Применение интеллектуальной системы криминального анализа в реальном времени (ricas) для аналитического сопровождения оперативно-розыскной деятельности и досудебного расследования

Uzlov, D.Y., Strukov, V.M., Grigorovich, A.B., Petrusenko, A.I. and Doskalenko, S.N. (2015), “Use of Real-time Intellectual criminal analytics system (RICAS) for analytical support of operative and search activities and pre-trial investigation” [“Primenenie intellektual’noj sistemy kriminal’nogo analiza v real’nom vremeni (RICAS) dlja analiticheskogo soprovozhdenija operativno-rozysknoj dejatel’nosti i dosudebnogo rassledovanija”], Pravo i Bezpeka, No. 2, pp. 132–139.Применение интеллектуальной системы криминального анализа в реальном времени (RICAS) для аналитического сопровождения оперативно-розыскной деятельности и досудебного расследования / Д. Ю. Узлов, В. М. Струков, А. Б. Григорович и др. // Право і безпека. - 2015. - № 2 (57). - С. 132–139.Досліджено проблему підвищення ефективності інформаційно-аналітичної роботи в органах внутрішніх справ шляхом створення інтелектуального технологічного інструментарію нового покоління. Проаналізовано сучасний стан інформаційно-аналітичного забезпечення органів внутрішніх справ України та сформульовано його характерні особливості. Виконано огляд зарубіжних автоматизованих засобів інформаційно-аналітичної роботи, виділено їхні переваги і недоліки. Як вирішення сформульованих проблем запропоновано використовувати геоінформаційну інтелектуальну систему кримінального аналізу в реальному часі – Real-time Intelligence crime analytics system (RICAS). Описано її призначення, функціональні можливості, методики виконання кримінального аналізу засобами системи, переваги в порівнянні з існуючими аналогами і новизну.The problem of improving the effectiveness of informational and analytical work within internal affairs agencies through the creation of intelligent technological tools of the new generation is studied in the article. The authors have analyzed the current state of informational and analytical support of Internal Affairs Agencies of Ukraine and have formulated its characteristic features. The overview of foreign automated means of information and analytical work is performed; their advantages and disadvantages are outlined. As a solution of the formulated problems the authors have offered to use geographic and information Real-time Intelligence crime analytics system (RICAS). Its purpose, functionality, methodical techniques of criminal analysis by the means of the system, advantages compared with existing analogues and novelty are described. The system has used methods and algorithms for clustering and classification of Text Mining technology to isolate criminally relevant information together with the technology of Visual Mining in real time, ensuring the ability to perform analytical work on the prevention and investigation of crimes in the automated mode on a qualitatively new level. The RICAS allows us to perform the analysis, processing and presentation of data on a new technological basis; it is designed as an add (shell) of the existing integrated information and search system of Internal Affairs Agencies of Ukraine; and that is essential, it allows while its implementation do not delete the old system or suspend its operation, but simply and painless significantly improve its functionality and efficiency. The RICAS – is the first intelligence system of criminal analysis of data, which brings together in one space the main and the most advanced methods and techniques of criminal analysis and analytical search in real time that can significantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of solving crimes without delay and previously unsolved crimes.Исследована проблема повышения эффективности информационно-аналитической работы в органах внутренних дел путём создания интеллектуального технологического инструментария нового поколения. Проанализировано современное состояние информационноаналитического обеспечения органов внутренних дел Украины и сформулированы его характерные особенности. Выполнен обзор зарубежных автоматизированных средств информационно-аналитической работы, выделены их достоинства и недостатки. В качестве решения сформулированных проблем предложено использовать геоинформационную интеллектуальную систему криминального анализа в реальном времени – Real-time Intelligence crime analytics system (RICAS). Описаны её назначение, функциональные возможности, методики выполнения криминального анализа средствами системы, преимущества по сравнению с существующими аналогами и новизна

Addressing the Black Box of AI – A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-Constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence

Algorithmic technologies and (large) data infrastructures, often referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI), have received increasing attention from gerontological research in the last decade. While there is much literature that dissects and explores the development, application, and evaluation of AI relevant for gerontology, this article makes a novel contribution by critically engaging with the theorizing in this growing field of research. We observe that gerontology’s engagement with AI is shaped by an interventionist logic that situates AI as a black box for gerontological research. We demonstrate how this black box logic has neglected many aspects of AI as a research topic for gerontology and discuss three classical concepts in gerontology to show how they can be used to open various black boxes of aging and AI in the areas: a) the datafication of aging, b) the political economy of AI and aging, and c) everyday engagements and embodiments of AI in later life. In the final chapter, we propose a model of the co-constitution of aging and AI that makes theoretical propositions to study the relational terrain between aging and AI and hence aims to open the black box of AI in gerontology beyond an interventionist logic.Vera Gallistl’s work on this paper has been funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the State of Lower Austria through project ICT20-055 (Grant-ID: 10.47379/ICT20055). Barbara Marshall’s work on this paper has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (435-2017-1343) and the Canadian Institute for Health Research (155188). We acknowledge support by Open Access Publishing Fund of Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria

ART-XC: A Medium-energy X-ray Telescope System for the Spectrum-R-Gamma Mission

The ART-XC instrument is an X-ray grazing-incidence telescope system in an ABRIXAS-type optical configuration optimized for the survey observational mode of the Spectrum-RG astrophysical mission which is scheduled to be launched in 2011. ART-XC has two units, each equipped with four identical X-ray multi-shell mirror modules. The optical axes of the individual mirror modules are not parallel but are separated by several degrees to permit the four modules to share a single CCD focal plane detector, 1/4 of the area each. The 450-micron-thick pnCCD (similar to the adjacent eROSITA telescope detector) will allow detection of X-ray photons up to 15 keV. The field of view of the individual mirror module is about 18 x 18 arcminutes(exp 2) and the sensitivity of the ART-XC system for 4 years of survey will be better than 10(exp -12) erg s(exp -1) cm(exp -2) over the 4-12 keV energy band. This will allow the ART-XC instrument to discover several thousand new AGNs

Status of ART-XC/SRG Instrument

Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) is an X-ray astrophysical observatory, developed by Russia in collaboration with Germany. The mission will be launched in March 2016 from Baikonur, by a Zenit rocket with a Fregat booster and placed in a 6-month-period halo orbit around L2. The scientific payload consists of two independent telescopes - a soft-x-ray survey instrument, eROSITA, being provided by Germany and a medium-x-ray-energy survey instrument ART-XC being developed by Russia. ART-XC will consist of seven independent, but co-aligned, telescope modules. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is fabricating the flight mirror modules for the ART-XC/SRG. Each mirror module will be aligned with a focal plane CdTe double-sided strip detectors which will operate over the energy range of 6-30 keV, with an angular resolution of less than 1, a field of view of approximately 34 and an expected energy resolution of about 10 percent at 14 keV

The ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory

ART-XC (Astronomical Roentgen Telescope - X-ray Concentrator) is the hard X-ray instrument with grazing incidence imaging optics on board the Spektr-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory. The SRG observatory is the flagship astrophysical mission of the Russian Federal Space Program, which was successively launched into orbit around the second Lagrangian point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system with a Proton rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 13 July 2019. The ART-XC telescope will provide the first ever true imaging all-sky survey performed with grazing incidence optics in the 4-30 keV energy band and will obtain the deepest and sharpest map of the sky in the energy range of 4-12 keV. Observations performed during the early calibration and performance verification phase as well as during the on-going all-sky survey that started on 12 Dec. 2019 have demonstrated that the in-flight characteristics of the ART-XC telescope are very close to expectations based on the results of ground calibrations. Upon completion of its 4-year all-sky survey, ART-XC is expected to detect ~5000 sources (~3000 active galactic nuclei, including heavily obscured ones, several hundred clusters of galaxies, ~1000 cataclysmic variables and other Galactic sources), and to provide a high-quality map of the Galactic background emission in the 4-12 keV energy band. ART-XC is also well suited for discovering transient X-ray sources. In this paper, we describe the telescope, results of its ground calibrations, major aspects of the mission, the in-flight performance of ART-XC and first scientific results.Comment: 19 pages, 30 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysic

The ART-XC Instrument on Board the SRG Mission

Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) is an X-ray astrophysical observatory, developed by Russia in collaboration with Germany. The mission will be launched in 2014 from Baikonur, by a Zenit rocket with a Fregat booster and placed in a 6-month-period halo orbit around L2. The scientific payload consists of two independent telescopes . a soft-x-ray survey instrument, eROSITA, being provided by Germany and a medium-x-ray-energy survey instrument ART-XC being developed by Russia. ART-XC will consist of seven independent, but co-aligned, telescope modules with seven corresponding cadmium-telluride focal plane detectors. Each will operate over the approximate energy range of 6- 30 keV, with an angular resolution of <1 ', a field of view of ~30 ' and an energy resolution about 10% at 14 keV. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) will fabricate some of the mirror modules, to complement others fabricated by VNIIEF in Russia

A qualitative exploration of work-related head injury: vulnerability at the intersection of workers’ decision making and organizational values

Abstract Background Work-related head injury is a critical public health issue due to its rising prevalence; the association with profound disruption of workers’ lives; and significant economic burdens in terms of medical costs and lost wages. Efforts to understand and prevent these types of injuries have largely been dominated by epidemiological research and safety science, which has focused on identifying risk at the level of the individual worker, population group, or organizational sector. Limited research has focused on the perspectives of the workers, a key stakeholder group for informing understanding of vulnerability to work-related head injury. This study explored workers’ perspectives to better understand their decision-making and how and why their injuries occurred. Methods We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews with thirty-two adult workers who had sustained a work-related head injury. Workers were recruited from an urban clinic in central Ontario, Canada. Labour Process Theory informed the thematic analysis. Results Three hazardous work conditions were identified: insufficient training; inadequate staffing; and inattention to the physical environment. In addition, professional and organizational norms were implicated in vulnerability to head injury including putting the client before the worker and the pressure to work unsafely. The findings also highlight a complex interrelationship between workers’ decision-making and professional and organizational norms that produces vulnerability to head injury, a vulnerability which oftentimes is reproduced by workers’ decisions to work despite hazardous conditions. Conclusions Our findings suggest that, beyond the need to redress the inattention to hazards in the physical environment, there is a need to address norms that influence worker decision-making to improve the safety of workers. Using Labour Process Theory highlights an important social dynamic within workplace sectors that could inform future development and implementation of multi-level and integrated public health strategies to reduce work-related head injury

A qualitative exploration of work-related head injury: vulnerability at the intersection of workers’ decision making and organizational values

Abstract Background Work-related head injury is a critical public health issue due to its rising prevalence; the association with profound disruption of workers’ lives; and significant economic burdens in terms of medical costs and lost wages. Efforts to understand and prevent these types of injuries have largely been dominated by epidemiological research and safety science, which has focused on identifying risk at the level of the individual worker, population group, or organizational sector. Limited research has focused on the perspectives of the workers, a key stakeholder group for informing understanding of vulnerability to work-related head injury. This study explored workers’ perspectives to better understand their decision-making and how and why their injuries occurred. Methods We conducted a qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews with thirty-two adult workers who had sustained a work-related head injury. Workers were recruited from an urban clinic in central Ontario, Canada. Labour Process Theory informed the thematic analysis. Results Three hazardous work conditions were identified: insufficient training; inadequate staffing; and inattention to the physical environment. In addition, professional and organizational norms were implicated in vulnerability to head injury including putting the client before the worker and the pressure to work unsafely. The findings also highlight a complex interrelationship between workers’ decision-making and professional and organizational norms that produces vulnerability to head injury, a vulnerability which oftentimes is reproduced by workers’ decisions to work despite hazardous conditions. Conclusions Our findings suggest that, beyond the need to redress the inattention to hazards in the physical environment, there is a need to address norms that influence worker decision-making to improve the safety of workers. Using Labour Process Theory highlights an important social dynamic within workplace sectors that could inform future development and implementation of multi-level and integrated public health strategies to reduce work-related head injury