Protection Of Objects Research Articles

Effects of Recommended Fertilizer Application Strategies Based on Yield Goal and Nutrient Requirements on Drip-Irrigated Spring Wheat Yield and Nutrient Uptake

Excessive application of fertilizers in drip-irrigated wheat production can suppress yields, lower nutrient utilization efficiency, and lead to economic and environmental issues such as nitrogen residues in the soil. Based on a recommended fertilizer application (RF) strategy that takes into account target yield and nutrient requirements, this study explores the responses of wheat plant traits, changes in topsoil and subsoil nutrients, fertilizer utilization, and economic benefits under this strategy. From 2022 to 2023, a field experiment was conducted in a typical oasis spring wheat production area at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang. The treatments included no fertilizer control (CK), the farmer’s conventional practice (FP), recommended fertilizer (RF), RF with nitrogen omission (RF-N), phosphorus omission (RF-P), and potassium omission (RF-K). The results showed that compared with FP, the RF reduced 91 kg N ha−1 (30.3%) and 33 kg P2O5 ha−1 (24.8%) in 2022, and 69 kg N ha−1 (23.0%) and 2 kg P2O5 ha−1 (1.5%) in 2023. The effect in 2023 was better; RF also decreased the NO3−1-N residue in the 0–100 cm soil layer by 40.1 kg N ha−1 compared with FP, with no significant difference in wheat grain yield (RF: 5382.9 kg ha−1) or economic benefit (RF: USD 1613.1 ha−1). Furthermore, there were no significant differences between RF and FP in pre-anthesis NP transport or post-anthesis NP accumulation; however, RF significantly increased pre-anthesis potassium transport volume (15.8%) and transport rate (12.5%). RF led to a 16.3% increase in nitrogen utilization efficiency (NUE), while there was no significant difference in phosphorus utilization efficiency (PUE) compared with FP. The fertilizer yield effect for RF was evaluated as N > P > K. Correlation analysis indicated that grain yield was significantly positively correlated with pre-anthesis NPK transport and post-anthesis NP accumulation. It was also positively correlated with organic matter, alkali-hydrolyzed nitrogen, and Olsen-P content in both the topsoil (0–20 cm) and subsoil (20–40 cm), but not with available potassium in the soil. Therefore, conducting soil tests and determining fertilizer recommendations based on the proposed RF method at harvest can reduce fertilizer usage and achieve a balance between the conflicting objectives of environmental protection, increased crop yields, nutrient utilization efficiency, and improved economic benefits in oasis agricultural areas facing excessive fertilizer application.

A work of artificial generative intelligence as an object of copyright protection

A work of artificial generative intelligence as an object of copyright protection

Security Protection of Video-GIS Data Based on Data Encryption and Digital Watermarking

Abstract. Video-GIS data, a novel generation of multimedia produced through the integration of geographic videos and GIS, has evolved into an innovative form of geospatial data representation. As a kind of digital products, Video-GIS data is vulnerable to unauthorized replication, dissemination, and usage. The potential for large-scale leakage of sensitive or confidential information, including commercial, political, military, and personal privacy data, poses a significant threat to the rights of data producers and may even compromise national security. Given this context, the primary concern is ensuring the security protection of video data in an open and shared data environment. To address this issue, we propose a novel scheme for the security protection of Video-GIS data in this paper, which collaboratively utilizes digital watermarking and data encryption. In the proposed scheme, Video-GIS data is divided into two categories, i.e., general and confidential, based on the presence or absence of sensitive information within the image frames. Appropriate security measures were meticulously designed for each data type to ensure effective prevention and control. Experimental results indicate that this watermarking algorithm exerts minimal influence on the quality of the Video-GIS data, while simultaneously maintaining optimal invisibility and robustness. The employed audio denoising method is characterized by its low complexity, simplicity, and feasibility, thereby ensuring the security of audio signal storage and transmission. This approach effectively realizes the dual protection objective for Video-GIS data, audio, and video.

