Who is to blame for the ‘problem’ of teenage pregnancy? Narratives of blame in two South African communities by Zoe Duby, Brittany Bunce, Chantal Fowler, Kate Bergh, Kim Jonas, Nevilene Slingers, Catherine Mathews, Fareed Abdullah

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No ordinary rules. More on organizational behaviour: a discussion on forms and hibrydisms of post-bureaucratic organizations by Pierfranco Malizia

“…The second (consequential to the first) favours the interpretation of “organization-as-culture” (or as a sociocultural system). Assuming what has been said above, then, it follows (and this is the sense of this essay) that complex organizations, in as much as they are sociocultural (sub)systems, cannot be considered, perhaps today more than in the past, systems impervious to the sociocultural world of which they are a part, or in other words, it is not possible to speak of a culture of organizations as if it were a unique, coherent system of models and values: the plurality of cultural influences present in the highly differentiated contemporary societies is reflected also on the situations inside these organizations.…”
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Vehicle Detection Algorithm Based on Embedded Video Image Processing in the Background of Information Technology by Rui Liang, Gaoqing Ji

“…With the gradual development of society, more and more researchers are devoted to intelligent transportation systems, which make the development of target detection technology based on video image processing more and more rapid. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Sign language recognition using the fusion of image and hand landmarks through multi-headed convolutional neural network by Refat Khan Pathan, Munmun Biswas, Suraiya Yasmin, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Mohammad Salman, Ahmed A. F. Youssef

“…It is expected that this study may help to develop an efficient human–machine communication system for a deaf-mute society.…”
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Quantum-inspired fluid simulation of two-dimensional turbulence with GPU acceleration by Leonhard Hölscher, Pooja Rao, Lukas Müller, Johannes Klepsch, Andre Luckow, Tobias Stollenwerk, Frank K. Wilhelm

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Towards More Sustainable Cities: Tools and Policies for Urban Goods Movements by Antonio Comi, Gianfranco Fancello, Francesco Piras, Patrizia Serra

“…This work is useful for researchers in various sectors because it allows them to formalise and then to solve the problems for simulating the complex system of urban goods movements where there are different actors with own interests that are conflicting.…”
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Research of indicators of sustainable development in the field of healthcare management (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN) by Aygul Tulemetova, Maksat Yelikbay, Aygyl Tulemetova, Madina Sergazieva, Aizharkyn Sadykbekova, Gulzhamal Koptyaeva

“…The aim of this study is to show that in order to achieve a sustainable transition to sustainable health care, a multidisciplinary approach involving partnerships between public entities, the private sector and civil society is necessary. This co-operation will create the conditions for a more sustainable, accessible and efficient health care system capable of responding to contemporary challenges and maintaining global health. …”
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Le sociologue dans l’action collective face au risque by Marc Mormont

“…Risk is a central component of modern industrial societies that have organised complex systems to tackle with them. …”
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FEATURES OF THE CONCEPT AND CONTENT OF PUBLIC SECURITY by Liliia Muntian

“…Representatives of the second approach understand public security as a system of social relations that develop in the process of protecting the vital interests of the individual, society and the state from internal and external threats. …”
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Call for Papers: Intergenerational Justice Prize 2020 by FRFG, IF (Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Intergenerational Foundation)

“…Undoubtedly, intergenerational transfers of wealth by inheritance and gifts (and related issues of inheritance and gift tax) are a complex issue that has been the subject of many political and philosophical discussions. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing innovation and entrepreneurship education based on analytic hierarchy process by Xianchao Zhou, Yanbo Cheng

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Amplification of factors of regional markets transformations in the context of generation theory by R. S. Blizkiy, E. A. Divaeva

“…The article summarizes scientific ideas about essence of Russian regions and regional markets as actively transforming systems of economic relations in complex geopolitical and socio-economic conditions. …”
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Detecting Attacks and Estimating States of Power Grids from Partial Observations with Machine Learning by Zheng-Meng Zhai, Mohammadamin Moradi, Ying-Cheng Lai

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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“…Many of our certainties in the European continent were shaked by the unequivocal evidence of our vulnerability as individuals and our lack of preparedness as a society to manage a health emergency of unknown boundaries, despite having one of the most well-developed health systems across the globe. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“…Many of our certainties in the European continent were shaked by the unequivocal evidence of our vulnerability as individuals and our lack of preparedness as a society to manage a health emergency of unknown boundaries, despite having one of the most well-developed health systems across the globe. …”
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The Notion of Justice as a Philosophical-Legal Mythologem by F. P. Furman

“…In the article the problematics of formation of legal values, formed in different historical stages and in different states, but having both general regularities and the features conditioned by the level of socio-political, economic, spiritualcultural, moral development, development of democratic institutions of power, civil society and the rule of law are considered. The complex understanding of the process of formation of legal life and legal field in society and state is generalized and formulated. …”
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Regenerative viticulture and climate change resilience by Flora O'Brien, Alistair Nesbitt, Rebecca Sykes, Belinda Kemp

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Biotechnological methods as a tool for efficient sugar beet breeding by T. P. Zhuzhzhalova, E. O. Kolesnikova, E. N. Vasilchenko, N. N. Cherkasova

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The language of law as a unique direction of human communication (theoretical legal and philosophical reflections) by V. V. Lazariev

“…It has been noted that in the modern world, the connection between law and language appears at a sufficiently deep level and is a sufficiently complex and fundamental expression of their interaction. …”
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Emotional-expressive meaning component of the German Computer Terms by M. S. Shumaylova

“…The development of computer systems is associated with a fundamental change in society; it is characterized with a transition from the production of material goods to the production of knowledge based entirely on obtaining information. …”
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