Implementation Of Mission Research Articles

Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions

Abstract International organizations (IOs) dispatch fact-finding missions to establish epistemic authority by objectively and impartially assessing contested facts. Despite this technocratic promise, they are often controversial and sometimes even fuel international disputes that challenge the epistemic authority of the dispatching organizations. Although the twenty-first century has witnessed a proliferation of United Nations (UN) commissions of inquiry, they have received surprisingly little attention in international relations (IR) scholarship. How can we explain this trend and the successes and failures of fact-finding missions, which sometimes even backfire on the IO authority? Drawing on IR theories of delegation, epistemic authority, and IO field operations as well as public international law scholarship on commissions of inquiry, this article develops an analytical framework for studying the delegation, implementation, and dissemination of fact-finding missions. It theorizes how and under what conditions international fact-finding missions close or widen credibility gaps and thus help to establish, maintain, or weaken the epistemic authority of IOs. The article illustrates this framework with a case study of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Human Rights Situation in Chile, sent by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1974 to investigate allegations of human rights violations and torture. The conclusion outlines a comparative research agenda on international fact-finding missions for IR that contributes to the study of knowledge production in IOs and the enforcement of international norms.

Optimal time-fixed impulsive non-Keplerian orbit to orbit transfer algorithm based on primer vector theory

The work applies a systematic method to compute an optimal transfer trajectory between two non-Keplerian halo orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-body formulation of the Earth–Moon dynamics. The paper exploits the knowledge of the natural non-linear dynamics and the primer vector theory applied to the Circular Restricted Three Body Problem to design optimal multi-impulsive Halo-to-Halo transfers with fixed and limited Time of flight, from every point of the departure orbit to every point of the arrival orbit with an optimal number of impulses. The used method is constituted by three systematic steps with the goal of facilitating the mission design process and the on-board autonomous guidance implementation of future missions in highly non-linear dynamics.

Growth Performance and Interrupted Time Series Approach to Estimate Immediate and Sustained Effects of Oilseeds Mission on Groundnut in India

Oilseeds are mostly grown in marginal lands with inadequate irrigation facilities (only 10% is irrigated) as a result yields tend to be low leading to a widening gap between domestic production of vegetable oil and demand. Production growth in the early eighties was slow due to insufficient technologies and the turning point was the year 1985-86. Since then, oilseeds production in the country has increased due to implementation of technology mission. The present study was attempted to examine the growth performance of groundnut in the major states of India and assess the immediate and sustained effects of oilseeds mission on groundnut production in order to identify the potentials for future expansion of area and scaling -up the yield of groundnut-based production system. Growth and quasi experimental time series analyses were employed to assess the growth performance and intervention’s effects (oilseeds mission) using time series data. Increase in groundnut production has been contributed mainly by increase in productivity. Though the maximum productivity growth was 6.24% per annum in India, overall growth rate in yield was 2.28 % per annum due to yearly aberrations indicating the high instability. Groundnut yield grew by 3.84, 3.06 and 2.16 % per annum respectively in Rajasthan, Madya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu for the overall period (1992-93 and 2020-21). However, these states witnessed production shortfalls and production fell by 0.94, 6.42 and 2.05 % per annum, respectively. Except Gujarat the other major states also exhibited negative growth in production and the rate of drop was higher in the Uttara Pradesh (7.91%) followed by Madhya Pradesh (6.42%), Maharashtra (4.94%), Andhra Pradesh (3.69%) and Karnataka (3.03%). Groundnut production in India also fell by 2.13 % per annum mainly due to fall in area and marginal growth in yield. The estimated yield increase was 450 kg/ha in India, which is higher by 48 % after the intervention. The estimated positive and significant coefficient of interrupted time series for India (50.36) reveal that the oilseeds mission has created sustained effects as a result there was a yield improvement. Sustained effects of intervention are noticed in most of the states. Sustaining the productivity in those states with high yield potential and improving the productivity in other major states by prioritizing and disseminating the seeds of suitable varieties and production technologies are vital as there is lackluster response from the farmers in adoption of varieties and technologies.

The Concept of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Proletarian Internationalism in the "Communist Manifesto" and the Construction of Proletarian Internationalism in the Current Context

Proletarian internationalism, the important theoretical system of Marxism-Leninism on the principles and mottos of action in carrying out the working class's worldwide historical mission - the factors that ensure the successful implementation of the historic mission of the working class. In the current context, the impact of the modern industrial revolution, the globalization process, the "new liberalism" and modern nationalism... has made human labor workers and the working class's interest relationship with the national interest closely linked in terms of productive forces. Still, there is also a deep division in production relations. This practice poses new requirements for continuing to build Proletarian Internationalism to meet the tasks of the new situation.