Peculiarities of the legislative model of the criminal law prohibition of smuggling

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the legislative model of criminal prohibition of smuggling. It is stated that the emergence of new and modernization of existing methods of smuggling is due to the correlation of the State’s customs policy in connection with the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and the introduction of the legal regime of martial law. The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the amendments and additions made to Section VII of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in terms of criminalization of smuggling, to determine their effectiveness and expediency, and to formulate scientifically sound recommendations for improving criminal law regulation of social relations related to smuggling. The author establishes that the main factors which influenced the process of recriminalization of commodity smuggling are: an increase in the number of manifestations of smuggling of goods and their unreliable declaration; a decrease in revenues to the State Budget of Ukraine; stimulation of unfair competition; entry of products of inadequate quality into the domestic market; an increase in the shadow economy in the public sector; criminalization of smuggling of goods in certain EU countries; ineffective application of administrative liability measures. The author analyzes the need to strengthen criminal liability for commodity smuggling at the level of the European Union as a whole. The author elucidates the approaches available in the criminal law doctrine to solving the problems associated with the introduction of criminal liability for commodity smuggling. It is substantiated that in case of any change in the system of current criminal legislation, it is necessary to justify this type of rulemaking, i.e. to assess the admissibility and appropriateness of a criminal law novelty. The author emphasizes that it is inexpedient to distinguish criminal law provisions on smuggling by the type of subject matter. The author concludes that the model of criminal legal prohibition of smuggling chosen by the legislator determines the differentiation of criminal liability, and at the same time is a manifestation of the shortcomings of legislative technique, since it gives rise to the emergence of legislative models of smuggling with different objects of criminal legal protection.

Green Innovation and firm Performance: An Empirical Study of China's Power Industry

With China’s goal of achieving "carbon peak and neutrality”, green innovation has become an inevitable choice to accomplish the dual objective of ecological protection and economic growth. The objective of this study is to examine whether green innovation can contribute to enhancing firm performance. Specifically, this study empirically investigates the relationship between green innovation and firm performance by analyzing a sample of listed firms in China's A-share power industry from 2009 to 2022. By using panel fixed effect regression, this study found that green innovation markedly and positively enhances the firm's current performance. Furthermore, this paper tested the effect of green innovation on the firm's future performance, which is positive and greater than the effect on the current performance. Through data support spanning 14 years, this study verifies the theoretical hypothesis that green innovation can substantially enhance firm performance in the power industry. This not only deepens the understanding of how green innovation affects firm performance but also offers empirical evidence to support the further implementation and advancement of green innovation within the power industry. This study only uses a sample of a single industry, so the conclusions of this study do not have explanatory power for firms in other industries.

Общественная нравственность как объект государственно-правовой охраны

The protection of spiritual and moral values is one of the priority and extremely socially sensitive areas of the state security policy of the Russian state in the face of modern challenges and threats, which implies, among other things, the creation of an effective mechanism for state legal protection of the national spiritual heritage and public morality. This mechanism as a whole already has sufficient legal contours, formalized, first of all, by state coercive measures, in the system of which administrative and tort legislation plays a significant role. Public morality is positioned in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation as a specific object of protection, and over the past few years, administrative responsibility for encroachment on public morality has been significantly increased. However, the analysis of the normative material, as well as the conceptual approach adopted by the legislator in resolving issues of legal formalization of public morality and its protection, seems to be flawed, which makes it possible to raise the question of improving legislation on state-legal protection of public morality.

Обеспечение антитеррористической защищенности как мера противодействия терроризму

This article discusses the topic of ensuring anti-terrorism security as a measure to counter terrorism. Var-ious types of security are traditionally the subject of research in political science and public law sciences. The article examines the social relations that arise in the sphere of ensuring the national security of Russia. The purpose of the work was to establish the specifics of the impact of private legal means in ensuring security. Citizens and organizations, with their own efforts and means, ensure the protection of objects of civil rights – life, health, property. This activity differs from the implementation of the functions of law enforcement agencies not only by the impossibility of using coercive (public law) measures of influence, but also by more “narrow” objects of protection. A way for non-governmental organizations and individuals to participate in ensuring national security in general and anti-terrorism protection in particular is the use of private legal means to protect the relevant objects of civil rights. However, the means provided for by law have not been properly researched and have significant shortcomings in legal regulation. The author's new view on the problems of ensuring national security can provide the basis for conducting other private law and complex studies.

