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Responding To Disruptive Or Threatening Student Behavior: A Missouri S&T Guide For Faculty, Missouri University Of Science And Technology. Counseling, Disability Support, And Student Wellness Jan 2016

Responding To Disruptive Or Threatening Student Behavior: A Missouri S&T Guide For Faculty, Missouri University Of Science And Technology. Counseling, Disability Support, And Student Wellness

Red Folder Initiative

In an ideal world, we would not experience behavior that undermines instruction and, thereby, negatively impacts student learning. However, the unfortunate reality is that a small number of our students exhibit disruptive behavior in classrooms, lab areas, offices, field sites, and other educational settings, or via electronic means such as email, discussion boards, online meeting spaces, and audio video conferencing. This manual is intended to offer guidance and support should you need to respond to disruptive or threatening student behavior.

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Evidential Reasoning For Forensic Readiness, Yi-Ching Liao, Hanno Langweg Jan 2016

Evidential Reasoning For Forensic Readiness, Yi-Ching Liao, Hanno Langweg

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

To learn from the past, we analyse 1,088 "computer as a target" judgements for evidential reasoning by extracting four case elements: decision, intent, fact, and evidence. Analysing the decision element is essential for studying the scale of sentence severity for cross-jurisdictional comparisons. Examining the intent element can facilitate future risk assessment. Analysing the fact element can enhance an organization's capability of analysing criminal activities for future offender profiling. Examining the evidence used against a defendant from previous judgements can facilitate the preparation of evidence for upcoming legal disclosure. Follow the concepts of argumentation diagrams, we develop an automatic judgement summarizing …

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In-The-Wild Residual Data Research And Privacy, William B. Glisson, Tim Storer, Andrew Blyth, George Grispos, Matt Campbell Jan 2016

In-The-Wild Residual Data Research And Privacy, William B. Glisson, Tim Storer, Andrew Blyth, George Grispos, Matt Campbell

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

As the world becomes increasingly dependent on technology, researchers in both industry and academia endeavor to understand how technology is used, the impact it has on everyday life, the artifact life-cycle and overall integrations of digital information. In doing so, researchers are increasingly gathering 'real-world' or 'in-the-wild' residual data, obtained from a variety of sources, without the explicit consent of the original owners. This data gathering raises significant concerns regarding privacy, ethics and legislation, as well as practical considerations concerning investigator training, data storage, overall security and data disposal. This research surveys recent studies of residual data gathered in-the-wild and …

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Digital Forensics In Law Enforcement: A Needs Based Analysis Of Indiana Agencies, Teri A. Cummins Flory Jan 2016

Digital Forensics In Law Enforcement: A Needs Based Analysis Of Indiana Agencies, Teri A. Cummins Flory

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Cyber crime is a growing problem, with the impact to society increasing exponentially, but the ability of local law enforcement agencies to investigate and successfully prosecute criminals for these crimes is unclear. Many national needs assessments have previously been conducted, and all indicated that state and local law enforcement did not have the training, tools, or staff to effectively conduct digital investigations, but very few have been completed recently. This study provided a current and localized assessment of the ability of Indiana law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate crimes involving digital evidence, the availability of training for both law enforcement …

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On Efficiency Of Distributed Password Recovery, Radek Hranický, Martin Holkovič, Petr Matoušek Jan 2016

On Efficiency Of Distributed Password Recovery, Radek Hranický, Martin Holkovič, Petr Matoušek

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

One of the major challenges in digital forensics today is data encryption. Due to the leaked information about unlawful sniffing, many users decided to protect their data by encryption. In case of criminal activities, forensic experts are challenged how to decipher suspect's data that are subject to investigation. A common method how to overcome password-based protection is a brute force password recovery using GPU-accelerated hardware. This approach seems to be expensive. This paper presents an alternative approach using task distribution based on BOINC platform. The cost, time and energy efficiency of this approach is discussed and compared to the GPU-based …

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Towards Syntactic Approximate Matching - A Pre-Processing Experiment, Doowon Jeong, Frank Breitinger, Hari Kang, Sangjin Lee Jan 2016

