Legal Imputation of Radiation Harm to Radiation Exposure Situations

The doctrine for legal imputation (including the derivative concepts of legal charging, suing, indicting, prosecuting and judging) of detrimental health effects to those responsible for radiation exposure situations has been a matter of debate for many years and its resolution is still unclear. While the attribution of harm in the situations involving high radiation dose is basically straightforward, the challenge arises at medium doses and becomes a real conundrum for the very common situations of exposure to low radiation doses. The ambiguous situation could be construed to be a Damocles sword for the renaissance of endeavours involving occupational and public radiation exposure. This chapter describes the epistemological situation on the attribution of radiation health effects and the inference of radiation risks, relying on estimates from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) reported to the UN General Assembly. It discusses the implications of UNSCEAR’s refined paradigm for assigning legal liability. The chapter concludes with a recommendation to develop an international legal doctrine on the ability to impute detrimental radiation health effects.

Viral social media videos can raise pro-social behaviours when an epidemic arises

Access to information via social media is one of the biggest differentiators of public health crises today. During the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak in January 2020, we conducted an experiment in Wuhan, China to assess the impact of viral social media content on pro-social and trust behaviours and preferences towards risk taking with known and unknown probabilities. Prior to the experiment, participants viewed one of two videos that had been widely and anonymously shared on Chinese social media: a central government leader visiting a local hospital and supermarket, or health care volunteers transiting to Wuhan. In a control condition, participants watched a Neutral video, unrelated to the crisis. Viewing one of the leadership or volunteer videos leads to higher levels of pro-sociality and lesser willingness to take risks in an ambiguous situation relative to the control condition. The leadership video, however, induces lower levels of trust. We provide evidence from two post-experiment surveys that the video’s impact on pro-sociality is modulated by influencing the viewer’s affective emotional state.

Solving the Problematic Relationship between Irregular Marketing Behaviours and the Principles of Social Responsibility

Reckless marketing has recently become a dirty tool played by modern pirates with a network of gangs, as they tried hard to mix facts as poker cards are on the table, and its danger to social responsibility values has become very worrying in Iraq. Planning, tactics, probabilities and forecasting, and the Iraqi economy has become based on the unknown.Where, unfortunately, the mafia played in its squares, empty polemics from here and there, deceptions and tricks, until they entered the core of factories, and the inputs turned into numbers, and the operations turned into illusions, and the outputs were mere rubble, and the costs were huge, and the returns were despicableThen we continue.. Commercial projects are programmed viruses that strike any system, confuse all standards, destroy all walls of knowledge, and throw seeds of ignorance into the industrial environment instead of quality. We live in an era in which competition revolves around supply, demand, production, productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, knowledge and programming.But where are we in all of this?The companies of the world are looking for quality while we are digging for scrap? What led us to a culture of mediocre performance instead of outstanding performance? Is it an attempt to abort all academic efforts that theorize and strain themselves in solving puzzles and dilemmas to reach constructive proposals to heal the greatness, satisfy the great Creator, and strengthen the pillars and components of the desired Iraqi economy in light of volatile growth sources.This study came to reveal the current ambiguous situation in Iraq regarding the performance of deceptive companies that engage in spurious and irregular marketing activity and compare them with honest companies with real marketing and reward the second with its right and rights, and expose the first with all its sighs and stray breath Where the study was divided into three aspects, the first aspect focused on highlighting the methodology that followed the steps of the study and established the pillars and modalities of the research, while the second aspect focused on a theoretical account of the research variables and a review of the practical side, and we concluded with conclusions and recommendations.

“It Turns Out Glavlit Has Not Yet Signed Off on Ostrovsky Dictionary…” (Correspondence of N. S. Ashukin and S. I. Ozhegov 1940—1960s)

The little-known factsof the work of N. S. Ashukin, S. I. Ozhegov and V. A. Filippov on the original lexicographic edition of the 1940s — “Dictionary to the plays of A. N. Ostrovsky” is analyzed in the article. The connection between the socio-cultural situation in the country and the scientific research of those years is shown. Special attention is paid to the facts of ideological pressure on philological thought. The circumstances that hindered the publication of the Dictionary are revealed. For the first time, genuine letters from the participants in this project, telling about the ambiguous situation in Glavlit (Soviet Main Administration for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press) and the intention of the authors to save the manuscript from death are published in the appendix. It tells about further attempts of scientists and their descendants to resume the preparation of the publication of the book in the 1960—1970s. The facts given in the correspondence are commented on from the standpoint of history and philosophy of science, the necessary references are indicated, possible comparisons are made with the events and persons mentioned in the letters. The presented fragment of the linguistic picture of the world is also considered in the key of the development of linguistic personality and its role in the era of dictatorship. Attention is drawn to the high historical value of the undertaken work and its place in the lexicographic tradition of the XX century. It is concluded that archival materials play a key role in reconstructing the real picture of the life and activities of Soviet scientists, supplement the chronicle of science with valuable observations and contribute to an objective assessment of the achievements of philologists, show their firm position in upholding the interests of science during the dominance of ideologization in society.

