiko Nogawa, Naoki Kato, Hiroyuki Osada, Akira Watanabe, Susumu Kawamoto, Tohru Gonoi, Katsuhiko Kamei

“…In the present study, we investigated whether environmental temperature during conidiation affects the stress tolerance of the conidia of the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Conidia from a 25°C culture showed a lower tolerance to heat (60°C) and oxidative (H2O2) stresses and a marked resistance to ultraviolet radiation exposure, compared with those produced at 37 and 45°C. …”
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Interagir avec la « machine » à l’ère du numérique : des représentations des étudiants à l’évaluation de leur performance académique en anglais by Cédric Brudermann

“…While technology-mediated language learning environments seek to make second language (L2) learners autonomous (as far as possible) in their L2 practices, they paradoxically place them at the center of complex interactions with three external factors which may cause anxiety symptoms: the human–computer interface, the online learning experience and the L2 itself.In this respect, in order to further explore the impact of these variables on the learners’ L2 performance in a technology-mediated language learning environment, an exploratory study was conducted during the academic year 2014-2015 among a group of 250 first year STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students who were enrolled in an English as a foreign language guided autonomy learning pathway (B1 proficiency level). …”
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Impactos atmosféricos das transformações territoriais e do crescimento do agronegócio na Amazônia matogrossense by Andrea Cavicchioli, Ericka Pardini Morrone, Rodrigo Marques, Adalgiza Fornaro

“…These emissions cause negative impacts that encompass effects on human health and alterations in the energetic balance of the atmosphere associated with climatic changes on a regional and global scale. …”
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Optical Imaging of Cellular Immunotherapy against Prostate Cancer by Sidhartha Tavri, Priyanka Jha, Reinhard Meier, Tobias D. Henning, Tina Müller, Daniel Hostetter, Christiane Knopp, Magnus Johansson, Verena Reinhart, Sophie Boddington, Akhilesh Sista, Winfried S. Wels, Heike E. Daldrup-Link

“…The purpose of this study was to track fluorophore-labeled, tumor-targeted natural killer (NK) cells to human prostate cancer xenografts with optical imaging (OI). …”
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Legal regime of business partnership property (considering international experience) by R. M. Artemenko

“…This understanding, despite the existence of certain terminological differences, coincides with its general understanding in the system of legal knowledge of certain countries of the Romano-Germanic legal family, in particular, countries with a pact system of law, and corresponds to the content of Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In the legal literature, it includes any economic benefits, objects of both the material and intangible world, which are in the state of appropriation of a person. …”
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Traum-A-Rhythmia On Debbie Tucker Green’s In-Yer-Ear Stage by Lea Sawyers

“…AIDS, genocides, domestic violence, incest, civil wars, public executions are all accessed through the prism of deeply personal subjective human experience. Characters on tucker green’s stage see their subjecthood caught in an “in-between”. …”
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Preclinical Evaluation of Ga-DOTA-Minigastrin for the Detection of Cholecystokinin-2/Gastrin Receptor-Positive Tumors by Maarten Brom, Lieke Joosten, Peter Laverman, Wim J.G. Oyen, Martin Béhé, Martin Gotthardt, Otto C. Boerman

“…Therefore, 68 Ga-DOTA-MG0 is a promising tracer for PET imaging of CCK 2 /gastrin receptor-positive tumors in humans.…”
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Verbal Memory Impairments in Children after Cerebellar Tumor Resection by Matthew P. Kirschen, Mathew S. Davis-Ratner, Marnee W. Milner, S. H. Annabel Chen, Pam Schraedley-Desmond, Paul G. Fisher, John E. Desmond

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Supplemental Pay for Cash Collateral of Police Officers during Quarantine: Administrative Discretion of Authorized Officials on Deciding about Its Payment by M. A. Sambor

“…It has been emphasized that the administrative discretion of authorized officials should embody the principles of the rule of law, respect for human rights and freedoms, and should not pursue the realization of economic private interests, including the interests of subjects of authoritative powers. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Breast Cancer Cell Lines: Genome-wide Insights from ChIP-seq Analysis by Tanishq Sahu, Ruchi Yadav

“…Conclusions: This research classifies the binding site and affinity of the T47-D human breast cancer cell line. Further, wet laboratory studies are required to verify the function of the predicted motifs and their importance in drug development or research in breast cancer.…”
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COMMUNICATION LEVELS OF THE INDIVIDUAL by V. M. Rubskyi

“…The materialistic conditioning by the human evolutionary needs in all its conceivable forms produces a reduction of the communicative inquiry, which makes the mutual perception of the two "I" impossible. …”
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Lessons Learned from Crisis Management and Amputation Decisions in the Aftermath of High-magnitude Earthquakes in Kahramanmaras on 6 February 2023 by Atilla Orhan

“…Background:Earthquakes of high magnitude and prolonged duration result in catastrophic events, causing significant human and material losses. Immediate medical interventions become crucial in the aftermath of such disasters to prevent long-term disabilities and fatalities. …”
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