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Sustainable Composites Based on Natural Rubber and Biomass Resources
Authors: John Maya Jacob , Thomas Martin George , Vidhu Hanna , Thomas Sabu 
Published: August 2022

Abstract:
For the past two decades, environmentally friendly natural rubber composites and nanocomposites reinforced with renewable and biodegradable natural fillers has attracted increasing attention of polymer researchers from both industrial and environmental viewpoints. The use of bio-based fillers in rubber materials has emerged as extremely promising in the progress of green rubber technology. The dispersion of bio-based fillers within the rubber matrix is the key parameter that decides the overall performances of bio-based rubber composites. An important criterion for obtaining superior properties in rubber composites is good interfacial adhesion between natural fillers and natural rubber matrix, along with good dispersion and distribution of fillers within the matrix. Natural fillers represent materials that are environmentally friendly, easily available, comprising of valuable lignocellulosic fractions and are from a bio-based feedstock. Recent developments in this area focus on renewable fillers such as cellulose, chitin and lignin in its micro and nanoforms. Additionally, recent studies have focused on the use of different type of biomass residue wastes in rubber composites with a view to adapt to the recent circular economy principles. This review presents an overview of various studies and highlights in the area of bio-based filler reinforced natural rubber composites and also discusses the applications of such materials in industrial sectors.
Arterial Stiffness and Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Children
Authors: Azukaitis Karolis , Kirchner Marietta , Doyon Anke , Litwin Mieczysław , Bayazit Aysun , Duzova Ali , Canpolat Nur , Jankauskiene Augustina , Shroff Rukshana , Melk Anette , Querfeld Uwe , Schaefer Franz 
Published: August 2022

Background and objectives
CKD has been linked to increased arterial stiffness in adults, but data in children with CKD remain conflicting. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal dynamics and determinants of pulse wave velocity in children with CKD and its association with CKD progression.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements
We performed an analysis of the Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease (4C) study, which prospectively followed children aged 6–17 years with CKD stages 3–5. Follow-up was censored at the time of KRT initiation. Two separate analyses were performed: with absolute pulse wave velocity (primary outcome) and with pulse wave velocity standardized to height (z score; restricted to participants ≤17 years) as a sensitivity analysis.

Results
In total, 667 patients with a mean baseline eGFR of 27 ml/min per 1.73 m2 were included. Pulse wave velocity above the 95th percentile was observed in 124 (20%) patients at baseline. Absolute pulse wave velocity increased gradually over the median follow-up of 2.7 (interquartile range, 0.7–4.4) years, whereas pulse wave velocity z score remained relatively stable. Absolute pulse wave velocity over time associated with time; older age; higher mean arterial pressure, LDL cholesterol, and albuminuria; and lower ferritin. Pulse wave velocity z score (n=628) was associated with the same variables and additionally, with higher diastolic BP z score, lower height z score, younger age, and girls. Of 628 patients, 369 reached the composite end point of CKD progression (50% eGFR loss, eGFR <10 ml/min per 1.73 m2, or the start of KRT) during a median follow-up of 2.4 (interquartile range, 0.9–4.6) years. Pulse wave velocity z score did not associate with CKD progression by univariable or multivariable proportional hazard analysis correcting for the established predictors eGFR, proteinuria, and BP.

Conclusions
Pulse wave velocity is increased in children with CKD but does not associate with eGFR or CKD progression.
The Use of Spinal Anaesthesia for Retrograde Uretero-Renoscopy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Gallagher William J. , Longshaw Anna , Dickinson Andrew 
Published: August 2022

Background The use of spinal anaesthesia (SA) for retrograde uretero-renoscopic surgery is considered to be not as effective as a general anaesthetic (GA) by urologists. However, there were significant concerns associated with GA both for the patient and the anaesthetic team at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our unit was able to successfully transfer surgery to a purpose-built day facility that had extensive experience in delivering SA. This created the opportunity to assess the SA technique in uretero-renoscopy in a cohort of unselected patients. Objective To assess the feasibility of SA as a primary form of anaesthetic for retrograde endoluminal renal and ureteric surgery. Results Over 4 months, 41 ureteroscopic procedures were performed. The conversion rate to GA (for inadequate analgesia) was 9.8%. Surgical outcome data were compared with an equivalent cohort of patients’ who underwent GA before the pandemic. Both groups had similar outcomes: day-case discharge rate (SA 84%, GA 86%) and surgical completion rate (SA 94%, GA 90%). However, there was a difference in postoperative readmission rate (SA 8%, GA 22%) favouring SA. Conclusions This observational study demonstrated that SA is a safe and effective form of anaesthesia for uretero-renoscopic surgery, delivering non-inferior outcomes to GA. This has implications for the immediate provision of care as COVID-19 continues and as an alternative anaesthetic option to suit patients post pandemic. A larger prospective observational study would be appropriate to clearly define the benefits of SA for ureteroscopy.
Historical and legal preconditions for the introduction of the constitutional and legal institution of the High Council of Justice in Ukraine
Authors: Ivanov A. 
Published: August 2022

