Hand Gesture of Recognition Pattern Analysis by Image Treatment Techniques

The goal of this project is to write a program in the C++ language that can recognize motions made by a subject in front of a camera. To do this, in the first place, a sequence of distance images has been obtained using a depth camera. Later, these images are processed through a series of blocks into which the program has been divided; each of them will yield a numerical or logical result, which will be used later by the following blocks. The blocks into which the program has been divided are three; the first detects the subject’s hands, the second detects if there has been movement (and therefore a gesture has been made), and the last detects the type of gesture that has been made accomplished. On the other hand, it intends to present to the reader three unique techniques for acquiring 3D images: stereovision, structured light, and flight time, in addition to exposing some of the most used techniques in image processing, such as morphology and segmentation.

The Talibs or the Taliban in Afghanistan

The rapid military and political victory of the Taliban movement during the summer offensive in 2021 shocked the system of international relations and the regional security architecture. The Taliban’s military successes in rural areas were expected and predicted, but the capture of Kabul and the instant capitulation of the official Afghan authorities became the “black swan” of regional geopolitics. This study hypothesis states that the reincarnation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was the logical result of an unsuccessful twenty-year military campaign by the United States and NATO. The attempt to integrate the Afghan society into an accelerated modernization process was carried out under immature socio-political practices and a complete lack of institutions. Another hypothesis of the study suggests that the victory of the radical terrorist movement can cause a domino effect and lead to the strengthening of international transcontinental terrorist groups. From the systems theory perspective, the victory of a radical group and establishing control over a UN member state cannot but cause a negative reaction for the global and regional security construction. The study puts forward a third hypothesis and thesis: the Taliban victory was the victory of radical political Islam (jihadism) at the global level, which significantly strengthened its position in the system of international relations.

Methodological analysis of military forensic science

Emergence of new independent units of forensic science is a logical result of the development of scientific knowledge and forensic expert activity, if such a process takes place on the basis of the developed methodological foundations of forensic science, which ensures the scientific nature of new types of forensic science, organizational and legal procedure for their conduct and the admissibility of their results to ensure justice. Ignoring scientific approaches in implementation of forensic activities in Ukraine and attempts to adapt it to the needs of investigative and judicial practice cannot but cause concern, especially when it comes to an attempt to substitute forensic science for the proof process. Article purpose is to conduct a methodological analysis of the topic, objects and tasks of forensic military science and its place in the modern general classification system of forensic science on the basis of the general theory of forensic expertology. Research methodology was made up of the provisions of materialist dialectics as a universal method of cognition, as well as a set of methods of formal logic for solving individual research tasks: analysis, synthesis, analogy, comparison, comparison, deduction. While research, in order to establish formation consistency of military science as an independent stratification unit, its structural components were analyzed: topic, objects, tasks and specific expertise necessary for their solution. While conducted methodological analysis, it was found that formation of military science as an independent stratification unit of forensic examinations occurred in violation of the methodological foundations developed by forensic science and the evolutionary paths of the genesis of new species of forensic science. As a result of performed research, it was concluded that it is necessary to revise the place and essence of military science in the existing classification system offorensic science in Ukraine which will ensure the unity of the methodological approach to formation of new units of forensic science and guarantee declared principles of forensic science.

SECURITY (GUARANTEE) PAYMENT AS AN INNOMINATED ENFORCEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS

The article is devoted to clarifying the features of a security (guarantee) payment as an innominated method of securing the enforcement of an obligation. As a result of the study, there are provisions that can serve as a basis for constructing a sub-institution of a security (guarantee) payment in the obligation law of Ukraine. The conclusion is justified that a security (guarantee) payment is possible only when the material objects of the main and accounting obligations are homogeneous. Homogeneity in security payments is that the subject matter and mode of performance of the principal obligation can be replaced by the same performance, but at the expense of reserved funds. A monetary security payment cannot provide non-monetary obligations in an obligation, since their fulfillment cannot be replaced by a monetary provision. It is proved that the security (guarantee) payment must have separate characteristics of the deposit, pledge, and predetermined losses. A distinctive feature of a security (guarantee) payment, in comparison with other methods of securing the performance of the obligation, is the weakened emphasis, which manifests itself at the stage of the occurrence of the obligation, allows to ensure obligations arising in the future. The regulatory fixation of a security payment in the Civil Code of Ukraine, of course, will be a logical result of its application in practice as an innominated method of ensuring the fulfillment of an obligation. The conclusion is justified that a security (guarantee) payment can perform a punitive function only indirectly: through the application of civil liability measures. In other words, a security payment is only a financial source of satisfaction for claims for forfeiture or damages, but unlike the mentioned measures of liability, a security payment does not have a punitive mechanism in its structure. A security payment is characterized by the existence of a compensation function that aims to restore the property sphere of the creditor, and not acting as a means of punishing the debtor. Attention is drawn to the need to introduce a certain mechanism for allocating funds from the estate of the person to whom they are transferred as a security payment. This mechanism will balance the interests of participants in civil traffic, leveling the risk of their non-return for the person who transferred money as a security payment.

