System Of Rules Research Articles

Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism: The Early Twentieth- Century Lagos Elites’ Campaign Against the Native House Rule Ordinance

ABSTRACT This article examines the efforts of early-twentieth-century abolitionists in Lagos, Nigeria who campaigned against the Native House Rule Ordinance/Proclamation, a colonial law perceived as perpetuating indigenous slavery in the Niger Delta region. The study enriches the corpus of African abolitionist literature by revealing how a network of Lagos elites employed a strategic top-down approach to advocate for the law's repeal, which they believed sustained a form of slavery instituted by British colonialism. The research utilizes an extensive range of primary sources, including local Nigerian newspaper publications, correspondence, petitions, and archival documents from both Nigerian and British repositories. The paper contextualizes the Native House Rule system, explores the Lagos campaigners’ strategies and arguments against the ordinance, and discusses the law's amendment and eventual repeal. Through detailed case studies and the examination of African-led initiatives, the study acknowledges the previously understated contributions of African activists, thereby rectifying a significant oversight in historical literature. This paper underscores the importance of recognizing indigenous agency in historical narratives, particularly in the context of abolition and resistance to colonial policies.

Translating government policy into practice: How new UK medical schools enact widening participation.

Increasing the diversity of medical students, or widening participation (WP), is critical for social justice and healthcare delivery, and many governments are setting policies to encourage WP. However, establishing policy is only the first step in an educational change process: we also need to know "how" policy is enacted or how medical schools interpret and put into practice WP policy. Addressing this gap, the aim of this study was to examine policy enactment in six new UK medical schools with an explicit WP mandate. This qualitative study, underpinned by social constructivism, used semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of key actors (6 Deans and 14 Admissions staff) of putting policy into practice when setting up a new medical school. Data coding and analysis were initially inductive, using thematic analysis. We then applied Ball's theory of policy enactment to organise the data into four contextual dimensions of 'situation', 'professional', 'material' and 'external'. On the surface, there were many similarities across the six schools in terms of the four dimensions. However, how these dimensions interacted illuminated tensions and differences. For example, some schools found themselves increasingly subjected to local and extra-local rule systems, including pressure to follow host university norms and hosts struggling to accept that medical schools are heavily regulated. There were also tensions between the new medical schools and the medical education "establishment", including lack of power and being judged by overly narrow outcomes. Different contexts seem to influence the enactment of WP to medicine in different places, even in the same country, even in medical schools established at the same time. That policy enactment is a complex, non-linear process of enactment is important to acknowledge: context is critical. Our findings will inform future policies and practices that aim to increase WP in medicine.

Procedure for describing traffic situation scene development

PurposeThis study aims to comprehensively address the challenge of delineating traffic scenarios in video footage captured by an embedded camera within an autonomous vehicle.Design/methodology/approachThis methodology involves systematically elucidating the traffic context by leveraging data from the object recognition subsystem embedded in vehicular road infrastructure. A knowledge base containing production rules and logical inference mechanism was developed. These components enable real-time procedures for describing traffic situations.FindingsThe production rule system focuses on semantically modeling entities that are categorized as traffic lights and road signs. The effectiveness of the methodology was tested experimentally using diverse image datasets representing various meteorological conditions. A thorough analysis of the results was conducted, which opens avenues for future research.Originality/valueOriginality lies in the potential integration of the developed methodology into an autonomous vehicle’s control system, working alongside other procedures that analyze the current situation. These applications extend to driver assistance systems, harmonized with augmented reality technology, and enhance human decision-making processes.

