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Steady-state security analysis on the transmission grid for various scenarios of wind generation in Sicily
2009
The proposed paper is part of a research aimed at assessing the impact of wind generation on the transmission grid of Sicily, second among the Italian regions for wind power installed. After describing the current state of wind energy generation in Sicily, the paper reports and comments the results of the steady-state security analysis done for various scenarios of wind penetration. For each scenario (maximum and minimum load conditions), the redistribution of power flows on the transmission network, the voltage profiles at nodes, the analysis of contingencies and losses variations are reported.
Threats to State Security in the Aspect of Disinformation
2021
Information in the aspect of security plays a significant role in influencing the spectrum of the functioning of the state. In today’s information chaos, information has become a tool of manipulation and disinformation, also used in the implementation of strategic goals of a given country. States can thus achieve their strategic goals because it is less costly, more difficult to detect, and allows some sort of manipulation of the rationale behind such actions. Such countries include countries for which democracy is only a concept. It can be indicated that information is a raw material that, in the process of manipulation and disinformation, becomes a kind of a tool that can be used in a tar…
EUGENICS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN LATVIA DURING WORLD WAR II: THE INVESTIGATION FILE OF THE MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY OF THE LATVIAN SSR IN T…
2021
This study, based on the materials of the 1948 investigation of the Ministry of State Security of the Latvian SSR, traces and analyzes the scientific and administrative activities of Theodor Upners (1898-1992) during the Nazi occupation regime in Latvia. From 1942 until the end of the occupation in 1944, Upners was formally the leading eugenics specialist in Latvia. During this time, in 1942 he visited Germany on a scientific trip, gave a course on eugenics at the University of Riga, and in 1943 published the book «The Role of Eugenics in the Life of the Nation and the State». In the 1948 investigation, he was accused of collaborating with the Nazi occupation authorities and glorifying Nazi…
O tak zwanym szpiegu i terroryście koronnym
2017
The subject of this article is the authorization of intelligence services in preventing and combating the offences of espionage and terrorism. It describes the regulations of the Second Polish Republic regarding espionage, a draft Act on Intelligence Activities, the rule of law and opportunism, and most importantly new regulations under the anti-terrorism law
Bezpieczeństwo państwa a mniejszości narodowe
2017
National minorities, either today and in the past, certainly can be considered as a potential source of various types of threats to the security of State. States as the organizational form of different nations, not always peacefully co-exist, therefore a situation in which people of different nationalities residing in the territory of one country is inevitably more complex and raises many problems. Needs of State in terms of security, differ from those of groups and individual members of society. Threats may vary in nature and intensity and come from different directions, which depends on a wide variety of factors. This relation is not so simple because the State (and the members of the maj…
Control of Political Communication and State Security : Jamal Khashoggi Case
2018
W artykule podjęto problem analizy relacji pomiędzy, z jednej strony, prawem państwa do kontroli przepływu informacji w celu zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa a międzynarodowo uznawanymi prawami człowieka, w tym prawa człowieka do publicznego wyrażania poglądów, z drugiej. Przypadkiem, który poddano analizie, jest zamordowanie saudyjskiego dziennikarza Dżamala Chaszukdżi. W artykule wykorzystano metody jakościowej i ilościowej analizy zawartości mediów pod kątem wpływu relacji medialnych dotyczących morderstwa na reputację polityczną Królestwa Arabii Saudyjskiej w wymiarze politycznym i ekonomicznym