Simulated microgravity altered the proliferation, apoptosis, and extracellular matrix formation of L929 fibroblasts and the transforming growth factor-β1/Smad3 signaling pathway.

Exposure to microgravity can adversely affect the fitness of astronauts. The integrity of the skin plays a crucial role in protecting against mechanical forces and infections, fluid imbalance, and thermal dysregulation. In brief, the skin wound may cause unknown challenges to the implementation of space missions. Wound healing is a physiological process that relies on the synergistic action of inflammatory cells, extracellular matrix (ECM), and various growth factors to maintain the integrity of skin after trauma. Fibroblasts are present almost throughout the entire process of wound repair, especially in the scar formation at the endpoint of wound healing. However, there is limited knowledge about the extent to which fibroblasts are affected by the lack of gravity during wound healing. In this study, we utilized the rotary cell culture system, a ground-based facility that mimics the weightless condition, to study the alterations of L929 fibroblast cells under simulated microgravity (SMG). Our results demonstrated that the SM condition exerted negative influences on the proliferation and ECM formation of the L929 fibroblast. Whereas, the apoptosis of fibroblast was significantly upregulated upon exposure to SMG conditions. Moreover, the transforming growth factor-β1/Smad3 (TGF-β1/smad3) signaling pathway of L929 fibroblast related to wound repair was also altered significantly under a weightless environment. Overall, our study provided evidence that fibroblasts are strongly sensitive to SMG and elucidated the potential value of the TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling pathway modulating wound healing in the future practice of space medicine.

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"Economic Effectiveness of State Policy in Reforming Higher library and Information Education in Ukraine"

"The article considers the conceptual and practice issues of reforming higher library and information education in Ukraine within state policy. Two-planes approach is applied: the study combines educational research and concepts of state policy efficiency evaluation with taking into account exogenous factors. The current state, problems and prospects of LIS education in Ukraine are considered in light of overall world trends in libraries development in the 21st century and best practices of some European states. The conclusion is made that in the last decade, there has been a transformation of the instrumental, that is, technological, model of the modernization of librarianship into a conceptual one focused on the implementation of the new socio-cultural mission of libraries in the knowledge-based information society, and, accordingly, LIS education should not only correspond but get ahead of libraries evolution, with a view on extremely rapid knowledge obsolescence. The model of evaluating economic effectiveness of state policy in reforming higher library and information education is proposed, which is rather universal that nation-state- oriented, as it allows taking into account the influence of specific factors of environment."

Support Mission Task Force Kizi Konga XXXVII-H-Minusca at the UN Peace Mission in the Central African Republic

This study aims to analyze the Support Mission of the Kizi Konga XXXVII-H/MINUSCA Task Force on Peace Missions in the Central African Republic. Using a descriptive qualitative approach and interviews as data collection methods, this study found that the implementation of support missions in Peace Missions in the Central African Republic were construction engineering, explosives disposal, and CIMIC.

Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection

The concept of ‘sustainability missions’ has recently received increasing attention in the academic literature. Broadly defined as a collective ambition to strengthen systemic preparedness and adaptive capacity for various policy challenges, the concept of sustainability missions invites critical reflection due to its rise in usage and popularity. In this spirit, we discuss five challenges that limit the ability of the missions concept to guide progress on meaningful change. First, much of the academic literature takes the concept for granted by using it as a descriptor or normative goal, without the skeptical perspective that would challenge the perpetuation of old ways of thinking about societal problems. Second, the concept is policy-centric and thus tends to endorse a top-down approach to complex problems that otherwise elude centralization. Third, scholarly treatment of the concept often undervalues the role of non-government stakeholders like businesses and communities. Fourth, the literature often fails to acknowledge that sustainability missions involve picking industrial ‘winners’ – a strategy with historically mixed results. Finally, scholars frequently neglect the unpredictability of sustainability mission implementation, a risk magnified in the case of totalizing goals like economic or social-systemic transformation. These five limitations, among others, work against the stated goals of sustainability missions and hinder theoretical development. This article describes a way forward for research and practice utilizing the concept.

Re-engineering primary healthcare in Kerala.