The scientific article considers and analyzes the evolutionary path of development of the Ukrainian judicial system from the beginning of the declaration of independence until today in terms of the functioning of judicial government.
It is established that the Constitution of Ukraine of 1996 declared the establishment of the High Council of Justice, the functional purpose of which included, among other things, the authority to apply for the appointment and dismissal of judges. Subsequently, the Law of Ukraine “On the High Council of Justice” of 1998 provided for the procedure for the formation and organization of the work of the High Council of Justice, especially the exercise of its competence.
Certainly, the functioning of the High Council of Justice at the time of its establishment was considered a positive step towards strengthening judicial independence. At the same time, there were undoubtedly certain points, for example, in determining the place of this institution in the system of public authorities. Another problem was that the body under study was not defined at the legislative level as, in fact, a public authority.
It is established that it is necessary to distinguish between the concepts of “administration of justice” and “administration of justice”. The latter legal category we have mentioned is a much broader phenomenon, because, in our opinion, not every legal proceeding is, in fact, justice. This position can be traced in the works of most modern researchers who deal with the issue of the exercise of judicial power by its functional purpose and state powers.
It has been established that adaptability and innovation are the tools that should be useful for the activities of the High Council of Justice, as they will allow to respond quickly to changes in any sphere of state and public life and work efficiently and effectively. The development of distance communication skills in this regard is a priority. Innovation, education, institutional communication, mobility and human resource management should contribute to improving the work of the High Council of Justice and establishing a constitutional guarantor of the independence of the judiciary.
Theoretical features and applied aspects of constitutional control of amendments to the constitution
Authors: Kovtunyak V. 
Published: August 2022

It is pointed out that the idea of protecting the constitution arose simultaneously with the appearance of the first constitutions. It was embodied gradually by finding its expression in the constitutional text itself or following the development of judicial practice. Such means were the institute of repeal of acts, the establishment of a guarantor and “guardian” of the constitution, the institute of constitutional control, the procedure for amending the constitution and others. Such legal institutions have emerged specifically to preserve such a constitution per se, primarily as a set of material principles and values, as well as a formally defined document in which such principles and values are enshrined. In the literature, such a special set of legal tools is now called protection, protection, guarantee of the constitution, and so on. The precondition for the protection of the constitution in the legal sense is a certain public consensus on key values, the existence of a certain civil culture, developed civil society, autonomous individual-owner, ie all those prerequisites for constitutionalism, without which the implementation of an organic constitution will always face many problems.
It has been established that amending the constitution is an important stage of the constitutional process in order to ensure the relevance of the basic law, compliance with the relations prevailing in society and limiting state power in favor of the people to ensure and protect human and civil rights and freedoms. In order to prevent the violation of the norms of the constitution, its compliance with the principles of the changes that are made to it, it is necessary to take measures to protect and safeguard it. One such way is constitutional control over the process of amending the constitution.
Despite the positive developments in the practice of constitutional control over the process of amending the constitution in Ukraine, unresolved issues remain within the competence of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in this area. This requires the intensification of the scientific and expert community in order to address these issues.
Electronic evidence as a means of proof in civil proceedings
Authors: Safonova T. , Moiseenko D. 
Published: August 2022