THE PROCESS OF DIGITALIZATION IN MODERN EDUCATION

Purpose: to study trends in digital discourse research in the educational process, to point out the achievements and side effects of new communication tools . Methods. Complex structural and functional analysis, discursive and linguoculturological analysis, case study method, generalization method, discourse analysis, comparative method and SWOT analysis, historical and descriptive method, document interpretation, use of formal and logical techniques, monitoring of higher school practice, analysis of mass media and scientific literature, which make it possible to determine the ambivalent influence of digital discourse on the educational process. Results. The positive impact and negative consequences of digital discourse, the functionality of new educational platforms, virtual learning environments Moodle, Coursera, online platforms Zoom, Skype, Google web services (Google Classroom, Google Forms, Hangouts, Google Academy, Google Scholar) and their potential. From the discursive point of view of the quality of the question, the electronic information and educational environment of the University, the scientific electronic library is described e-library.ru, social networks for scientists (Researchgate, TRUTH, etc.). Conclusions. The article examines the complex and ambiguous situation with mass digitalization in the educational process, which is especially relevant for modern reality. Information and communication technologies in a modern University are of great importance and affect many areas. In educational programs, new concepts are increasingly encountered that need to be mastered.

When the response does not match the threat: The relationship between threat assessment and behavioural response in ambiguous lethal force decision-making

Deciding when to use lethal force inherently depends on assessing threat, a process that itself incorporates numerous perceptual factors. This study assessed this relationship between perception-based threat assessment and behaviour-based threat response. Specifically, participants completed multiple tasks designed to elicit either a threat rating (e.g., perception-informed threat assessment) or a binary behavioural response (e.g., shoot/don’t-shoot). Actor posture and weapon presence significantly affected the threat assessment, which was an extremely powerful omnibus predictor of threat response. However, for ambiguous threat stimuli, perceived threat became a poor predictor for threat response relative to the omnibus test. Participants appeared to adopt additional rules to inform behaviour independent of the threat assessment when faced with an ambiguous situation. These results demonstrate an intriguing disparity between subjective threat assessment and the behavioural response to use force that does not apply well to ambiguous cases or adequately explain errors in lethal force decisions.

Race, Ambivalent Sexism, and Perceptions of Situations When Police Shoot Black Women

The current research investigates people’s attitudes toward an ambiguous situation of police violence against a woman suspect. We hypothesize that the suspect’s race and participants’ ambivalent sexism, particularly benevolent sexism, will jointly inform perceptions of the suspect’s femininity, and in turn, perceptions of the suspect’s pain, judgments of who is to blame, and perceptions the officer was justified in using force against the suspect. Across two studies, we found support for our hypotheses: participants who reported more benevolent sexism thought the suspect were more feminine, but this association was only present when the suspect was White, as opposed to Black. Perceived femininity, in turn, predicted perceptions the suspect felt more pain, was less blameworthy for the situation, and perceptions that the officer’s use of force was less justified (Study 2).

Central Banks and Their Limits in a Pandemic

This chapter details the reactions of central banks to the current Covid-19 pandemic and contrasts them with their monetary policy operations during normal (non-crisis) times and their reactions to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007–2009. It situates the response of central banks in Asia within a global context, examining and comparing the responses of central banks in the United States, the Euro area, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Moreover, the chapter explains why this crisis is unprecedented, making it dangerous in terms of financial stability and state finances and difficult for central banks to return to normality. In the current crisis, central banks find themselves in an ambiguous situation. On the one hand, they are better prepared than they were thirteen years ago when the GFC erupted. On the other hand, relying on experience from the GFC comes with risks. No two crises are ever the same, and this is especially true for the Covid-19 pandemic. Financial markets and economies are not the triggers of this crisis as they were in many previous crises when central banks had to react swiftly and forcefully; instead, they have fallen victim to a calamity that paralyzes society, trade, and business globally.

TRANSFORMATION OF ADVERTISING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NEW TRENDS OF CONSUMPTION AS A SOCIAL ACTION

The article is devoted to the study of advertising transformation under the influence of new trends of consumption as a social action. It is highlighted that the current socio-economic situation is creating new subjects for the analysis of already well-known objects. The place and role of advertising in modern society is certainly based on its market principles in the past, but today it is necessary to take into account a set of influencing factors that were previously mutually exclusive but are now indivisible. The greatest influence is exerted by the socio-cultural aspect of consumer behavior, which is based on values and motivators that come from the lifestyle in a qualitatively new external environment. It means that they are not limited to market transactions. Moreover, in today's conditions, social stratification has receded into the background and is not among the main factors of influence. This transformation of understanding the practice of consumption allows to reasonably recruit and use advertising tools to increase their effectiveness. It is determined that during forming an advertising campaign it is necessary to consider the impact on consumer behavior of modern information technology, namely the selection of the necessary information from the large amount that is available. A large amount of information creates an ambiguous situation for the consumer. This requires the integration of advertising tools. It is established that the parallel use of several advertising media allows to carry out the influence similarly to the technology of purposeful management. The availability of technical means that quickly realize the desire can be recommended for both long-term brand communication and for the short term.