In the backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the state of Kerala, India, revamped its existing primary health centres (PHCs) into people-friendly family health centres (FHCs) in order to provide comprehensive primary care as part of a mission-based ('Aardram') initiative. It was envisioned that the mission's implementation and operation would make use of decentralised governance. The present study explored how the decentralised governance influenced reorganisation of primary care. The study adopted an exploratory approach using qualitative methods: key informant interviews (n = 8), in-depth interviews (n = 20) and document reviews. Thematic analysis was done following deductive coding and the themes that emerged were organised under a schema. The results could be summarised under five overarching themes. Strong political commitment, combined with bureaucratic competence, facilitated implementation and functioning of 'Aardram' primary care. The insights developed through multi-sectoral training helped local governments (LGs) get involve and engage with the health system as a team in order to plan and implement interventions. The decentralised governance structures enabled re-engineering of PHCs by mobilisation of financial resources, provision of human resources, infrastructure modification, and enhanced community participation at various levels. Non-uniformity of commitment, sub-optimal engagement of urban LGs and issues of sustainability and monitoring were the shortcomings observed. Decentralised governance played a positive role in the re-engineering of PHCs, which was utilised as a platform to demonstrate best practices in health governance through a participatory approach. The importance of empowering LGs through capacity building to address challenges in achieving primary care SDGs is highlighted in this study.

ТРЕТЯ МІСІЯ УНІВЕРСИТЕТІВ: ДОСВІД ІТАЛІЇ ДЛЯ УКРАЇНИ З ІМПЛЕМЕНТАЦІЇ Й ОЦІНЮВАННЯ

The analysis and reflection of Italy's experience in the implementation and evaluation of third university mission was carried out and revealed effective approaches and practices that can be adopted and applied in Ukraine. Further investigation of Italian experience is appropriate since the implementation and evaluation of results and achievements within all three university missions is a key task of public administration, university governance and management, a fundamental condition for ensuring the effective functioning and competitiveness of Italian universities and its higher education system in general. The authors demonstrate that the process of formation and implementation of the third mission in Italian universities is closely related to the formation and development of the national system of quality assurance in higher education, and first of all, to the evaluation of the quality of university research. It is emphasized that the current stage of evaluation of the third mission at Italian universities is aimed at a) overcoming the vision of the third mission as an auxiliary one and b) promoting its influence on the first and second third missions (i.e. education and research) in order to strengthen its importance and impact on university activities. The authors argue that recognition and implementation of the third mission by Ukrainian universities can be facilitated by its official inclusion, alongside education and research, into university statutory documents, strategies, goals etc. An algorithm of steps aimed at the official implementation of the third university mission by Ukrainian universities is proposed, including: 1) the formation of the national concept of the third mission for Ukrainian universities; 2) identification of strategic directions and a framework of quality indicators for the third mission assessment and evaluation, with relevant criteria; 3) incorporation of quality indicators for third mission assessment and evaluation into the system of indicators pertinent for assessment of quality of educational programs and university educational activities at large; 4) establishment of a Third Mission Commission within the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education; 5) organization and conduct of periodic evaluation of the quality of third university mission implementation; 6) systematic collection of data and monitoring of the situation related to educational, informational, advisory activities on the formation of third university missions by Ukrainian universities and development of environment and conditions beneficial for advancing the culture of third university mission in higher education sector and Ukrainian society at large.

Social Mission of Orthodox Churches in the Conditions of 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The article reveals the peculiarities and specifics of the implementation of the social mission of key domestic Orthodox denominations in the context of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. The key aspects of providing assistance and support to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (hereafter OCU) and Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Hereafter UOC) for both the military and the civilian population were analyzed. Differences in the provision of aid between the Orthodox churches were revealed: if the former helps through volunteers by providing and purchasing weapons, the latter is limited to the purchase of transport, the provision of basic necessities and food and clothing. The areas of activity and the common and distinctive features of the work of both Orthodox churches regarding the support of the population of Ukraine are revealed: to people who survived the occupation or intense fighting (lost loved ones, property), to citizens who, as of the end of summer, are still in the territories where the fiercest fighting is going on battles.

Creativity is not Essence but Existence!

