Concept, features and types of corruption by L. I. Kalienichenko, D. V. Slynko

“…On a territorial basis, a distinction should be made between domestic (national) and transnational corruption, depending on the form of corruption - bribery, fraud, extortion, embezzlement (misappropriation) of public funds, clientelism, lobbying, favoritism, nepotism, state capture. In addition to these types of corruption, based on the definition of this legal phenomenon, which gives the legislator in the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption”, depending on the form of corruption, the following types should be distinguished: acceptance of illegal gain; acceptance of a promise / proposal of illegal benefit. …”
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Marketing Cooperatives and sustainable Agricultural development in Rulindo District, Rwanda by Nkubito, Habyarimana Jean Pierre

“…The study recommends that collective savings action is encouraged because it strengthens members’ market position, bargaining power, lobbying power, meeting their household consumption needs and enhancing potential income generating capacity together with investing on own education and health care requirements.…”
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John Paul II, the right to life and abortion by Nicolas Bauer

“…However, the assaults of the pro-abortion lobby are as strong as during the 1990s. The entryism of this lobby has even created dysfunctions in the international institutions themselves, thus affecting and losing their impartiality. …”
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Data Mining for Identifying Novel Associations and Temporal Relationships with Charcot Foot by Michael E. Munson, James S. Wrobel, Crystal M. Holmes, David A. Hanauer

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Experimental Study to Determine the Leakage Area of Single-Leaf Smoke Control Doors in the Design of Pressure Differential Systems by István Mihály, László Bérczi, Balázs Bognár, Maxim Kátai-Urbán, Levente Tóth, Lajos Kátai-Urbán, Gyula Vass, Ferenc Varga

“…The measurements are performed using the fans of the lobbies’ pressurisation systems to provide the required air volume. …”
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Effective energy consumption parameters in residential buildings using Building Information Modeling by N. Amani, A.A. Reza Soroush

“…Energy cost savings for block C and the western lobby were obtained as 51.03% and 43.05%, respectively. …”
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Professionnalisme et rugby de haut niveau : approche anthropobiologique by Frédéric Bauduer, Caroline Monchaux, Jean-Pierre Mathieu

“…Its recent change to professionalism, mainly imposed by the media and business lobbies, has resulted in profound changes in the anthropometric and psychological characteristics of the players and the place of this sport in society. …”
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A joinder to Keyan Tomaselli’s "The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ Research Economy" by Sadulla Karjiker

“… In his article “The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ research economy”, Prof Keyan Tomaselli has focused on the implications of the Copyright Amendment Bill (the “Bill”) for academic publication.1 His article seeks to engage with the Bill at a level that proponents of the Bill simply refuse to do (or have displayed an unwillingness, or inability, to do); they have been allowed to lobby for and defend the Bill at the level of rhetoric.2 While Tomaselli’s contribution to the debate on the Bill focuses on the possible consequences for academic publication, his article brings together some wider concerns as regards the credibility of the process that has led up to the Bill. …”
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Reality-Illusion of the Climate Policy of Germany by Rupert Pritzl

“…Politics get entangeld in distributional conflicts with EEG lobby groups and orchestrate their pretend efforts in public. …”
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Secteur TIC et refonte de la gouvernance urbaine by Divya Leducq

“…So, the growing influence of those private and corporate lobbies fully revamps the urban area and allocates player’s new roles on the urban administration stage. …”
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ON INTEGRATION OPTIONS OF UKRAIN FOREIGN POLICY by K. P. Borishpolets, S. I. Chernyavskiy

“…The main sphere of Ukrainian economy is controlled by more than ten financial industrial groups that actively lobby their interests in the policy. The Ukrainian elite is far from establishing the optimal balance between “Western” and “Eastern” vectors of integration cooperation. …”
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Montagnes mythiques des Indiens des États-Unis : le sacré et le juridique by Susanne Berthier-Foglar

“…On the other hand, strong mainstream lobbies are also a factor hampering Native American demands. …”
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Corporalidade brasileira na fabricação da identidade nacional by Ana Lúcia Castro, Renata Pires Pinto

“…However, in the 1990s the official tourism lobby softened the “sexy tone” of its discourse, and in 1999 Embratur received an award from the World Tourism Organization for its campaign to help fight the exploitation of children and youth by sexual tourism. …”
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Human Rights at the United Nations: In a Tension Between Universality and Ambivalence by Marguerite A. Peeters

“…It uses a historical approach revisiting the context in human rights integrated the UN mandate and were later interpreted at major international conferences, focusing on the leadership of feminist individuals and lobbies. It relates the tension between universality and ambivalence to a conflict between two opposed anthropological perspectives, viewing the human being either as a person endowed with a given nature, or as an individual with the power to freely choose how to construct itself. …”
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Les maisons romaines précoces de l’oppidum de La Sioutat à Roquelaure (Gers) : bilan des recherches récentes by Philippe Gardes

“…The first is a rectangular building organised around a courtyard and a room at the rear with two side lobbies or utility rooms. Later, a much larger house was built, presenting all the characteristics of an Italic domus. …”
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Czy Europa zaakceptuje uprawy roślin genetycznie zmodyfikowanych? – argumenty i kontrargumenty by Jerzy Macewicz

“…This highly publicized issue, although only one aspect of the conflict between the biotech lobby, environmentalists, and consumers. The controversy arises from the fact that neither the benefits nor the risks of GM crops are clearly defined. …”
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The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ research economy by Keyan Tomaselli

“…My analysis assesses the different positions taken by the pro-Bill lobby, ReCreate, in comparison to the Copyright Coalition that questions the importation of an American fair use doctrine. …”
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Astra-Gernika: de fábrica de armas a centro social autogestionado by Zesar Martínez

“…En esta experiencia estamos aprendiendo sobre la importancia de facilitar procesos que permitan construir poder desde abajo, para que las propuestas y prácticas políticas emancipadoras tengan capacidad de disputar el poder político a los lobbys de las élites económicas, políticas y tecnocráticas. …”
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Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by I. Istomin

“…The diversity of the Pro-Israeli groups promotes bipartisan support of cooperation between the two countries, and enabled creation of both Democratic and Republican lobby on this issue. However the growing criticism of the current policy of Tel-Aviv on behalf of some of the adherents of American-Israeli cooperation leads to the erosion of impact of these groups.…”
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“La regió forta i amb mitjans propis”. La Mancomunitat, el catalanismo y la dictadura de Primo de Rivera by Josep Pich Mitjana, Alfonso Bermudez Mombiela, Gerard Llorens DeCesaris

“…Nos preguntamos por qué una buena parte del catalanismo respaldó el pronunciamiento del general Miguel Primo de Rivera, cuando éste era el capitán general de Cataluña y encabezaba el “partido militar”; un lobby de presión claramente vinculado al nacionalismo español exacerbado. …”
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