The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…Critically then the risk is that ignoring the political and normative aspects of gating, as I believe Manzi and Smith-Bowers do, may lead to further and deeper socio-spatial segregation that itself excludes the voice of social groups least able to challenge or, indeed, reside in gated developments and the additional security that they appear to offer. …”
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Evaluation and prediction of coal seam mining mode: Coefficient of Variation-TOPSIS and CNN-NGO methods by Haixiong Li, Fei Wang

“…Specifically, in the practical application case of the WJZ 15206 working face, the model successfully predicted the high mining height as the most likely mining method, with a prediction index of 2.4265, close to the normalized output value of 2 for large mining height. …”
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La elasticidad de la demanda por electricidad y la política energética by Alexander Galetovic, Cristián M. Muñoz

“…Mostramos que el aumento de los precios causado por el retraso de las inversiones y los cortes de gas argentino, combinado con una “pequeña” elasticidad de la demanda mensual por energía (0.0548 en valor absoluto) eran suficientes para reducir mucho la probabilidad de déficit mensual y retornarla a niveles normales. Más aún, si se soslaya el efecto de los mayores precios en el consumo, el costo marginal se sobreestima en 32% y el costo de operación esperado en 41 por ciento.…”
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Nicolas Sarkozy's Role in the 2008 Georgia Conflict: The "United West" Confronting Russia by D. Mikhaylov

“…While Sarkozy's primary objective was to end the bloodshed promptly, his strategic goals also encompassed preventing Georgia from falling back into Russia's sphere of influence and demonstrating the EU's capacity to independently resolve crises in the post-Soviet region.Sarkozy successfully persuaded Moscow and Tbilisi to accept his mediation, known as the "good offices," to normalize the situation in South Ossetia. Additionally, he garnered support from the United States and the EU, positioning himself as a representative of the entire "collective West" in dialogue with Russia. …”
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An Analysis of the Optimal Allocation of Core Human Resources in Family Enterprises Based on the Markov Model by Jinyang Cao

“…The results show that with the development of normalization and the improvement of the management level, the demand for personnel in the family business will decrease year by year. …”
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Silent Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A Case Report of Atypical Antipsychotic Induced Elevation of Creatinine Kinase and Altered Mental Status by Amber N. Edinoff, Hamza Mohammad-Amin, Amira S. Odisho

“…Medications were held and CK normalized with IV fluids. Quetiapine was initiated after medical stabilization along with lithium and paliperidone palmitate injections. …”
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Socio-legal aspects of formation of the system of prevention of offenses among minors by Y. K. Pinchuk

“…The following methods are used in the article: dialectical method of research of legal phenomena, by means of which the peculiarities of formation of the system of crime prevention among minors are established; formal-legal method – for consideration of normative-legal acts regulating activity of subjects of preventive activity, as well as to identify gaps and shortcomings in the legal framework of the relevant activities; historical and legal – to assess the processes of formation and development of the system of prevention of juvenile delinquency. …”
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ECP-IEM: Enhancing seasonal crop productivity with deep integrated models. by Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Ali Moazzam, Asif Nawaz, Tariq Ali, Deema Mohammed Alsekait, Ahmed Saleh Alattas, Diaa Salama AbdElminaam

“…The proposed methodology consists of different stages, like Data Collection, Preprocessing, Feature Extraction with Support Vector Machine (SVM), correlation with Normalized Google Distance (NGD), feature ranking with rising star. …”
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Military and political security in the Arctic before and amidst the Ukrainian crisis by I. A. Arzhanov

“…According to the researcher, this circumstance prevents the normalization of relations between Russia and NATO countries in the years to come.…”
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Importance of underlying mechanisms for interpreting relative risk of Clostridioides difficile infection among antibiotic-exposed patients in healthcare facilities. by Christopher Mitchell, Lindsay T Keegan, Thuy T T Le, Karim Khader, Alexander Beams, Matthew H Samore, Damon J A Toth