The article offers a socio-historical approach to the problem of creative personality in polemic with the article by A.M. Dorozhkin and S.V. Shibarshina. Creative activity is considered not as a psychological process or an expression of cognitive abilities, but as a result evaluated by the professional scientific community and even by the entire society. The distinction between the psychological, historical and historical-epistemological interpretation of creativity is discussed. The authors argue that although the proposed approach has an explanatory potential for creativity as a socio-historical phenomenon, it reduces the nature of individual personalities and their role in scientific research to a public response to a new result. The personality of an author is getting vanished in this result, becoming only a label of some social achievement. Using the terminology of J.-P. Sartre, the essence of the author as a unique individual is reduced to his social existence as a scientist. The purpose of this existence is not the fulfillment of a vocation, but the implementation of a professional mission to promote science as a public good, which consists, among other things, in creating a field of intellectual tension. The scientist ensures the objective increase of public awareness of the painful points of history and modernity; critically analyzes global risks from ecology to security; and presents images of a possible and required future. Thus, creative science acts as a source for development through problematization, a factor of cognitive dissonance, a troublemaker, a potential violator of social stability.

Жизнь с любовью как смысл бытия в экзистенциальной парадигме отношений

Background. \e article focuses on the notion of love from the standpoint of Christian psychology and anthropology as well as on its impact on the change in existential meaning of life and interpersonal relationships. Such an attributive principle of life as “living with love” is considered in the context of the existential meaning of being, professional activity and interpersonal relationships in line with the concept developed by Professor Elena Olegovna Smirnova. An understanding of the concept of “life with love” is presented and the main properties of Christian love in the existential paradigm of relationships are indicated. Objective. \e main aim of the study was to analyse life and professional work of the famous scientist, Professor Elena Olegovna Smirnova, from the standpoint of Christian love as the meaning of being in the existential paradigm of relationships. Results. It has been shown that love, considered from a Christian position, changes a person as a personality. \is process includes change in the attitude towards other people as well as towards oneself, and also gives a special meaning to life. It is asserted that life with love is life with God in soul, with the joy of life and with the desire to make this World a better place for close people and humanity as a whole. Life with love is an understanding of the meaning of your life and gaining strength of mind for the responsible implementation of your mission, as well as a state of calm happiness, silence in the heart and peace of mind. Conclusion. \e results obtained made it possible to show the psychological representation of the lifestyle and professional creativity of the outstanding scientist E.O. Smirnova in accordance with the attributive principle of Christian love “life with love”. \e study also demonstrates the possibility to ]nd new meanings of life and relationships through Christian Love.

ՀԱՅՈՑ ԵԿԵՂԵՑՈՒ ՆՎԻՐԱՊԵՏԱԿԱՆ ԿԱՐԳԻ ՎԵՐԱԿԱՆԳՆՈՒՄԸ ԱՆԱՆԻԱ ՄՈԿԱՑՈՒ ՕՐՈՔ (943-965)

During the long reign of the famous leader of the 10th century, Anania Mokatsi, the Armenian Church faced various internal and external challenges directed against the national-church structures. Anania Mokatsi ascends the throne of the spiritual ruler during the period (during the 40s of the 10th century) of the weakening of the Catholicos power, when national and spiritual unity was threatened. The restoration of the spiritual and religious unity of the country, the establishment of social solidarity were the main guarantees of national security. Based on the interests of strengthening the Armenian statehood, the purposeful head of the church fully supports the centralization policy of Bagratuni, contributes to the establishment of internal stability in the country. With the assistance of the Armenian king Abas Bagratuni (929-953), Anania Mokatsi transferred the patriarchal throne from Akhtamar to the village of Argin Shirak in 947. The purpose of moving the spiritual center was the full implementation of the unifying mission of the Catholicos and the conduct of an effective struggle against religious pressures.

Autonomy in higher education in Vietnam

Currently, the education and training in Vietnam sector has had specific policies and actions in which to attach importance to the renewal of the management mechanism for universities in the direction that universities are more and more autonomous in their mission implementation, improve the quality of education. International experience shows that one of the solutions to improve the quality of public universities is to gradually increase autonomy for universities in the following areas: autonomy in program and education plan; autonomy in using finance and facilities; autonomy in recruitment, human resource management; autonomy in educational goals and quality. The paper presents the research on the model of autonomous public universities in Vietnam in the context of the implementation of the Education Law 2019.

A Bayesian optimization hyperband-optimized incremental deep belief network for online battery behaviour modelling for a satellite simulator

Simulation tools play crucial roles in the stable implementation of space missions during satellite operations; they are typically utilized for satellite behaviour monitoring by comparing obtained telemetry values and predicted values according to pretrained prediction models. However, as telemetry data streams arrive in a chunk-by-chunk manner, a common practice is to retrain the employed simulation tool based on the newly arrived data, which results in the consumption of many computing resources and time lags. Therefore, an incremental learning algorithm is required to achieve accurate and fast satellite behaviour prediction. This paper proposes a Bayesian optimization hyperband-optimized incremental learning-based deep belief network (BOHB-ILDBN) to reproduce battery voltage behaviours, where the BOHB algorithm is utilized to obtain a group of optimal hyperparameter configurations to initialize a DBN model, the DBN model is incrementally updated by a fine-tuning process, and the variance difference between the actual and forecasted values is taken as the criterion for determining the completion of model training. Finally, the effectiveness and robustness of the model are verified on telemetry data obtained from an on-orbit sun-synchronous remote sensing satellite, the China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS-4A).

