scholarly journals Autonomous Military Robots — A Threat to the Peace and Security of Mankind?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Ildar R. Begishev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Important Decision ◽  
Military Robots ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Military ◽  
Near Future

The article deals with the criminal-legal aspect of countering the illegal trafficking of autonomous military robots. Given the pace of the introduction of digital technologies in the military sphere, it is possible that in the near future autonomous military robots will become a reality. This, in turn, dictates the need, in order to maintain peace and preserve the security of humanity, in a fairly short time to consolidate the legal regulation of relations in the military sphere with the use of autonomous military robots both at the international and domestic levels. The most important decision in this area may be the creation and adoption of a Convention on the prohibition of the development, Production and Use of autonomous military robots, their components (modules).

Digital Technologies in Law-making Activity: Theoretical and Legal Aspect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. D. Yagofarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Regulator ◽  
Law Making

The article is devoted to the introduction of digital technologies in law-making activities. The process of digitalization has actively affected economic relations, which has led to the transformation of public administration. Law, being the main regulator of public relations, is also undergoing significant changes. The subject of the study is the results of the digitalization of law-making activities, which leave an imprint on the entire system of state and legal relations. The article presents a bibliographic review of modern works on this issue, describes the main trends in this area, and assesses the practical results of the digital technologies impact on law-making. The models of digitalization are analyzed: automation of all processes, which assumes the absolute exclusion of a person and the preservation of human participation at the stage of making the final decision. The author investigates the main stages of law-making activity, where the use of digital technologies is possible: the formation of law-making initiatives; the process of preparing a normative legal act; discussion of the draft normative legal act; the voting process; the process of promulgation and publication. The author provides the examples of specific electronic platforms: «Russian Public Initiative», the System for Ensuring Legislative Activity, Simplex+, Reaching everyone for active citizenship & home (REACH) and specific technologies (ML-model, LL-model, blockchain), both already used and developed in Russia and abroad. It is indicated that digital technologies can be used to systematize regulatory legal acts, and the question of using digital technologies in predicting the future directions of legal regulation is raised. It is concluded that it is necessary to determine the main directions and principles of digitalization of law-making, the goals and limits of the introduction of digital technologies in the law-making process.

scholarly journals Issues of Legal Regulation of the Use of Digital Technologies in Agricultural Business

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Nina Ivanovna Solovyanenko
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Digital Agriculture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Agricultural Business ◽  
Legal Mechanism

The modern agrarian revolution means the introduction of high-tech solutions, which play a significant role as a factor of sustainable development in the field of food security, agriculture, and the rational use of natural resources. The digital transformation of agriculture covers the use of a wide range of technologies in the production of agricultural products and food (the Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, e-commerce, and a number of others). The legislation lags behind the digital technologies being introduced, which are constantly improved and are a "moving target " in terms of regulation. An essential task is to create an up-to-date regulatory framework that will strengthen confidence in digital agriculture. Digital strategies define regulatory objectives. In Russia, the creation and development of the national platform "Digital Agriculture" is a part of the legal mechanism of strategic planning. It is aimed at the creation of conditions for the intensification of productivity and the reduction of operating expenditures by means of using high-tech solutions. Digital agriculture activities should be supported by updated basic legislation. The state information system of sectoral data collecting and analyzing "One-stop window" is projected as the incoming data source for the national platform "Digital Agriculture". 

Improving the efficiency and reliability of electric power generation at incineration plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
A. V. Martynov ◽  
N. E. Kutko
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Working Medium ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Working Media ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Efficiency And Reliability