Green hotspots? Unveiling global hotspots and shifting trends in carbon credit projects

AbstractThis study examines the spatiotemporal patterns of verified carbon credit projects from 2004 to 2022, utilizing data from the Gold Standard Foundation (GSF) registry and employing spatial autocorrelation (Moran's I) and hot spot analysis (Getis‐Ord Gi*) in ArcGIS Pro. South Asia and East Africa emerged as key hotspots for carbon credit projects. Hotspots transitioned from China, Brazil, Peru, Panama, and Cambodia (2004–2016) to India, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda (2017–2022) with Turkey remaining a hotspot throughout the period. Overall, the analysis reveals a statistically significant Moran's I of 0.07 and a z‐score of 3.04, indicating spatial clustering of projects and a less than 1% likelihood that the clustering is a result of random chance. The spatial pattern and types of projects align with socio‐economic conditions and environmental protection objectives in different regions. Domestic energy efficiency projects are prevalent, such as improved cookstoves, biogas digesters, and borehole technologies for safe water access. These findings prompt the deduction that socio‐economic conditions wield substantial influence on investor preferences in carbon credit projects. Hence, the study contends that the overarching goal transcends mere carbon emissions mitigation; it extends to elevating the socio‐economic well‐being of local populations. By pinpointing geographical hotspots and elucidating temporal shifts, this study equips stakeholders with strategic insights into investment in carbon credit projects and highlights evolving investor interests in the carbon credit landscape, bridging the gap between environmental objectives and socio‐economic imperatives.

Защита субъективных гражданских прав и законных интересов военнослужащих Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации

The article is devoted to the procedural features of the consideration and resolution by courts of general jurisdiction of civil cases on the protection of the rights and interests of military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The author proves that legal relations associated with military service, regardless of the grounds for their occurrence, are characterized by the prevalence of public law, and the object of judicial protection in the cases under consideration is public (state) interest, and therefore the possibility of conclusion by those participating in them is rejected parties to settlement agreements, indicates other procedural features of their consideration.

Dialogue in Silence: Inter-American and Brazilian Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons

As society needs to face ageing as a plural process that goes beyond biological and chronological aspects, it is recognised that it also has societal, political, judicial, and psychosocial changes and consequences. Imposing a social clock of expected normative behaviors, understanding older persons as inactive citizens and mere objects of legal protection instead of social actors and specialised human rights’ holders is a critical problem to be confronted in the upcoming years as the global population becomes older. This article aims to comparatively analyse the legal aspects of the protection of older persons in the Brazilian and Inter-American legal framework, perceiving a movement of dialogue in silence, opposing moments of resistance and periods of adequacy between international and national jurisdiction, allowing the analysis of how it impacts the enforcement of these rights. In order to evaluate this phenomenon, this article analyses bibliographic and legislative material, focusing on a human rights-based approach of older persons and an older persons perspective. Firstly, it discusses the social construct of old age, followed by the comparative analysis of Brazilian and international legal framework on the topic of ageing. Finally, it establishes the contours of the ‘dialogue in silence’ between Brazilian and Inter-American protection of older persons’ rights. Results show that a better cross-fertilisation and dialogical approach is needed, overcoming the legislative resistance and difficulties in implementation of rights and policies relating to older persons.

The potential of federated learning for public health purposes: a qualitative analysis of GDPR compliance, Europe, 2021.

BackgroundThe wide application of machine learning (ML) holds great potential to improve public health by supporting data analysis informing policy and practice. Its application, however, is often hampered by data fragmentation across organisations and strict regulation by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Federated learning (FL), as a decentralised approach to ML, has received considerable interest as a means to overcome the fragmentation of data, but it is yet unclear to which extent this approach complies with the GDPR.AimOur aim was to understand the potential data protection implications of the use of federated learning for public health purposes.MethodsBuilding upon semi-structured interviews (n = 14) and a panel discussion (n = 5) with key opinion leaders in Europe, including both FL and GDPR experts, we explored how GDPR principles would apply to the implementation of FL within public health.ResultsWhereas this study found that FL offers substantial benefits such as data minimisation, storage limitation and effective mitigation of many of the privacy risks of sharing personal data, it also identified various challenges. These challenges mostly relate to the increased difficulty of checking data at the source and the limited understanding of potential adverse outcomes of the technology.ConclusionSince FL is still in its early phase and under rapid development, it is expected that knowledge on its impracticalities will increase rapidly, potentially addressing remaining challenges. In the meantime, this study reflects on the potential of FL to align with data protection objectives and offers guidance on GDPR compliance.

ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ВЫБОРА БЕРЕГОУКРЕПИТЕЛЬНЫХ СООРУЖЕНИЙ ПРИ РЕКОНСТРУКЦИИ ПЛЯЖЕЙ КРЫМСКОГО ПОБЕРЕЖЬЯ

The relevance of improving the methods of engineering and environmental survey of coastal protection objects is determined by their existing violations, which reduce environmental safety in general and create a danger for the organization of tourism on the coast. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the choice of bank protection structures during the reconstruction of the beaches of the Crimean coast in the conditions of recreational specialization of the region. The nature and extent of deformations of the coastal zone of the sea and shore protection structures on the coast of the Kalamitsky Bay of the Black Sea are described. The authors proposed the design and location of the breakwater, which will make it possible to more effectively cope with the damping of waves during a storm period compared to classical breakwaters. Materials and methods. The study of the state of coastal territories and the solution of problems of coastal protection structures is based on the theory of geomorphology of the surface and underwater parts of the coast, the regularities of the hydrophysical parameters of the sea in the coastal zone, and climatic and seismic conditions. The methods of field observations and experimental studies in the wave basin were used to take into account the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on the ecological parameters of the coastal zone of the Crimean coast. Results. In 2022, a team of authors carried out a visual survey of the coast in the territory of the Bakhchisaray district of the Republic of Crimea with a total length of 11.5 km. from s. Coastal to with. Angular. As a result of the inspection, sections of the coast that are potentially dangerous to the health and life of people and are not suitable for normal use for recreational purposes were identified. Conclusions. Long-term field observations show that the creation of bank protection in certain local areas, having given only a temporary positive effect for these areas, can have a very negative impact on neighboring and even remote areas; that is why the issue of protecting the coast should be resolved at least on the scale of the coast of settlements, taking into account the conditions of a single system. The shape of the coast protection structure proposed by the authors can make it possible to more effectively dampen waves compared to classical rectangular breakwaters. However, when designing coastal protection measures, it should be taken into account that separate protection of small areas of eroded coastal territories within a large zone of eroded coast is ineffective, since adjacent unprotected shores will recede under the influence of a system of natural factors.

IMPACT OF LAW 05-02 ON THE PRINCIPLE OF BALANCE BETWEEN LANDLORD AND TENANT INTERESTS IN COMMERCIAL LEASE AGREEMENTS: BETWEEN THE PROVISIONS OF OLD LAW AND NEW AMENDMENT

Objective: This article aims to shed light on the extent to which the principle of balancing the legal positions of the lessor and the lessee has been established in light of the Commercial Law before and after the issuance of Law 05-02, as well as to address the new developments in the approach adopted by the Algerian legislator in the context of providing a legal framework that protects the contractual relationship related to commercial leasing. Theoretical framework: The Algerian legislator has been keen to devote enhanced protection to the tenant by stipulating the tenant’s right to commercial ownership and renewal of the commercial lease, as well as the eviction notice and the compensation due when the landlord refuses to renew the commercial lease. However, this protection has diminished with the issuance of Law 05-02 amending and supplementing the Commercial Law, through which the legislator introduced a number of important amendments that affected the provisions of the commercial lease, represented in amending the rent and the lease term, especially the requirement of the official form for drafting the commercial lease contract, especially the introduction of Article 187 bis obligating the tenant to leave the commercial premises, and exempting the landlord from his obligation to notify the eviction and the compensation due, which led to an imbalance between the interests of the landlord and the tenant. Methods: As an analytical study, the methodology of analyzing the content of the legal rules related to commercial leasing was relied upon, whether before or after the amendment, and comparing them to reach the various provisions related to evaluating the extent to which the Algerian legislator balances the positions of the lessor and the lessee.The descriptive methodology was also relied upon, by relying on studies published in this context, in order to list the various points of view presented on the legislator's position on the contract related to commercial leasing, as well as to come up with new results to rely on in discussing the new law. Research implications: In the context of discussing a deep research problem, which is to estimate the position of the Algerian legislator towards the parties to the commercial lease contract, and their legal positions, through what it has established of rights and duties for each of the parties, the practical aspect surrounding the application of the legal text makes extracting the protective objectives that the legislator has taken into consideration the subject of unstable provisions, are the targeted dimensions purely legal, or do they follow a new legal approach within the framework of the new policies in legislation in general in Algeria. Originality of the research: The article studies the points of failure that may arise between the positions of the tenant and the landlord in the commercial lease contract, and raises the most important challenges facing the implementation of the new direction of the Algerian legislator, especially in the context of encouraging foreign investment, and the advantages that the tenant must enjoy in the context of eliminating the complications that may arise within the framework of these contracts.