A reflection on a womanist theologian’s endeavour to dismantle whiteness, through creating the religious education module ‘Black Religion and Protest’

Abstract In his seminal work After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging, Willie Jennings defines a concept he calls ‘whiteness’ and states that this plays the role of the ‘Paterfamilias’, a term born within the Greco–Roman period, which refers to the social system of rule and governance that was centred around the father–master archetype. During slavery, Jennings states that it was on the plantation that the life, logic, and social order of whiteness transpired. The more I engaged with Jennings’ work, the more I began to realize the extent to which the religious education curriculum, and by extension the English education system curriculum, further perpetuated whiteness. Inspired by the works of Jennings and the activism of Black Lives Matter (BLM) following the murder of George Floyd, I was motivated to create and teach a unit in the religious education (RE) curriculum, ‘Black Religion and Protest’. As well as examining the teaching and reception of this unit, this article seeks to unpack the ways in which Britain’s colonial legacy maintains epistemological inequity and hierarchical knowledge.

Mobile phones and moral order: Children’s appropriation of and accounting for digital media rules in schools

This study explores children’s appropriation of media rules in a group of boys (10 years) in Sweden. The analysis is based on focus-group interviews where rules regulating children’s use of mobile phones in school was discussed. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the focus is on how rules are made sense of and appropriated, and how this contributes to establishing, negotiating, and sustaining a moral order for digital media use. The findings show that the children justify rules by discussing them in relation to their school context, through criticism of the enforcement of rules, and through navigating different rule systems.

Nursing Ethics as a Foundation in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

Introduction: Complexity in the healthcare environment causes problems in nursing practice. The nursing code of ethics has been designed as an appropriate guideline for behavior and helps decision-making. Nursing ethics requires nurses to comply with ethical principles to produce quality nursing care. Therefore, this study aims to illustrate the importance of nursing ethics as a foundation for nursing practice.Methods: In the case of the current research, the articles were selected according to PRISMA guidelines. A literature review used three journal databases: ScienceDirect, PubMed, and Google Scholar. The keywords in this literature review are adjusted to the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH), which consists of "nursing ethics," "code of ethics," AND "professional nurse." Several inclusion criteria were set to obtain eligible articles published between 2014 and 2023 and written in English and Bahasa. Fifteen eligible articles were finally included in the analysis.Results: These findings highlight the critical role of understanding ethics, integrity, and moral responsibility and the importance of nursing codes of ethics in implementing nursing practice to improve the quality of nursing care and improve the quality of care Conclusion: Nursing ethics is ethos. Integrity and moral responsibility are at the heart of ethics. Nurses must have an understanding of ethics for self-development and nursing services. As a relevant source, the code of ethics refers to the system of rules. Applying the code of ethics in nursing practice improves the quality of nursing care and service to guarantee patient safety.

Comparative Analysis of Digital Trade Rules between China and the United States: Taking USMCA as an Example

With the rapid development of digital economy, the rule setting and practice of China and the United States in the field of digital trade have become the focus of international attention. The coordination and cooperation of digital trade rules between China and the United States will definitely play a key role in the healthy development of the global digital trade. Taking USMCA as an example, this paper conducts an in-depth comparative analysis of the digital trade rules between China and the US, summarizes the differences between China and the US in the field of digital trade rules at the levels of national strategy, interest orientation, rule claims and dispute settlement mechanism, and puts forward policy suggestions on China's docking of international high-standard digital trade rules as well as how to construct a digital trade rules system with Chinese characteristics.

Analyzing the meta dimensions in TRPGs: Meta-action, metacognition, and metagaming

