An Integrated Framework for Modeling and Simulation of the U.S. Southern Border: A Border Patrol Perspective

Border Security is a complex system consisting of many interrelated components that must function as a whole in order to be effective. The efficacy of border security is dependent on several independent agencies; these include U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Justice (DOJ), state and local law enforcement, and many others. Border security is not only a function of how well each of the agencies perform individually but also how well they interact to accomplish a goal. This paper attempts to model border security from a Border Patrol (BP) perspective using discrete event simulation in conjunction with Markovian analysis. The model will provide a baseline of the system\u27s current effectiveness as well as any interventions made to the system

Poverty Simulation

The School of Social Work at Southern Adventist University has been working alongside the Chattanooga Police Department studying the interactions between police and the communities they serve. This research has led to the question of how law enforcement officers (in Chattanooga) are treating impoverished people of color. Literature suggests that there are not any evidence based interventions to improve the way professionals treat individuals in such circumstances, especially in the law enforcement industry. In a few instances, poverty simulations have been shown to build more empathy and understanding for individuals. The School of Social Work has conducted three simulations that have provided data to aid in understanding the change of perception for those working with impoverished individuals overall, with an emphasis to people of color. Methods: Researchers conducted a pre-assessment with a quantitative survey and qualitative survey and a post-survey with a replica of the same questions on the quantitative survey and a question regarding change for the qualitative questions. Measurements: The quantitative data was entered into the most current SPSS licensure system. Qualitative data was coded based on popular themes for each question and assessed for common responses among different professions. Results: The results suggest that the poverty simulation can contribute quality understanding and greater empathy in law enforcement, social workers, and community members working with impoverished individuals and people of color. Conclusions: The poverty simulation can be an effective intervention, particularly useful for those working within the helping professions, to gain a better understanding of the realities and impediments for individuals living in poverty or living in low-income areas

Teaching Substantive Environmental Law and Practice Skills Through Interest Group Role-Playing

Most law students take their first introductory course in environmental law during their second year of law school. The traditional first-year curriculum does little to prepare students for the complex statutory and regulatory models for most environmental regulation. Law students at the end of their first year often have had little exposure to statutory interpretation. Further, they often have no exposure to administrative law and regulatory implementation. These students may expect statutes to provide clear statements of rules rather than guidelines for administrative rulemaking. They also tend to view the lawmaking and interpretive process through the traditional lens of congressional legislation and common-law-style judicial interpretation in a bipolar scheme of implementation--where the regulatory agencies and the regulated industries are the only players. In fact, environmental regulatory programs constantly evolve through a complex interaction of legislative amendment, administrative rulemaking, and judicial interpretation. Influencing these programs are the multipolar interaction of regulated industries, environmental groups, state agencies, and federal regulators. Law students accustomed to the bipolar model of common-law legal development and who expect statutory law to consist of a simple reading of clear statutory texts can find this interest group pluralist model of law development bewildering. One way to help give context to this complex interaction is to place students in the roles of the various advocates and decision-makers in the environmental law processes. Assigning students to adopt the perspective of various distinct players in the regulatory process, such as agency lawyer, industry lawyer, and environmental NGO lawyer, helps make this complex interaction more accessible to students. This also provides an introduction into the skills of statutory interpretation and regulatory implementation. At Pace Law School, we have had considerable success integrating this approach into an Environmental Law Skills course. This course combines a comprehensive study of the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulatory program with skills-based exercises in administrative rulemaking, judicial review, regulatory permitting, negotiation, and enforcement. The course was added to the curriculum in the 1990s in response to the growing recognition by the legal academy that the traditional case-oriented method of instruction failed to result in law graduates with basic competencies expected of lawyers. The course has been refined over the years to incorporate the Carnegie Report\u27s more recent critiques: the legal education\u27s failure to foster students\u27 development of their professional identities and their understanding of lawyers\u27 role in representing clients. By integrating role-playing, problem solving, and doctrinal instruction, the course seeks to engage students in active learning and professional identity development. The course also seeks to implement recommendations for the improvement of legal instruction contained in Professor Stuckey\u27s influential 2007 report, Best Practices for Legal Education. In particular, the course seeks to “teach doctrine, theory, and practice as part of a unified, coordinated program of instruction” as recommended in that report

Kesan penggunaan prosedur pembelajaran kawalan kendiri (self-regulated learning) terhadap pencapaian akademik, kemahiran meta kognitif dan motivasi pelajar politeknik : kajian kes