“…Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a significant public health threat, associated with antibiotic-induced disruption of the normally protective gastrointestinal microbiota. CDI is thought to occur in two stages: acquisition of asymptomatic colonization from ingesting C. difficile bacteria followed by progression to symptomatic CDI caused by toxins produced during C. difficile overgrowth. …”
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Periodic Catatonia Marked by Hypercortisolemia and Exacerbated by the Menses: A Case Report and Literature Review by Samantha Zwiebel, Alejandro G. Villasante-Tejanos, Jose de Leon

“…Records from 17 prior admissions documented elevations of WBC and LDH and included an abnormal dexamethasone suppression test (DST) which normalized with electroconvulsive therapy. Two later admissions showed CK and WBC elevations. …”
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Problems of the development of the state-private partnership in the Russian Federation by I. I. Kohanovskaya, A. A. Petin

“…Among the methods used are comparative, formal-legal, normative, logical, systemic, structural and functional.The adopted amendments and changes in the regulatory framework did not solve all the problems and did not give private investors’ confidence in the implementation of public-private partnership projects, since its regulatory support does not allow to eliminate the historically formed problems.The key problems and limitations of the development of public-private partnership are revealed in the arcticle: the lack of a national strategy for the development of public-private partnership; insufficient level of development of regulatory and legal regulation; the question remains the solution of corruption component; the lack of an integrated system of public administration of public-private partnership; the lack of unification and consistency of Federal, regional and municipal legislation; the problems of privatization and redistribution of property.…”
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Trends in contemporary parliamentary development and innovative examples of best practices of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia by Vukadinović Slobodan

“…In this context, the innovations introduced and institutionalized in the parliamentary practice and normative framework of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia over the past 15 years are discussed and identified. …”
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Nonlinear Autoregressive Model for Stability and Prediction by Salim M. Ahmad, Anas S. Youns, Manal S. Hamdi

“…The statistical criteria used in the fifth paragraph of the research are the Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), and normalized Bayesian information criterion (NBIC).…”
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…Critically then the risk is that ignoring the political and normative aspects of gating, as I believe Manzi and Smith-Bowers do, may lead to further and deeper socio-spatial segregation that itself excludes the voice of social groups least able to challenge or, indeed, reside in gated developments and the additional security that they appear to offer. …”
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Voix de revenants dans les Pièces pour danseurs de W.B. Yeats. L’exemple de Ce que rêvent les os by Pierre Longuenesse

“…On the one hand, everything in the play is a return, as the events of the Easter Rising re-enact, from the other end of historical time, the event which gave rise to the oppression resulting from the betrayal of the royal couple, Diarmuid and Devorgilla when, dispossessed of their kingdom, they sought the assistance of the Anglo-Normans to reclaim it. On the other hand, through a subtle relationship between the visual and aural, and the new form taken by speech and enunciation, it is the role of the voice, according to defined protocols, to express this presence-absence and this drama of an impossible return. …”
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Role and Place of Higher Specialized Courts in the Judicial System of Ukraine by V. V. Chumak

“…The judicial system of Ukraine has been established. The normative and legal base of functioning of highest specialized courts of Ukraine has been characterized. …”
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Establishing A Personal Data Protection Agency for E-Commerce in Indonesia by Bilqis Laila Nuzul Sa'adah, Sukarmi Sukarmi, Reka Dewantara

“…This study employs a qualitative approach using normative legal analysis to evaluate existing regulations and assess the evolving needs of the e-commerce sector. …”
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The Mechanics of Fear: Organic Haunted Houses in American Cinema by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…But the whole point is also to determine the exact nature of the threat and to assess who—or what—the intruder is, so as to circumscribe “it” and return the community to some form of normality. In this respect, even though a direct descendant of a more conventional haunted house film genre, the 1980s family horror imposes a reversal of viewpoints. …”
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Considerations for ethics review of big data health research: A scoping review. by Marcello Ienca, Agata Ferretti, Samia Hurst, Milo Puhan, Christian Lovis, Effy Vayena

“…Our findings suggest that while big data trends in biomedicine hold the potential for advancing clinical research, improving prevention and optimizing healthcare delivery, yet several epistemic, scientific and normative challenges need careful consideration. These challenges have relevance for both the composition of ERCs and the evaluation criteria that should be employed by ERC members when assessing the methodological and ethical viability of health-related big data studies. …”
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