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Economic Growth And Inclusive Growth: A Comparative Analysis In The Escwa Region, Malak Mohammad Ghandour

BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development

Despite the fact that the Economic and Social Commission in Western Asia (ESCWA) have experienced substantial economic growth, no one can guarantee that this is sufficient enough to reduce chronic unemployment, combat economic insecurity, alleviate poverty or reduce people's frustrations in regards to the increase in income and wealth inequality which has infiltrated many Arab countries. In fact, not all forms of growth are considered effective in promoting structural and social changes as well as enhancing people's standards of living. Consequently, the increasing concerns in regards to rapid and sustained economic growth has led world economies to discover alternative means …

A Constitutional Right To A Functioning United States Government? Are Government Shutdowns Unconstitutional?, Allen Shoenberger

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

The Rider (2020-11-30), Jacqueline Peraza

The Rider Archives

Vol.6 No.14

Functional Kernel Density Estimation: Point And Fourier Approaches To Time Series Anomaly Detection, Michael R. Lindstrom, Hyuntae Jung, Denis Larocque

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

We present an unsupervised method to detect anomalous time series among a collection of time series. To do so, we extend traditional Kernel Density Estimation for estimating probability distributions in Euclidean space to Hilbert spaces. The estimated probability densities we derive can be obtained formally through treating each series as a point in a Hilbert space, placing a kernel at those points, and summing the kernels (a “point approach”), or through using Kernel Density Estimation to approximate the distributions of Fourier mode coefficients to infer a probability density (a “Fourier approach”). We refer to these approaches as Functional Kernel Density …

Equity In Program Evaluation: Equity As A Measure In Program Evaluation, Marco S. Thomas

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Nonprofit Studies Capstone Projects

Changes to equity and inclusion mean, not only including, but also valuing, and sharing power with, community members and stakeholders of various backgrounds. In addition to race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender identity, physical and mental abilities, as well as where they intersect, should be represented throughout the entire evaluation process. Countless surveys make assumptions about communities without knowing the culture of the community. This study explores where equity does and does not exist, in the process of creating and conducting the evaluations that are used to measure the successful execution of nonprofit programs. The inclusion of program participants and …

A Comparison And Contrast Of The Suspension Of The Writ Of Habeas Corpus By Presidents Abraham Lincoln & George W. Bush, Clayton Barnes

Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive

During their presidencies, Abraham Lincoln and George W. Bush both suspended the writ of habeas corpus; while these two situations appear to be similar, the facts surrounding each president’s suspension are vastly different. As I will later discuss in detail, President Lincoln was faced with an imminent rebellion near our nation’s capital that threatened the existence of the United States, had it been successful. On the other hand, President Bush called for the detention of enemy combatants on foreign soil where there was no immediate danger posed to the United States becuase a substantial amount of time had passed since …

Environmental Factors Influencing Urban Homicide Clearance Rates: A Spatial Analysis Of New York City, Leslie W. Kennedy, Joel M. Caoplan, Eric L. Piza, Amanda L. Thomas

Publications and Research

In this paper, we explore the conditions under which clearance rates improve by looking at the experience across New York City. Using one agency provides a control on the administrative differences that appear across other jurisdictions that have been studied, usually through cross-national analysis. Our analysis uses Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to identify environmental features that relate to closed versus open homicide cases using two years of New York City Police Department (NYPD) data. This analysis is supplemented with an investigation of precinct-wide social structure variables to examine how context matters in influencing closure rates.

Vol.48 N.19 November 26th 2020, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

We Are...Marshall, November 25, 2020, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Selected Discipline Infractions And Consequences Associated With Academic Performance In The Mississippi Delta, Sheila B. King

Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of the research study was to identify the most common discipline infractions and consequences for Grade 7 and Grade 8 students enrolled in a middle school located in the Mississippi Delta. In addition, the study sought to determine relationships among the common discipline infractions and student performance and the common discipline consequences and student performance on the statewide assessments for English/language arts (ELA) and mathematics by grade level. The study utilized existing data for the Grade 7 and Grade 8 students who had committed one or more disciplinary infractions during the 2017-2018 school year and had ELA …

Lisa Folajtar V. Attorney General Usa

2020 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Equity And Diversity Minutes 11/24/2020, Equity And Diversity Committee

Equity and Diversity Committee

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 47), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

State V. Hayward Respondent's Brief Dckt. 47802

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Covid-19: Best Practices And The Way Forward, Juliana Nwauwa

Student Scholarly Projects

COVID-19 is a global health emergency that originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and since then has affected more than 53,507,282 individuals and claimed the lives of more than 1,305,164 around the globe. It is a respiratory virus transmitted from person to person through airborne aerosols and droplets from infected individuals and direct contact with infected surfaces.

Numerous factors, such as socioeconomic status, population density, pre-existing health conditions, and lack of health insurance, have contributed to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among certain demographic groups. The COVID-19 impact ranges from …

The Value Of Urban Flood Modeling, Bernice Rosenzweig, Pablo Herreros Cantis, Yeowon Kim, Alan Cohn, Kimberly Grove, J. Brock, J. Yesuf, Prakash Mistry, Claire Welty, Timon Mcphearson, Jason Sauer, Heejun Chang

Advanced Science Research Center

Floods are important disturbances to urban socio-eco-technical systems and their meteorological drivers are projected to increase through the century due to global climate change. Urban flood models are numerical models that have the capability of representing the features of urban ecosystems and the mechanisms of flooding that impact them. They have the potential to play a critical role in flood risk assessment, operational response, and resilience planning, but existing models remain limited in their capability to represent integrated flooding processes in urban areas and provide the credible quantitative information needed to support risk assessment and resilience practice. Research to advance …