The emergence of the concept of electronic evidence in the civil procedural legislation of Ukraine pro- voked a discussion among lawyers, one of the issues of which was the submission of information in electronic form and determining its ability to be a legitimate means of proof in court. Therefore, the article first explores the concept and features of electronic evidence, in particular the possibility of recognizing a particular electronic information legal.
In the theory of civil procedural law, the question of the legality of factual data sources is usually associated with the origin of the information itself. Since, the specific order of access to certain information directly depends on their content, which means the following. If electronic evidence is public information, including restricted access (confidential, secret or official), or public information containing personal data, the answers to the question of the legality of its receipt should be sought in the Law of Ukraine “On Access to Public Information”.
However, personal data of a personal, private nature can also be electronic evidence. In this case, the procedure for access to them is determined by agreement between the subject and the owner of such data or special legislation. This means that a source is declared inadmissible if the rights, freedoms and interests of others are violated or if such a source turns out to be unknown or illegal.
Due to the above facts, the article analyzed the provisions of the current civil procedural legislation of Ukraine governing the submission of electronic evidence to the court, in accordance with certain criteria, and pointed out their positive and negative features. Also, the importance of the presumption of proof, electronic signature and submission of electronic evidence in the original is taken into account.
Institutional principles of concordance of interests in legal environmental conflict
Authors: Yaremak Z. 
Published: August 2022

The theoretically-legal analysis of institutional principles of ecological law, which are basis of the legal mechanism for resolving legal environmental conflict, is conducted in the article. The research of doctrine approaches interests concordance is carried out. In this context, the concept interests balance based on the “hierarchy” of interests, in which the public interest is a priority, and the concept of human rights priority are analyzed.
Extrapolating these conceptions in the plane of ecological law, their application possibility is analyzed with the aim interests concordance and achievement of consensus in an legal environmental conflict. It is substantiated that the institutional mechanism of balancing interests in ecological relations is based on the principle of sustainable development, which is based on the concept of harmonization of ecological, economic and social interests of society and the principle of ecological priority interests. The systematic analysis of ecological legislation and ecologically-legal doctrine has given chance to identify and investigate the priority principle of public ecological interest in interest balancing which are realizing subjects in ecologically legal business. At the same time, investigational, that modern anthropocentric conception of ecological law, its humanistic orientation provides for the legislative consolidation and principle of human rights priority - right on safe environment for life and health as an inalienable absolute right of personality. It is proved that despite the legislative enshrinement of both principle of public priority ecological interest and principle of belonging to the right of safety for life and health of the environment, the conflict of legal regulation is absence. This is due to the fact that the right to safety for the life and health of the environment is based on the private ecological interest in ensuring the proper state of the natural environment, which ultimately coincides with the public ecological interest.
It is concluded that the institutional principles of interests concordance determine the general orientation of public policy and serve only as a prerequisite for achieving a balance of interests and finding a compromise in legal environmental conflicts.
Legislative regulation issues of peaceful assemblies in Ukraine
Authors: Bilash O. 
Published: August 2022

The article examines the issues of possible settlement of peaceful assemblies by law in Ukraine and attempts to answer the question of the need and necessity of adopting a special law. The constitutional provisions and provisions of the acts of interpretation of the norms of the constitution, as well as legislative acts of various branches of law, which indirectly regulate the organization and holding of peaceful assemblies, have been studied.
Despite the lack of a special law, a number of aspects of the exercise of this right are regulated in separate and unsystematized acts. In particular, limiting the terms of notification of a peaceful assembly (Law “On the Procedure for Resolving Collective Labor Disputes (Conflicts)”); identification of bodies to be contacted for notification of a peaceful assembly (Laws “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine” and “On Local State Administrations”); restrictions on the time of peaceful assemblies (Electoral Code of Ukraine); establishing the possibility to prohibit peaceful assemblies, rallies, marches and demonstrations, other mass events in the establishment of special legal regimes (Laws “On the legal regime of the state of emergency” and “On the legal regime of martial law”); the procedure for prohibiting peaceful assembly in court by an administrative court (Code of Administrative Procedure).
The study proved that the adoption of a systematic legislative act that will regulate the conceptual and procedural issues of notification of the meeting, the powers of the relevant authorities in the event of such notification, the rights and responsibilities of participants is timely. Similarly, the normative definition of the concept of “peaceful assembly”, the forms in which it can be carried out, the distinction from other similar measures that do not fall under the signs of “peaceful assembly”, etc. is required to develop good jurisprudence and protect the rights of citizens.
Methods of administrative and legal enforcement of fair behavior of military officials in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Authors: Prylipko M. 
Published: August 2022

