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Improving Food Safety Through Self-Regulation: Exploring The Applicability Of The Hazard Analysis And Critical Control Points (Haccp) System To The Spinach And Peanut Industries, A. Bryce Hoflund, Michelle Pautz

Michelle Pautz

Abstract: Recent years have seen a plethora of incidents in the United States that have called attention to food safety, including spinach, peanut, lettuce, and ground beef recalls. Unsurprisingly in the wake of these recalls, the propensity has been to advocate for additional government regulation. This proclivity begs the question, however, is more reform what is needed? The food safety regulatory system in the U.S. is massive and fragmented; are more regulations the answer to ensuring the safety of food? Skeptics may argue that the only way to ensure the food processing industry is kept in line is through rigid …

Fall 2013 Office Schedule, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

No abstract provided.

International Military Autobiographies, Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

The Plight Of The Kimberley: Jobs Or Culture?, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Propaganda Or Diplomacy? 'Selling' Brand Australia, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Rebranding China On The Olympic Stage, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Towards An Enhanced Understanding Of Diplomacy As The Business Of Peace, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Satow's Diplomatic Practice [Review Of The Book Satow's Diplomatic Practice, By I. Roberts], Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Sports Diplomacy, Stuart Murray

Stuart Murray

No abstract provided.

Realising Australia's International Education As Public Diplomacy, Caitlin Byrne, Rebecca Hall

Caitlin Byrne

Australia’s international education serves as public diplomacy, essentially engaging and influencing public audiences in ways that progress Australian foreign policy priorities and national interests. The multidimensional and increasingly globalised nature of international education presents enormous opportunity for vital exchange and interactions between and with students, academics and communities via onshore and offshore modes of delivery. Positive experiences of student mobility and the development of intellectual, commercial and social relationships can build upon a nation’s reputation, and enhance the ability of that nation to participate in and influence regional or global outcomes. This is ultimately the essence of soft power. While …

How (Not) To Sell A Military Memoir In The Uk, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Rachel Woodward, Neil Jenkings

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

International Military Memoirs, Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

F-Trail: Finding Patterns In Taxi Trajectories, Yasuko Matsubara, Evangelos Papalexakis, Lei Li, David Lo, Yasushi Sakurai, Christos Faloutsos

David LO

Given a large number of taxi trajectories, we would like to find interesting and unexpected patterns from the data. How can we summarize the major trends, and how can we spot anomalies? The analysis of trajectories has been an issue of considerable interest with many applications such as tracking trails of migrating animals and predicting the path of hurricanes. Several recent works propose methods on clustering and indexing trajectories data. However, these approaches are not especially well suited to pattern discovery with respect to the dynamics of social and economic behavior. To further analyze a huge collection of taxi trajectories, …

Challenges And Opportunities For The Au’S Peace And Security Council: A Critical Reflection From A Regime Analytical Perspective, Emmanuel Aning

Emmanuel Kwesi Aning

No abstract is currently available.

Growing Higher Education: Achieving Targets And Rethinking Provision, Daniel Edwards

Dr Daniel Edwards

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Challenges To Peacekeeping Operations In Africa, Emmanuel Kotia

Emmanuel Wekem Kotia

A presentation to students of the PhD and Masters Programs in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University.

Probabilistic Logic For Belief Nets, K. Andersen, John Hooker

John Hooker

We describe how to combine probabilistic logic and Bayesian networks to obtain a new frame-work ("Bayesian logic") for dealing with uncertainty and causal relationships in an expert system. Probabilistic logic, invented by Boole, is a technique for drawing inferences from uncertain propositions for which there are no independence assumptions. A Bayesian network is a "belief net" that can represent complex conditional independence assumptions. We show how to solve inference problems in Bayesian logic by applying Benders decomposition to a nonlinear programming formulation. We also show that the number of constraints grows only linearly with the problem size for a large …

Foreward, Emmanuel Aning

Emmanuel Kwesi Aning

No abstract is currently available.

Waarheid & (Zelf)Censuur. Een Vijf-Landen-Studie Van Militaire Afghanistan Autobiografieën., Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Esmeralda Kleinreesink

Wie Featured Person Of The Month Highlights (Katina Michael), Keyana Tenant, Katina Michael

Professor Katina Michael

The WIE Featured Person of the Month is Katina Michael, editor-in-chief of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. After working at OTIS Elevator Company and Andersen Consulting, Katina was offered and exciting graduate engineering position at Nortel in 1996; and her career has been fast track from there. Read Katina’s story on Page 7.

National Urban Economic Development Policy, Harold Wolman, Royce Hanson, Marie Howland, Edward Hill, Larry Ledebur

Larry C. Ledebur

No abstract provided.

Putting The Np In Ppp: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Public Private Partnerships, Stuart Mendel, Jeffrey Brudney

Jeff L. Brudney

Since the 1980s, public policymakers and contracting agents in the United States have promoted the concept of public-private partnerships (PPPs). These are typically seen as partnerships between the public and business sectors, but research finds that nonprofit intermediary institutions, either created for the purpose or already in existence, are often what makes it possible for PPPs to function and realize their potential. Nonprofits of this kind provide a "third space" in which PPPs can be formed, implemented, and sustained; they may also serve as value guardians of the PPP process. This article describes the essential but little credited role of …

Introduction To The Symposium: Accountability And Performance Measurement: The Evolving Role Of Nonprofits In The Hollow State, Jennifer Alexander, Jeffrey Brudney, K. Yang

Jeff L. Brudney

No abstract provided.

Special Issue: Nonprofit And Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Jennifer Alexander, Jeffrey Brudney, K. Yang

Jeff L. Brudney

Co-Editor with Brudney, J. and Yang, K. (2010). /Special Issue: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly./Accountability and Performance Measurement in Public-Nonprofit Partnerships, forthcoming, August 2010

Harmon's Paradoxical Contribution To Ethics In Public Administration., Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

No abstract provided.

Democratic Governance Through Public-Nonprofit Partnerships: Reclaiming The Usable Past Of The Settlement House Movement, Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

Alexander, J.(2011). Democratic governance through public-nonprofit partnerships: reclaiming the usable past of the settlement house movement. In /Government is Us, Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era/ (2^nd ed.).Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Press.

Avoiding The Issue, Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

This article explicates the meaning of race and its institutionalization within public administration theory and practice. An argument is presented that conceptualizations of administrative responsibility in public administration have oversimplified or ignored what Gunnar Myrdal described more than 50 years ago as ``the American dilemma.'' Racism is an integral and often invisible component of the customary morality--a historically constructed system of meaning that establishes the customs and practices of a people. The author demonstrates that, within public administration theory, administrative responsibility originates in customary morality. Brief suggestions are offered as to how administrators might confront a problem they are unable …

Ethics For Planners, Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

No abstract provided.

A New Ethics Of The Budgetary Process, Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

This article analyzes the ethical codes within public budgeting literature to demonstrate the need for a professional ethic that fosters an expanded sense of role responsibility. Drawing on examples of discretion exhibited by state and local budgeting administrators, the article argues that a number of administrative activities fall into a gap of the academic literature. Responsible budgeting decisions must be tied to an understanding of how administrative activities affect the collective welfare. A pedagogy of public budgeting that considers the ways in which institutional forces and the long-term public interest inform administrative action more adequately prepares budgeting administrators to understand …

The Impact Of Devolution On Nonprofits, Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer K Alexander Dr

This article reviews the results of a multiphase study of nonprofit social service organizations serving children and youth in Cuyahoga County, OH. The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of devolution and related efforts to introduce the new public management in the nonprofit sector.