Conditions for mission‐led companies to humanize the economy: An Aristotelian perspective

AbstractWith the creation of the legal status of “benefit corporations,” mission‐led companies have been developing since 2010 in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, Italy, and recently France. Shareholders of mission‐led companies define a social, scientific, or environmental mission for their companies in addition to the pursuit of profits. Given this specific characteristic, these companies seem more likely than traditional firms to serve human flourishing in an authentic way. But are these legal forms and strategic objectives sufficient? This article builds on Aristotelian virtue ethics and the concept of the “good life” to identify necessary conditions to build a mission‐led approach to firms that can truly humanize the economy. We explain mechanisms through which the mission‐led approach may provide an essential lever for humanization for the individual person, the company, its industry, and the broader economy. We also identify several factors that may limit or prevent the mission company's ability to contribute to the good life. This conceptual article is inspired by the context of the emergence of mission companies in France since 2019, which has led many companies to question their purpose and their mission towards society and their mission's implementation.

主小行星带对火星轨道长期动力学影响评估

<p indent="0mm">The successful implementation of the Tianwen-1 mission marks that China is moving toward a deeper space beyond the moon, facing a more complex space dynamics environment, and the difficulty of deep space exploration will continue to increase. The main belt asteroids (MBAs) are adjacent to Mars, and the perturbation by MBAs is hard to fully consider, effecting the accuracy of the Mars orbital dynamics parameters. Thus, it will indirectly affect the construction of a high-precision solar system ephemeris and the Mars exploration missions. This paper analyzes the distribution feature of MBAs based on the Nesvorný asteroid library. The dynamic environment of the whole solar system with MBAs was established to evaluate MBA’s perturbation influence. The results show that the difference between the ten-year integral orbits of the inner solar system planets and DE421 is less than <sc>15 m,</sc> and the integral difference of Mars’ orbits reaches<sc>100 m.</sc> Based on the point-mass model, the one-ring model and the latest six-ring model, the influence of MBAs on the orbit of Mars is estimated, and the orbit error of <sc>10 years</sc> is about <sc>2 km,</sc><sc> 31.3 m,</sc> and <sc>2 m,</sc> respectively. Further, the joint solution of the ring model and the orbital parameters of the planets is discussed, which confirms that the residuals of Mars-Earth distance with the fitted ring model can theoretically be reduced to sub-meters. The error in the <italic>Z</italic>-axis of the planet’s orbit is large if use only the range measurement.

METHOD OF RAPID RECOVERY OF SAMPLES OF ARMAMENTS AND VEHICLES OF BORDER RAPID RESPONSE UNITS ACCORDING TO THE CRITERION OF ENSURING THEIR SURVIVABILITY

To ensure the successful implementation of various combat missions within the national resistance to aggression against the russian federation, along with units and formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine, the reserves of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine also take part in defense activities.&#x0D; They operate as part of combat border commandant's offices and border rapid response units, as well as other units that can be conditionally united under a common name – border rapid response units.&#x0D; In order to succeed in these military operations for border rapid response units, a special role, along with the suddenness, intensity and courage of action, is played by the issue of ensuring their survivability by rapidly restoring their weapons and vehicles.&#x0D; The article reveals the essence and content of the proposed method of rapid recovery of weapons and vehicles of border rapid response units on the criterion of ensuring their survivability.&#x0D; The article presents aspects of scientific research that reveal the concept of the criterion and its essence to assess the level of achievement of the goal of autotechnical support of combat operations of border rapid response units.&#x0D; The essence of the proposed method is to use the criterion of ensuring the survivability of border rapid response units through a compromise of their firepower and mobility.&#x0D; The novelty of the proposed method of rapid recovery of automotive equipment and armament of border rapid response units on the criterion of ensuring their survivability is that, unlike existing ones, it takes into account possible risks and options for border emergency response units in conditions of uncertainty.&#x0D; The use of the main provisions of the proposed method will provide practical recommendations for the organization of rapid recovery of automotive equipment and armament of border rapid response units in combat conditions of a special period.