The purpose of the article was to define the concept and types of methods of administrative and legal support for the respectable behavior of military officials in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The article determines that the problem of methodology is basic for any field of scientific activity. Attention is focused on the fact that methods, doctrines and paradigms find their embodiment and practical confirmation of the hypotheses of researchers put forward to solve topical theoretical and practical issues. The methods of administrative and legal support are an important part of the updated theory of administrative law, the provisions of which can be applied to the analysis of new social relations, in particular, in the field of virtue of military officials.
Arguments are given that the methods of administrative and legal support for the respectable behavior of military officials in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the most established legal methods and methods for achieving the performance by a military person of those actions that he is obliged to implement during his service, and refraining from prohibited and undesirable actions (inaction ).
The classification is proposed for the methods of administrative and legal support of the respectable behavior of military officials in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which includes the following groups of methods: a) “hard” law methods, which include methods of subordination and coordination; b) methods of “soft” law, in particular, methods of legal harmonization, unification, modeling of the desired behavior of military personnel.
It is concluded that the methods of administrative and legal support for the good behavior of military officials in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are characterized by the following features: a) they are not always legal; b) they combine legal and moral and ethical elements; c) the use of the studied methods is of a longitudinal nature and is intended for long-term use, which is due to the duration of the processes of formation of personality attitudes in her professional activities.
Public relations department of the National Police as a subject of interaction with the media
Authors: Shnurko Ya. 
Published: August 2022

The purpose of writing a scientific article is based on the analysis of regulations to provide a description of the subject of interaction with the media - public relations units of the National Police. The system of institutionalized public relations of the National Police is the main channel of information on the state of law and order, an important tool for forming public opinion on the activities of police in Ukraine, as well as a mechanism for feedback from police to the public.
It was found that the Department of Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is an independent structural unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which coordinates the activities of territorial units of public relations. At the same time, public relations units are a structural element of bodies and units of the National Police of Ukraine - the state executive body, and therefore endowed with the administrative and legal status of a police unit. The author states that there is a double subordination of such a subject.
Based on the content of current regulations, the author argues that the main purpose of such units should be to ensure the National Police in relation to the media, population, public organizations, crime prevention, public awareness of law and order in the state, activities of bodies and units. police to strengthen it and create a positive image of the police. Thus, in fact, in the direction of interaction with the media, public relations units have the status of moderators of media activities, although in fact they perform a larger range of tasks and powers.
Vectors for improving the administrative and legal status of public relations units of the National Police are proposed: development and adoption of a modern legal act of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which would determine the administrative and legal status of public relations units; supplementing this status with tasks to prepare police officers for communication with the media, as well as the specifics of the unit during martial law; defining the responsibilities of public relations units at the regulatory level; consider the possibility of granting individual employees of the administrative and legal status of a journalist.
Advocacy in the cloud: new digital challenges and realities of today
Authors: Badzeliuk P. 
Published: August 2022

Digitization has become a buzzword in the legal world, arousing considerable interest in the future of the legal profession. A number of innovative legal service providers have entered the legal services market, which is currently challenging the monopoly of lawyers on the practice of law and, ultimately, changing the way of production in the legal field. We have already witnessed significant digitization in due diligence, contract review, legal research, electronic detection, document forecasting and automation technologies, and tools such as client portals and Internet collaboration platforms are becoming more sophisticated every day.
Thus, in the broadest sense, the cloud environment is understood to mean a specific model of data storage, information that is regulated and processed by numerous servers on the World Wide Web. In the simplest terms, the cloud environment can be explained as a large spacious closet designed to store photos, videos, documents, and so on. However, the progress of digital technologies, the relentless wheel of the industrial revolution and the infusion of artificial intelligence into every cell of human life are bearing fruit, thereby greatly expanding the capabilities of cloud technology. In particular, cloud platforms are becoming not only a tool for storing information, but also a full-fledged tool for creating software products, managing them, managing computing resources and more. Yes, these technologies impress with their mobility and convenience, because wherever you are, all your experience, and almost the entire office you always have in your pocket, the user requires only a stable connection to the network.
The ubiquitous advertising of digital products is a very tempting proposition, but we will try to unravel the impact it has on a particular research area.
Advocacy is a set of procedural tasks that fall into the part of everyday life of a lawyer. The digitalization of advocacy is a pressing and topical issue in terms of the large-scale digital revolution. And given the controversial and lack of a single clear position on this issue, we consider this issue timely and appropriate.