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The central objective of this research was to identify the major challenges of police education for the Comprehensive Transformation Process of the National Police. For its development, a qualitative methodology was used based on the development of three phases: theoretical, identifying the normative and political mandates that establish the line of police education; descriptive, through a recognition and analysis of the goals that the Police Education Directorate (formerly National Directorate of Schools) of the National Police must face and the actions that must be undertaken to achieve them, as well as the needs that arise from the training schools of the Institution ; and exploratory, which includes, based on the results of the previous phases, the identification and analysis of the challenges of police education. The results reached represent a contribution on the actions and pending tasks that the Institution must assume in the field of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2022, a New York civil court concluded that a polyamorous partner should not be automatically excluded from noneviction protection (O'Neill). The decision was hailed as particularly groundbreaking and a 'game changer'. On the other side of the globe, the New Zealand Supreme Court concluded that polyamorous unions could be entitled to the same property-sharing regime as couples. Upon closer examination, the two decisions use function-based modes of recognition to confer similar protections upon the polyamorous union. However, this paper will illustrate some of the limitations inherent in this approach. At present, functional recognition exhibits a continued attachment to the traditional marital family; this aspect, combined with the unique complexity of polyamorous arrangements, renders this route to legal recognition potentially inappropriate. The decisions examined either fail to understand the nature of the arrangement or choose to distort it in order to make polyamory legally intelligible. Both decisions are emblematic of a broader difficulty of functional recognition to provide answers to the legal demands of this type of relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of the World Church is one of the significant developments in the Church in modern times. It emerges from the dialectical tensions or conflicts between a Church widely perceived as monocultural and a world that has witnessed the ascendance and call for recognition of other cultures. The processes of confrontation and, subsequently, rectification have fructified in the sense that it gave way to various expressions of the Church other than its European form. We can now speak of the Church in Asia, the Church in Africa, the Church in Latin America, and even the Church in the Philippines. In this paper, we refer to the dynamics of critical theory, specifically Axel Honneth's theory of recognition, to explain how historical movements create tensions that have profound and lasting effects on institutions such as the Church. The movements in the Church before and after the Second Vatican Council, which saw the emergence of the World Church, reveal the workings of Honneth's emphasis on anchorage in social realities, emancipation from slavery and social injustice, intersubjectivity, and recognition spheres in the processes that paved the way for a significant evolution of the Church's self-understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rising prominence of consumer sovereignty, wherein businesses prioritize customers as kings, presents complex ethical dilemmas. This paper delves into the ethical implications of consumer sovereignty by examining the lack of recognition to which service workers are subjected in their interactions with customers. Applying the sensitizing lens of recognition theory, we investigate how the relational domination inherent in the service industry ultimately results in four main recognition gaps: visibility, status recognition, affective recognition, and capacity recognition gaps. These gaps considerably hinder an employee's ability to experience workplace dignity. Our findings enrich the business ethics literature by providing a more holistic analysis of the ethical challenges raised by consumer sovereignty. We introduce recognition theory as a framework to address these concerns and offer recommendations for managers to better support their service employees in overcoming the absence of customer recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In The Fold, Deleuze regards Raymond Ruyer as the most recent of Leibniz's great disciples. This claim is not self-evident, since Ruyer often criticises Leibniz and stresses the divergence of his theory from Leibniz's monadological metaphysics. Therefore, while Ruyer does not seem to regard himself as indebted to Leibniz, and as his psychobiology is not always reconcilable with Leibniz's philosophy, it is necessary to explore what is at stake in Deleuze's recognition of Ruyer as a Leibnizian thinker. This essay foregrounds the tacit intertwining between Leibniz and Ruyer, which can, on the one hand, contribute to Leibniz's scholarship and uncover the contemporaneity of his thought, and on the other hand, expose certain revealing Ruyerian moments in Deleuze's immanent philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an account of recognition and its relation to knowledge. One important observation is that while 'know' is a stative verb, 'recognize' is an achievement verb. A second is that 'recognize' is knowledge entailing, both when combined with a complementizer phrase and when combined with a noun phrase. The behavior of the latter kind of construction is particularly subtle and is the main focus of this paper. This paper ends with an interesting puzzle about object recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Entrepreneurship is one of the most stressful occupations in today's society. However, there is a lack of research on the relationship between entrepreneurial challenge stressors and opportunity recognition in entrepreneurship. This study examined whether entrepreneurs' challenge stressors can trigger opportunity