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Drinking Water Issues And Management In The Republic Of The Philippines, William James Smith, Jr

The Geographical Bulletin

Major drinking water issues and management schemes in the Republic of the Philippines are examined utilizing a political geographic perspective. By examining these issues and management schemes, administrators in developing countries, such as the Philippines, can provide more effective drinking water management for their citizens. Effective drinking water management is an essential building block in the foundation of sustainable development. This type of socio-political and economic research demonstrates the importance of equity in "safe" drinking water distribution, and the value of watershedbased and integrated natural resource management. The importance of recognizing the provision of safe drinking water as a human …

Book Review: Across The Aisle: Why Bipartisanship Works For America, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Book Review: Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer’S Fight For Accountability And Good Trouble After January 6th, Olivia N. Leyva

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Frankie’S Home Run: A Teenage Memoir About Compassion, Generosity, Courage, Kindness, Spirituality And Leadership, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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How To Create A Mentoring Culture In An Organization, M. S. Rao

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this paper is to provide basic inputs about the concept of mentoring to the readers. It touches on the role of mentoring in leadership and mentoring that is essential for entrepreneurs. It focuses on the myths and truths in mentoring. It suggests that there is more need to explore deeply about entrepreneurial mentoring. It helps look at the role of leaders in leadership mentoring. It stresses that there should be a blend of both inside and outside mentors to make the mentoring meaningful and fruitful. It may provide further scope for emerging areas in mentoring like lateral …

Islam Across Cultures: The International Islamic University Of Indonesia Through A Western Lens, Elizabeth Summerfield

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Since the September 11th tragedy in the United States, Islam has become associated with many in the West with unpredictable menace, a significant threat to the civilised order. This article presents a preliminary exploration of a counter narrative to that conception of Islam. Indonesian Islam challenges that common perception, even while it has also been the site of Islamic extremist violence. The big picture of Islam in Indonesia reveals a different story, one where such militancy is aberrant. It is not reflective of deep principles of Islam as it is practised by the vast majority of Indonesian Muslims. To take …

The "Ways Of Peace" And The "Ways Of Pleasantness": Core Values Of Jewish Law, Hershey H. Friedman, Joshua Krausz

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The phrase "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" signifies that during times of crisis, the nation's survival takes precedence over constitutional rights. Similarly, the sages of the Talmud emphasized that "Her [the Torah's] ways are the ways of pleasantness, and all of her paths are peace," underscores that sometimes laws have to be adjusted if they can cause strife and dissension. They used this verse from Proverbs to establish the principles of darchei shalom (the ways of peace) and darchei noam (the ways of pleasantness) to foster a peaceful, harmonious, and pleasant society, often amending biblical laws to maintain …

The Association Of Leadership Styles With Psychosocial Safety Climate: The Case Of Authentic Leadership, Eugene Laloo, Robyn Coman, Natalia K. Hanley

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is an organisation-level construct that measures an organisation’s commitment to the prevention of psychological harm in the workplace and has been identified as a lead indicator for psychological hazards. A key factor in PSC is senior leaders’ involvement through the establishment of policies, procedures, and practices for the prevention of psychological harm in the workplace. While leadership has been identified as an antecedent for a favourable PSC, the impact of different leadership styles on PSC has not been extensively studied.

This article reports a multivariate study of five contemporary leadership styles and their impact on PSC. …

The Ethical Life, Our Social Hope: Unfolding A Leadership Responsibility, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence In Educational Measurement: Opportunities And Ethical Challenges, Okan Bulut, Maggie Beiting-Parrish, Jodi M. Casabianca, Sharon C. Slater, Hong Jiao, Dan Song, Christopher Ormerod, Deborah Gbemisola Fabiyi, Rodica Ivan, Cole Walsh, Oscar Rios, Joshua Wilson, Seyma N. Yildirim-Erbasli, Tarid Wongvorachan, Joyce Xinle Liu, Bin Tan, Polina Morilova

Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语期刊

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational measurement has transformed assessment methods, allowing for automated scoring, swift content analysis, and personalized feedback through machine learning and natural language processing. These advancements provide valuable insights into student performance while also enhancing the overall assessment experience. However, the implementation of AI in education also raises significant ethical concerns regarding validity, reliability, transparency, fairness, and equity. Issues such as algorithmic bias and the opacity of AI decision-making processes risk perpetuating inequalities and affecting assessment outcomes. In response, various stakeholders, including educators, policymakers, and testing organizations, have developed guidelines to ensure the ethical …

Volume 60, Issue 1, 2024 Speaker & Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digital issue (Volume 60, issue 1, 2024) of Speaker & Gavel.

My Larry Story: Around The Horn, Susan Collie, Randy Cox, Daniel Cronn-Mills, Joel Hefling, Todd T. Holm, Vicki Karns, James Kimble, Lee Mayfield, Karen (Piercy) Morris, Richard Paine, John Perlich, Judy Santacatarina, Dan Smith, Leah White, David Whitt, David Worth

Speaker & Gavel

This article celebrates the life of Larry Schnoor.

Development, Validation, And Reliability Of A New Instrument Of Observation And Technical Evaluation In Karate Athletes, Filipe Ferreira, Rui Miguel Silva, Georgian Badicu, Jarosław Muracki, Bartłomiej Bogdański, Adam Kawczyński

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

The present study aims to develop and establish the reliability of the System for the Technical Assessment of Kumite (STAK) in karate. Twenty karate fighters aged between 10 and 22 years, consisting of novice and expert athletes participated in the present study. The reliability process focused on three points: i) analysis and evaluation by experts of the content of the observation instrument; ii) analysis and evaluation by expert evaluators of the athletes' performance in each of the chosen techniques; and iii) reliability of the evaluators' observations. The technical evaluation system in karate evaluated the Mawashi Geri, Ura Mawashi Geri, Kizami …

Institutions Matter: How So?, Alper Duman

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This paper examines the influential theory of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (AJR) on the role of institutions in economic development, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and areas for further research. A central contribution of their work is the emphasis on power and conflict in institutional formation and change.

The theory's focus on the interplay between inequality, political power, and institutional change provides a valuable framework for understanding development trajectories. This paper also considers critiques of AJR's work, including the lack of robustness of the positive correlation between inclusive institutions and economic performance in lower-income countries and the significant …

Hanover Insurance Co. V. Hayward: Imposition Of Punitive Damages In Addition To Criminal Sanctions, David P. Silk

Maine Law Review

In Hanover Insurance Co. v. Hayward, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, addressed the issue whether punitive damages may be awarded against a defendant who has been criminally convicted for the conduct giving rise to the punitive damages claim. Although it affirmed the superior court's decision not to allow the award of punitive damages, the Law Court concluded that the imposition of criminal sanctions did not by itself bar punitive damages. Instead, the court indicated that criminal punishment is merely one factor to consider in determining whether an award of punitive damages would serve a meaningful …

Boucher V. Maine Employment Security Commission: The Role Of Acceptance In Employment Security Law, Bradley M. Lown

Maine Law Review

The Maine Employment Security Law was enacted in an attempt to limit the serious social consequences of unemployment and to insure individual workers against the distress of involuntary unemployment. Under the law, employees who leave work voluntarily without "good cause" are ineligible for unemployment compensation benefits. Until recently the Maine Supreme Judicial Court had not determined whether a substantial reduction in wages by an employer would constitute good cause to leave work under the "voluntary quit" provision of the law. In Boucher v. Maine Employment Security Commission, however, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, determined that …

State V. Curlew: Assessing The Sufficiency Of Evidence Under The Corpus Delicti Rule, Brett D. Baber

Maine Law Review

In State v. Curlew, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, reversed a conviction for unlawful sexual contact. The court predicated reversal upon a reaffirmation of both the substantive aspect and the evidentiary aspect of the corpus delicti rule. The substantive aspect of the corpus delicti rule requires the state "to produce, exclusive of any confession or admission by the defendant, such credible evidence as will create a substantial belief that the crime charged has been committed by some person." The evidentiary aspect of the corpus delicti rule requires proof of the corpus delicti prior to the …

Maine's Iolta Proposal: A Source Of Supplemental Funding For Legal Services, J. Gordon Scannell Jr.

