Abstract This article focuses on the application of autonomous weapons (AWs) in defensive systems and, consequently, assesses conditions legality employing such from perspective right to self-defence. How far may humans exert control over AWs? Are there any legal constraints using AWs for purpose self-defence? does their use fit into traditional criteria The claims that are no grounds exclude a...

The contribution of this paper is to identify and describe current best practices for using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to execute neuroimaging workflows "in the cloud." Neuroimaging offers a vast set of techniques by which to interrogate the structure and function of the living brain. However, many of the scientists for whom neuroimaging is an extremely important tool have limited training in pa...

Acropora white syndrome (AWS) is characterized by rapid tissue loss revealing the white underlying skeleton and affects corals worldwide; however, reports of causal agents are conflicting. Samples were collected from healthy and diseased corals and seawater around American Samoa and bacteria associated with AWS characterized using both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, from cor...

Abstract The international debate on the ethics and legality of autonomous weapon systems (AWS), along with call for a ban, primarily focus nebulous concept fully AWS. These are AWS capable target selection engagement absent human supervision or control. This paper argues that such conception autonomy is divorced from both military planning decision-making operations; it also ignores design req...

BACKGROUND Perceived incongruity between the individual and the job on work-life areas such as workload, control, reward, fairness, community and values have implications for the dimensions of burnout syndrome. The "Areas of Work-life Scale" (AWS) is a practical instrument to measure employees´ perceptions of their work environments. AIMS Validate a Spanish translation of the AWS, and it rela...

Active Wireless Sensing (AWS) is motivated by emerging advances in wireless technology and offers an alternative and complementary approach to in-network processing for rapid and energy-efficient information retrieval in wireless sensor networks. The basic architecture in AWS consists of: i) a wireless information retriever (WIR), equipped with an antenna array, that interrogates a select ensem...