Robotics in the Modern World of Work - Results From an Empirical Study Regarding Business Ethics

The digital revolution is changing the world. Robots, big data and artificial intelligence are the key technologies of the future and the basis of important innovations for the future development of the economy and society. In companies, this fact requires strategic rethinking and adjustments in ever-shorter time cycles. The creation of an agile and collaborative production to achieve the goals is often a basic requirement. With adaptation to technical progress, requirements and goals change continuously. To be and remain competitive, companies are forced to have at least the same technological standard as their competitors. In order to meet these challenges today, the use of highly efficient mechatronic systems such as robots is necessary. The paper analyses business ethics relevant aspects of robotics by using a survey with 88 respondents.

Determination of Road Bridge Load -Carrying Capacity

In frame of global European standardization and as consequence of new knowledge concerning the existing bridge reliability, the need for revision of the Technological Standard No. 104 “Load-carrying capacity of road bridges and footbridges” [1] (hereinafter referred to as TS 104) had started up. In the first stage of the revision, the preparation and analysis in the form of Analysis Task (hereinafter referred to as AT) has been worked up by the collective of the Department of Structures and Bridges from the University of Zilina in cooperation with Slovak Road Administration (SRA), National Motorway Company (NMC) and other co-operators among academicians and designers. In the presented paper, the attention is paid to the general concept and basic assumptions of the AT and revised TS 104 for determining the road bridge load-carrying capacity.

The CITE architecture (CTS/CITE) for analysis and alignment

Documenting text-reuse (when one text includes a quotation or paraphrase of, or even allusion to another text) is one example of the problem of analysis and alignment. The most clever analytical tools will be of no avail unless their results can be cited, as scholarly evidence has been cited for centuries. This is where the CITE Architecture can help. CITE solves several problems at once. The first problem is the endless possible number of analyses (by which we mean “desirable ways of splitting up a text”): do we choose to “read” a text passage-by-passage, clause-by-clause, word-by-word, or syllable-by-syllable? The second, related to the first, is that of overlapping hierarchies: The first two words of the Iliad are “μῆνιν ἄειδε,” but the first metrical foot of the poem is “μηνιν α”; the first noun-phrase is “μῆνιν οὐλομένενην”, the first word of the first line, and the first word of the second line, and nothinginbetween. All of these issues are present when documenting text-reuse, and especially when documenting different (and perhaps contradictory) scholarly assertions of text-reuse. In our experience, over 25 years of computational textual analysis, no other technological standard can address this problem as easily.

ELECTRONIC CIRCULATION OF DOCUMENTS: FEATURES, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Now electronic documents are more used in various fields and spheres of human activity. Electronic circulation of documents increases the possibilities to use electronic documents raising the functioning efficiency of any organization. But nevertheless it is necessary to consider special properties of the electronic document at all stages of its life cycle. From here follows, that at introduction of electronic circulation of document, technological, standard-legal and organizational problems demanding corresponding solution are possible.

Proposed System for Educational Augmented Reality Smart Book

Smartphones have greatly advanced in the past decade. The first smartphone had very low processing power and memory. Nowadays, smartphones have close to desktop class processors and memory. They are also equipped with high resolution displays. This advancement enables creating and running sophisticated and large graphics applications. Such as Augmented and Virtual reality. Augmented Reality (AR) can be described as a view of the real-world environment extended with computer-generated three-dimensional objects. AR enables placing objects that are designed in a computer to the user environment with fine precision. AR can be largely useful in a variety of fields. On that note, AR is making great contribution to the field of education in the present time. Studying and learning different subjects can be a dull experience, especially for primary school children. Children nowadays are growing in the internet and technology era. Thus, education must evolve to the technological standard as well. Using AR to teach children can be exciting, motivating and simulating in a way that is much easier and beneficial than reading textbooks. In this paper, an alphabet book is designed for key stage 1 students. The design is accomplished in Photoshop CC and Maya3D. Afterwards, using Vuforia and Unity3D, the letters are brought to life when a smartphone is pointed at them. A 3D model of the letter is shown along with a 3D example and audio of the example is played.

RECONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS

The recultivation of the agricultural land has the character of a planning event, inasmuch as its nature and normative justification corresponds to the established technological standard for carrying out such. In a specific aspect related to the peculiarities of this process on agricultural lands, the legal regulations focus mainly on some details related to potential construction on these lands, while at the same time preserving, respectively improving their productivity. Within the meaning of Article 12, paragraph 3 of the Law on the Protection of Agricultural Land, the use of recultivated agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes is possible by changing its purpose. According to the text of Article 14, Paragraph 1 of the Law on the Protection of Agricultural Land, the construction of agricultural land from first to sixth category is carried out only after removal of the humus layer, which, according to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Protection of Agricultural Land, is used for reclamation of disturbed terrains. If the terrains do not have the characteristics of disturbed, the humus layer is used to improve the productive qualities of the low-productive lands. The normative requirements regarding the disturbed agricultural terrains and the necessity to carry out recultivation measures on them are regulated in the text of Article 3, paragraph 1 of Ordinance No 26 on rehabilitation of damaged terrains, improvement of low-productive lands, seizure and utilization of humus layer. Reclamation is necessary and feasible: a / where the affected terrain will be used for agricultural purposes; b/ when the surface elevation is equal to the height of the neighboring properties; c / when road accessibility to the land subject to recultivation is ensured. Besides the above mentioned requirements, the requirement for ensuring the sustainability of the recultivated terrain is regulated. This resistance is associated with ignoring the possibility and the danger of collapsing, sliding and sliding, and when creating terraces, their slope must ensure the stability of the earth masses. The text of Article 4 of Ordinance No 26 regulates the two-stage process of recultivation, which differentiates two groups of reclamation: technical and biological. Technical recultivation covers a set of events that start with cleaning and preparation of disturbed terrain, seizure and transport of earth masses, alignment and landscaping. When the terrain has acquired a final appearance, the norm requires the actual, subject of the recultivation activity - transportation and spreading of the humus layer. According to the regulation of art. 2, para 3, item 2 and item 3 of Ordinance № 26, suitable materials for the creation of an upper layer for reclamation of damaged terrains, which must have a humus layer thickness of 30/35 cm, are also, the appropriate horizon of the soil profile, which is inhabited by small microorganisms and the deeper layers to be treated. The use of such materials is the subject of the second stage of the reclamation process - the stage of biological recultivation, which is classified in the text of Article 4, item 2 of Ordinance No 26 as a complex of agro-technical, agrochemical, technological and meliorative activities for restoration of the productivity of reclaimed areas for a 5-year period after the technical reclamation.

Trigger Strategies for Standard Diffusion in Interorganizational Networks

When establishing a new technological standard, multiple actors often have to build coalitions to overcome the inertia of the emergent collaboration network and to mobilize decisive levels of support. The authors suggest that the emergence of a standard in a networked field can be strategically influenced by focusing only on a subset of all actors. The study defined the choice of a specific set of standard-initializing organizations as the trigger strategy. A conceptual model was developed from interorganizational collaboration as a network comprised of a set of heterogeneous, interconnected nodes, qualified by their group membership and size. The authors employed network simulations identifying the value of different trigger strategies. Data on a network of airline collaboration was used to illustrate the model. Under most conditions considered, the study found a strong triggering potential of interrelated core cliques in comparison to other trigger strategies. The results suggest that this strategy should receive more attention in the future.

Recent changes in agrarian systems of the Microregion of Toledo and Northern Pioneer Territory in Paraná State, Brazil

During the period of 1950 through 2000, a green-revolution-based model mostly for commodities boosted global agricultural production. From the 70’s, this design became consolidated in Brazil and other countries because of policies and strategies by states and private groups. However, some doubts has been raised on its environmental and socioeconomic issues, in special for family farming. This study aimed to contribute by identifying changes and resistance in agricultural structures, systems and demographic aspects of this model and its adoption by farmers. It was carried out in the state of Paraná - Brazil, within the microregion of Toledo and in the northern pioneer area, which represent the history and diversity of this state about socioeconomic and human aspects, as well as technical development. It was based on statistics of agricultural censuses (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1996 and 2006), population censuses (1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010) and municipal agricultural production data (1980-2012). Data from both areas were compared to each other and analyzed in face of state changes. There has been a decrease in farming properties and rural population, with an outstanding decline in the number of young people and women. Moreover, results showed a large reduction of properties with 20 to 50 ha, and an increase in those of up to 2 ha. Such decline is due to technological standard changes throughout the period, as well as recent grants offered to rural areas, as housing and leisure spaces. Both regions showed expansion of soybean plantations, but integrating distinctively to agriculture and, finally, family farming continuity, despite the intense changes.