Roleplay has critically influenced academic dialogue on education, psychology, and narrative. However, little research has been conducted around "gaming sessions," specifically the "point of contact" amongst participants, due to its ephemeral qualities and the subjective nature of the co-creative process. Acknowledging the complexity of the subject, the authors established a clear set of definitions. They conducted a literature review to examine the existing understanding of critical components related to gameplay in Tabletop Roleplay Games (TRPGs). They are exploring TRPGs through the lens of narrative storytelling to understand better and categorize the 'collaborative' and 'co-designed interactions during the gameplay experience. The paper discusses the three interconnected ideas of meta-action, metacognition, and metagaming concerning the effective co-creation process and its impact on how participants collectively create and explore fantasy worlds in an imaginary cosmos by using a vast system of concepts, rules, and mechanisms that function as the background or canvas for action and interaction amongst them. As Language, Communication, and Education occupy a central role in the gaming experience, miscommunication and assumptions will lead to a break in immersion. Metagaming is commonly labeled as the "worst" that can happen in a gaming session. The problem is that it is also commonly confused with meta-action and metacognition, which are essential to the game. This article aims to provide the tools to all players that will allow them to enjoy a more engaging in-game experience, based on the idea that the more players manage metagaming properly, the better the game experience will be for all participants involved. The main focus is defining essential discourse clearly and clarifying the line between in-game and extra-game narration, description, and action. The authors will start conceptualizing the situation by defining general terms. A systematic review of the literature (SRL) integrated into the three phases, planning, management, and reporting the results, will be presented in the following sections. An analysis of the concepts of' Gaming and extra gaming' followed by brief 'Examples at the point of contact' and conversations around 'Action and Meta-actions' will serve as a reference to discuss the metacognition and metagaming concepts. Finally, the authors will present their conclusions and a glossary of terms.

Can You Think About Justice? Between Law Enforcement and Revenge, Detective’s Dilemmas in Noir Novel

Abstract Justice has been an aspiration and, at the same time, a temptation for humans since the beginning. The tendency to resolve disputes in a simple and even brutal manner has been progressively replaced by the creation of a system of rules, useful to compress and eliminate the excesses of a restorative approach in a rebalancing function, often governed by revenge. Revengeful action, however, has remained in common perception as a more effective remedy than that provided by the norm and has continued to influence the actions of the servants of the law themselves. The figure of the “dirty” detective has become popular in noir literature, bringing with it all the suffering and uncertainty associated with the coexistence of justice and revenge as a means of restoring balance. A question lies behind the dilemmas of the servant of the law: does good or evil prevail in our society?

A knowledge-based intelligent recognition method for rock discontinuities with point cloud data

ABSTRACT Rock discontinuity information plays a key role in engineering activities. In severely fragmented and discontinuous samples, the identification accuracy of rock discontinuities can be improved with the help of geologic knowledge with identified spatial features and geoscience interaction mechanisms. Therefore, we proposed a new method – a knowledge-based intelligent recognition method for rock discontinuities that used point cloud data – to correct inaccurate identification by considering the spatial relationships of rock discontinuities. This paper integrated the geologic knowledge bases in rock discontinuity information extraction rules and combined the generative rule inference model with the region growing method for intelligent extraction. In the case study, we developed four typical rule sets as examples based on the constructed rule system to group rock discontinuities and subsume the fractured rock discontinuities. Results show that this new method is effective in identifying and classifying rock discontinuities of complex areas with a greater reduction in manual intervention.

Polymorphic higher-order context-free session types

We present an extension of polymorphic context-free session types that allows passing channels on channels, commonly known as higher-order session types. The mixture of functional types and session types has proven to be a challenge for type equivalence formulation: whereas functional type equivalence is often inductive and presented as a system of derivation rules, session type equivalence is often coinductive and usually presented as a bisimulation. We propose a unifying approach that handles the equivalence of functional and higher-order context-free session types together in the form of a system of rules generating a coinductively defined relation. Decidability of type equivalence is obtained via reduction to bisimulation for simple grammars, for which practical algorithms are known. To bridge the gap between types and simple grammars, we introduce a language of types with canonical names instead of bindings (which we call c-types), and propose a notion of canonical renaming to translate types to c-types.

WENO schemes using optimized third order fuzzy weight limiter functions

Abstract This work presents an improved version of non-linear weight limiters to obtain third order non-oscillatory WENO scheme. The construction of this modified weight limiter is based on fuzzy inference system, which is a knowledge based rule system. The linear combination of overlapped basis functions is used to achieve the optimized weight limiters by exploring the linguistics hedges operator on the basis functions. The WENO scheme using optimized weight limiter achieves third order of accuracy and gives higher resolution to discontinuities compared to other established third order WENO schemes.