recognition from the perspective of the challenge-hindrance stressor theory. The moderating roles of self-enhancement and business type were also tested. A quantitative research method was applied through surveying 307 entrepreneurs in Vietnam. We found that challenge stressors have salient effect on opportunity recognition ability of entrepreneurs and this effect varies according to different business types. Besides, our data revealed that self-enhancement value weakens the positive relationship between challenge stressors and opportunity recognition. This study has implications for entrepreneurship theory and practice, offering insight into how entrepreneurs deal with work stress to maintain high levels of opportunity recognition as a creative process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the debate over constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians since 2010, the high "Yes" vote in 1967 has been recalled as a benchmark of national unity and goodwill towards Indigenous Australians, something to which Australians must return. The 1967 referendum has been evoked as a "step" towards reconciliation, with constitutional recognition presented as the next step. The "recognition" that the 1967 referendum enabled has been (mis)represented as allowing Indigenous Australians to be counted in the Census, hence to "count" more generally. Explaining constitutional changes to voters in the referendum on an Indigenous Voice, "Yes" and "No" campaigns are likely to describe amendments in emotively powerful terms. False memories of "recognition" obscure a political fissure within the myth of 1967. Some who celebrate 1967 have wanted the Constitution to continue to distinguish Indigenous from non‐Indigenous Australians, one understanding of the 1967 amendment to Section 51(xxvi); others have hoped that the next referendum would complete the deletion of distinguishing words that had begun in 1967 with the repeal of Section 127. The myths of 1967 combine to accommodate opposing ideals of national "unity", allowing protagonists in the debate to read the "lessons" of 1967 in ways that reinforce their own political perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the value of consulting religious traditions in liberal democratic states. It argues that religious traditions can provide valuable resources for problem-solving and offers four nonreligious, epistemic reasons for consulting them. These reasons include the continuity of transmission, the test of time, the intergenerational learning process, and the result of moral inquiry. The article emphasizes that while there are epistemic reasons for consulting religious traditions, other factors such as unjust discrimination may outweigh them. The analysis has implications for the role of religious traditions in political or ethical problem-solving in liberal democratic states. [Extracted from the article]

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The pedestrian attribute recognition aims to generate a structured description of pedestrians, which serves an important role in surveillance. Current works usually assume that the images and the specific pedestrian states, including pedestrian occlusion and pedestrian orientation, are given. However, we argue that the current works ignore the guidance of the pedestrian state and cannot achieve the appropriate performance since the appearance feature will become unreliable due to the variance of the pedestrian state, which is common in practice. Therefore, this paper proposes the Explicit State Representation (ExSR) Guided Pedestrian Attribute Recognition to improve the accuracy through state learning and attribute fusion among frames. Firstly, the pedestrian state is explicitly represented by concatenating the pedestrian orientation and occlusion, which can be accurately determined via analyzing the pose. Secondly, the state-aware pedestrian attribute fusion method is proposed and divided into two cases, namely the inter-state case and the intra-state case. In the intra-state case, the appearance feature will remain stable and the attribute relations are propagated to refine. The method of exploiting attribute relations within a single frame is the Graph Neural Network. In the inter-state case, the state changes, the attribute relationship propagation is prevented, and the advantages of attribute recognition in each frame are complemented to make a reliable judgment on the invisible region. The experimental results demonstrate that the ExSR outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on two public databases, benefiting from the explicit introduction of the state into the attribute recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine how Wikipedia data can be useful for political analysis. Our primary aim is to determine whether Wikipedia page views can be used as a strong proxy for name recognition. Name recognition is an important variable for political science research, but conducting surveys to discover the name recognition of politicians can be cost prohibitive for many researchers. To help researchers overcome this obstacle, we conducted a survey of Czech citizens asking them if they knew each of the 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. Then, we downloaded Wikipedia page information on these deputies. We found that name recognition is strongly correlated with page views on Wikipedia. The more well-known deputies have significantly higher page views on Wikipedia. We recommend that political science researchers requiring an appropriate proxy for name recognition use the free Wikimedia API, which offers page information data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current paper we aim to combine the theoretical ideas of recognition theory to conversation analytical, empirical observations. We ask what recognition theories can give to conversation analysis, and vice versa. We operate on a model of recognition that consists of three different modes: respect, esteem, and love/care, and which distinguishes the levels of conversational actions and the attitudes of recognition manifested in such actions. In this study we examine data examples from various conversational settings (institutional, quasi-experimental, family interaction) and activities (decision-making, storytelling), focusing on the more complex cases of (mis)recognition. We show how recognition can appear both explicitly and implicitly in conversational sequences, and demonstrate how the levels of conversational actions and recognition can be either congruent or incongruent with each other. At the end of the article, we discuss the implications of this view for the interface of conversation analysis and sociological theory, arguing that it can inform and promote the development of interactionally based social and societal critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Product and service innovation is important for brands to succeed in a competitive marketplace. As information technology advances, customer recognition becomes a growing industry trend; that is, brands track customers' purchase history, recognize and price discriminate between repeat and new customers.The trend of customer recognition has changed the nature and intensity of competition between brands. In this article, we examine how customer recognition and the associated changes in competition affect brands' incentives to invest in product and service innovation. We find that when brands have similar equity, customer recognition increases brands' incentives to invest in product and service innovation. However, when brands have sufficiently different equity, customer recognition leads the stronger brand to invest more and the weaker brand to invest less in product and service innovation. In addition, extant literature suggests that customer recognition reduces brand profits. In contrast, we find that customer recognition can increase the weaker brand's profit but decreases it more for the stronger brand. Thus, collecting customers' purchase history data for customer recognition can be beneficial for weaker brands but detrimental for stronger brands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This summary provides an overview of a special issue that explores various topics related to philosophy and art. The articles cover a range of subjects, including the role of gesture in communication, the concept of rhythm in Deleuze's works, the idea of continuity and discontinuity, the relationship between ontology and anarchy, Guattari's notion of transversality, and the governance of affect in contemporary capitalism. The articles offer in-depth analyses and interpretations of these topics, providing insights into the philosophical and artistic perspectives being discussed. Library patrons can use this summary to decide if they want to explore the articles further. [Extracted from the article]

Space infrared (IR) target recognition has always been a key issue in the field of space technology. The imaging distance is long, the target is weak, and the feature discrimination is low, making it difficult to distinguish between high-threat targets and decoys. However, most existing methods ignore the fuzziness of multi-dimensional features, and their performance mainly depends on the accuracy of feature extraction, with certain limitations in handling uncertainty and noise. This article proposes a space IR dim target fusion recognition method, which is based on fuzzy comprehensive of spatio-temporal correlation. First, we obtained multi-dimensional IR features of the target through multi-time and multi-spectral detectors, then we established and calculated the adaptive fuzzy-membership function of the features. Next, we applied the entropy weight method to ascertain the objective fusion weights of each feature and computed the spatially fuzzified fusion judgments for the targets. Finally, the fuzzy comprehensive function was used to perform temporal recursive judgment, and the ultimate fusion recognition result was obtained by integrating the results of each temporal recursive judgment. The simulation and comparative experimental results indicate that the proposed method improved the accuracy and robustness of IR dim target recognition in complex environments. Under ideal conditions, it can achieve an accuracy of 88.0% and a recall of 97.5% for the real target. In addition, this article also analyzes the impact of fusion feature combinations, fusion frame counts, different feature extraction errors, and feature database size on recognition performance. The research in this article can enable space-based IR detection systems to make more accurate and stable decisions, promoting defense capabilities and ensuring space security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the long-standing questions for scholars and policy-makers—in particular in western capitals—is how to treat the rise of new powers in world politics. Although past research has paved the way for studying power transitions, we still lack conceptual tools to understand the behaviour of peripheral states which move between different power positions. How can we explain, from the point of view of those in the margins, how such power transitions happen? To put it differently, how does a rise to power happen for states in the peripheries and semi-peripheries? I argue in this article that not all states have agentic capacities to act (e.g., to rise to a less peripheral position or to seek better status). There has been a silent and tacit consensus around the fact that peripheral states must first be recognized and accepted by systemic/hierarchy gatekeepers as actors who can fully exercise their agency in global hierarchies. I present the concept of international insertion, which contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how rising powers behave in world politics, and helps to explain why there are no discernible heightened tensions from a strategic–military perspective when peripherical countries move (or try to move) towards mid-system (or improved status) positions within regional and global hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The degree to which civility norms are upheld or violated is an important criterion in evaluating the democratic quality of public debates. We investigate civility across media types, political systems, and levels of socio-cultural division, offering