The essence and features of corruption as an object of administrative and legal influence by E. O. Muzychuk

“…Attention is focused on the fact that the mechanism of administrative and legal regulation is provided by a complex of administrative and legal means. In a broad sense, legal means are those that allow to achieve the goal of legal regulation chosen by legislation. …”
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Online profiling of volunteers in public health emergencies: insights from COVID-19 in China by Hongzhou Shen, Qirui Chen, Changcheng Li

“…Overall, volunteers were predominantly female, generally interested in entertainment, relatively satisfied with their volunteer work, and possessed a sense of social responsibility. The four categories of volunteers exhibited distinct characteristics in terms of interests, online social behavior, and influence. …”
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Public Administration’s Adaptation to COVID-19 Pandemic – Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak Experience by Matej Horvat, Wojciech Piątek, Lukáš Potěšil, Krisztina F. Rozsnyai

“…The main goal of the article is to assess how public administration bodies adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in terms of the principle of the speed of procedure in the sense of the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time. …”
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On supergravity and noncritical strings by Andrea Dei, Pietro Ferrero, Leonardo Rastelli

“…These effective supergravities should be interpreted in the following sense. The noncritical string can be viewed as a special case of a discrete series of backgrounds labelled by an integer k (which counts the number of NS5 branes in a certain duality frame); the “noncritical” value is k = 2, while for k → ∞ one recovers a weakly-curved 10d target space. …”
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Defensive healthcare practice: systematic review of qualitative evidence by James Thomas, Melissa Harden, Theo Lorenc, Claire Khouja, Helen Fulbright

“…Defensive practice often relates to a diffuse sense of risk rather than the direct threat of litigation and may overlap with other motivations, such as perceived pressure from patients or the desire to avoid harm. …”
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Factors associated with overweight among food handlers in public schools by Thamiris Rodrigues Macedo, Adriana Fernandez Versiani dos Anjos, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli Bethony, Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira

“…Nutritional status is one of the indicators of behavior and food habits, and the way a person feeds is involved in many meanings and can influence the way she prepares meals. In this sense, food handlers are very important in the develop- ment of attitudes and behaviors relating to food choices and social life in the school setting. …”
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THE SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS IN THE AMERICAN CRITICAL REALISM (GEORGE SANTAYANA) by V. M. Petrushov, I. V. Tolstov

“…The way to self-realization of the human being is through the self-knowledge in the Socratic sense and the scientific knowledge of the world around. …”
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Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: “patients’ perspectives” at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine by Azia Lafleur

“…At the same time, my lived experience and identity as a person with chronic illness brought an impulse/intensity towards identification and closeness to the “specimens”, grasping for a sense of their agency, voices, perspectives, personhood. …”
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Four-channel Control of Master-slave Robotic System with User’s Force Transfer during Obstacle Collision at the Remote Site based on Input-to-state Stability by Mohammad Reza Satvati, Hossein Karimpour, Keivan Torabi, Mohammad Motaharifar

“…The possibility of transferring the sense and force of the user on the driver side to the follower robot has always been discussed in master/slave systems. …”
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Mobile robot navigation path algorithm in 3d industrial internet of thing (iot) environment based on 5g mobile communication by Pei Ping, Yu. N. Petrenko

“…The technical concept of the IoT is to enables these different physical objects to sense information using sensors and sends this information to a server. …”
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Impact of Local Soil Conditions on Earthquake Sensitivity in Erzincan City by Emre Özşahin, İlker Eroğlu

“…Local soil conditions in the area where the city was established lead to a strong sense of earthquake effect. The study explores the distribution of earthquake sensitivity based on the local soil conditions in the urban area as well as its possible effects on the population. …”
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The rise of weekly insulins: addressing the challenges of type 2 diabetes care in Brazil by André Gustavo Daher Vianna, Daniely Freitas Alves, Taís Silveira Assmann, Rosângela Roginski Réa

“…These barriers include fear of hypoglycemia, lack of adherence, the need for glucose monitoring, the injection method of insulin administration, social rejection associated with the stigma of injections, fear of weight gain, a sense of therapeutic failure at initiation, and lack of experience among some healthcare professionals. …”
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On the Conditions for the Introducing Distance Learning in Russian Universities by A. V. Borovskikh

“…The first contains an explicitly formulated framework in which the introducing distance learning makes sense; the second and third represent the research and development program necessary for the implementation of distance learning. …”
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Model validation for a noninvasive arterial stenosis detection problem by H. Thomas Banks, Shuhua Hu, Zackary R. Kenz, Carola Kruse, Simon Shaw, John Whiteman, Mark P. Brewin, Stephen E. Greenwald, Malcolm J. Birch

“…We estimate model parameters which give a good fit (in a sense to be precisely defined) to the experimental data, and use asymptotic error theory to provide confidence intervals for parameter estimates. …”
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Urban emergence in inuit territory: impacts on the Nunavik socio-ecosystem by Joliet, Fabienne, Chanteloup, Laine, Herrmann, Thora, Gibout, Stéphane, Haillot, Didier, Bhiry, Najat, Coxam, Véronique, Decaulne, Armelle

“…Since only a few decades, urbanity (in the geographical sense of the word) is a major change in Nunavik, impacting the traditional indigenous ways of life, geocultural images, food availability and sufficiency, opening new needs regarding energy self-sufficiency, and being impacted by hazards and vulnerability various situations. …”
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The Multistream Self: Biophysical, Mental, Social, and Existential by Vinod D. Deshmukh

“…Such integrative living creates a sense of presence with self-awareness, understanding, and existential well-being. …”
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Withaferin A Inhibits Nuclear Factor-κB-Dependent Pro-Inflammatory and Stress Response Pathways in the Astrocytes by Francesca Martorana, Giulia Guidotti, Liliana Brambilla, Daniela Rossi

“…Astroglia are endowed with a wide range of toll-like receptors (TLR) by which they can sense infectious agents as well as endogenous danger signals released by damaged cells. …”
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Real-Time Quality Monitoring and Anomaly Detection for Vision Sensors in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles by Elena Politi, Charalampos Davalas, Christos Chronis, George Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrios Michail, Iraklis Varlamis

“…Autonomous vehicles rely on sensor data to obtain information of the internal state of the system and the impact of the external environment to achieve self-driving autonomy. In that sense, anomalies in sensor readings may reflect faults in sensor components, which in turn can compromise the decision-making functionality of the autonomous system. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…Sometimes the direct confrontation between policy and religion, policy and morals, policy and law, policy and literature, policy and art in the broad sense of the word could occur. The greatest Renaissance masters - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael etc. - actively opposed any evil manifestations: evil ideas, evil words, evil doings, expressing in their masterpieces the highest ideals and values. …”
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Role of Inflammasomes in Neuroimmune and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Systematic Review by Yue Lang, Fengna Chu, Donghui Shen, Weiguanliu Zhang, Chao Zheng, Jie Zhu, Li Cui

“…Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that can sense pathogen-associated molecular patterns and damage-associated molecular signals. …”
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