Dynamics of Friendliness of Communication Regimes in the South Caucasus Countries

The article presents a Rating of the friendliness of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries for 2023. The author focuses on the countries of the South Caucasus, shows the trends in the development of communication regimes, the degree of their friendliness towards Russia. The communication regime is defined as a system of rules, norms, conditions and opportunities for communication between state and non-state actors. To determine friendliness, the legal, political, and socio-cultural conditions for the development of 12 types of cross-country communications are analyzed. The strengthening of the formation of a common communication space with Russia in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is argued. In Azerbaijan and Georgia, the strengthening of a pragmatic approach to the development of communications with Russia and the strengthening of the role of the economic factor are being recorded. The example of Armenia shows how the political elite strengthen the movement towards unfriendliness in conditions when there is no deep anti-Russian position in the consciousness of the Armenian society. The author has compiled profiles of the friendliness of communication regimes for each country and reveals their features. The article uses the materials of the annual monitoring of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries. Monitoring is provided by the National Research Institute for the Communications Development (Moscow) under the guidance of the author of this article.

Comparative analysis of versatile temperature-controlled systems using fuzzy logic controllers

Abstract This article presents a comparison of versatile temperature-controlled systems utilizing fuzzy logic (FL) controller, highlighting their unique functionalities and verifying objectives. The meditate focuses on the following four primary systems: a temperature-controlled fan system, a temperature-controlled warmer system, a cool-controlled warmer system, and a cool-controlled fan system. The primary quill function of each system, control objectives, identify stimulant and output variables, response characteristics, normal applications, system complexity, vitality efficiency, and situation suitability are examined. The temperature-controlled fan system primarily cools by regulation airflow, achieving a mean temperature error of −0.0319°C. The temperature-controlled heater system heats the environment, with a mean temperature error of 1.4696°C. The cool-controlled heater system of rules prevents overheating by modulating heat output and maintains a stable environment, while the cool-controlled fan system of rules maintains a tankful undefined by increasing airflow. Differences in system complexity with fan systems managing humidness and warmer systems focused on a temperature increase are noted. The wallpaper provides a comprehensive overview, making it clear how each system of rules is the best right for particular conditions and applications.

Values on the horizon: Did the loss of innocence of conflict of laws change the relationship to the foreign?

AbstractWhile the complexity of the methodological and legislative-technical apparatus of conflict of laws has, in the eyes of its critics, created an aura of impermeability, they are, in fact, instruments through which a relationship to the foreign is conveyed and articulated. However, conflict of laws is not an immutable system of rules but rather a technique that undergoes varying degrees of development depending on the changing premises on which it is built. These are notably defined by different approaches to the values that frame the conflicts resolution. Depending on these values, the available instruments of conflict of laws are used to achieve different objectives. This results not only in a confluence of different methods but also in changes within a particular method. Against the backdrop of the value transformations of conflict of laws, this paper seeks to demonstrate that the abandonment of methodological purism of conflict of laws necessarily entails the abandonment of relational purism towards the foreign. By contrast, insofar as transformations within the dominant multilateral method are concerned, it is argued that the changes in value orientation have not led to a fundamental change in the nature of the relationship to the foreign.

Alternative forms of resolution of administrative and legal disputes

Alternative forms of administrative-legal dispute resolution are considered in the article based on current legislation. The object of the study is public- legal relations that are formed in the process of resolving administrative-legal disputes. The subject of the research is the theoretical, organizational, legal and applied aspects of public legal regulation of alternative resolution of administrative-legal disputes. The purpose of the research is to build a theoretical model of alternative resolution of legal disputes. The methodological basis is a dialectical method of cognition using special scientific methods. In accordance with a generally systematic approach, comparative-legal, formal-legal methods were used. It is noted that the technology of alternative resolution of a legal dispute can be found out as a specially created and empirically based system of methods and rules of purposeful step-by-step activity in this direction and the very set of alternative forms of dispute resolution with a certain sequence of application. The resolution of administrative and legal disputes by state institutions of non-judicial protection is carried out by state bodies, local self-government bodies and officials whose activities are regulated by national legislation and departmental regulations. Administrative-legal disputes are classified according to the criteria of the bodies that resolve the dispute: those that are resolved in court, administratively, and conciliation procedures. The alternative way of resolving an administrative-legal dispute is proposed to be understood as a procedure for resolving administrative-legal disputes regulated by the norms of administrative and administrative- procedural law, which is not related to the exercise of public-authority powers by entities that are not parties to the dispute. The parties to the dispute may have public-authority powers, and the implementation of alternative resolution of administrative-legal disputes may be an element of administrative competence. Further research will be aimed at determining the possibilities of using digital technologies as an alternative form of administrative dispute resolution.