a comparative perspective on how these factors shape levels of civility in public debates around a key question for societies around the world: What is the proper role of religion in public life? Capturing both positive and negative forms of civility (i.e., recognition and outrage) on multiple levels of analysis, we compile and analyze an original large-scale dataset of news items published during August 2015 until July 2016 in six democracies (Australia, Germany, Lebanon, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA) across three types of media (printed newspapers, news websites, and political blogs). We find that mediated discourse was heavier on outrage in mixed political systems (Germany and Turkey) than in 'purely' majoritarian and consensus systems. Public debate in deeply divided countries contained more outrage but also more recognition compared to less divided countries, with newspapers and news websites mitigating outrage discourse compared to political blogs. Blogs also emerged as less nurturing of recognition than newspapers and news websites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This philosophical investigation interrogates the relationship between G.W.F. Hegel's concept of the master-slave dialectic in The Phenomenology of Spirit and the critique and reformulation of it by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. As a means of contextualization and expansion of Hegel's original textual account, I consider Susan Buck-Morss' seminal defense through grounding the dialectic in Hegel's possible historical knowledge of the Haitian Revolution. I maintain that despite a compelling picture, Buck-Morss' insights are unable to fully vindicate Hegel from the rebukes of Fanon, and as a result, Hegel's phenomenology necessitates a concrete analysis of the actual conscious experiences of the racialized and colonized subject in order to realize its aims. In pursuit of this critical methodology, I develop the upshot and positive movement of Fanon's critique through what I describe as a "phenomenology of flesh" in conversation with Maurice Merleau Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Postmodern approaches to science introduce various methods, and result in multiple explanations and competing theories. This has exacerbated the science war in philosophy of science. The ongoing disputes known as 'science war' is a consequence of ontological disputes within the philosophical branch of metaphysics. Even though science had denied the importance of metaphysics in its practice, this paper argues that the recognition of philosophy specifically that in regards to metaphysics is a solution to the confusion arising from relativism of knowledge. As part of a preliminary attempt to confront this problem, this paper focuses on the criticisms of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and Seyyed Hossein Nasr on the ontology of modern science, which issues from the denial of metaphysics by modern scientists. Their views on ontology are part of both scholars' Islamic philosophy of science. This is a qualitative research based on historical, doctrinal and comparative analysis of the primary works by the two scholars. The arguments are presented within the scope of philosophy of science based on the framework of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Thus, we find that a wider and transcendental epistemology is possible for understanding the multiple levels of reality subsumed within the metaphysics of Islam, which opens the door to reality and truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Named entity recognition (NER) is particularly challenging for medical texts due to the high domain specificity, abundance of technical terms, and sparsity of data in this field. In this work, we propose a novel attention layer, called the "ontology attention layer", that enhances the NER performance of a language model for clinical text by utilizing an ontology consisting of conceptual classes related to the target entity set. The proposed layer computes the relevance between each input token and the classes in the ontology and then fuses the encoded token vectors and the class vectors to enhance the token vectors by explicit superior knowledge. In our experiments, we apply the proposed layer to various language models for an NER task based on a Chinese clinical dataset to evaluate the performance of the layer. We also investigate the influence of the granularity of the classes utilized in the ontology attention layer. The experimental results show that the proposed ontology attention layer improved F1 scores by 0.4% to 0.5%. The results suggest that the proposed method is an effective approach to improving the NER performance of existing language models for clinical datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"Hegel's Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution" by Jon Stewart is a valuable contribution to the study of nineteenth-century philosophy. The book explores the influence of Hegelian concepts, particularly alienation and recognition, on major philosophical themes of the era. Stewart examines the works of various thinkers, including Heine, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Bakunin, and Engels, and connects their ideas to their Hegelian origins. The book also highlights the connections between philosophical evolution and shifts in political, economic, literary, and religious history. While the book has some shortcomings, it serves as a gateway text for students and individuals interested in understanding the philosophical foundations of a century marked by upheaval and revolution. [Extracted from the article]

