Hard Way Research Articles

Teaching a Neural Network the Hard Way

A neural network can be made to produce more reliable predictions of nonlinear systems if it is created with conservation laws built in.

A Review of Life Lessons Learnt Amidst Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19)

BACKGROUND: It is said that when things take a turn for the worse they try to teach us a lesson. What can be a better example than the ongoing series of events about SARS COV-2, the Novel Corona virus.History is observing a new lesson for Human lifetime, a very strange pandemic andits fight with a microscopic enemy.
 SUMMARY: The Coronavirus outbreak was first reported on 17 Nov 2019 in the city of Wuhan in china and was declared a pandemic by the WORLD HEATH ORGANIZATION on February 11, 2020. The response from countries have been different at different levels. The virus threw us into an introspective loop, coerced us to look at the things that really matter in life, a jolt that actual life isn’t all about 9-5 work and constant hustle where you are lost into the rat race. It has taught us to be prepared for the challenges in life. Like the saying goes “a lesson learned the hard way is the lesson learned for a lifetime”. 
 CONCLUSION:The COVID-19 pandemic has brought devastating health and social consequences. But it has delivered a chance to learn valuable moral lessons that could benefit all of humanity.

Tracing contacts, finding ourselves.

In March 2020, we shut down our Ph.D. experiments and prepared for an indefinite period of working from home. As we threw away our cell cultures and wound down our animal colonies, we imagined the manuscripts we would finally draft, the papers we would read, and the bioinformatic skills we would learn. However, our plans went astray a few days later when we received an email from our program director with a subject line that read: “Interested in an ‘at home’ public health project to help fight COVID-19?” The email set us down a path we never imagined—one that taught us how the soft skills we've learned in graduate school can serve us in the real world. We also learned the hard way that in order to take care of others, we must first take care of ourselves.

Establishment and development of legal support of the local taxation system in Ukraine: historical aspect

The article considers the system of local taxes and fees in Ukraine before and after the adoption of the Tax Code. The role of local taxes and fees in the formation of local budget revenues is analyzed. The problems of local taxation at the present stage are considered. It is noted that local taxation is one of the three points of two different systems intersection: forming part of state taxation system, local taxes and fees are the local self-governing attribute. It is stated that in economic and legal thought the local taxation is characterized as a structural branch in public financial management of the country or as a natural right of territorial communities (groups) etc. It is emphasized that the local taxation system of Ukraine in the modern dimension has passed hard and controversial way. Possible directions for improving certain local taxes reforms are outlined and the criteria of influence on prospective development of the local taxation system in Ukraine are identified. It is pointed that the system of local taxes and fees, as well as the tax system in the country in a whole, needs to be improved because it is required, on the one hand, providing financial resources for the Local governments needs and, on the other hand, serving as a tool for local socio-economy policy concentrated on fulfilling the tasks of balanced economy and regional development. It is concluded that the search for directions to increase the amount of local taxes and fees should go not only on the way of increasing the amount of taxpayers and expanding the taxation base but also in the way of choosing such taxes and the establishment of such taxpayers that would provide small administrative expenditure and effective tax control with a sufficient amount of revenue which will provide the opportunity to create a reliable source of revenue for private local budgets

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ОБРАБОТКИ ДЕТАЛЕЙ НЕФТЕГАЗОВОЙ ОТРАСЛИ, ВЫПОЛНЕННЫХ ИЗ ВОЛЬФРАМОВЫХ СПЛАВОВ

The purpose of the work carried out is to increase the effectiveness of hard alloy machining. Within the limits of the paper there is solved a matter of electro-erosion treatment and turning TC 3 alloy parts. Basic investigation methods are: - experiment and comparison, - computer simulation The work resulted in recommendations for the choice of cutters and cutting modes for hard alloy edge machining and also electrode material at electro-erosion treatment. One of the ways to increase productivity and operation quality equipment consists in the application of new materials and alloys including tungsten alloys. Within the limits of this work there are considered the peculiarities in machining TC3 alloy parts for oil-gas industry by the example of the “sleeve” part. For machining inner and outer surfaces there was used a turning operation, and for complex grooves – electro-erosion treatment as the only possible choice for processing because of a small size of the part. The peculiarities hard alloy machining through turning and basic reasons of hard alloy hard-to-workability are described. There are shown approaches to the choice of cutters, and the dependence of surface roughness and tool durability upon cutting mode choice is shown. During turning plate material must have higher strength than alloy under machining. One of the best choices for hard alloy machining is cubic boron nitride. For processing it is necessary to use tool holders with the increased rigidity. There are presented principles of electrode designing for hard alloy electro-erosion treatment and ways for process productivity increase. The application of copper-tungsten pseudo-alloys and m1 grade copper is compared from the point of view of economic purposefulness in their use. In spite of copper-tungsten alloy high durability which gives advantages in processing rate and economy in manufacturing electrodes its use is economically inexpedient and it is more rational to use copper which is cheaper.