Pembelajaran Kawalan Kendiri (PKK) merupakan satu strategi pembelajaran efektif yang membantu pelajar untuk kompeten dan mempunyai autonomi dalam diri. Namun, prosedur yang betul bagi mengaplikasikan PKK masih memerlukan penambahbaikan disebabkan oleh pelajar cepat bosan belajar subjek teori. Pelajar juga didapati mengamalkan surface learning, mudah hilang fokus dalam kelas dan tidak cekap dalam mengawal kemahiran meta kognitif. Oleh itu, tujuan kajian ini dilaksanakan adalah untuk membangunkan satu prosedur PKK khusus untuk pelajar politeknik yang mengambil subjek Prinsip Pengurusan dan diuji keberkesanannya terhadap pencapaian akademik, kemahiran meta kognitif dan motivasi pelajar. Terdapat dua (2) fasa telah digunakan dalam kajian ini. Fasa pertama (1) ialah pembangunan prosedur PKK menggunakan analisis dokumen dan model Kemp. Analisis frekuensi telah digunakan dalam fasa ini. Terdapat tiga (3) hasil dapatan kajian daripada fasa pembangunan iaitu Prosedur PKK, Aktiviti Pengajaran dan Rancangan Pengajaran Harian (RPH). Fasa kedua (2) ialah pelaksanaan prosedur PKK menggunakan reka bentuk kuasi eksperimen iaitu ujian pra-pasca bagi kumpulan-kumpulan tidak seimbang. 43 orang pelajar Politeknik Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (POLISAS) telah dipilih sebagai kumpulan rawatan manakala 38 orang pelajar Politeknik Merlimau (PMM) sebagai kumpulan kawalan. Analisis deskriptif skor min dan analisis inferensi MANCOVA telah digunakan dalam kajian ini bagi menguji perbezaan antara kumpulan kajian. Berdasarkan hasil analisis MANCOVA yang telah dijalankan, didapati wujud perbezaan yang signifikan secara statistik antara kumpulan rawatan dan kawalan bagi pencapaian akademik [F (1, 76) = 24.786, p = .000], kemahiran meta kognitif [F (1, 76) = 14.864, p = .000] dan motivasi [F (1, 76) = 65.148, p = .000]. Kesimpulannya, prosedur PKK terbukti berkesan dan boleh dijadikan panduan kepada pensyarah dalam mengaplikasikan PKK dengan lebih efektif dan berkesan

Flexible fair and collusion resistant pseudonym providing system

In service providing systems, user authentication is required for different purposes such as billing, restricting unauthorized access, etc., to protect the privacy of users, their real identities should not be linked to the services that they use during authentication. A good solution is to use pseudonyms as temporary identities. On the other hand, it may also be required to have a backdoor in pseudonym systems for identity revealing that can be used by law enforcement agencies for legal reasons. Existing systems that retain a backdoor are either punitive (full user anonymity is revealed), or they are restrictive by revealing only current pseudonym identity of. In addition to that, existing systems are designed for a particular service and may not fit into others. In this paper, we address this gap and we propose a novel pseudonym providing and management system. Our system is flexible and can be tuned to fit into services for different service providers. The system is privacy-preserving and guarantees a level of anonymity for a particular number of users. Trust in our system is distributed among all system entities instead of centralizing it into a single trusted third party. More importantly, our system is highly resistant to collusions among the trusted entities. Our system also has the ability to reveal user identity fairly in case of a request by law enforcement. Analytical and simulation based performance evaluation showed that Collusion Resistant Pseudonym Providing System (CoRPPS) provides high level of anonymity with strong resistance against collusion attacks

A comparative assessment of methodologies used to evaluate competition policy

Research by academics and competition agencies on evaluating competition policy has grown rapidly during the last two decades. This paper surveys the literature in order to (i) assess the fitness for purpose of the main quantitative methodologies employed, and (ii) identify the main undeveloped areas and unanswered questions for future research. It suggests that policy evaluation is necessarily an imprecise science and that all existing methodologies have strengths and limitations. The areas where the need is most pressing for further work include: understanding why Article 102 cases are only infrequently evaluated; the need to bring conscious discussion of the counterfactual firmly into the foreground; a wider definition of policy to include success in deterrence and detection. At the heart of the discussion is the impact of selection bias on most aspects of evaluation. These topics are the focus of ongoing work in the CCP

Money-Scape: A Generic Agent-Based Model of Corruption

There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be one of the countries of the worst economic and political system on corruption case. The paper is introducing the usage of agent based simulation for analyzing the corruption specifically in Indonesia as the biggest corruption level. The model showed is named money-scape, inspiring by the way of corrupt bureaucracy in Indonesia. The paper showed how the situation taken by the revolutionary strategies combating corruption and some peaceful and smart strategies generically.corruption, money-scape, agent-based, revolution, strategy

Money-Scape: A Generic Agent-Based Model of Corruption

There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be one of the countries of the worst economic and political system on corruption case. The paper is introducing the usage of agent based simulation for analyzing the corruption specifically in Indonesia as the biggest corruption level. The model showed is named money-scape, inspiring by the way of corrupt bureaucracy in Indonesia. The paper showed how the situation taken by the revolutionary strategies combating corruption and some peaceful and smart strategies generically.corruption, money-scape, agent-based, revolution, strategy

The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: Policy Implications and Insights

The subprime mortgage market, which consists of high-cost loans designed for borrowers with weak credit, has grown tremendously over the past ten years. Between 1993 and 2005, the subprime market experienced an average annual growth rate of 26 percent. As this market emerged, so did allegations that subprime loans contained predatory features or were the result of predatory sales practices.3 In the worst cases, brokers deceived borrowers about the meaning of loan terms or falsely promised to assist them in obtaining future refinance loans with better terms. In other situations, borrowers entered into loans with low teaser rates, not aware how high their monthly payments could go when their interest rates reset