Hungary and Her Angelic Crown at the Turn of the Millennium (original) (raw)

The Twenty-First Century Hybrid Conflicts

2022

Alongside non-international and international conflicts, a third category of armed conflict is emerging: hybrid, asymmetric, and transnational conflicts which involve state and non-state actors such as insurgents or terrorist organisations. Unconventional conflicts are among the trend topics of defence and security, and they pose a threat to the stability of international order. States and international organisations, such as the UN and NATO, face difficulty using the tools currently available. International law, in particular International Humanitarian Law and the law of war (Geneva and Hague conventions), is good as long as it deals with conventional conflict, or with civil war within a single country, but it shows its limits when faced with hybrid conflict, e.g.: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict (not officially termed as an armed conflict, but as a “special military operation”); the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; electromagnetic and cyber conflicts; cognitive and information warfare; terrorism, etc. This paper aims to investigate whether new rules are required to deal with situations of unconventional and hybrid conflict, or if current rules are still valid and can be used/adapted.

Diplomatic Bluff against Indonesia’s G20 Presidency amid the Ukraine - Russia Conflict: A View from Political Psychology

Papua Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations

Political psychology has a pivotal role in the discipline of international relations, particularly in handling the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The conflict severely affects all global aspects, from the economic to security, including Indonesia’s G20 Presidency. This study aims to analyze how political psychology contributes to reducing or becoming the key to the performance of the Indonesian G20 Presidency in conjunction with the Russia–Ukraine conflict and diplomatic bluff by some countries. With descriptive qualitative research methods, and data collection techniques with literature studies from books, journals, and webpage news, data were analyzed, and conclusions were drawn. The Russia–Ukraine conflict not only threatens international peace and security order but also challenges Indonesia’s G20 presidency as Russian Vladimir Putin gets invited to attend the summit. This article used the Tree Model, offering three mechanisms by prioritizing psychopolitics and psychoanaly...

Rice, in East Asia (Syl)

This course examines the history of rice in East Asia as crop, food, commodity, genetic resource and symbol. How were institutions of social cohesion in China and Japan influenced by the particular demands of, and a commitment to, small-scale, labor-intensive riziculture? When and how were relations between consumer tastes and rice markets mediated by "rice masters"? What roles has rice played in linking the histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia and the world between 1000 and the present? How did the "green revolution" alter that regional regime of rice cultivation, exchange and consumption? These and other questions will be explored in multi-disciplinary fashion with a broad range of original data and recent historiography.

Refugees' Reasons To Prefer Urban Areas In The Dılemma Between Camps And Cıtıes

9. INTERNATIONAL GAP SUMMIT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONGRESS, 2022

The processes of urbanization and globalization, as phenomena that directly affect each other, have brought many positive and negative results in the social, economic and cultural fields, as well as significant results in migration and asylum processes. Migration waves, especially from rural areas to urban areas in order to benefit from the financial opportunities of the city, have reached the highest level in the last period with the effect of globalization. It is possible to consider urban refugees as a similar process. Although the areas where refugees continue their lives in the countries where they took refuge after crossing the borders are divided into refugee camps and cities, current demographic data from all over the world reveal that cities are more preferred by refugees. While a refugee's choice of these two options is shaped by the influence of many different factors, the push-and-pull factors, which are accepted as the basic components of the urbanization process, are also the main factors that determine the refugee preferences. These factors can be divided into two as the factors that make the urban area attractive and the factors that make the refugee camps repulsive. Despite the fact that urban refugees face a higher risk of protection compared to their peers living in camps, and at the same time, they receive less financial aid, education, health care, shelter and social assistance than those in camps, the number of refugees who take refuge in urban areas is increasing day by day. Conditions such as the uncertainty of their illegal status and the fear of being caught can make it impossible for refugees in cities to reach these opportunities, and in most cases, the desire of refugees to continue their lives in the urban area is realized against the will of the bureaucratic, legal and political administration. Despite all these negative conditions, the hope of overcoming the problems and other attractive factors make cities a center of attraction for refugees. In this study, firstly, the place of urban refugees in the refugee literature, their historical development and their differences from other refugee groups are explained. Then, the preference of refugees in urban areas instead of camps was examined under four main reasons. These reasons, which are listed as the urban origins of the refugees, family connections in the cities of asylum, the way they access services in the cities, and the feeling of being safer compared to the camps, are analyzed through examples.