Lexical and semantic characteristics of geology terms in english and russian languages

The article discusses English and Uzbek terminological system of geology in lexical and semantic characteristics. The terminology systems of both languages are dominated by compression types of variance performing compression functions scientific text and compact presentation of scientific and technical information. However, in the Russian-language terminology system, synonymy wider: 67% options in Russian language, 47% in English language. During its formation, the geological term system has come a hard way. Between the state of this term system during its formation and in there is not and cannot be a complete correspondence, evidence of which are heterogeneous in time, sources and principles of nomination terms.

Views from Addis Ababa

Adaptation is the one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic taught us. Not only as human beings in our personal lives but also as professionals working in multilateral diplomacy. We learned the hard way to adapt to a new reality of continuous lockdowns, working from home, conducting meetings virtually, and possible negotiations of legal instruments online. Simply, with all the challenges we met and despite the slow mode, multilateralism is still functioning and business is continuing.

Post-Pandemic Development: Sluggish or Rapid Recovery?

Post-Pandemic Development: Sluggish or Rapid Recovery?

Židovski narod između iseljavanja i useljavanja

U ovom članku autor analizira osobitu vezu koja postoji između židovskog naroda i Svete zemlje. Židovski narod preživio je brojna iseljavanja i useljavanja u svojem trajnom hodočašću prema „Obećanoj zemlji”. Ta hodočašća uspjela su izgraditi, oblikovati i održati židovski nacionalni identitet u najtežim trenutcima dugotrajnog egzila. Prvi dio članka sastoji se od općenitog uvoda, nakon kojeg slijedi glavni prikaz iseljavanja i useljavanja u povijesti židovskog naroda. U središnjem dijelu članka raspravljat će se o dvjema glavnim temama. Prva je teološko značenje iseljavanja i useljavanja Židova kao znak božanske providnosti te primjena ideja nagrade i kazne kojima se izražava ispunjenje proroštava iznesenih u Tori i knjigama židovskih proroka (težak izgon, uništenje Obećane zemlje te njezino opustošenje tijekom vremena egzila, ali i povratak izraelskog naroda u nju). Druga tema je ljubav i čežnja židovskog naroda za Cionom, gdje će autor pokazati kako su Biblija i duhovni vođe, rabini, pomogli olakšati bol naroda zbog izgona uvođenjem raznovrsnih blagdana, običaja i molitava kojima su osnažili kolektivno nacionalno pamćenje te održali nadu u okupljanje izgnanih, izgradnju Jeruzalema i Hrama te u dolazak Mesije. Posljednji dio članka obrađuje krize s kojima se židovski narod suočavao tijekom dugog i teškog puta do Ciona. Autor se u radu uz biblijske izvore služi i vrelima iz rabinske literature, od talmudskih vremena preko srednjega vijeka sve do modernog doba. Velik dio literature prvi je put na hrvatski s hebrejskoga i aramejskoga preveo upravo autor.

A PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO NO BRASIL: itinerários e desafios

A qualificação dedocentesepesquisadoresbrasileirosnopaíse noexteriorresulta,nosúltimos55anos, de umapolíticadepós-graduaçãopormeiode umaaçãodiretadoEstadocujosresultadospodemserexibidosemmúltiplosfórunse navidaacadêmica. Esse artigo pretende trazer elementos históricos e legais dessa trajetória, destacando, de um lado, a ação proativa do Estado na formação de elites acadêmicas coltadas para a investigação científica e, de outro lado, a presença da comunidade científica em comissões, avaliações relativas à pósgraduação. Isso não significou a inexistência de críticas e de problematizações. A ação deliberada do Estado e a participação da comunidade científica, por meio de representantes ou diretamente, foram importantes na elaboração dos Planos Nacionais de Pós-Graduação. Esse caminho longo de construção de uma política virtuosa pode ser rapidamente desconstruído quando os governos diminuem os recursos e tomam iniciativas contrárias ao espírito científico.

