On the Condition of Covering Completeness in Associative Steganography

Previously, the completeness of the coverage was considered by the authors as an interpretation of a kind of logical interpretation of the criterion of perfect secrecy by K. Shannon – one of the necessary conditions that the concept of associative steganography should satisfy. The article shows that in reality, the completeness of coverage is a completely independent condition for ensuring the required level of data protection when analyzing scenes. It should not be associated with the criterion of K. Shannon.

Prevention of Violations of Mandatory Requirements by Antimonopoly Authorities

The reform of control and supervisory activities of business entities, which has been going on for several years, is aimed at increasing the level of security and eliminating excessive administrative burden. At the same time, one of the fundamental principles formulated in modern management science states that prevention is more important than enforcement. In such circumstances, it is crucial to achieve the goals of the ongoing reform of control and supervision activities, such as the reorientation of control (supervisory) bodies from the detection and suppression of offenses to their prevention. The implementation of this direction is conducted through the introduction in various areas of a set of measures aimed at preventing violations of mandatory requirements. The purpose of the study is to systematize the forms and methods used by antimonopoly units to prevent violations. The methods include formal-legal, formal-logical, interpretation of law, as well as general scientific methods. According to the results of the study, the author concludes that the implementation of various forms and methods of state control directly aimed at preventing violations of mandatory requirements, such as preventive measures, administrative prevention measures, and preliminary control, plays an increasingly important role in the activities of antimonopoly authorities. The author has formulated proposals for improving the legal regulation and practice of preventing violations of mandatory antitrust laws by the antimonopoly authorities.

The Cost of the Epistemic Step: Investigating Scalar Implicatures in Full and Partial Information Contexts

We present the first ERP experiments that test the online processing of the scalar implicature some ⇝ not all in contexts where the speaker competence assumption is violated. Participants observe game scenarios with four open cards on the table and two closed cards outside of the table, while listening to statements made by a virtual player. In the full access context, the player makes a fully informed statement by referring only to the open cards, as cards on the table; in the partial access context, she makes a partially informed statement by referring to the whole set of cards, as cards in the game. If all of the open cards contain a given object X (Fullset condition), then some cards on the table contain Xs is inconsistent with the not all reading, whereas it is unknown whether some cards in the game contain X is consistent with this reading. If only a subset of the open cards contains X (Subset condition), then both utterances are known to be consistent with the not all implicature. Differential effects are observed depending on the quantifier reading adopted by the participant: For those participants who adopt the not all reading in the full access context, but not in the partial access context (weak pragmatic reading), a late posterior negativity effect is observed in the partial access context for the Fullset relative to the Subset condition. This effect is argued to reflect inference-driven context retrieval and monitoring processes related to epistemic reasoning involved in evaluating the competence assumption. By contrast, for participants who adopt the logical interpretation of some (some and possibly all), an N400 effect is observed in the partial access context, when comparing the Subset against the Fullset condition, which is argued to result from the competition between the two quantifying expressions some cards on the table and some cards in the game functioning in the experiment as scalar alternatives.

Women Church Leaders in and around Fifth-century Rome

This chapter considers artistic representations, showing evidence of ‘Women Church Leaders in and around Fifth-century Rome’. It focuses on two artefacts that portrayed women church leaders operating in this broad context. It addresses frescoes of deceased women painted with open gospel books in the San Gennaro Catacombs in Naples; it proposes that the most logical interpretation of the iconographic motifs associated with them is that they were women bishops, perhaps two of the women about whom Pope Gelasius complained to male bishops in southern Italy c.496. For cultural context it next considers an ivory reliquary box discovered in 1906, which depicts three pairs of men and women in the altar area of Old St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. This scene has recently been re-analysed; one of the pairs appears to have been sculpted jointly officiating the Eucharist at the basilica’s altar. Additional fifth- and sixth-century artefacts that portray women as clergy, sometimes paired with men, sometimes independently, affirm both the identification of women bishops in the two Naples catacomb frescoes and also the scene of the woman and man officiating at the altar in Old St Peters on the ivory box.

