Pavel Zikmund, Miroslav Macík, Petr Dvořák and Zdeněk Míkovec
This paper aims to present a state-of-the-art review in various fields of interest, leading to a new concept of bio-inspired control of small aircraft. The main goal is to improve…
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Purpose
This paper aims to present a state-of-the-art review in various fields of interest, leading to a new concept of bio-inspired control of small aircraft. The main goal is to improve controllability and safety in flying at low speeds.
Design/methodology/approach
The review part of the paper gives an overview of artificial and natural flow sensors and haptic feedback actuators and applications. This background leads to a discussion part where the topics are synthesized and the trend in control of small aircraft is estimated.
Findings
The gap in recent aircraft control is identified in the pilot–aircraft interaction. A pilot’s sensory load is discussed and several recommendations for improved control system architecture are laid out in the paper.
Practical implications
The paper points out an opportunity for a following research of suggested bio-inspired aircraft control. The control is based on the artificial feeling of aerodynamic forces acting on a wing by means of haptic feedback.
Originality/value
The paper merges two research fields – aircraft control and human–machine interaction. This combination reveals new possibilities of aircraft control.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES278869
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Year 2004 was influenced by the strike in the National Hockey League. The reason of this strike was the option of adoption of the wage ceiling for the NHL players. The paper…
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Year 2004 was influenced by the strike in the National Hockey League. The reason of this strike was the option of adoption of the wage ceiling for the NHL players. The paper stresses the attention to the problem how to account and measure the possibility of the players’ contracts with options in the new model. We are dealing with the following hypothesis: “Is possible to use the experiences of valuation of financial options not only to ROA (Real Options Analysis) but also for valuation of players’ contracts with option?” The modified Black‐Scholes Formula is one of the possible solutions how to measure the value of the option clause.
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Andrea Imperia and Loredana Mirra
Purpose: This chapter aims to understand what convergence means and why it is considered so crucial for the full admission of a state to the European Economic and Monetary Union…
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Purpose: This chapter aims to understand what convergence means and why it is considered so crucial for the full admission of a state to the European Economic and Monetary Union. Doing this will help understand what considerations of economic theory it is based on.
Need for study: To look into the Maastricht architecture, to point out its fragility during the last crises and the capability of the reforms adopted to reduce it, and to make European monetary union (EMU) more attractive for European Union (EU) members still outside it.
Methodology: The experiences of some countries that joined the EU from 2004 to today will be analysed to propose a synthesis from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective that highlights the paths taken by individual states and the processes currently underway.
Findings: The fragility of the EMU architecture became apparent during recent crises. The European Central Bank (ECB) took on new functions, and it became necessary to establish new financial institutions to operate beyond the Maastricht Treaty. Public budget control rules were suspended during the pandemic crisis, and a one-off transfer among states (Next-Generation EU) was adopted. This was an important precedent, but it was still far from the redistribution among states necessary for a political union.
Practical implications: In Maastricht architecture, there is no room for what is needed most by old and new members, that is, coordinated fiscal policies to stimulate aggregate demand, ensuring persistently high employment and production levels. The paths towards the welfare of European citizens, the increase in the sense of belonging to the same community, attracting new members and supporting financial stability all “converge” on the denominator of the Maastricht fiscal parameters.
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the functionality of the particular epistemological schools with regard to the issues of users with visual impairment, to offer a…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the functionality of the particular epistemological schools with regard to the issues of users with visual impairment, to offer a theoretical answer to the question why these issues are not in the center of the interest of information science, and to try to find an epistemological approach that has ambitions to create the theoretical basis for the analysis of the relationship between information and visually impaired users.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodological basis of the paper is determined by the selection of the epistemological approach. In order to think about the concept of information and to put it in relation to issues associated with users with visual impairment, a conceptual analysis is applied.
Findings
Most of information science theories are based on empiricism and rationalism; this is the reason for their low interest in the questions of visually impaired users. Users with visual disabilities are out of the interest of rationalistic epistemology because it underestimates sensory perception; empiricism is not interested in them paradoxically because it overestimates sensory perception. Realism which fairly reflects such issues is an approach which allows the providing of information to persons with visual disabilities to be dealt with properly.
Research limitations/implications
The paper has a speculative character. Its findings should be supported by empirical research in the future.
Practical implications
Theoretical questions solved in the paper come from the practice of providing information to visually impaired users. Because practice has an influence on theory and vice versa, the author hopes that the findings included in the paper can serve to improve practice in the field.
Social implications
The paper provides theoretical anchoring of the issues which are related to the inclusion of people with disabilities into society and its findings have a potential to support such efforts.
Originality/value
This is first study linking questions of users with visual disabilities to highly abstract issues connected to the concept of information.