I have a kit and I create worlds: synthetic ecology from synthetic genomes

The genome is the blueprint for life. A genome sequence can be transcribed and translated by molecular machines to assemble an organism capable of replication, sensation, and response. Organisms respond to each other, forming intricate interaction webs that manifest as ecosystems, defining the world we live in and rely on. It all starts with a genome. And if we can build a genome, we can create worlds. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Life Lessons of the Pandemic ”Covid - 19”

“A lesson learned the hard way is a lesson learned for a lifetime.” Every bad situation hurts; however, it sure does teach us something a lesson. In the same manner of a new lesson for Human lifetime, history is observing 'The Novel COVID-19 ’, a very horrible and strange situation created due to fighting with a microscopic enemy. WHO on 11 February 2020 has announced a name for new disease as - 19 and has declared as a global public health emergency and subsequently as pandemic because of its widespread. This began as an outbreak in December 2019, with its in Wuhan, the People Republic of China has emerged as a public health emergency of international concern. is the group of a virus with non-segmented, single-stranded and positive RNA genome. This bad situation of pandemic creates new scenes in the life of people in a different manner, which will be going to be life lessons for them. Such lessons should be kept in mind for the safety of living beings and many more things. In this narrative review article, reference was taken from a different article published in various databases which include the view of different authors and writers on the "Lessons to be from Corona".

COVID-19 mortality in Lombardy: the vulnerability of the oldest old and the resilience of male centenarians.

Italy was the first European nation to be affected by COVID-19. The biggest cluster of cases occurred in Lombardy, the most populous Italian region, and elderly men were the population hit in the hardest way. Besides its high infectivity, COVID-19 causes a severe cytokine storm and old people, especially those with comorbidities, appear to be the most vulnerable, presumably in connection to inflammaging. In centenarians inflammaging is much lower than predicted by their chronological age and females, presenting survival advantage in almost all centenarian populations, outnumber males, a phenomenon particularly evident in Northern Italy. Within this scenario, we wondered if: a) the COVID-19 mortality in centenarians was lower than that in people aged between 50 and 80 and b) the mortality from COVID-19 in nonagenarians and centenarians highlighted gender differences.We checked COVID-19-related vulnerability/mortality at the peak of infection (March 2020), using data on total deaths (i.e. not only confirmed COVID-19 cases). Our conclusion is that excess mortality increases steadily up to very old ages and at the same time men older than 90 years become relatively more resilient than age-matched females.

Producing beauty ‘the hard way’: involuntary prosumption in a stigmatising context

ABSTRACT Traditionally, the literature indicates that consumers have acted as prosumers voluntarily and for hedonic or leisure motivations. Only a few studies contend that consumers engage in prosumption activities forcibly because of social or material constraints. Through 15 in-depth interviews and complementary secondary data, the present research aims to outline an involuntary form of prosumption and investigate its formation. Findings show that consumers are socially and ideologically convoked to become prosumers, even at times against their will, learning ‘the hard way’ how to produce. Our theoretical contribution lies in delineating involuntary prosumption in a context marked by stigma, social invisibility, and market constraints.

Resisting the gravitational pull of the dollar: The economic rationale behind a large Eurozone

When the euro was launched in 1999, its large membership size could not be explained by any of the criteria laid down in the economic theory of monetary unions. This fact explains why the majority academic opinion has always been that the large euro was a politically motivated project with no corresponding economic rationale. This paper puts a contrary view. The euro area at the time of its launch may have been incongruent with economic theory but it was entirely congruent with economic reality. Had the euro’s creators opted for a small euro area from the start, that currency could not have withstood the gravitational pull of the dollar and thus could not have allowed the European authorities to pursue their monetary policies independently of the policies pursued by US authorities. Only a large euro area with sufficient mass to give it its own gravitational force could achieve these objectives. That was the lesson that the euro’s creators had to learn the hard way over two decades ago. In today’s era when a US president is systematically deploying the dollar as an economic and political weapon, it is more urgent than ever that that lesson be remembered.

Ecofeminism in Thea Astley’s Drylands

Australian multi-award-winning novelist Thea Astley was a great writer in promoting feminism and ecofeminism in her later years’ writing. This paper analyzes her fourth Miles Franklin award novel — Drylands from the perspective of ecofeminism. From analysis, it draws a conclusion that Astley makes a lot of efforts to raise readers’ awareness that her women characters’ liberation depends on their economic independence but it will be a hard and long way to achieve the final emancipation of women and total equality between women and men.

