The Affects of Conflict Resolutions Skills of Pre-Release Inmates\u27 and their Families

This research examined the effects of a program designed to teach a model of conflict resolution to pre-release inmates and their partners. Three inmates and their significant others were given tools that assessed their conflict resolution style and the cohesion and adaptability of their family unit at the start of an eight-week group. These scores were compared to scores taken at the end of the eight-week group and after 90 days. The scores showed a significant increase in the participants\u27 style of conflict resolution. However, certain limitations need to be considered because of inconsistency in research tools and the low number of participants

Policy inconsistency detection bassed on RBAC model in cross-organizational collaboration

Policy integration and conflict resolutions among various organizations still remain a major challenge.Moreover, policy inconsistency detection approach with logical reasoning techniques which considers integration requirements from collaboration parties has not been well studied.In this paper, we proposed a model to detect inconsistencies based on role-based access control (RBAC) that considers role hierarchy (RH) and temporal and spatial constraints.A model to prune and collect only the required policies based on access control requirements from different organizations is designed.Policy inconsistency detection should be enhanced with logical-based analysis in order to develop security policy integration.We believe this work could provide manner to filter a large amount of unrelated policies and only return potential collaboration policies for conflict resolution

Requirements Conflict Detection and Resolution in AREM Using Intelligence System Approach

Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining user requirements that are used as the main reference in the system development process. The quality of the RE results is measured based on the consistency and completeness of the requirements. The collection of requirements from multiple stakeholders can cause requirements conflict and have an impact on the inconsistency and incompleteness of the resulting requirements model. In this study, a method for automatic conflict detection and resolution in the Automatic Requirements Engineering Model (AREM) was developed. AREM is a model that automates the process of elicitation, analysis, validation, and requirements specification. The requirement conflict detection method was developed using an intelligent agent approach combined with a Weighted Product approach. Meanwhile, Conflict resolution is made automatically using a rule-based model and clustering method. Testing the ability of the method to detect and resolve conflicting requirements was carried out through five data sets of requirements from five system development projects. Based on the test results, it is known that the system is able to produce a set of objects that have conflicts in the data requirements. For conflict resolution, experiments were conducted with five conflict resolution scenarios. The experimental results show that the method is able to resolve conflicts by producing the highest completeness value, but the results of conflict resolution also produce a number of soft goals. The success of the method in detecting and resolving conflicts in the model is able to overcome the problem of inconsistencies and incompleteness in the requirements model

High-resolution extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of G191-B2B: structure of the stellar photosphere and the surrounding interstellar medium

We have continued our detailed analysis of the high-resolution (R= 4000) spectroscopic observation of the DA white dwarf G191-B2B, obtained by the Joint Astrophysical Plasmadynamic Experiment (J-PEX) normal incidence sounding rocket-borne telescope, comparing the observed data with theoretical predictions for both homogeneous and stratified atmosphere structures. We find that the former models give the best agreement over the narrow waveband covered by J-PEX, in conflict with what is expected from previous studies of the lower resolution but broader wavelength coverage Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer spectra. We discuss the possible limitations of the atomic data and our understanding of the stellar atmospheres that might give rise to this inconsistency. In our earlier study, we obtained an unusually high ionization fraction for the ionized He ii present along the line of sight to the star. In the present paper, we obtain a better fit when we assume, as suggested by Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph results, that this He ii resides in two separate components. When one of these is assigned to the local interstellar cloud, the implied He ionization fraction is consistent with measurements along other lines of sight. However, the resolving power and signal-to-noise available from the instrument configuration used in this first successful J-PEX flight are not sufficient to clearly identify and prove the existence of the two components

Union Walks in the Sixth: The Integrity of Mandatory Non-Binding Grievance Procedures in Collective Bargaining Agreements - AT & (and) T v. Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, The

There are many mechanisms short of industrial action which labor unions and employers use to resolve disputes. Anticipating conflict, but aiming to avoid industrial action, the two parties might place an arbitration agreement or other mandatory grievance adjustment procedure into their collective bargaining agreement. This agreement will reflect the parties\u27 understanding as to how disputes are to be resolved. This Note examines the limited circumstances in which the federal courts will enjoin union protest activity carried out in violation of a collective bargaining agreement\u27s provisions regarding dispute resolution. It focuses on the analytic inconsistency of the judicial refusal to enjoin union activities carried out in violation of a collective bargaining agreement during the pendency of a mandatory dispute resolution procedure other than arbitration

Union Walks in the Sixth: The Integrity of Mandatory Non-Binding Grievance Procedures in Collective Bargaining Agreements - AT & (and) T v. Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, The

There are many mechanisms short of industrial action which labor unions and employers use to resolve disputes. Anticipating conflict, but aiming to avoid industrial action, the two parties might place an arbitration agreement or other mandatory grievance adjustment procedure into their collective bargaining agreement. This agreement will reflect the parties\u27 understanding as to how disputes are to be resolved. This Note examines the limited circumstances in which the federal courts will enjoin union protest activity carried out in violation of a collective bargaining agreement\u27s provisions regarding dispute resolution. It focuses on the analytic inconsistency of the judicial refusal to enjoin union activities carried out in violation of a collective bargaining agreement during the pendency of a mandatory dispute resolution procedure other than arbitration

Towards a Framework for Managing Inconsistencies in Systems of Systems

The growth in the complexity of software systems has led to a proliferation of systems that have been created independently to provide specific functions, such as activity tracking, household energy management or personal nutrition assistance. The runtime composition of these individual systems into Systems of Systems (SoSs) enables support for more sophisticated functionality that cannot be provided by individual constituent systems on their own. However, in order to realize the benefits of these functionalities it is necessary to address a number of challenges associated with SoSs, including, but not limited to, operational and managerial independence, geographic distribution of participating systems, evolutionary development, and emergent conflicting behavior that can occur due interactions between the requirements of the participating systems. In this paper, we present a framework for conflict management in SoSs. The management of conflicting requirements involves four steps, namely (a) overlap detection, (b) conflict identification, (c) conflict diagnosis, and (d) conflict resolution based on the use of a utility function. The framework uses a Monitor-Analyze-Plan- Execute- Knowledge (MAPE-K) architectural pattern. In order to illustrate the work, we use an example SoS ecosystem designed to support food security at different levels of granularity