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Reducing bribery for public services delivered to citizens [PDF]
, 2015 The literature on corruption tends to focus on grand corruption for contracts and licenses worth large sums of money. However, 1.6 billion people annually have to pay a petty bribe to get public services.
Rose, Richard
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Why Are Some Public Officials more Corrupt Than Others? [PDF]
Using detailed Peruvian data measuring bribery, I assess which types of public official are most corrupt and why. I distinguish between the bribery rate and the size of bribes received, and seek to explain the variation in each across public institutions.
Jennifer Hunt
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A polymeric graft loaded with radiopaque bismuth nanoparticles is expected to undergo gradual polymer resorption and nanoparticle release. This design enables noninvasive, multimodal monitoring of device integrity, patency, and degradation using computed tomography alongside ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging over 12 weeks.
Allan John R. Barcena +13 more
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How does bribery affect public service delivery ? micro-evidence from service users and public officials in Peru [PDF]
When seeking a public service, users may be required to pay in bribes more than the official price. Consequently, some users may be discouraged and choose not to seek a service due to the higher price imposed by the bribery"tax."This paper explores the ...
Montoriol-Garriga, Judit +2 more
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Ferroelectric Quantum Dots for Retinomorphic In‐Sensor Computing
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work has provided a protocol for fabricating retinomorphic phototransistors by integrating ferroelectric ligands with quantum dots. The resulting device combines ferroelectricity, optical responsiveness, and low‐power operation to enable adaptive signal amplification and high recognition accuracy under low‐light conditions, while supporting ...
Tingyu Long +26 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Lignin‐mimicking protein methylation can enhance the efficacy and mitigate the toxicity of the classic FOLFOX chemotherapy regimen. ABSTRACT FOLFOX has served as the standard chemotherapy regimen for advanced stages, specifically in the treatment of pancreatic, colorectal, and bladder cancers.
Shiyao Song +14 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao +3 more
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Attitudes Toward Bribery in the United States
This chapter examines attitudes toward bribery in the United States. Data were taken from the most recent wave of interviews (Wave 7) of the World Values Survey, which were conducted between 2017 and 2022 in more than 90 countries.
McGee, Robert W., Benk, Serkan
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces sustainable PLA/graphene oxide bioelectronic interfaces featuring electrodes with tunable conductivity and strong electrocatalytic performance. These platforms were used to implement a new method for tuning astrocyte Ca2+ signaling and for the efficient detection of key biomarkers.
Alessandra Scidà +15 more
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PROBLEMS OF QUALIFICATION OF MEDIATHION IN BRIBERY [PDF]
Krymskij Naučnyj Vestnik, 2015 The article analysed the controversial issues of qualification of actions of the intermediary in bribery under article 291.1 of the Criminal code, are the kinds of mediation depending on the subject of bribes.
Alexander Uskin
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