Towards Syntactic Approximate Matching - A Pre-Processing Experiment, Doowon Jeong, Frank Breitinger, Hari Kang, Sangjin Lee

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Over the past few years the popularity of approximate matching algorithms (a.k.a. fuzzy hashing) has increased. Especially within the area of bytewise approximate matching, several algorithms were published, tested and improved. It has been shown that these algorithms are powerful, however they are sometimes too precise for real world investigations. That is, even very small commonalities (e.g., in the header of a le) can cause a match. While this is a desired property, it may also lead to unwanted results. In this paper we show that by using simple pre-processing, we signicantly can in uence the outcome. Although our test …

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Countering Noise-Based Splicing Detection Using Noise Density Transfer, Thibault Julliand, Vincent Nozick, Hugues Talbot Jan 2016

Countering Noise-Based Splicing Detection Using Noise Density Transfer, Thibault Julliand, Vincent Nozick, Hugues Talbot

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Image splicing is a common and widespread type of manipulation, which is defined as pasting a portion of an image onto a second image. Several forensic methods have been developed to detect splicing, using various image properties. Some of these methods exploit the noise statistics of the image to try and find discrepancies. In this paper, we propose a new counter-forensic approach to eliminate the noise differences that can appear in a spliced image. This approach can also be used when creating computer graphics images, in order to endow them with a realistic noise. This is performed by changing the …

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Bytewise Approximate Matching: The Good, The Bad, And The Unknown, Vikram S. Harichandran, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili Jan 2016

Bytewise Approximate Matching: The Good, The Bad, And The Unknown, Vikram S. Harichandran, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Hash functions are established and well-known in digital forensics, where they are commonly used for proving integrity and file identification (i.e., hash all files on a seized device and compare the fingerprints against a reference database). However, with respect to the latter operation, an active adversary can easily overcome this approach because traditional hashes are designed to be sensitive to altering an input; output will significantly change if a single bit is flipped. Therefore, researchers developed approximate matching, which is a rather new, less prominent area but was conceived as a more robust counterpart to traditional hashing. Since the conception …

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Laboratory Schools Annual Report, 2015-2016, Laboratory Schools, Illinois State University Jan 2016

Laboratory Schools Annual Report, 2015-2016, Laboratory Schools, Illinois State University

Annual Reports – Laboratory Schools

Illinois State University Laboratory Schools annual report

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The Corporate Security Stratum Of Work: Identifying Levels Of Work In The Domain, Codee Roy Ludbey Jan 2016

The Corporate Security Stratum Of Work: Identifying Levels Of Work In The Domain, Codee Roy Ludbey

Theses : Honours

Corporate security is a practicing domain and developing academic discipline that provides for the protection of people, information and assets, as well as the self-protection of organisations. Fayol (1949) articulated such an activity within organisations to be a core business function of significant importance; embedding security operations within all aspects of organisational work. This embedded nature of security within organisations has led to difficulty in the literature delineating roles and responsibilities of security practitioners; consequently leading to a nebulous understanding of security as a whole. Therefore, an investigation of the corporate security stratum of work has been undertaken to address …

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The Running Performance And Estimated Energy Cost Of Hurling Specific Small-Sided Games, Shane Malone, Kieran Collins, Dominic Doran Jan 2016

The Running Performance And Estimated Energy Cost Of Hurling Specific Small-Sided Games, Shane Malone, Kieran Collins, Dominic Doran

Articles

The current study examined the extent to which pitch dimensions can influence the physical and estimated energetic demands of hurling small-sided games. Training data (n = 990) were collected from 24 (age 25.5 ± 3.2 years; height 178.9 ± 3.2 cm; body mass 78.5 ± 4.5 kg) hurling players using 4-Hz global positioning system technology (VX Sport, Lower Hutt, New Zealand). Total distance (m), high-speed running distance (m; ≥ 17 km/h), very high-speed running distance (m; ≥ 22 km/h), total accelerations (n), acceleration distance (m), peak and mean velocity (km/h) were considered. In addition changes in velocity …

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Death Before The Fall: Biblical Literalism And The Problem Of Animal Suffering [Review] / Osborn, Ronald E., Martin Frederick Hanna Jan 2016

