The Good Friday oration ad intra ecclesiam in the context of the post-conciliar liturgical reforms

This paper aims to juxtapose the differences between the versions of the Good Friday oration ad intra ecclesiam and unveil the theological character behind these modifications by analysing the prayers. The source materials were Benedict XV’s Roman Missal, Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae Instauratus, Variationes in ordinem Hebdomadae Sanctae inducendae, and two typical editions of the reformed Roman Missals from 1970 and 2002. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first, the orations from the ad intra ecclesiam collection are explained. In the second, the changes to the orations are analysed. Finally, the influence on the theological character of the orations is presented. The analyses lead to the conclusion that it is difficult to specify a single criterion for the modifications in the ad intra ecclesiam collection. Sometimes, the changes resulted in a new organisation of the Church (e.g., oration for the Clergy and Laity of the Church), a shift in a person’s present state (oration for Those Preparing for Baptism), or a new understanding of the role of the Church in the world (oration for the Church). Some modifications are difficult to explain (oration for the Pope, for Those in Special Need).

Analysis of optimization methods in marine objects control synthesis

The article presents four main chapters that allow you to formulate an optimization task and choose a method for solving it from static and dynamic optimization methods to single-criterion and multi-criteria optimization. In the group of static optimization methods, the methods are without constraints and with constraints, gradient and non-gradient and heuristic. Dynamic optimization methods are divided into basic - direct and indirect and special. Particular attention has been paid to multi-criteria optimization in single-object approach as static and dynamic optimization, and multi-object optimization in game control scenarios. The article shows not only the classic optimization methods that were developed many years ago, but also the latest in the field, including, but not limited to, particle swarms.

Models and criteria for monitoring the quality of education

Introduction. The article focuses on monitoring the quality of education, analyzes the shortcomings of modern models and criteria functioning in this area. The purpose of the study is to build models and develop a criterion for their implementation in the field of education, free from these shortcomings. Materials and Methods. The methodology of solving this problem is based on the integration of mathematics and pedagogy (education studies) in the wide range of interactions of educational technologies, mathematical statistics and new results obtained by the author in the field of processing the findings of educational research investigations. Results. Achieving the goal includes three problems: the first is to build models for the study of dependent and independent samples; the second is to develop a single criterion for their implementation for the constructed models (instead of 12), free from known shortcomings; the third is to test and compare with other criteria in the process of solving specific problems in the field of education. The listed problems have been solved. Conclusions. The constructed models and the specified criterion are applicable for the study of dependent and independent samples, determine the direction of change caused by the introduction of a new educational technology, generalize almost all models and criteria known in this area.

Above the Law and Out for Justice

Chapter 8 focusses on Statesman 291a1-297b4 and argues that, according to the Eleatic Visitor, the single criterion for right rule (orthē archē) is the wisdom or expertise of the statesman; thus it is entirely irrelevant to right rule whether the statesman rules without laws and by force. But he also says that judges and orators possess arts that are ‘precious and related to statecraft’ (303e9-10), suggesting that law and consent will be essential to the statesman’s governance. The solution to this puzzle hangs on an elaboration of the content and teleological structure of statecraft. This expertise aims at and achieves what is beneficial (most just) to the city, and it is for the statesman to decide when laws and consent are actually beneficial. Since laws and consent are tools that typically facilitate the goals of statecraft, they are ‘marks’ of right rule, even though neither is a criterion of right rule.

