Military Academy

About: Military Academy is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Fuzzy logic. The organization has 2478 authors who have published 3003 publications receiving 33188 citations.

Developing Social Entrepreneurship in the EU: A Cross-Country Analysis

Abstract: The development of the European social model rests on the concept of social entrepreneurship. The concept has a significant contribution to the development of the European social economy. Social entrepreneurship has a remarkable potential, through its innovative solutions, to play an indispensable role in the social cohesion of EU Member States. The development of social economy in the EU contributes significantly to employment creation, sustainable growth and a fairer distribution of income and wealth. Thanks to the social sector it is possible to combine profitability and social inclusion and to achieve correspondence between services and needs in the public and private sectors. It is essential that compared to other sectors this one has demonstrated its economic and social potential to better address the economic crisis. Therefore, it is getting more and more support for development in almost all EU countries. However, there are significant differences in the scope and scale of development of social economy within the European Union. The purpose of this study is to examine the state and development of social entrepreneurship based on different national models in six EU countries. The majority of the study is based on the results of the comparative analysis of experts’ evaluations occupying different positions in the social economy structure of the following European countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, Malta and Estonia.

Experimental research on new grade of steel protective material for the light armored vehicles

Abstract: An investigation of new PROTAC 500 armour steel was conducted. Three plates were heat treated to different states. One was quenched, second and third were quenched and low temperature tempered at 220 °C and 280°C for 3 hours. A tensile test, hardness measurements, and an instrumented Charpy test were performed. Metallographic was performed by optical microscopy (OM). Ballistic resistances of all three steel plates were measured. The behaviour of steel was tested using armour piercing projectiles 7.62X39 mm API BZ. The best results were obtained in quenched state

Edge-based objective evaluation of image quality

Abstract: An objective metric for grayscale image quality capable of both global and localized quality assessment and based on a direct comparison of visual information in the test and reference images is proposed. The measure associates visual information with edge, or gradient, information that is initially extracted at all locations of the test and reference images. A perceptual-information preservation model is then used to quantify the success of information transfer/loss. By considering the perceptual importance of different image regions, local image quality success estimates are integrated into a single, numerical quality score between 0 (total information loss) and 1 (ideal transfer). The proposed metric is validated using extensive subjective test results. Results indicate that even in its basic form the proposed metric is perceptually meaningful and yields performance comparable with state-of-the art objective image quality metrics.