Death Before The Fall: Biblical Literalism And The Problem Of Animal Suffering [Review] / Osborn, Ronald E., Martin Frederick Hanna

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

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The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn Jan 2016

The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This Article reveals the disconnect between the power and the will to enforce the custody and parenting time provisions of protection orders through criminal mechanisms and explores the further infirmity of civil enforcement by illustrating the shortcomings of available relief. Together, these barriers to effective enforcement threaten to render this court-granted protection meaningless and dangerously misleading. The barriers also undermine the many years of advocacy invested to secure these protections in the first place - reforms aimed at protecting victims and children from abusive parents.

This Article explores ways to bring together the will and the power to enforce all …

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Theories Of Civil Society And Global Administrative Law: The Case Of The World Bank And International Development, Francesca Bignami Jan 2016

Theories Of Civil Society And Global Administrative Law: The Case Of The World Bank And International Development, Francesca Bignami

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

For over two decades, the concept of civil society has informed institutional design in the international realm. Empowering civil society has served as a key rhetorical and policy response to the criticism that the social and economic processes of globalization and the international organizations that have emerged to govern the global realm are illegitimate, elite driven, and anti-democratic. This chapter, which appears in the Elgar Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law, unpacks the concept of civil society with the aim of understanding the institutional reforms that have been undertaken in one important area of global governance—the international development law of …

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International Procurement Developments In 2015: Structural Reforms To International Procurement Laws, Christopher R. Yukins Jan 2016

International Procurement Developments In 2015: Structural Reforms To International Procurement Laws, Christopher R. Yukins

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

The year 2015 saw major structural changes to international procurement rules -- including (1) a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which will impact procurement, and important shifts in Canada’s laws regarding contractor debarment and exclusion (discussed here by Brenda Swick), (2) European procurement laws which favor open, multilateral negotiations (Hans-Joachim Priess), and (2) new, more liberal procurement policies at the World Bank (Christopher Yukins) -- all of which are likely to help open procurement markets around the world. This article, prepared for presentation at the February 2016 Thomson-Reuters Year in Review conference in Washington, D.C., surveys these developments and …

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Adversary Breakdown And Judicial Role Confusion In “Small Case” Civil Justice, Jessica K. Steinberg Jan 2016

Adversary Breakdown And Judicial Role Confusion In “Small Case” Civil Justice, Jessica K. Steinberg

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This Article calls attention to the breakdown of adversary procedure in a largely unexplored area of the civil justice system: the ordinary, two-party case. The twenty-first century judge confronts an entirely new state of affairs in presiding over the average civil matter. In place of the adversarial party contest, engineered and staged by attorneys, judges now face the rise of an unrepresented majority unable to propel claims, facts, and evidence into the courtroom. The adversary ideal favors a passive judge, but the unrealistic demands of such a paradigm in today’s “small case” civil justice system have sparked role confusion among …

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Placing The Government In Fragile Democracies, David Fontana Jan 2016

Placing The Government In Fragile Democracies, David Fontana

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

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Explaining Variations In Bailout Policies: A Review Of Cornelia Woll's The Power Of Inaction, Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr., Kelsey M. Barnes Jan 2016

Explaining Variations In Bailout Policies: A Review Of Cornelia Woll's The Power Of Inaction, Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr., Kelsey M. Barnes

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparison (Cornell Univ. Press, 2014), Professor Cornelia Woll asks a question of fundamental importance: "What was the nature of power [that] finance wielded over the fate of the economy and the crisis management in 2008, which affected the lives of so many?" To measure the effective power that the financial industry wielded during the crisis, Woll compares the terms of bailout programs that governments adopted in six countries. She contends that financial institutions were more likely to receive larger amounts of public support, and to make minimal contributions to rescue plans, in …

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Keynote Address | Sexual Offenses: Lessons From The Front Lines, Lisa M. Schenck Jan 2016

Keynote Address | Sexual Offenses: Lessons From The Front Lines, Lisa M. Schenck

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This is an edited transcript of a keynote address as delivered on November 6, 2015 at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA.

