Administrative legal relations with the participation of the State Bureau of Investigation by А. Т. Komziuk, Ye. А. Lypii

“…It is emphasised that these are mainly intra-organisational relations within these bodies, since their purpose is to counteract crimes committed by law enforcement officers, judges and senior civil servants, i.e. their external activities are generally not managerial and are not regulated by administrative and legal provisions.…”
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Effects of Tai Chi Exercise on Balance Function in Stroke Patients: An Overview of Systematic Review by Caixia Hu, Xiaohui Qin, Minqing Jiang, Miaoqing Tan, Shuying Liu, Yuhua Lu, Changting Lin, Richun Ye

“…TC may have beneficial effects on balance function in stroke survivors; however, this finding is limited by the generally low methodology, reporting quality, and evidence quality for published SRs/MAs.…”
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‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’ by Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, Melanie Chernyk

“…As an interdiscipline, humanities computing has always well-understood its methodologies; indeed, the digital humanities (of which digital literary studies is a part), more generally, have made a virtue of the way in which they render explicit and tangible the theoretical models that govern the representative and analytical endeavour of their fields via computational application.  …”
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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter by Jack Tacchi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti

“…We find that negative connections are generally over-represented in the active part of the Ego Networks, suggesting that Twitter greatly over-emphasises negative relationships with respect to “offline” social networks. …”
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Effect of Cocoa (<i>Theobroma cacao</i>) Plantation Types on the Distribution of Anuran Communities in Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria by AB Onadeko

“…Diversity indices (Shannon and Margalef) showed that the forest sites had the greatest (3.204 and 4.799) respectively while the pesticide using pure  cocoa farms had the least (1.853 and 2.072). Generally, the result of the study clearly indicated that pesticide use cocoa farms were significantly lower  compared to other sites. …”
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Direction-Specific Signatures of Sport Participation in Center of Pressure Profiles of Division I Athletes by Stephen M. Glass, Scott E. Ross

“…# Background Descriptive and comparative studies of human postural control generally report effects for component or resultant dimensions of a measured signal, which may obscure potentially important information related to off-cardinal directionality. …”
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Southerners in the North. Destabilized Identities in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury by Aurélie Guillain

“…Le jeune homme blanc aperçoit, dans ce contexte, le caractère construit de son identité culturelle et raciale, même s'il met rarement à profit cette expérience plus sidérante que fructueuse. Plus généralement, c'est le sujet américain que l'œuvre de Faulkner semble associer à une occasion manquée : chez Faulkner, le sol américain semble donner, plus d'une fois, l'occasion de se définir et de se redéfinir sur un mode constructiviste et théâtral ; mais cette occasion sera, plus d'une fois également, une occasion manquée. …”
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Une approche géographique du tourisme intérieur dans un pays émergent : l’exemple du Brésil by Nicolas Le Brazidec

“…However, in any case, the tourist frequentation maximizes social interactions (real ones or supposed ones) clean to satisfy the search of sociability, social distinction and, more generally, otherness of those which go there. This is a universal characteristic of tourist places.…”
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Vers un alpinisme expérimental ? by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

“…Il s’agissait bel et bien de suivre sur tout son tracé une figure linéaire dont l’abstraction n’est généralement éprouvée qu’au moment où on la traverse. …”
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Towards a Better Knowledge of Natural Methane Releases in the French Alps: A Field Approach by Frédérick Gal, Eric Proust, Wolfram Kloppmann

“…Gases emitted are CH4-rich (87–94%) with the exception of one site (78.5% CH4 + 8.2% CO2) where an active landslide may induce dilution by atmospheric air. CO2 is generally measured at low levels (<1.6%). Concentrations in C2H6 are more variable, from less than 1% to more than 2.3%. …”
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Epidemiology of Avian Tuberculosis in Selected Districts of Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Tesfaye Debelu, Fufa Abunna, Gezahegne Mamo Kassa, Gobena Ameni

