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Robotics for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Industries and Future It Holds

IJERT, 2019

How Can Humans adapt to a Life with Robots with ease? All historical events have briefed humans that the new technologies come along, most people are slow to adapt, taking time to become familiar and comfortable with the new tools and their impacts and applications. The problem that arises with AI and robotics is that these resources are growing exponentially, making it all much more important to discuss their impact and evolutionary needs now. Are we prepared to adapt for a future in which we live and work with robots regularly? While there is no absolute, perfect answer to this question, one very important thing to keep in mind is that the purpose of robotic aides is to improve our lives in a measurable way. We need more education and conversation about the roles of robots in our society. We must address issues like how their roles will evolve as they become more popular and lifelike, what their relationships will be to humans, and how the roles of humans may change as a result. We must engage in these forums where these points could be sorted out. If we are not properly prepared in advance, then a sudden influx of these robots could lead to social unrest, including a lot of confusion. Can we wait till the time these BOTS are in market and in our daily lives, yes if we are ignorant about it now. International laws and restrictions can play a key role in how robots are created and used within the next few years and these laws can prohibit people from causing harm as well in a more meaningful way that human could understand. This paper will talk about how the Robots are changing our day to day lives and how Supply Chain is impacted with the induction of Robotics and the areas where Robots have played a huge role and in future what are the aspects of Robots.

Why do they hate us? How the West creates its own enemies | Middle East Eye.pdf

Middle East Eye, 2018

From ancient Greece onward, the West has used the Eastern other as an enemy through which to identify itself US President Donald Trump's administration seems to be intent on confronting the rest of the world. With a few exceptions, such as Russia (as far as Trump himself is concerned), Israel and Saudi Arabia, almost every other nation in the world has felt the rage and contempt of the current American president.

Why Mozambique’s cyclones tell us disaster preparedness needs health at its core

2019

In March 2019, Cyclone Idai barreled through four eastern provinces of Mozambique, bringing a deadly storm surge to coastal areas. The cyclone was preceded by floods in late January the same year, already imposing its own havoc on those otherwise spared by the cyclone. Both these events caused widespread devastation of homes, cultivated land, and other sources of livelihood-mainly affecting the poor rural areas. A month later, another tropical storm, Cyclone Kenneth, hit the country's north. Mozambique is a country that is prone to natural disasters, having experienced 46 cyclones and floods in the past 30 years. Some provinces-such as Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Manica, Zambezia, and Sofala, which were affected by Cyclone Idai or Cyclone Kenneth-are particularly at risk, with occurrences of extreme weather events at frequent intervals. The country also has a poor health history, especially in the areas exposed to floods and cyclones. In these provinces, vaccination coverage is frequently insufficient to achieve minimum herd immunity levels, making epidemic outbreaks more likely. In a post-disaster setting, access to healthcare can be central to an effective response and recovery. Yet in Mozambique, there are only six physicians per 100 000 population, compared to 280 per 100 000 in the UK. Even by the norms of sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique's national ratio represents less than half the regional average, and it is likely to be even worse in the affected provinces. The cyclones destroyed the only tertiary hospital available to a population of nearly 12 million people in four affected provinces, in addition to which at least 10% of the health centres became non-functional. In a country where normally more than half of the population walks for over an hour to the nearest health facility, these additional barriers to access will only worsen the population's health, which is already characterised by high levels of malnutrition and maternal mortality. Most crucially, the national female literacy rate barely reaches 45%, a serious barrier to social development and, as a consequence, a major vulnerability that hampers effective disaster preparedness.[1] In poor settings all over the world, the human consequences of disasters are often determined by the vulnerability of the community and lack of local capacity, rather than by the physical characteristics of the event. The Mozambique disaster and the subsequent cholera outbreak show us that the community is central for preparedness programmes to work. Since Cyclone Idai's landfall, more than 6000 cases of cholera have been reported, and this could not have been a surprise for the humanitarian community. Indeed, the disease has been endemic in that region for years, and it has been observed that it is often

„A New Age of Global Security: The ‚Ukrainian Question‘ and ‚Kosovo Precedent‘“

Article „A New Age of Global Security: The ‚Ukrainian Question‘ and ‚Kosovo Precedent‘“, Vojno delo (Military affairs), Interdisciplinary Scientific Theoretical Journal, International edition, Vol. 69, Issue 4, 2017 (May-June 2017), ISSN 0042-8426, Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 176−211