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Bribery vs. Extortion: Allowing the Lesser of two Evils [PDF]

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Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work
Fahad Khalil   +2 more
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The Ethics of Bribery: Introduction and Background

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This chapter serves as an introduction to volume two of The Ethics of Bribery series. The focus is on country studies. The book consists of five substantive sections and includes discussions of attitudes toward bribery from the perspectives of 19 ...
McGee, Robert W., Benk, Serkan
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Silicone Breast Implants as a Model System for Understanding Polymer Permeation in Soft Materials In Vivo

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Silicone breast implants are presented as a model system for understanding polymer permeation in vivo. Rather than representing material failure, “gel bleed” emerges from solution–diffusion transport‐mediated. By integrating polymer architecture, physicochemical transport, and biointerfacial processes, this review provides a unified framework that ...
D. Bouyer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime [PDF]

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I study data on bribes actually paid by individuals to public officials, viewing the results through a theoretical lens that considers the implications of trust networks.
Jennifer Hunt
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The Ethics of Bribery: Summary and Conclusions

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This chapter summarizes the contents of volume two of The Ethics of Bribery series. The focus is on country studies. The book consists of five substantive sections and includes discussions of attitudes toward bribery from the perspectives of 19 countries;
McGee, Robert W., Benk, Serkan
core   +1 more source

Targeting CD300a Signaling With a Phosphatidylserine‐Presenting Hydrogel Rescues Macrophage Dysfunction and Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of the proposed mechanism: PEG/RGD‐PSLs mimic apoptotic cells to engage PS receptors (notably CD300a), transducing an inhibitory signal that suppresses the MyD88/NF‐κB pathway, leading to global anti‐inflammatory and pro‐reparative effects.
Lele Wu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

NePodmazhesh - NePoedesh: Lexical Representation of Bribery Topic in Russian Languge

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2017
The problem of description of the social vocabulary functioning in different linguistic strata in certain historical periods is considered on the example of the lexical representations of the topic of bribery in the Russian language. The relevance of the
A. V. Shchetinina
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing the willingness of motorists to pay bribes in rural areas of Limpopo, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities
Bribery between motorists and traffic officers in rural areas has become increasingly prevalent, raising significant concerns among public officials and regulatory bodies.
Ntwanano Patrick Tshabalala*   +1 more
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Generalized Distance Bribery

open access: yesProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
The bribery problem in elections asks whether an external agent can make some distinguished candidate win or prevent her from winning, by bribing some of the voters. This problem was studied with respect to the weighted swap distance between two votes by Elkind et al. (2009).
Dorothea Baumeister   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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