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Document Classification Techniques for Aviation Letters of Agreement

Often when working with historic air traffic management (ATM) documents, it is helpful to classify them into specific categories. In this paper, we conduct a thorough review of natural language processing techniques to perform this classification task on Letters of Agreement (LOAs), technical aviation documents outlining rules for utilizing US airspace. We evaluate multiple techniques for representing the text in the documents as embeddings: unigram and bigram Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF), Word2Vec, Doc2Vec, GloVe and RoBERTa. We investigate a wide range of classification models: K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Feed-Forward Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM). By comparing the different methods, we found the best overall approach for our task was to use unigram TFIDF representations with SVM while also gaining insight into how the other methodologies performed on a small technical datasets.

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Lack of agreement over the use and ownership of the internationally shared resources (such as air space, outer space and the oceans) leading to international conflict

The lack of adequate institutional mechanisms to regulate, monitor and govern the use of commonly owned world resources appears to be politically destabilizing and subject to socioeconomic pressures of overpopulation, food shortages, cartelism, terrorism, and wealth distribution to developing countries. The capacity and propensity to wage war and its potential consequences are elaborated. It is shown that technology is one of the dominant factors affecting the exploration and management of commonly shared resources.

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The United Nations contribution towards an international agreement on remote sensing

The recommendations of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations committee for the Peaceful Uses of Space concerning satellite remote sensing are considered. Detailed studies of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of this committee are discussed with emphasis on three draft proposals submitted to it on remote sensing by (1) France and the USSR, (2) Latin American countries, and (3) the United States.

Menter, M.↗

A laboratory study of magnesium-tetrabenz-porphyrin - Lack of agreement with diffuse interstellar bands

The visible and infrared spectra and thermal behavior of the bis-pyridal-magnesium-tetrabenz-porphyrin molecule proposed as the carrier of the diffuse interstellar bands were measured. Of the six band coincidences reported by Johnson (1977), only one, 4430 A, occurs in these experiments. This coincidence requires a special environment, not likely to occur in interstellar space but the infrared spectrum does not support Johnson's vibrational scheme. These spectroscopic and thermal measurements contradict the hypothesis that this molecule causes the diffuse bands.

Donn, B.↗

Agreement governing the activities of states on the Moon and other celestial bodies

The treaty on the Moon is not revolutionary but it embodies the legal rule for future activities of man on the Moon as opposed to the Space Treaty of 1967 which was too general. The new text is conservative but still allows some room for the developing States as in the law of the sea. The Moon is declared the "Common Heritage of Mankind" but the regime of exploitation of its resources is still blurred with imprecise guidelines still needing to be developed. The two superpowers cannot as in the past, ignore the rest of the world in the conquest of space and the fact that the U.N. is the depositary for ratifications, and not the two superpowers as in previous treaties, is the first sign of wider participation in the creation of Space Law.

Gaggero, E. D.↗

Agreement for NASA/OAST - USAF/AFSC space interdependency on spacecraft environment interaction

A joint AF/NASA comprehensive program on spacecraft environment interactions consists of combined contractual and in house efforts aimed at understanding spacecraft environment ineraction phenomena and relating ground test results to space conditions. Activities include: (1) a concerted effort to identify project related environmental interactions; (2) a materials investigation to measure the basic properties of materials and develop or modify materials as needed; and (3) a ground simulation investigation to evaluate basic plasma interaction phenomena and provide inputs to the analytical modeling investigation. Systems performance is evaluated by both ground tests and analysis. There is an environmental impact investigation to determine the effect of future large spacecraft on the charged particle environment. Space flight investigations are planned to verify the results. The products of this program are test standards and design guidelines which summarize the technology, specify test criteria, and provide techniques to minimize or eliminate system interactions with the charged particle environment.

Pike, C. P.↗