Review on Cellular Automata for Microstructure Simulation of Metallic Materials.

The cellular automata (CA) method has played an important role in the research and development of metallic materials. CA can interpret the microstructure changes of materials and obtain more abundant, accurate and intuitive information of microstructure evolution than conventional methods. CA can visually represent the process of grain formation, growth, development and change to us in a graphical way, which can assist us in analysis, thinking and solving problems. In the last five years, the application of CA in materials research has been rapidly developed, and CA has begun to occupy an increasingly important position in the simulation research of metallic materials. After introducing the advantages and limitations of CA compared to other widely used simulation methods, the purpose of this paper is to review the recent application progress on the microstructure simulation of metallic materials using CA, such as solidification, recrystallization, phase transformation and carbide precipitation occurring during forming and heat treatment. Specifically, recent research advances on microstructure simulation by CA in the fields of additive manufacturing, welding, asymmetrical rolling, corrosion prevention, etc., are also elaborated in this paper. Furthermore, this paper points out the future work direction of CA simulation in the research of metallic materials, especially in the simulation of the crystal structure, the prediction of mechanical properties, CA simulation software and rule systems, etc. These are expected to attract wide attention of researchers in the field of metallic materials and promote the development of CA in materials research.

The independence of central banks: a reductio ad absurdum

This paper testifies to the fact that the proclaimed independence of central banks, as conceived by its founders, is nothing more than a chimera. We demonstrate that the hypothesis ‘inflation is a purely monetary phenomenon’ does not substantiate the case for independence. Further, the portrayal of the conservative central banker, the imaginary principal-agent contract, the alleged financial autonomy, along with the ban on budgetary financing, amount to flawed logic in arguing for the independence of the central bank. We also highlight that the idea of independence is not convincing due to the absence of well-defined outlines in its operational toolbox and the system of rules it relies upon.

Analysis of U.S. Response to Frequent Sanctions Against ChinaInternational Law Dimension

Since the global outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2019, the development of various countries has been affected and global economic growth has been sluggish. At the same time, economic friction between the major powers has continued, and there has been a rise in Western trade protectionism and hegemony. Western capitalist countries, represented by the United States, have imposed economic sanctions on China in an attempt to curb China's development, but there is currently a lack of an effective system of rules at the international level to regulate this phenomenon. Therefore, this paper analyzes the economic sanctions imposed by the United States on our country, based on the current legal system of our country, and in the process of comparing and learning from the advanced experience of other countries, it explores how our country should accelerate the improvement of the anti-sanctions legal system, to improve the level of judicial countermeasures effectively, and to set up legal barriers to curb the negative impact of foreign economic sanctions on our country.

Position Versus Class


 
 
 Positional notation and related numerical manipulation techniques of Indian origin were introduced to Europe during the twelfth century through Arabic mediation and vividly described by Fibonacci as modus Indorum, the method of the Indians. This article aims to juxtapose Sanskrit and Latin texts to highlight the connections and differences between matrix and reflection in a complex cultural process of diffusion and assimilation. With reference to positional notation, this contribution examines a conceptual distinction between the graphical notion of position and a logical-classificatory principle hitherto perhaps not fully recognized, although present in the texts of both traditions. The thesis of a consequent diagrammatic conception of positional notation in its origins, as a system of rules relating graphical position and order of magnitude, is also advanced.