Prohibiting external control is one of the key principles engineers apply when building time-predictable computer systems (e.g., time-triggered computer systems do not react to any external interrupts from sensors or devices, but all actions of these computer systems are triggered solely by the progression of the local clock). In this paper we apply this principle of prohibiting external contro...

PROBLEM Alcohol-related youth traffic fatalities continue as a major public-health concern. While state and federal laws can be useful in tackling this problem, the efficacy of many laws has not been empirically demonstrated. We examined the impact of state laws prohibiting alcohol advertising to target minors. METHOD Using statistics obtained from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS...

Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm ("individualizing values") versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships ("binding values": loya...

The research is devoted to the ethical views of Vladimir Monomakh, reflected in “Teaching” Grand Duke. author’s reflections concerning such fundamental moral categories as good and evil, virtue vice, meaning life death, free will, duty, happiness are considered analyzed. A partial continuity Duke’s relationship well with Byzantine Christian tradition, particular regard “theory three small deeds...

Abstract K.H. Miskotte’s Bijbels ABC , recently translated into English as Biblical s resources resistance by carefully reading the Hebrew scriptures. This article argues that central, defining theme of book is focus on Name YHWH ‘anti-pagan monument par excellence.’ Paganism for Miskotte does not mean absence religion nor a particular, polytheistic or worldview, but natural human inclination t...