A Semantic and Knowledge-Based Approach for Handover Management

Handover Management (HM) is pivotal for providing service continuity, enormous reliability and extreme-low latency, and meeting sky-high data rates, in wireless communications. Current HM approaches based on a single criterion may lead to unnecessary and frequent handovers due to a partial network view that is constrained to information about link quality. In turn, HM approaches based on multicriteria may present a failure of handovers and wrong network selection, decreasing the throughput and increasing the packet loss in the network. This paper proposes SIM-Know, an approach for improving HM. SIM-Know improves HM by including a Semantic Information Model (SIM) that enables context-aware and multicriteria handover decisions. SIM-Know also introduces a SIM-based distributed Knowledge Base Profile (KBP) that provides local and global intelligence to make contextual and proactive handover decisions. We evaluated SIM-Know in an emulated wireless network. When the end-user device moves at low and moderate speeds, the results show that our approach outperforms the Signal Strong First (SSF, single criterion approach) and behaves similarly to the Analytic Hierarchy Process combined with the Technique for Order Preferences by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (AHP-TOPSIS, multicriteria approach) regarding the number of handovers and the number of throughput drops. SSF outperforms SIM-Know and AHP-TOPSIS regarding the handover latency metric because SSF runs a straightforward process for making handover decisions. At high speeds, SIM-Know outperforms SSF and AHP-TOPSIS regarding the number of handovers and the number of throughput drops and, further, improves the throughput, delay, jitter, and packet loss in the network. Considering the obtained results, we conclude that SIM-Know is a practical and attractive solution for cognitive HM.

How to Use a Multi-Criteria Comparison Procedure to Improve Modeling Competitions.

Modeling competitions are a promising method for advancing psychological science. In this commentary to Erev, Ert, Plonsky, Cohen, & Cohen (2017), we highlight how this promise could be enhanced through modifying competition structures to produce insights more directly in line with the goals of promoting psychological knowledge. We argue that a single criterion on which models are compared limits the diversity of models entered into competitions, restricting the number and type of insights that can be gained consequently. We propose an alternative competition structure with multiple evaluative criteria and outline a quantitative selection method for choosing a winner. Our proposed competition structure has the advantages of: a) increasing the diversity of models entered, b) incentivizing desirable qualities of models, c) disambiguating competition winners, and d) enhancing the impact and possible insights gained from competitions, all these while allowing flexibility for competition organizers to emphasize specific qualities of models.

PROPERTIES OF THE SET OF VALUES OF CRITERIA IN THE PROBLEM OF OPTIMIZATION OF FLOW DISTRIBUTION OF THE DEVELOPING ENGINEERING NETWORK

The problem of choosing a project for a developing engineering network is considered. A mathematical model of a developing engineering network, which even at the design stage allows us to take into account the possibility of expanding or reconstructing the system in case new customers are added to the target product, which is a two-criteria block programming problem with separable criterion functions. In the proposed mathematical model, the first criterion reflects the need to minimize financial costs construction and operation of the network, in order to ensure portability of the target product delivered at the time of designing. The second criterion expresses the requirement of minimizing financial costs for the future development of the system in the future from the achieved level, provided that the vector of the system’s development is known before the engineering network design starts. Taking into account the criteria preference vector, which allows you to take into account the inequality of both cost criteria in the constructed mathematical model and makes it possible comparing criteria of different orders makes it possible to replace the two-criterion optimization problem of choosing a project of a developing engineering network with a single-criterion mathematical programming problem without changing the set of solutions to the problem. The formulated properties of the set of effective vectors of criterion values, that arise when solving a single-criterion problem of optimizing the choice of a choice of a design option for an engineering network by varying all possible values of the criteria preference vector, it gives the most complete information for making a design decision.

Awarding the Sign “Resident of Beleaguered Sevastopol” as a New Basis for Assigning Persons to the Category of Veterans of the Great Patriotic War

In this article, the author considers persons awarded the sign “Resident of Beleaguered Sevastopol” as a new basis for classifying persons as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, introduced into the legislation of the Russian Federation in 2020, drawing an analogy with the status of persons awarded with the sign “Resident of Blockaded Leningrad » In order to improve the specified subcategory of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. According to the author, the legal relationship regarding the assignment of the federal title of veteran of the Great Patriotic War for persons who lived in beleaguered Sevastopol currently includes, in addition to the material and legal component (the fact of a person’s residence in Sevastopol during the specified period), also procedural component in the sphere of awards of the subject of the Russian Federation, which is at the discretion of the legislator of the subject of the Russian Federation. The author proposes to abandon the criterion for awarding a sign in favor of establishing in the federal law specific criteria for the residence of persons in a certain territory during the Great Patriotic War, to adopt a Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation on the procedure for determining persons falling under the criteria of residence in these cities, so that this determination can be carried out on the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and also establish a single criterion for referring to veterans of the Great Patriotic War for residents of beleaguered Sevastopol and blockaded Leningrad, associated with the fact of living in these cities during the beleaguer (blockade).