Etched In Stone: Historic Preservation Law And Confederate Monuments, Jess R. Phelps, Jessica Owley

Florida Law Review

This Article examines the current controversy regarding Confederate monuments. While many have focused on the removal of these commemorative objects, the legal framework regarding their protection has not been fully explored. This Article provides an in-depth understanding of the application of historic preservation laws to monument removal efforts and examines the impact of these federal, state, and local laws. The examination raises significant questions about the permanency of preservation laws generally. This Article considers how historic significance is evaluated and valued, noting the lack of flexibility and absence of mechanisms for reevaluating past protection decisions. This Article uses the Confederate …

Reconceptualizing Criminal Justice Reform For Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, E. Lea Johnston

Florida Law Review

Roughly 14% of male inmates and 31% of female inmates suffer from one or more serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Policymakers and the public widely ascribe the overrepresentation of offenders with serious mental illness in the justice system to the “criminalization” of the symptoms of this afflicted population. The criminalization theory posits that the criminal justice system has served as the primary agent of social control over symptomatic individuals since the closure of state psychiatric hospitals in the 1950s and the tightening of civil commitment laws. The theory identifies untreated mental illness as …

Coordinating Community Reintegration Services For “Deportable Alien” Defendants: A Moral And Financial Imperative, Amy F. Kimpel

Florida Law Review

Recidivism rates for individuals who are convicted of illegal entry and re-entry (U.S.C. §§ 1325 and 1326) are quite high despite post-sentencing deportations. The “holistic defense” model developed in New York City at the Neighborhood Defender Services and Bronx Defenders has been instrumental in achieving better outcomes for criminal defendants and their communities, in large part due to an emphasis on re-entry or reintegration services for defendants being released from incarceration. However, that model is difficult to implement when applied to noncitizen defendants who are to be deported. This Article argues that some attention to re-entry services for deportable non-citizen …

A Mixed-Methods Investigation Of Recidivism Among Ex-Offenders In Missouri, Norman James Vick

Dissertations

Ex-offenders return home to family and friends every day in the United States of America; seeking to reintegrate with family and society. Ex-offenders recidivate as well due to numerous reasons and fail at reintegration with family and society. The purpose of the investigation was to learn if substance abuse treatment and obtaining an education in the form of a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) would help the ex-offender avoid further recidivating The investigator was also interested in learning if trust played a vital role in gaining a GED and completion of substance abuse treatment with reintegration of the family for the …

The Price Of Justice: Fines, Fees And The Criminalization Of Poverty In The United States, Lisa Foster

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

No abstract provided.

Asylum Ruling Halts Restrictions In New Rule, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Washington County, Tennessee For The Year Ended June 30, 2020, Washington County (Tenn.). Accounts & Budgets.

Tennessee County Audit Reports

No abstract provided.

Stability Operations In Ww Ii: Insights And Lessons, Raymond A. Millen

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Economic Analyses Of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods For Documenting Costs And Benefits, David E. Schindel, Economic Study Group Of The Interagency Working Group On Scientific Collections

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Federal object-based scientific collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. “Project collections” (those managed by the researchers who obtained them for restricted use) and their costs and benefits were considered too varied for standard methodologies that assess costs and benefits. In a few cases, departments and agencies are required by legislation or regulations to retain objects in long-term “institutional collections.” In most cases, decisions to retain objects are based on long-term costs relative to the perceived potential for benefits to taxpayers. Federal collections vary in their philosophies …

Current Status And Thinking Of Environmental Health Research On Persistent Toxic Pollutants, Xu Ming, Kan Haidong, Sang Nan, Liu Sijin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Environmental pollution always threatens the public health of our country, and the incidence of diseases closely related to environmental pollution has continued to rise in recent years. With the rapid urbanization and industrialization, the pollutions of persistent toxic substances (PTS) in air, water, and soil constitute a major hidden danger, which are urgent to be investigated for ecological safety and environmental health risks. In order to solve realistic environmental issues, the potential health hazards of PTS desire to be uncovered through interdisciplinary research. In this article, we review the background and development history of environmental health research on PTS, as …

Racial Disparities In Traffic Enforcement, Mike Dolan Fliss

PSU Transportation Seminars

Law enforcement traffic stops are one of the most common entryways to the US justice system, with significant downstream impacts for both individuals and communities. Group-specific rates are typically based on jurisdiction resident populations; these rates, like many justice-system indicators, demonstrate race-ethnicity disparities. Residential-based rates implicitly assume race-ethnicity groups have equal vehicle access, equal driving volume, and that all driving occurs in resident’s jurisdictions. In contrast, surveys suggest Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic households have less access and drive less than white non-Hispanic households. Models incorporating US Census data and race-ethnicity driving factors from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey showed …

Spartan Daily, November 19, 2020, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2020

Volume 155, Issue 39

Marijuana Policy

Human Resources Policies

The State of Missouri has legalized the cultivation, possession, dispensing, distribution, sale, and use of marijuana for recreational use and treatment of specific diseases and chronic illnesses by patients upon the recommendation of a Missouri licensed physician and receipt of a valid Missouri registration card. Missouri and other states’ laws that legalize medical and/or recreational marijuana conflict with University (UHSP) policy and the federal Controlled Substance Act, which classifies marijuana as an illegal drug. The University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy (“UHSP”), as a recipient of federal funding, is required to maintain policies that prohibit the unlawful growth, possession, use, …

Hawks' Herald -- Nov. 19 , 2020, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.