Living with Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Identity and the Role of Moral Disengagement.

Unlabelled: We examine corruption across three Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries (Hungary, North Macedonia and Slovenia) through a social psychology framework which integrates social identity theory, social cognitive theory and moral disengagement mechanisms. We illustrate how various social identities influence individual and collective action in terms of ethical behavior and corruption, thereby creating, maintaining and perpetuating petty, grand and systemic public/private corruption through triadic co-determination via cognition, behavior and the environment. Despite growing research on corruption normalization, less is known about the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms in ethical decision making, the cognitive workings of how individuals reconcile unethical behavior and the social psychological processes behind corruption in society and organizations.

Clean construction and demolition waste material cycles through optimised pre-demolition waste audit documentation: A review on building material assessment tools.

Waste from the construction sector poses huge challenges for sustainable waste management. This is not only due to the vast amount of waste produced in construction and demolition activities, but also due to pollutants potentially contained in these products. Subject to these conditions, waste management must ensure recovery of as many resources as possible, while making sure to keep material loops clean.

[The "diabetic foot" syndrome. Association with other complications and the incidence of amputation].

Background: Only few studies have investigated the incidence of foot lesions and amputation rate in diabetic patients.

Patients And Method: Thus, the 10-year incidence rates of first lower extremity amputation were studied in 560 diabetic patients, aged 35 to 55 years at baseline and followed up within the WHO-Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Furthermore, we studied the frequency of other complications in 51 outpatients with "the diabetic foot syndrome".

[The effect of blood pressure-reducing therapy with captopril on tubular marker excretion in type-1 diabetics with nephropathy].

A prospective open clinical trial was carried out with 23 hypertensive type I diabetics (13 men, ten women, mean age 49 +/- 9.1 years, duration of diabetes 18 +/- 9.1 years) with early nephropathy.