Furthering decent work by expanding the role of occupational safety and health.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have promoted the concept of decent work as a Sustainable Development Goal for 2030 to address critical global problems. Occupational safety and health (OSH) are components of decent work, primarily through the ILO social protection objective of the goal, and are linked to various other objectives. This Commentary applies a previously published staging framework to stimulate thinking about how the OSH field can contribute further to the achievement of decent work. To advance the contribution of the framework, the different functions of OSH (research, practice, advocacy, governance, and professional education) were used to identify impediments to achieving decent work and develop recommendations for each determinant in the framework. Promoting and achieving decent work are complex issues that require a multifactorial approach. Numerous recommendations supporting systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches are provided. The OSH field can expand to further address decent work.

‘I am on Guard’: The Making of Race, Gender and Affect in Human-Dog Relations in South Africa

This article will analyse human-dog relations in the post-apartheid White South African suburbs to show how they operate in the production of racial and gendered difference. The analysis draws primarily on my experience as a White woman growing up in the suburbs and my work as a dog walker, as well as interviews with the owners of two dog day-cares in Cape Town. Given this locatedness, the article tracks the affective and biopolitical effects of human-dog relationality to consider how they work in the socio-spatial structuring of the White suburbs. To begin, it uses Donna Haraway’s understanding of relation across difference in interspecies ‘becoming’, augmenting this with Harlan Weaver and Sarah Ahmed’s respective theorisations of the work of affect between bodies. It outlines White discourses of fear around crime and security and describes the spatial organisation of the suburb, which informs dogs’ socialisation/enculturation with White people, and their hostility towards Black people. As such, suburban dogs become part of a racialised species kinship, in which they are cast as White people’s companions, while protecting private property and White bodies. Drawing on Ahmed and Fanon’s work on phenomenology, the paper considers how dogs reproduce the historico-racial schema so that Black subjects are made to feel vulnerable in White space. Finally, it looks at gendered racialised narratives of threat and the construction of White women as objects of protection in relation to the imagined threat of Black men. By analysing these modes of relation, this paper hopes to show how interconnectedness yields an ethical responsibility towards others, across differences of race and species.

Synergy‐as‐principle in global climate regulation

AbstractIsolated policy interventions are unlikely to effectively address a highly complex and cross‐cutting issue such as climate change. Such issues require more integrated or holistic approaches. The concept of searching for synergy across multiple objectives could then achieve better outcomes than a default position of trade‐off and collision. This contribution construes a novel principle of synergy to structure integrated decision‐making in global climate regulation through law. This article grounds its argument theoretically in the analysis of global regulation. It first develops the rationale of a regulatory principle justifying synergetic choices in rule‐design and rule‐application. It then sets out a typology of regulatory synergies – reinforcing, functional, and dormant or connecting – which can be arranged on a sliding scale and delivered with appropriate policy tools. It also suggests pathways for synergy‐as‐principle to advance beyond an effective strategy to acquiring legal bindingness within global regulation through law. Finally, this article tests the workability of this principle in four scenarios where climate protection and adjacent objectives intersect. Beyond this analysis of global climate regulation, this article points to the deeper normative foundations capable of supporting a non‐exclusionary global community.

프랑스·독일·일본에서의 범죄피해자의 형사절차 참가제도와 우리나라에 대한 시사점

France and Germany, that have adopted private prosecution or recognize private participation in litigation, guarantee crime victims the right to participate in criminal proceedings, allowing them to seek redress and protect their rights. However Japan and Korea, which operate criminal procedures based on the principle of state prosecution, perceive the state criminal procedures as an adversarial relationship between the criminal justice agencies and the criminals, and views crime victims as mere objects of protection and support or as targets of preferential measures. Recently, Japan has introduced a system that guarantees crime victims the right to participate in criminal proceedings to a limited extent. Korea attempted to revise the law to introduce a victim participation system that was much weaker than that of France or Germany, and even Japan, but it was ultimately frustrated. Whenever the neglect of the protection of the human rights of crime victims becomes a social issue, the Korean government has established and implemented measures to strengthen the rights of victims. However, except for victims of crimes that attract social attention, such as sexual assault or stalking, the poor status of victims of crimes such as murder, assault, and fraud has not improved much. With only these intermittent and sporadic measures, it is difficult to properly fulfill the state's duty to protect crime victims. In order to improve the poor status of victims, it is necessary to create a principle provision on the protection of suspects' rights and participation in criminal procedures in the Constitution, and declare at the beginning of the Criminal Procedure Act that the rights of crime victims should be protected. And then a device must be established to protect crime victims in a series of criminal procedures such as investigation, prosecution, trial, and execution of sentence. In particular, it is necessary to build a system that stipulates the right of crime victims to express their opinions at each important stage of the criminal procedure, such as the conclusion of the investigation, decision not to prosecute, decision on detention, pronouncement of judgment, and suspension of execution of sentence, and to notify the progress of the criminal procedure.