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Introduction. A New Field: Comparative Law And Regulation, Francesca Bignami Jan 2016

Introduction. A New Field: Comparative Law And Regulation, Francesca Bignami

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

The contemporary regulatory process is global. Markets and the problems they generate—consumer privacy, chemicals safety, and many others—cross borders and so too do regulatory efforts to address those problems. The process, however, by which national and international jurisdictions decide common regulatory problems defies the traditional mold of hierarchical state law. There is no world government with the power to impose a single set of principles and procedures on the multiple jurisdictions, and therefore the global regulatory process is characterized as much by diversity and discord as it is by coordination and convergence.

The new field of comparative law and regulation …

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Introductory Chapter To Elgar Encyclopedia Of Environmental Law: Decisionmaking In Environmental Law, Robert L. Glicksman, Lee C. Paddock Jan 2016

Introductory Chapter To Elgar Encyclopedia Of Environmental Law: Decisionmaking In Environmental Law, Robert L. Glicksman, Lee C. Paddock

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the growth of environmental law and the decision making structures that governments have developed to adopt, administer, and enforce it. It traces the manner in which cooperative federalism and public participation have affected decision making structures in environmental law, primarily in the United States. It summarizes key challenges that policymakers continue to face in designing environmental laws, including choices on the allocation of authority among different levels of government, the appropriate mix of regulatory and non-regulatory tools to use in environmental protection initiatives, efforts to accommodate environmental protection and economic growth objectives, techniques …

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Towards A Law Of Coworkers, Naomi Schoenbaum Jan 2016

Towards A Law Of Coworkers, Naomi Schoenbaum

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

A growing body of research reveals what most Americans already know from experience: that our coworkers play a central role in our lives. The significance of coworker relationships is only magnified in an era of expanding work hours in the twenty-four-seven economy. But the law does not reflect this reality, and instead relegates coworkers to the status of legal strangers. This Article argues that the law’s failure to recognize coworker relationships undermines not only these relationships, but also the goals of work law, and makes the case for a law of coworker relationships that would promote the equal, fair, and …

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Photocopies, Patents, And Knowledge Transfer: 'The Uneasy Case' Of Justice Breyer's Patentable Subject Matter Jurisprudence, Dmitry Karshtedt Jan 2016

Photocopies, Patents, And Knowledge Transfer: 'The Uneasy Case' Of Justice Breyer's Patentable Subject Matter Jurisprudence, Dmitry Karshtedt

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

One aspect of Justice Stephen Breyer’s discomfort with patents, as expressed in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Mayo v. Prometheus and his dissent from the order dismissing certiorari in LabCorp v. Metabolite, is strikingly similar to one of his critiques of copyright law in The Uneasy Case for Copyright, a well-known article he wrote as Professor Breyer more than forty-five years ago. In The Uneasy Case, Breyer argued that the burdens on duplication of technical articles imposed by copyright law restrict the flow of information and prevent scientists from enjoying spillover benefits of published research. His patent opinions …

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Fika—Mindfulness For The Lrw Professor, Karen Thornton Jan 2016

Fika—Mindfulness For The Lrw Professor, Karen Thornton

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Too often, LRW professors sacrifice their love of writing to their devotion to teaching. This can have an adverse impact on career advancement. This Article shares the story of two LRW faculty members who used a cultural tradition to achieve balance, strengthen a collegial bond, and increase their scholarly productivity.

This article originally appeared in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, published by Thomson Reuters. For more information please visit http://info.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/signup/newsletters/perspectives/.

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Using The Student-Edited Law Review To Teach Critical Professional Skills, Karen Thornton Jan 2016

Using The Student-Edited Law Review To Teach Critical Professional Skills, Karen Thornton

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

At a time when law schools are being urged to add experiential learning opportunities to their curricula, law reviews may have been overlooked because the need is so obvious. Producing a journal is a professional endeavor requiring leadership by student editors who are in the process of forging their professional identity. Law schools have a responsibility to teach critical professional skills as part of the pedagogy to shape future lawyers. This article summarizes the need for law schools to provide experiential learning opportunities, unpacks the criticism faculty authors have heaped on student-led law reviews, and the describes a symposium-style training …