Additions and annotations to the flora of Peloponnisos (S Greece)

Willdenowia, 2006

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Computer-vision based rapid entire body analysis (REBA) estimation

Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit Proceedings

Although much attention has been paid to the safety risk of construction sites and ergonomic risk assessment of workers, the automation of ergonomic risk assessment has not been significantly developed. This article presents a non-intrusive, automated ergonomic risk assessment approach based on computer vision, machine learning, and Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA). The method is called Computer-Vison Based Rapid Entire Body Analysis Estimation (CVRE). This approach is expected to realize automated monitoring and early-stage warning of ergonomic risks by automating the procedure of calculating REBA scores for construction site workers. This method consists of machine learning-based key joints and joint angles estimation of human bodies and computer-vision-based automated risk estimation. With the extensive development of machine learning and computer vision, researchers have been paying attention to assessing ergonomic risks with machine learning techniques. The proposed method h...

Ground-Based Remote Sensing and Uncertainty Analysis of the Mass Eruption Rate Associated With the 3–5 December 2015 Paroxysms of Mt. Etna

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2022

During explosive eruptions, the real-time estimation of the mass eruption rate (MER) is challenging although crucial to mitigate the impact of erupted tephra. Microwave radar techniques at L-and/or X-bands, as well as thermal infrared imagery, can provide a reliable MER estimation in real time. Using lava fountains of 3-5 December 2015 at Mt. Etna (Italy) as test cases, we investigate the differences among all these remote sensing methods and introduce a new approach, called the near source approach (NSA) using only X-band radar data. We also extend the volcanic advanced radar retrieval methodology to estimate the gas-tephra mixture density near the volcanic crater. The analysis of uncertainty is carried out comparing the NSA with the mass continuity approach (MCA), top plume approach (TPA) and surface flux approach (SFA), already used to estimate the MER of other Etna explosive events. The analysis allows us to identify the optimal real-time MER retrieval strategy, showing the potential and limitations of each method. We show that the MCA method, entirely based on the X-band radar data processing, is the best strategy with a percentage uncertainty in the MER estimation of 22.3%, whereas other approaches exhibit a higher uncertainty (26.4% for NSA, 30% for TPA, and 31.6% for SFA).

Climate Action Through Artificial Intelligence: International Legal Perspective

STUDIA IURIDICA Casoviensia

Far-reaching negative effects of climate change are putting pressure on the international community to adopt appropriate climate actions with regard to sustainable development. The use of artificial intelligence may be one of the tools to achieve the goals set in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The paper highlights several examples of artificial intelligence that can be used to achieve appropriate climate action, such as weather and natural disaster predictions, or they can help monitor, model and manage environmental systems, whether it is illegal logging, water degradation, illegal fishing and poaching, air pollution or the burden of farming. Technologies using artificial intelligence are, however, often developed and used in an ethical and legal vacuum. The aim of the paper is to outline the existing international legislation in the context of meeting the goals of sustainable development in the field of climate action through artificial intelligence and to point...

A Baseline Survey of the Passage Tombs of County Sligo 2021 (June 2022)

2021

This Baseline Survey was convened in association with a bid for 'The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo' to be placed on Ireland’s World Heritage Site 'Tentative List'. The study was primarily funded by the Heritage Council, together with support from Sligo County Council and NUI Galway. The WHS proposal is focused on the outstanding universal value of a cultural landscape punctuated by a rich accumulation of monuments of the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition. Today, the remains of this tradition are primarily represented by approximately one hundred monuments, which by their location and construction reveal intricate inter-connectivity as well as a strong connection with the natural landscape. The study consists of a field-based survey of the current state of conservation of the majority of these monuments to create a baseline assessment of their level of preservation and identify threats to their continued existence. It is hoped that this resource will be a vital tool to inform future management and conservation policies.