Универсальная централизованная защита от однофазных замыканий на землю в кабельных сетях напряжением 6–10 кВ

Selective protection against single phase earth faults in distribution 6–10 kV cable networks can be performed both with the use of individual (per connection) and centralized devices covering all connections of the protected object. The advantages of centralized devices are reduction of specific (per connection) costs of protection, simplification of its operation and design. Well-known technical solutions in terms of centralized protection devices against this type of damage do not always provide versatility (the possibility to use neutral cables of 6–10 kV in various grounding modes) and high technical perfection (selectivity and stability of operation). Thus, it is relevant to develop a universal centralized protection against single-phase earth faults, ensuring high technical perfection for all types of earth faults in 6–10 kV cable networks with different neutral grounding modes. The authors have used a comprehensive simulation model "cable network – protection device" to study the selectivity and stability of the developed principles of implementation and algorithms for centralized protection against earth faults. The model is designed in SimPowerSystems and Simulink software. The configuration and parameters of the cable network model have been selected considering the key features of 6–10 kV distribution cable networks of industrial and urban power supply systems. A universal centralized protection against all types of earth faults in 6–10 kV cable networks with various neutral grounding modes has been developed. The results of functional tests on the simulation model have confirmed the effectiveness of the developed algorithms of the developed centralized protection for all types of earth faults both in uncompensated and compensated cable networks of 6–10 kV. The proposed technical solution implements a multifunctional multiparametric centralized protection against earth faults. It has such properties as versatility, selectivity, and high stability of operation for all types of earth faults, recognition of types of single-phase earth faults, continuity of action in stable and most dangerous arc intermittent earth faults.

Legal nature and signs of the international legal order

Characterizing the international legal order as an object of criminal law protection, it is possible to single out the following social relations that are under the protection of criminal law: 1) relations to ensure friendly relations between nations based on the principle of equality and self-determination of peoples; 2) relations to ensure the effectiveness of the prohibition of war as a means of state policy; 3) relations regarding international cooperation in the field of common interests of mankind. On the basis of the above, it can be concluded that the international legal order as an object of criminal law protection is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that also encompasses the peace and security of mankind, although it is narrower in content than the international legal order as an international legal category. Based on the above, it can be concluded that the international legal order is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that encompasses the principles of international legal personality and the international law-making process, international relations, international cooperation, human rights protection systems and means of resolving international disputes, as well as the principles international legal responsibility. In this context, the question arises as to whether all the specified aspects are covered by the international legal order as a category of international law, and by the international legal order as an object of criminal law protection. In particular, if we assume that the international legal order as a category of international law and as an object of criminal legal protection coincide in content, then in this case the international legal order will actually absorb other meaningfully related objects of criminal legal protection - the peace and security of humanity, which, as follows from the provisions of the UN Charter, are integral parts of the international legal order.

On multi-stage deformation and gradual energy absorption of 3D printed multi-cell tubes with varying cross-section

Thin-walled structures are widely used in passive safety systems due to their excellent lightweight and controllable progressive deformation performance. While designing to improve the energy absorption performance of thin-walled structures, it is also crucial to consider reducing the damage received by protected objects during accidental collisions. In this work, stepwise and continuous graded multi-cell tubes with varying cross-sections were proposed based on the fused deposition modeling technique to achieve a gradual energy absorption process. Compression responses and energy absorption characteristics of the graded multi-cell tubes were investigated by quasi-static compression tests. Experimental results showed that the stepwise graded multi-cell tubes produced obvious multi-stage deformation and energy absorption during axial compression. The specific energy absorption presented an upward trend with the increased number of stepwise segments. For the same ranges of cross-section variations, continuous graded multi-cell tubes exhibited more plastic hinges and better energy absorption performance due to the absence of discontinuous interfaces. In addition, continuous graded multi-cell tubes showed continuous folding deformation with the gradually decreasing folding wavelength. Thus, it exhibited a steadily increasing trend in crushing force and realized the gradual energy absorption mode.