The Interpretation of Probability in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In this paper, I propose an assessment of the interpretation of the mathematical notion of probability that Wittgenstein presents in TLP (1963: 5.15 – 5.156). I start by presenting his definition of probability as a relation between propositions. I claim that this definition qualifies as a logical interpretation of probability, of the kind defended in the same years by J. M. Keynes. However, Wittgenstein’s interpretation seems prima facie to be safe from two standard objections moved to logical probability, i. e. the mystic nature of the postulated relation and the reliance on Laplace’s principle of indifference. I then proceed to evaluate Wittgenstein’s idea against three criteria for the adequacy of an interpretation of probability: admissibility, ascertainability, and applicability. If the interpretation is admissible on Kolmogorov’s classical axiomatisation, the problem of ascertainability brings up a difficult dilemma. Finally, I test the interpretation in the application to three main contexts of use of probabilities. While the application to frequencies rests ungrounded, the application to induction requires some elaboration, and the application to rational belief depends on ascertainability.

Artificial Intelligence-Based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

The quality of higher education can be enhanced only by upgrading the content and skills towards knowledge. Hence, knowledge representation and reasoning play a chief role to represent the facts, beliefs, and information, and inferring the logical interpretation of represented knowledge stored in the knowledge bases. This chapter provide a broad overview of knowledge, representation, and reasoning along with the related art of study in the field of higher education. Various artificial intelligent-based knowledge representation and reasoning techniques and schemes are provided for better representation of facts, beliefs, and information. Various reasoning types are discussed in order to infer the right meaning of the knowledge followed by various issues of knowledge representation and reasoning. .

Adjoint Reactive GUI Programming

Most interaction with a computer is via graphical user interfaces. These are traditionally implemented imperatively, using shared mutable state and callbacks. This is efficient, but is also difficult to reason about and error prone. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) provides an elegant alternative which allows GUIs to be designed in a declarative fashion. However, most FRP languages are synchronous and continually check for new data. This means that an FRP-style GUI will “wake up” on each program cycle. This is problematic for applications like text editors and browsers, where often nothing happens for extended periods of time, and we want the implementation to sleep until new data arrives. In this paper, we present an asynchronous FRP language for designing GUIs called $$\lambda _{\mathsf {Widget}}$$ λ Widget . Our language provides a novel semantics for widgets, the building block of GUIs, which offers both a natural Curry–Howard logical interpretation and an efficient implementation strategy.

The Role of IZI Supervision in Productive Zakat Utilization

The purpose of this study is to determine how IZI supervision regarding the utilization of productive zakat funds. In more detail, this study aims to determine the form of supervision carried out, starting from the stages, processes, and types of supervision. The theory used in this research is that of M. Manullang, namely, preventive supervision. The basic assumption is to anticipate failure during implementation from before (prevention). This research is qualitative research using the descriptive method. Collecting data in this study used observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The data analysis in this study used a logical interpretation connected with Da'wah Management's context. The research results show that the basis of thought in the supervision of productive zakat funds is to anticipate (preventive) the misuse of zakat funds, which should be utilized, into one-time consumable funds because the purpose of making productive zakat funds is to make mustahiq muzakki.Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana pengawasan pihak IZI mengenai pendayagunaan dana zakat produktif. Secara lebih rinci tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bentuk pengawasan yang dilakukan,dari mulai tahapan,proses dan jenis pengawasannya. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah yang dikemukakan oleh M. Manullang, yaitu pengawasan preventif. Asumsi dasarnya adalah untuk mengantisipasi kegagalan ketika pelaksanaan dari sebelumnya (pencegahan). Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif. Pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini digunakan teknik observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data dalam penelitian ini digunakan penafsiran logika yang dihubungkan dengan konteks Manejemen Dakwah. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa yang menjadi landasan pemikiran dalam pengawasan dana zakat produktif adalah untuk mengantisipasi (preventif) terjadinya penyalahgunaan dana zakat yang harusnya di berdayagunakan, menjadi dana konsumtif yang sekali habis. Karena tujuan dari pendayagunaan dana zakat produktif menjadikan mustahik menjadi muzakki.

Concept of Agaththinai and Puraththinai

Though the concept of Agaththinai and puraththinai has prevailed since Tholkappiyam period, the definition and the differences of these thinai were understood only on the light of commentators. Basic elements of Agaththinai are Muthal Porul, Karupporul and Uripporul. The relation between Uripporul and concerned thinai has been elaborately discussed in the article. It also deals with the logical interpretation of Puraththinai and its subdivisions. Different perspectives such as Marxian perspective on Thinai and it's objections has also been noted. Extension of concept of Thinai to modern period has also been mentioned in the article.