"Representation, Recognition and Respect in World Politics: The Case of US-Iran Relations" by Constance Duncombe is a book that explores the relationship between Iran and the United States in the context of Iran's nuclear program. The author argues that states' desire to be recognized by other states based on their own self-understandings helps explain shifts in foreign policy. The book examines how Iran and the US sought to have their self-representations accepted by the other, and discusses the emotional impact of misrecognition on state behavior. The book offers a constructivist framework for understanding foreign policy and national identities, making it valuable for scholars of international relations. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Alevis in modern Turkey and the diaspora: recognition, mobilization and transformation" by Derya Özkul and Hege Markussen explores the struggle for recognition faced by the Alevis, a religious and cultural group in Turkey. The book examines the historical and contemporary debates surrounding the definition of Alevism and the efforts of the Alevis to protect their identity. It also discusses the transformation of Alevi communities in the context of migration and the formation of transnational networks. This edited volume provides valuable insights into Alevism and will be of interest to researchers studying religious groups and struggles for recognition. [Extracted from the article]

Information referenced to the self is retrieved more accurately than information referenced to others, known as the memory self-reference effect. It is unclear, however, whether social context (identity of the other) or task factors alter decision-making processes. In a virtual object allocation task, female participants sorted objects into their own or another’s (stranger or mother) basket based on a colour cue. Subsequently, they performed a recognition memory task in which they first indicated whether each object was old or new, and then whether it had been allocated to themselves or to the other. We obtained owner-specific hit rates and false-alarm rates and applied signal detection theory to derive separate recognition sensitivity (d’) and recognition criterion parameters (c) for self- and other-owned objects. While there was no clear evidence of a recognition self-reference effect, or a change in sensitivity, participants adopted a more conservative recognition criterion for self- compared with other-owned objects, and particularly when the other-referent was the participant’s mother compared with the stranger. Moreover, when discriminating whether the originally presented objects were self- or other-owned, participants were biased toward ascribing ownership to the ‘other’. We speculate that these findings reflect ownership-based changes in decisional processing during the recognition memory self-reference paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Reviewer's acknowledgments. • Award for outstanding contribution in peer review in 2023. • Award for top 1% reviewers in 2023. In 2023, members of the Mechanism and Machine Theory journal's Editorial Board and many independent reviewers contributed their time and expertise in reviewing manuscripts. This process greatly benefits our editors, contributing authors, and ultimately our readers. In fact, the high standard and reputation of the journal is strongly shaped by the expert knowledge, generous time contribution, and commitment to mechanism and machine science of the body of reviewers. Both, Elsevier, the publisher, and the editor-in-chief of the journal, would like to publicly pay tribute to all of the 824 reviewers who completed a total of 2118 reviews during the year of 2023. We are extremely grateful for their outstanding contributions and we are look forward to working with them in 2024! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bending deformation of members in spatial grid structures is a typical damage threatening structural safety. Conventional methods of deformation measurement have difficulty in detection member selection, high-altitude operation, or systematic error elimination. And reverse modeling technology for deformation detection is mostly utilized in entire structures or laboratory scenes. In this study, two kinds of member separation algorithms are developed based on point cloud registration and point cloud features respectively, both of which are suitable for engineering situations of insufficient point cloud density and multiple noise sources. The deformation recognition algorithm for members is improved accordingly with double judgment conditions. A field test has been carried out in a Sports Center Stadium in Guangzhou province. 7045 members are identified, and 29 crooked members are eventually recognized. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms can improve the efficiency of member separation and deformation recognition, and assist the monitoring and assessment of spatial grid structures in-service. • Two kinds of automatic member separation algorithms for spatial grid structures in-service are proposed. • Quantitative calculation of member bending deformations is realized. • 3D laser scanning technology is utilized for point cloud acquisition. • A field test has been carried out in the east stand of a Sports Center Stadium in Guangzhou province. • The proposed algorithms can detect 5 times more crooked members than conventional manual methods effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Simulation modeling and experimental testing of space non-cooperative targets. • The difficulty of micro-Doppler feature extraction under small data size increases. • Efficient use of similar features between simulated and experimental data. • Make the most of a small amount of experimental data. Classifying and identifying non-cooperative targets plays an important role in space missions in the present age. A micro-Doppler characteristic signal is an effective means to identify the target. In order to better extract the micro-Doppler features of the target in the case of very little experimental data, a pose recognition network based on the theory of transfer learning is proposed. The source domain dataset is constructed of the time–frequency spectrums obtained by short-time Fourier transform of the simulated echo signals. The time–frequency spectrums from experiment are made as target domain. Pre-training and domain adaptation is applied in this work. Finally, the test results demonstrate that the classification accuracy of our pose recognition network based on transfer learning is improved due to the good use of simulation data and the small amount of experimental data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]