“…Nevertheless, only 0.02% (2/120) of the cultured tissues had shown colonial growth up to 12 weeks of incubation, and both were seen on sodium pyruvate-enriched Lowenstein–Jensen medium slants. Generally, the study revealed an overall increment of the apparent prevalence of avian tuberculosis with decreasing altitude. …”
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Examining the effects of race/ethnicity and other factors on outcomes of care for complex regional pain syndrome type 1 in the United States. by Anh Khoa Vo, James A G Crispo, Lisa J W Liu, Dylan Thibault, Allison W Willis, Donald E G Griesdale, John L K Kramer, Jacquelyn J Cragg

“…Within race/ethnicity groups, CRPS-1 ED visits and hospitalizations generally increased with age. Secondary findings included: 1) ED visits by Black individuals (compared with White) were significantly negatively associated with immediate hospitalization (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 0.74, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.99); 2) hospitalizations by Black patients (compared with White) were independently associated with increased length of stay (odds ratio (OR) 1.45, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.96), though the association diminished with adjustment; and 3) drug abuse was significantly associated with hospitalization (AOR 4.67, 95% CI 3.53 to 6.18) and longer length of stay (AOR 1.81, 95% CI 1.34 to 2.46). …”
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Gallbladder Carcinomas: An Immunoprognostic Evaluation of P53; Bcl-2; CEA and Alpha-Fetoprotein by R Kanthan, JM Radhi, SC Kanthan

“…Such genetically mutated tumours are generally associated with progression of the disease and poor clinical outcome. …”
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CAMBIOS EN LA ACTIVIDAD ENZIMÁTICA EN DUODENO Y YEYUNO DE CERDOS DURANTE VARIOS PERIODOS POSDESTETE by D. Ospina, J. Ciro, Y. Román, C. Peláez, A. López, J. Parra

“…El análisis de la actividad enzimática (APN, DPP-IV, LPH, MGA y SI) se realizómediante el método de velocidades iniciales y el diseño estadístico que se empleófue completamente al azar, no obstante, los datos se analizaron mediante la aplicaciónde los modelos lineales generales (GLM) y de la prueba de duncan. Resultados:se evidencia que las enzimas presentaron diferencias (P < 0,01) durante los periodosposdestete. …”
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A Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Method of Sheep Carcass Images Based on ICNet by Shida Zhao, Guangzhao Hao, Yichi Zhang, Shucai Wang

“…In addition, we verify the generalization ability of the ICNet for the sheep carcass image dataset by setting different brightness image segmentation experiments. …”
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Hazardous geological processes at incomplete construction sites by A. L. Suzdaleva, M. Yu. Slesarev, I. Yu. Yakovleva

“…On the territories surrounding the abandoned incomplete objects, the greatest danger are: suffosion, karst, erosion, landslides, liquefaction of soils and rocks, causing a decrease in their strength. The generalized analysis of the obtained data made it possible to create a classification of incomplete construction objects. …”
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Nitrogen Cycling in a Norway Spruce Plantation in Denmark — A SOILN Model Application Including Organic N Uptake by Claus Beier, Henrik Eckersten, Per Gundersen

“…By addition of an extra 35 kg N ha�1 year�1, the organic N uptake is reduced to 16% of the total N uptake. Generally, inclusion of the pathway for organic N uptake improves model performance compared with observations for both C and N. …”
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In the mirror of transitology: The politics of power alternation in the Caucasus and Central Asia by S. A. Pritchin

“…Moreover, the latter is generally viewed by their leaders as a threat to both the stability of the state and to the interests of the ruling elites. …”
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Seven-year longitudinal change in risk factors for non-communicable diseases in rural Kerala, India: The WHO STEPS approach. by Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Srinivasan Kannan, Sankara P Sarma, Oliver Razum, Odile Sauzet, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan

“…Age-adjusted change in risk factors for NCDs was assessed using the mixed-effects linear regression for continuous variables and the generalized estimating equation for categorical variables. …”
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Associations between meeting 24h movement behavior guidelines and cognition, gray matter volume, and academic performance in children and adolescents: a systematic review by Bo Liu, Peng Shi, Teng Jin, Xiaosu Feng

“…The included studies generally agreed upon the following associations: adherence to the screen time (ST) guidelines is positively linked to fluid intelligence; adherence to the sleep duration (SD) guidelines is positively linked to literacy; adherence to both ST and SD guidelines is associated with increased fluid intelligence and gray matter volume; and overall adherence to all guidelines is positively correlated with fluid intelligence. …”
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