The article deals with the problem of waste disposal and, accordingly, landfills in the Moscow Region, which have now become the number 1 problem for the environment in Moscow and the Moscow Region. To solve this problem, incineration plants (IP) will be established in the near future. 4 plants will be located in the Moscow Region that will be able to eliminate 2800 thousand tons of waste per year. Burning of waste results in formation of slag making 25% of its volume, which has a very high temperature (1300.1500°C). An arrangement is considered, in which slag is sent to a water bath and heats the water to 50.90°C. This temperature is sufficient to evaporate any low-temperature substance (freons, limiting hydrocarbons, etc.), whereupon the steam of the low-temperature working medium is sent to a turbine, which produces additional electricity. The creation of a low-temperature thermal power plant (TPP) increases the reliability of electricity generation at the IP. The operation of low-temperature TPPs due to the heat of slag is very efficient, their efficiency factor being as high as 40.60%. In addition to the efficiency of TPPs, capital costs for the creation of additional devices at the IP are of great importance. Thermal power plants operating on slag are just such additional devices, so it is necessary to minimize the capital costs of their creation. In addition to equipment for the operation of TPPs, it is necessary to have a working medium in an amount determined by calculations. From the wide variety of working media, which are considered in the article, it is necessary to choose the substance with the lowest cost.

Problems of establishment and development of the Institution of personal data protection in the Russian Federation: historical-legal aspect

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Yanis Arturovich Sekste ◽  
Anna Sergeevna Markevich
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject of this research is the problems emerging in the process of establishment and development of the Institution of personal data protection in the Russian Federation. Special attention is turned to the comparison of Soviet and Western models of protection of private life and personal data. The authors used interdisciplinary approach, as comprehensive and coherent understanding of socio-legal institution of personal data protection in the Russian Federation is only possible in inseparable connection with examination of peculiarities of the key historical stages in legal regulation of private life of the citizen. After dissolution of the Soviet political and legal system, the primary task of Russian law consisted in development and legal formalization of the institution of protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, first and foremost by means of restricting invasion of privacy by the state and enjoyment of personal freedom. It is concluded that the peculiarities of development of the new Russian political and legal model significantly impacted the formation of the institution of personal data protection in the Russian Federation. The authors believe that the Russian legislator and competent government branches are not always capable to manage the entire information flow of personal data; therefore, one of the priority tasks in modern Russian society is the permanent analysis and constant monitoring of the development of information technologies.

Military Necessity and the Cultures of Military Law

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID LUBAN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
Military Necessity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Military Law ◽  
Interpretive Communities ◽  
The Military

AbstractMilitary and humanitarian lawyers approach the laws of war in different ways. For military lawyers, the starting point is military necessity, and the reigning assumption is that legal regulation of war must accommodate military necessity. For humanitarian lawyers, the starting point is human dignity and human rights. The result is two interpretive communities that systematically disagree not only over the meaning of particular law-of-war norms, but also over the sources and methods of law that could be used to resolve the disagreements. That raises the question whether military lawyers’ advice should acknowledge any validity to the contrary views of the ‘humanitarian’ community. The article offers a systematic analysis of the concept of military necessity, showing that civilian interests must figure in assessing military necessity itself. Even on its own terms, the military version of the law of war should seek to accommodate the civilian perspectives featured in the humanitarian version.

The Court System of China in the Digital Age: Main Developmet Ditections

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
P. V. Troshchinskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
General Level ◽  
Court System ◽  
The People ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
The Status

The article is devoted to the study of the process of introducing digital technologies into the work of the People’s Courts of China and the issues of its legal regulation. The judicial system of the modern Chinese state is based on courts of three levels and two courts. Judicial bodies include the Supreme People’s Court, local people's courts, military courts and other special courts. For several years, various digital technologies have been used in all Chinese courts. In addition, since August 2017, special Internet courts have appeared in the PRC (three such courts have now been created in Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou), which consider civil, administrative and criminal cases online without the personal presence of participants. The use of digital technologies in the judicial system of the PRC contributes to its transparency, reducing corruption, combating the spread of coronavirus, increasing the general level of legal literacy of the people. So, the creation of a unified platform for online broadcasting of court hearings online, the public disclosure of court sentences (decisions, rulings) in various categories of cases allows society to control the activities of the people's courts of the country. Considering the case online during the confrontation of the coronavirus epidemic prevents the spread of infection among participants in the process. The experience of China in the large-scale implementation of digital technologies in judicial activity is not only of scientific interest, but also important from a practical point of view for the Russian expert community. The Russian Federation has also embarked on the path of using digital technologies in litigation, but China is following it ahead of the schedule, which is important in terms of studying the results it has achieved and the mistakes made so that the Russian legislator can take them into account in their law-making activities. It is also important that China, in the process of digitalizing its national system, uses exclusively national platforms and databases. Access to information by foreign intelligence services is not possible. The main providers of digital services for the judicial system are also national corporations, which legally have the status of private companies, but in fact they are completely controlled by the СРС.

