On the eve of the meeting of the CAS, which will give a final decision on October 14 match between Serbia and Albania, is vice president of the Serbian Football Federation, Ivan Curkovic issuing a warning to fans of his country.
Curkovic, who is known for his closeness to the president of UEFA, Michel Platini Serbian media stated that the Serbian Federation of Football but it kroaterrezikojnë be exempt from 3 to 5 years due to repeated cases of violence.
Sentencing of course, is not related to the decision of the Arbitration Gykatës Athletic, but repeated cases of violence by the Serbs could push the Government of International Football, ask UEFA to exclude Serbia from all activities, repeating case of England 3 decades ago, that ended and hooliganism in stadiums.
Also Croatian and Montenegrin Federation risk, after not less precedents and international football bodies have prepared a thick folder of materials to support their decision.
However in the case of Albania, UEFA proved extremely sympathetic towards Serbia giving victory to the table.
Fighting continued overnight between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine, despite renewed diplomatic efforts to enforce a truce.
Ukraine said six government soldiers were killed in the past 24 hours and army positions were fired on 26 times near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
The rebels said one of their fighters was killed during attacks by the army.
On Monday, Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France called for the withdrawal of more weapons from the frontline.
The four nations also expressed "grave concern" over the surge in fighting.
The statement came after talks in Berlin between the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
In a separate development on Tuesday, a Russian military journalist was seriously injured by a booby trap in the village of Shyrokyne, near the strategic port of Mariupol in the south.
'Differences of opinion'
In Berlin, the four foreign ministers called for the withdrawal of mortars and heavy weapons with a calibre of less than 100mm as well as all types of tanks.
German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that the Berlin talks were "very intensive"The heavily armed rebels made territorial gains in the run-up to the ceasefire
But Germany warned that the talks had also emphasised differences over the year-old conflict in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"It was again a very long, very intensive discussion which in parts was very controversial," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
"During these talks today the differences of opinion between Kiev and Moscow also became clear once again."
But, he added, all parties had also reaffirmed the commitment to a ceasefire agreed in February in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.
Both sides are largely thought to have adhered to the deal - until a recent escalation of fighting in the flashpoints near Donetsk and Shyrokyne.
Ukraine and the rebels claim to have withdrawn heavy weapons from the line of contact - although this has not been confirmed by monitors from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Ukraine, Western leaders and Nato say there is clear evidence that Russia has helped the rebels with troops and heavy weapons. Russia denies that, insisting that any Russians on the rebel side are "volunteers".
More than 6,000 people have been killed in clashes since the rebels seized large parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions last April - a month after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.
We are going to have personal air vehicles that are both cars and planes, at least that’s Missy Cummings’s vision of the future. It’s basically the intersection of a drone with a robotic car, so that your plane is also your car, but the big leap in technology is that you are actually driving neither, says the Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Drones have a negative bias in the media, says Cummings, because they are essentially seen as spy cameras. But most people don’t realise that when they are on a plane they are effectively travelling on a drone. The fly-by-wire technology that exists on all Airbus and many Boeing craft is the exact same technology that exists on drones.
The reason why drones are the answer to the future is that the truth is we are terrible drivers. Humans inherently have a half-second lag in almost any quick response that they need to have, like a ball rolling out in a street or seeing an aircraft in the sky and you have to take evasive action. Even a half-second delay can mean the difference between life and death, and computers and automated systems don’t have that – they have microseconds.
So, our transportation network of the future, both on the ground and in the air, will actually be safer when we turn it over to computers.
There really aren’t any technological hurdles to this idea, says Cummings. The biggest hurdles we have are psychological and cultural, in terms of giving up the car. But no new tech needs to be developed to have your own personal flying car. What we have to do is improve production and reduce manufacturing costs, and what that means is that we need more robots. So this is almost a self-circular process, where we need robots to build robots to make them cheaper.
Should we worry about the machines rising up and taking over? No, what Cummings says she is worried about is hackers and terrorists who want to do wrong. One of the things she is working on is trying to develop technology that allows any flying robot to be able to fend off any attack and be able to navigate itself without any GPS or any other external signal.
There are lots of different possibilities for what your personal air vehicle could look like. You could own your own in your driveway or garage, and you could jump in it. Or we could have a shared network like the plane version of Zipcar. People should be excited about this: it promises much in terms of safer travel, and in parts of the world where the road and air networks are poor, people will be able to get the goods and services they need.
So, when we look at globalising this concept of personal air vehicles, it means we will see the quality of life improve dramatically for everyone around the world.
Scientists say that the advancement in material sciences, algorithms and manufacturing processes have given a major boost to the field of robotics and it has led to a revolution in the robotic materials. The way for development of prosthetics (artificial body parts) with a realistic sense of touch has been made smoother with the use of nature inspired robotic materials. Following this, now it is even possible to construct bridges that can self-repair themselves and vehicles that have camouflaging abilities just like animals and insects.
These nature inspired robotic materials are being developed by Nikolaus Correll and his team. The team looked at the organisms like cuttlefish, which alter their appearance based on their surroundings and environment, and the Banyan tree, which grows above-ground roots to support the increasing weight of its trunk. This made them wonder how to engineer such a system.
They wanted that while materials can already be programmed to change some of their properties in response to a specific stimulus, there should be such robotic materials that can sense stimuli and determine how to respond to it on their own. To develop nature inspired robotic materials, they worked on the example of artificial skin equipped with microphones which would analyze the sounds of a texture rubbing the skin and transmit information back to the central computer only when important events occurred. Correll said in a review published in a science journal that the human sensory system has the capability to automatically filter out things like the feeling of clothes rubbing on the skin. He added that an artificial skin with possibly thousands of sensors could do the same thing and it would only report to the Brain if it touches something new.
Nature inspired robotic materials
The development of all these sort of nature inspired robotic materials is now possible, but manufacturing of these materials on a large scale still remains to be a challenge. Moreover, researchers say that this field faces an education gap as developing robotic material require interdisciplinary knowledge which is currently not available through any of the material sciences, computer sciences or robotics curriculum alone.
Correll believes that in the future, the use of nature inspired robotic materials is going to be ever-widening. For him, robotic materials, in future, are going to be used in everyday life items like shoes soles that can sense pressure and then adapt their stiffness to adjust while walking or running.
