Kuwait Task Force: A Unique Solution to Kuwait\u27s Reconstruction Problems

Prepared in February 1993 on Civil-Military Operations during Operation Desert Shield/Storm 1991. This work documents the services of a unit of public officials, who I call \u27public administrators in green.\u27 These men and women, having entered on active duty with the U.S. Army, made a significant contribution to restoration of government services in Kuwait following the cessation of hostilities. Their work was recognized in December 2016 by the Reserve Forces Policy Board, which presented the Distinctive Service Award for \u27exceptional, meritorious and distinctive service ...during the liberation and restoration of the government of Kuwait.\u2

The Practice of Leadership: The Life and Times of Joshua L. Chamberlain

Explores the life and achievements of Brevet Major General J.L. Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, describing his activities as pre-war professor, Civil War leader, and post-war governor, college president and federal official. Chamberlain, a military novice at the beginning of the war, was appointed second-in command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in August, 1862. Quickly learning the soldier\u27s craft, Chamberlain was promoted to Colonel and regimental commander in June, 1863, just prior to the battle of Gettysburg. There the unit, profiting from Chamberlain\u27s inspired and creative leadership, is credited with preventing the extreme left flank of the Union line from being turned by Confederate forces on July 2, 1863. For this feat Chamberlain later received the Medal of Honor

Interest-Based Bargaining: Changing Employer-Employee Relations at Youngstown State University

This study is based upon interviews conducted with over two dozen individuals centrally involved with the collective bargaining movement at Youngstown State University of Ohio. (YSU) The experiences and memories of several participants extend back to the 1960’s, at which time they were newly appointed faculty members. Within the group are several retired persons who spoke from the comfortable position of relative political invulnerability. Others were at the time of their interviews actively engaged in university teaching and administration. Initial interviews concerning the newly-established Interest-based bargaining process took place within eight months of the negotiatory events, well before the “ravages of short term memory loss” had damaged the database. Placed alongside the historical “paper trail” this oral testimony enabled the writer to reconstruct and describe with a significant degree of accuracy the events occurring during the negotiation of the 1993 faculty collective bargaining agreement at YSU. In 2004 the author revisited the issues involved through contact with retired, as well as still active members of the YSU community. The new data collected enabled him to “bring current” the earlier investigation, thus providing an update on the evolution of the bargaining process since 1993-4

Fermi LAT Observations of Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds: W41, MSH 17-39, and G337.0-0.1

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission coincident with three supernova remnants (SNRs) using data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. W41, MSH 17-39, and G337.0-0.1 are SNRs known to be interacting with molecular clouds, as evidenced by observations of hydroxyl (OH) maser emission at 1720 MHz in their directions and other observational information. SNR shocks are expected to be sites of cosmic ray acceleration, and clouds of dense material can provide effective targets for production of gamma-rays from neutral pion-decay. The observations reveal unresolved sources in the direction of G337.0-0.1, and MSH 17-39, and an extended source coincident with W41. We model their broadband emission (radio to gamma-ray) using a simple one-zone model, and after considering scenarios in which the MeV-TeV sources originate from either neutral pion-decay or leptonic emission, we conclude that the gamma-rays are most likely produced through the hadronic channel.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Ap

GPU Acceleration of Image Convolution using Spatially-varying Kernel

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and supernovae. To match point spread functions (PSFs) between images of the same field taken at different times a convolution technique is used. Particularly suitable for large-scale images is a computationally intensive spatially-varying kernel. The underlying algorithm is inherently massively parallel due to unique kernel generation at every pixel location. The spatially-varying kernel cannot be efficiently computed through the Convolution Theorem, and thus does not lend itself to acceleration by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). This work presents results of accelerated implementation of the spatially-varying kernel image convolution in multi-cores with OpenMP and graphic processing units (GPUs). Typical speedups over ANSI-C were a factor of 50 and a factor of 1000 over the initial IDL implementation, demonstrating that the techniques are a practical and high impact path to terabyte-per-night image pipelines and petascale processing.Comment: 4 pages. Accepted to IEEE-ICIP 201

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma metastasis to parotid, analysis of outcomes with positive margins at initial resection

"Several studies have been conducted evaluating prognostic factors in primary salivary gland cancer as well as in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa) with metastasis to the salivary glands. However, there is currently a gap in the literature regarding the outcomes specifically related to positive margins at initial marginal analysis for cutaneous SCCa in patients with metastasis to the parotid. Patients with metastasis of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa) to intraparotid lymph nodes are often treated with parotidectomy (Figures 2 and 3) and neck dissection (Figure 1). Pathology reports may comment on the presence of carcinoma at the inked edge of a specimen, but the clinical significance of this 'positive margin' is understudied. With this study, we aim to expand on the current literature to specifically evaluate overall survival and disease-free survival rates in patients who underwent surgery with parotidectomy and neck dissection for metastatic SCCa to the parotid gland."--Introduction

Information Otherwise Unknowable: Carpenter as a Window into the Judicial Decision-Making Process

In 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided Carpenter v. United States, a landmark decision that expanded the protection of the Fourth Amendment to cell phone location records. In addition to its doctrinal importance, Carpenter—a 5–4 decision that was not split cleanly along ideological lines, and that featured a myriad of theories of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence—also holds great insight as to how judges decide cases, particularly at the level of the Supreme Court. This Article explores the process of judicial decision-making by using Carpenter as a springboard for analysis. Relying on the vast research, both legal and psychological, on judicial decision-making, this Article explores the explicit and implicit factors that influence judges and then analyzes these factors in the context of the Carpenter decision