Strategic autonomy as a means to counter protectionism

Pre-Noun Modifiers as a Means to Describe Product Characteristics

The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as...

Modeling Tariff to Analyze Protectionism

The modeling of trading wars is now an actual and modern problem although the first works on optimization of the custom duties date back to the end of the 19th century. The problem of reducing the number of possible solutions to the conflict and precise identifying of the optimal strategies is important. Applying a mathematical model makes the problem more formal, allows removing political tens...

Procedures as a Gateway to Spacecraft Autonomy

This paper examines the role of procedures in operating crewed spacecraft and how procedures can serve as an entry point for spacecraft autonomy. Procedures represent the knowledge necessary to operate a system and are a critical component of crewed spaceflight. Historically, procedures have been executed by humans reading from a piece of paper or a static display. In this paper we describe a n...

Two-Dimensional Positioning as a Means to Represent Strategic Knowledge in Design

In design activities such as writing and programming, problem analysis (identifying what should be constructed) and solution synthesis (how they should be integrated) depend on each other. While externalization plays an important role in such design activities, existing design support tools mainly focus on representations that serve only for solutions, but not for problems. In this paper, we pr...

Beyond Pluralism: Foucault's Strategic Counter to Heterosexist Categories