Maine Law Review

Lawyers often hold certain client funds for short periods of time. Generally, those funds must be kept separate from funds belonging to the lawyer or law firm. Occasionally the clients' funds are deposited in individual, interest bearing accounts and the interest generated is credited to the particular client, but more often the amount or length of the deposit does not warrant the opening of an individual account and the funds are aggregated in a general, noninterest bearing trust account. A number of states have implemented programs, commonly referred to as Interest on Lawyers' Trust. Accounts (IOLTA), which allow attorneys to …

Local Land Use Controls: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed, Orlando E. Delogu

Maine Law Review

The suggestion that local land use control powers are not working well—that they may not be susceptible to modest but useful reforms or modifications and thus ought to be more drastically altered or abandoned altogether—is not new. Beginning nearly twenty years ago with Richard Babcock's publication of The Zoning Game, the literature and case law in the field is rife with express and implied suggestions that too much land use control power has been given to local governments. More recently Professor Jan Krasnowiecki suggested we abolish zoning, and the New Jersey court in its latest Mount Laurel decision underscored the …

A Quarter Of A Century Of Rulemaking With Particular Attention To The Federal Rules Of Criminal Procedure, Frank J. Remington

Maine Law Review

It is a happy coincidence that Edward Thaxter Gignoux completes twenty-five years on the bench at about the same time that the present rulemaking procedures in the federal system reach their twenty-fifth anniversary. In the quarter of a century of the present system for rulemaking there have been three distinguished chairmen of the Standing Committee—the committee to which there is delegated overall responsibility for rulemaking by the Judicial Conference of the United States. The three chairmen are Senior Circuit Judge Albert Maris, generally thought of as the modern "Father" of federal rulemaking, Senior District Judge Rozell Thomson and the present …

The Constitution At Sea, Louis Henkin

Maine Law Review

Time was when it was assumed that the United States Constitution, like a deity of old, ruled only in its territory and did not apply outside the United States. Since 1957 we know that the Constitution applies wherever the United States exercises authority. If, as the Supreme Court then held, the Constitution governs the acts of the United States in the territory of a foreign state, where the Constitution might be deemed a foreign "intruder" on local sovereignty, it would seem to apply also — indeed a fortiori — to acts of the United States on the high seas, where …

Group Homes For The Mentally Retarded In Maine: Legislative Intent And Administrative Process, James C. Hunt

Maine Law Review

Historically, mentally retarded citizens of Maine have been confined to Pineland Center, the state's principal institution for the mentally retarded. In 1975 a class action suit, Wuori v. Zitnay, was filed in federal district court on behalf of "involuntarily confined" Pineland residents and "conditionally released" residents "in need of care . . . in a humane and healthful . . . environment." Three years later agencies and officials of the State of Maine entered into a consent judgment which laid down a "comprehensive plan designed to bring about speedy and meaningful relief" to the plaintiff class. The relief granted was …

Personal Injury Compensation As A Tax Preference, Lawrence A. Frolik

Maine Law Review

Samuel Johnson tells us "[d]epend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Projected federal budget deficits in the realm of $200 billion a year for the foreseeable future ought to have a similar effect: a concentration on means of reducing these unacceptable deficits. The simple answer is either to spend less or tax more, or perhaps, a bit of both. If we choose to tax more, we must either raise tax rates or widen the tax base, or both. The former, a general rise in tax rates, …