GENERAL THEORY OF CRIMINALISITCS: APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERSTANDING

The genesis and current state of scientific approaches to the formation and understanding of criminalistics general theory are outlined. It is noted that the general theory of criminalistics in its development has taken a hard and long way, where we can distinguish the following stages: 1) accumulation of the needed scientific potential in criminalistics; 2) emergence of scientific views as to the need to create a criminalistics general theory; 3) formation and development of scientific ideas on the general theory of criminalistics, its structure, functions, place in the system of criminalistics.
 It is emphasized that the general theory of criminalistics, as a system of basic ideas of this branch of knowledge, covering the most complete reflection of the matter of science, its concepts, categories, definitions, methods in certain connections, is constantly developing. The fundamental provisions, which make up the basis of the general theory are being updated and improved. The degree of the general theory formation reflects the current level of the development of criminalistics science itself.
 An integral part of the criminalistics general theory, its core are criminalistics doctrines (theories) that precede it or, conversely, are caused by it, and study only a certain range of objective reality patterns which are studied by criminalistics in general. The general theory of criminalistics could be considered as a system of different levels of generalization and direction of criminalistics’ doctrines, which collectively constitute the theoretical-methodological basis of that science. The system of criminalistics’ doctrines (theories) constitutes the content of the criminalistics general theory.
 Taking into account the results of the conducted analysis on scientific approaches, it is suggested to distinguish three levels of doctrines in the structure of general theory: 1) criminalistics’ teachings (theories) of scientific-study nature, covering scientific-study issues on an object, subject, methods, area of research, system, nature, conceptual apparatus and categories of criminalistics (the criminalistics language), its inter-scientific relations and place in the system of scientific knowledge, history of development and current state;2) criminalistics teachings (theories) of general scientific nature, which embrace studying the patterns which apply to the entire subject under study, included in it as a whole; 3) criminalistics teachings (theories) of the specific scientific nature, concerning the study of patterns relating to certain aspects of the criminalistics subject, revealing its essence and specificity. The differentiation of criminalistics teachings (theories) into different levels is conditioned primarily by the degree of community of the reflected by them elements of the cognition object, which is introduced by criminalistics itself, or the event of a crime, or crime investigation activities.

Could India be the origin of next COVID-19 like epidemic?

The COVID-19 global pandemic is not even over yet but it has already taught us a lot of lessons - the hard way. The vast majority of the global community has blamed the Chinese Illegal wildlife markets for the origin of this pandemic. Through careful scientific analysis, I have explained in this article that we don't need such wildlife markets for these kinds of outbreaks to occur in the future. I have also explained how India which is the second-most populous country in the world, could be the origin of the next outbreak, even though such wildlife markets are either very rare or do not exist at all in India.

CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP: MOVING TO AN INTENTIONAL FOCUS FOR A THRIVING WORKPLACE CULTURE

AbstractBased on observation and her own experience, the author contends that people who are successful in their functional roles are promoted into management roles and expected to lead. Some organizations figure out that developing leadership capability at the earliest stages is central to success. However, in helping leaders achieve better performance, we're not seeing enough of that investment. The author learned leadership the hard way: through making it up. She draws on her own experience moving from sales into a managerial/leadership role and on research from professors Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School and Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. The author expounds on the following steps for new leaders: (1) wise up, (2) accept you'll need to change, (3) leadership is a balancing act, and (4) stay connected. For instance, within point 2; regardless of how good you are at delivering, project managing, and managing efficiency, you won't come into leadership as a fully rounded leader. There are also steps for employers: (1) mentor them, (2) build leadership mind‐set early, (3) promote based on technical and behavioral competence, and (4) create a listening culture. Within point 3, no one should be promoted for technical or professional capability alone.

Temporary Accommodation: Joanna Hogg's Cinema of Dispossession

Joanna Hogg's cinema is characterized by its formal precision and its unflinching take on upper-middle class privilege, especially in the context of the family. Her first two feature films—Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010)—scrutinize the dynamics of unhappy families on vacation. Exhibition (2015) takes a long hard look at a couple, both of whom are artists, as they go about their everyday lives in their modernist London home. All of these films avail themselves of rigorous framing and frequent long-take cinematography in order to make cinematic space itself a vehicle of emotional and political analysis. Her most recent feature, The Souvenir (2019), converts elements of Hogg's own biography to tell the story of a young filmmaker who learns the hard way that filmmaking and romantic love are the most difficult enterprises.