Rasul Rza's creativity as the beginning of the tradition of free poetry in Azerbaijani literature

There was a certain tradition of free poetry in Azerbaijan until the 20th century. In the Middle Ages, along with the chain of eruz poetry, the increase of syllable rhythms is also a concrete practical indicator of the poem's internal struggle for liberation. The beginning of the stage of free poetry in the twentieth century was the logical result of centuries-old processes of liberation in Azerbaijani poetry. People's poet Rasul Rza's contribution to the transformation of free poetry into a special stage of development in Azerbaijani literature is unparalleled. The literary process, marked by the transition to figurative poetic thinking since the late 1950s, is enrichhed with a number of new forms and elements of expression that define the innovative direction of poetry. Since the early 1960s, our poetry has been characterized by a method of figurative-associative expression, the first examples of intellectual beginnings, which should be considered as a new form of return to tradition. Different forms of associative artistic thinking, which we find in folk poetry, especially in bayats and in our classical poetry, begin to acquire a new essence in the second half of the twentieth century with their rebirth in poetry. In the process of this development, the main factors determining R.Rza's creativity are the departure from rhetorical pathos, pathetic expression, the transition to concrete, figurative, and then associative thinking, and innovative qualities. Key words: Azerbaijani literature, free poetry, tradition, innovation, style poetry, Rasul Rza, poem, weight, inner rhyme

Victimological measures to prevent violent offences for gain committed by children

The aim of the article is to be a victimological description of violent crimes for profit by children in Ukraine. The research methodology was based on the equal combination of the legal method, logical and semantic method, comparative method, documentary, test method, classification method, method, and method of system analysis. Among the most notable results of the study were victims who contribute to the commission of crimes for profit and. Everything allows that, the theory of victimological modeling is a logical result of victim thought in criminology, which aims to be the models of the concluding victim of victims of crime crimes, etc.) in order to develop measures that are advised of the victim. The objectives of preventing lost crimes through the development and implementation of long-term state programmed for prevention. The implementation of these laundry programs a mechanism for the effective prevention of victims, the effectiveness of the fight against crime and will ensure safety.

Was Buddha a prophet?

This research is a view of the life of Buddha in his childhood, in the palace of his father, and his religious education taught by Hindu monks of the Brahmins. He has reached a prestigious position in knowledge. The research also dealt with the stage of his young adulthood, his marriage, son and family. The report also reviewed the stage of searching for the truth in the forest, accompanying a group of his friends, and then the report spoke of the despair that entered Buddha's heart by not arriving a result, and how he left the forest and the way of austerity. The research spoke about the Enlightenment obtained under the tree of knowledge, as a logical result of the journey of asceticism, worship and mutilation. The research also touched on the Buddha's call and principles; followed by his students and disciples, and the conditions he developed for the individual to become Buddhist. Buddha's campaign was not an ordinary religious call; it became preponderant that Buddha may have been a prophet, after a comprehensive account of the evidences that accompanied it, but a host of internal and external obstacles diverted the religion from its origin, and moved it from its nature, to claim the divinity of the Buddha afterwards.

A Logic Beyond Lausanne: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Congruence between Turkey's New Hard Power and its Strategic Reorientation

Turkey’s new expeditionary capability, resting on enhanced naval capacity and new forward bases, is the logical result of Turkey’s post-Cold War strategic reorientation. Moving beyond the Cold War framework, Turkey's strategic goal is to become an interregional power that will set the terms for a new pattern of connectivity between Europe, Africa and Asia. ‘Reclaiming’ a foreign policy prerogative exercised by the Ottoman Empire but discontinued after Turkey’s founding following the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey's policymakers are seeking to move beyond the Lausanne orientation that informed Turkey’s 1952 NATO accession and persisted throughout the duration of the Cold War. This study examines Ankara's challenge of calibrating the use of its hard power instruments to serve its post-Lausanne strategic orientation toward establishing a Turkey-centered, interregional connectivity.

Cordemoy

Cordemoy was the first of the Cartesians to argue in print for occasionalism about both body–body and mind–body causation—however, chapter 7 argues that Cordemoy had motives for adopting occasionalism similar to those of Geulincx and La Forge. Sections 7.1 and 7.2 present Cordemoy’s arguments for body–body and mind–body occasionalism. (Section 7.3 examines his account of the mind–body union, and argues his view about body–mind causation is unclear.) Geulincx’s overriding argument for body–body occasionalism is based on theses from Cartesian physics, including Descartes’ claim that motion is a mode of body, and the thesis that a mode of one substance cannot be transferred to another substance. But section 7.4 argues that Cordemoy’s occasionalism is not just a logical result of these metaphysical principles. Section 7.5 concludes that (like La Forge) Cordemoy also used occasionalism to defend Descartes’ epistemology, and thus had a broader theoretical motive for adopting occasionalism.

Stakeholders’ Views on Multimodal Urban Mobility Futures: A Matter of Policy Interventions or Just the Logical Result of Digitalization?

It is widely acknowledged that strategies to decarbonize energy systems cannot omit the mobility sector. For several decades, particularly in urban areas, a shift from car-based mobility to more environmental-friendly modes has been high on political agendas. Progress has been made in many urban areas, but so far only in small, rather incremental steps. The dominance of the car has remained largely stable in urban transport. For some time now, many experts have argued that processes of digitalization will co-evolve with societal trends and lead to multimodal urban mobility regimes in which private car usage will lose its dominance. In this paper, we examine if stakeholders active in the field believe that, despite digitalization, policy interventions are essential to achieve such a transition. The analysis draws on concepts from transition research and is based on 10 semi-structured interviews with providers of innovative mobility services that may contribute to more multimodal urban mobility systems. Geographical focus is on the City of Stuttgart (Germany). Results indicate broad agreement amongst the interviewees that digitalization alone is not sufficient for achieving a full-scale transition towards multimodal urban mobility. Policy measures that restrict car-based mobility would also be needed. However, many of the interviewed actors doubt that the essential policy mixes will find the necessary political and societal acceptance. Finally, the paper indicates ways to overcome this dilemma.