In Re Daniel C.: Reunification Efforts And The Termination Of Parental Rights, James W. Claus

Maine Law Review

In In re Daniel C., the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, affirmed an order terminating a father's parental rights pursuant to title 22, section 4055 of the Maine Revised Statutes. The issue on appeal concerned the effect of a failure by the Department of Human Services (DHS) to make efforts toward family reunification. The appellant, Daniel C.'s father, Everett Co., argued that the DHS failed to make adequate reunification efforts as required by title 22, section 4041 of the Maine Revised Statutes and that this failure precluded the termination of his parental rights. The Law Court …

In Re Caulk: A Prisoner's Right To Die—The Factor Of Intent, Laurence H. Leavitt

Maine Law Review

In prisons throughout the United States, prisoners commonly use hunger strikes as an avenue of protest to make personal demands, to call attention to poor prison conditions, or to make various political statements. Prisoners typically choose this route because they view their own bodies as one of the few things over which they actually have control and because the extreme slowness of a hunger strike gives others the chance to meet their political or personal demands. When confronted with such attempts at starvation, prison officials almost invariably have resorted to force-feeding the hunger strikers, although in recent years some prison …

Public School Integration Of Children With Handicaps After Smith V. Robinson: "Separate But Equal" Revisited?, Robert J. Goodwin

Maine Law Review

Under the direction of Chief Justice Burger the United States Supreme Court has issued several opinions limiting the availability of federal causes of action. While one benefit of this trend may be a reduction in the volume of federal litigation, the costs may include the limitation of substantive federal rights. The recent Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Robinson narrowly construed the availability of certain federal causes of action, and it illustrates how such a ruling, although procedural on its surface, in reality can operate to erode substantive rights. In Smith the Court concluded that a handicapped child could not …

Food Deserts, Socioeconomic Status, And Health In The City Of Detroit, Nolan Booth

Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research

While many attribute health disparities in Detroit residents to the phenomenon of food deserts, this essay takes a closer look at such a seemingly obvious explanation and critically examines the concept of food deserts. This essay argues that the commonly held definition of food desert is inadequate for describing the complexities of a setting such as Detroit, and the true cause of the health disparities between the city and surrounding suburbs can be attributed to the lower socioeconomic status of the average Detroit resident, itself a product of racist housing policies and segregationist laws.

The Implications Of Jack Kerouac’S Modern Flâneur In On The Road, Jane Valente

Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research

­­­­Post-World War II society became increasingly reliant on automobiles as the primary mode of transportation in the United States, fostering conditions that gave birth to a modern reconceptualization of the flâneur. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road serves as a reference for character analysis, continuing and revising the Parisian origins of the concept. Drawing from literary works such as Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting and Sherman Young’s essay “Morphings and Ur-Forms,” this essay argues that the protagonist of On the Road, Sal Paradise, embodies a uniquely American flâneur.

The Maiden’S Tower Of Femininity, Amrita Dhar

Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research

This paper examines portrayals of femininity within “Maiden in the Tower” tales. It analyzes the means by which maturation, sexuality, reproduction, and female agency contribute to the shaping of femininity. Via Petrosinella by Giambattista Basile, Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm, and Tangled by Disney, the paper explores how variations portray historically unique interpretations of ideal, female traits that defy common assumptions. The evolution of perspectives across “Maiden in the Tower” tales help us grasp how gender ideologies are communicated and how women are socialized.

Political Posters, Periperformativity, And Power: An Analysis Of The Connections Between An Activist Movement's Image And Sound, Adeline Navarro

Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research

This essay argues that we can gain a better understanding of the relationship between ACT UP’s image and sound, specifically its political posters and subsequent chants, by using Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s theory of periperformativity to examine the periperformative dimension of these chants and thus the power they lend ACT UP members during civil disobedience demonstrations. Second, it argues that the periperformative has the capacity to register historical change because it is an instance of, we-work.