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Population Dynamics And Management Implications For American White Pelicans (Pelecanus Erythrorhynchos) Breeding At Marsh Lake, Lac Qui Parle Wildlife Management Area, Minnesota, Jon J. Dimatteo Jan 2016

Population Dynamics And Management Implications For American White Pelicans (Pelecanus Erythrorhynchos) Breeding At Marsh Lake, Lac Qui Parle Wildlife Management Area, Minnesota, Jon J. Dimatteo

Biological Sciences

The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a prominent breeding bird in Minnesota, but little information has been available on their production, population dynamics, growth and development, or demographic characteristics. I examined life-history traits of American white pelicans nesting colonially at Marsh Lake, Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area, Minnesota. Marsh Lake is an impounded river floodplain lake on the Upper Minnesota River that holds the largest American white pelican breeding colony in Minnesota (and one of the largest American white pelican breeding colonies in North America). An analysis of colony population levels and spring streamflow data indicated that more …

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A Hybrid Parallel Delaunay Image-To-Mesh Conversion Algorithm Scalable On Distributed-Memory Clusters, Daming Feng, Andrey N. Chernikov, Nikos Chrisochoides Jan 2016

A Hybrid Parallel Delaunay Image-To-Mesh Conversion Algorithm Scalable On Distributed-Memory Clusters, Daming Feng, Andrey N. Chernikov, Nikos Chrisochoides

Computer Science Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present a scalable three dimensional hybrid MPI+Threads parallel Delaunay image-to-mesh conversion algorithm. A nested master-worker communication model for parallel mesh generation is implemented which simultaneously explores process-level parallelization and thread-level parallelization: inter-node communication using MPI and inter-core communication inside one node using threads. In order to overlap the communication (task request and data movement) and computation (parallel mesh refinement), the inter-node MPI communication and intra-node local mesh refinement is separated. The master thread that initializes the MPI environment is in charge of the inter-node MPI communication while the worker threads of each process are only responsible …

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Big Data-Enabled Multiscale Serviceability Analysis For Aging Bridges, Yu Liang, Dalei Wu, Guirong Liu, Yaohang Li, Cuilan Gao, Zhongguo John Ma, Weidong Wu Jan 2016

Big Data-Enabled Multiscale Serviceability Analysis For Aging Bridges, Yu Liang, Dalei Wu, Guirong Liu, Yaohang Li, Cuilan Gao, Zhongguo John Ma, Weidong Wu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This work is dedicated to constructing a multi-scale structural health monitoring system to monitor and evaluate the serviceability of bridges based on the Hadoop Ecosystem (MS-SHM-Hadoop). By taking the advantages of the fault-tolerant distributed file system called the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and high-performance parallel data processing engine called MapReduce programming paradigm, MS-SHM-Hadoop features include high scalability and robustness in data ingestion, fusion, processing, retrieval, and analytics. MS-SHM-Hadoop is a multi-scale reliability analysis framework, which ranges from nationwide bridge-surveys, global structural integrity analysis, and structural component reliability analysis. This Nationwide bridge survey uses deep-learning techniques to evaluate the bridge …

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Blurred Lines: Privacy Management, Family Relationships, And Facebook, Joshua H. Miller, Carly Danielson, Erin Sahlstein Parcell, Kristine Nicolini, Theresa Boucher Jan 2016

Blurred Lines: Privacy Management, Family Relationships, And Facebook, Joshua H. Miller, Carly Danielson, Erin Sahlstein Parcell, Kristine Nicolini, Theresa Boucher

Iowa Journal of Communication

Social media has enhanced and complicated family communication dynamics. For example, while Facebook gives many family members a space for connection, "friending" a family member on Facebook, or choosing not to do so, can make privacy management challenging and may serve as a potential source of conflict within the family. Such dynamics inspired the authors to ask college students how Facebook use has negatively influenced their family relationships and communication. Sensitized by Petronio's (2002) Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory, we qualitatively analyzed online survey responses (n = 80) and identified four themes in our participants' family experiences with conflicts related …

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Front Matter - Table Of Content Jan 2016

Front Matter - Table Of Content

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

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