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Spontaneous Helical Alignment of Smooth Muscle Cells to Form a Medial Layer for Engineered Microvasculature

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Spontaneous helical alignment of smooth muscle cells is induced within resistance‐vessel‐sized channels patterned within a hydrogel. The extent of the cells’ orientation angle is dependent on the presence and composition of ECM proteins lining the channel wall and cell seeding density.
Victoria D. Vest   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

DO FIRMS IN POST-SOVIET ECONOMIES SUFFER MORE FROM CORRUPTION? A COMPARISON OF POST-SOVIET AND OTHER DEVELOPING ECONOMIES [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
The study examines the socio-economic challenges arising due to corruption in post-Soviet and other developing economies. We use the World Bank’s Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS).
HALIL D. KAYA
doaj  

Subject of confiscation in little commercial bribery and little bribery

open access: yesVestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2021
The analysis of the grounds for the confiscation of property allowed the author to identify a set of problems that have arisen as a result of the legislative separation of petty commercial bribery and petty bribery. Article 1041 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation gives no legal basis for seizure of property obtained as a result of petty ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Immunoinflammatory Mechanisms and Biocompatibility of Bioactive Dental Biomaterials: From Fundamental Insights to Clinical Translation

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Surface‐host dialogue at the implant interface governs biological fate and osseointegration. Surface physicochemical properties of titanium (Ti) dental implants, including microgrooves, nanopatterns, nanotopography, roughness, and wettability, modulate the initial adsorption of proteins and the formation of a dynamic biointerface.
Daniela Moreira Cunha   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Corporate Governance on the Corruption of Firms in BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India & China)

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
This study examines the correlation between corporate governance and corruption (firm bribery) using 8885 firms in four emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs).
Kyunga Na, Young-Hee Kang, Yang Sok Kim
doaj   +1 more source

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   +2 more sources

CEO career horizon and corporate bribery: a strategic relationship perspective

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Management, 2023
Jiasi Fan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yes
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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Adaptable Covalent Organic Framework‐Hydrogel Microneedles for Glucose‐Responsive Isoliquiritigenin Delivery in Diabetic Wound Therapy

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We develop a covalent organic framework‐loaded Traditional Chinese Medicine monomer nanodrug delivery system (ISL@bCOF) via boron‐oxygen bonds, a smart response to glucose for delivering AI‐driven isoliquiritigenin (ISL) targeting ZBP1. This dynamic release mechanism, combined with transdermal delivery technology via potent microneedles, can modulate ...
Menghan Zhou   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Harm Principle as a Basis for the Criminalization of Match Fixing in Football Competitions

open access: yesIus Poenale
The credibility of football has been repeatedly questioned due to allegations of bribery and related violations, as reflected in judicial decisions such as Case No.
Emmilia Rusdiana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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