US2RO: Union of Superpoints to Recognize Objects

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 513-537
Author(s):  
Marcel Tiator ◽  
Anna Maria Kerkmann ◽  
Christian Geiger ◽  
Paul Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Imitation Learning ◽  
Network Architectures ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Repetitive Work ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Partition System ◽  
Performance Metric ◽  
Growing Environment ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Near Future

The creation of interactive virtual reality (VR) applications from 3D scanned content usually includes a lot of manual and repetitive work. Our research aim is to develop agents that recognize objects to enhance the creation of interactive VR applications. We trained partition agents in our superpoint growing environment that we extended with an expert function. This expert function solves the sparse reward signal problem of the previous approaches and enables to use a variant of imitation learning and deep reinforcement learning with dense feedback. Additionally, the function allows to calculate a performance metric for the degree of imitation for different partitions. Furthermore, we introduce an environment to optimize the superpoint generation. We trained our agents with 1182 scenes of the ScanNet data set. More specifically, we trained different neural network architectures with 1170 scenes and tested their performance with 12 scenes. Our intermediate results are promising such that our partition system might be able to assist the VR application development from 3D scanned content in near future.

Le armi dotte e la Rivoluzione francese: riformismo, elitismo e meritocrazia

2012 ◽  
pp. 41-63
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cuccoli
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
State Corporation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
École Polytechnique ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Revolution

The article focuses on the evolution of the military technical corps in France between the mid-Eighteenth century and the Restoration, and proposes for them the notion of "State corporation". This phase - an intermediate one between the corps de métier and the corps d'État - was attained first by the engineers and the artillery. These corps selected their officers by competitive examination, which functioned both as an intellectual filter and a social one. The distinction generated by this filter - nurtured by an elitist approach based on meritocracy was not overridden by the Revolution. On the contrary, it was further consecrated by the creation of the École polytechnique, which soon became controlled by the military technical corps. The "State corporation" model was then extended through the École polytechnique to the geographical engineers and the civil public services. The institutional conflicts among the technical corps during the National Constituent Assembly and those between them and the École polytechnique (1794-1799) are analyzed along these interpretative lines. While the former show their corporative resistance of geographical engineers in the name of equality, the latter bring out their corporative resistance to external education of candidates.

The Abbey of Werden on the Frankish-Saxon Frontier. The Depictions of Landscapes and Emotions in the vita Gregorii and the vitae Liudgeri

Millennium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-387
Author(s):  
Bart Peters
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
Emotional Behaviour ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Military

Abstract This study explores the depictions of landscapes and emotions in the ninth-century hagiographies associated with Liudger: the three vitae Liudgeri and Liudger’s own vita Gregorii. The Frisian missionary founded the monastery of Werden, situated near the Frankish-Saxon frontier. It will be argued that previous historiography on early medieval frontiers has predominantly focused on the military nature of frontiers. Here, more cultural or symbolic natures of the Frankish-Saxon frontier will be discussed. The hagiographical narratives will be examined in conjunction with the notion of a frontier as a ‘third space’. The vitae Liudgeri shaped a discourse that legitimated Liudger’s translation to Werden. This resulted in the creation of a new place of Christian worship in the competitive landscape of post-conquest Saxony, as part of the Christianization of the region. Monasteries like Werden were the places where new missionaries were educated who would continue this Christianization. Exemplary emotional behaviour of the saints, narrated in hagiographies, could help instruct this new generation. Altfrid and Liudger tried to dissuade emotions of anger, indicated by ira or furor, with their hagiographical narratives. These two perspectives offer a glimpse into the attempts of a local monastery to stand out in the Frankish-Saxon frontier.

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