Psychopathic Personality Traits in Students Entering Helping Professions

Psychopathy is often misrepresented as a sign of criminality and deviance. However, current literature suggests that psychopaths make up approximately one-fifth of the general population. Some people use these characterological traits to their benefit in positions of leadership. In this study, students from a Christian university in the Pacific Northwest were selected to participate in a survey, based upon their chosen major (Business, Psychology, and Religion). It was hypothesized that Business students would have the highest total levels of psychopathy and religion majors would show the lowest levels of psychopathy. Since religion often serves as a protective factor, it is further predicted that religion will mitigate the effects of psychopathy, and will be negatively correlated with psychopathic traits. Multiple one-way ANOVAs and Tukey post hoc tests were used to determine which degrees had statistically significant differences, and a correlational study examined the possibility of religion as a mitigating factor. Results indicated that Religion students had the highest levels of primary psychopathy as well as overall psychopathy levels, whereas Business students had the highest levels of secondary psychopathy. It was also determined that primary and secondary psychopathy had no significant relationship to one another, and that total psychopathy levels had no significant differences between age and gender. The implications of this study show the potential for individuals with more psychopathic personality traits to enter prosocial leadership roles, such as clergy, and the benefit of pre-employment personality screening

Channel Improvements, New London, Connecticut: A Case Study

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the largest single Federal agencies involved in the planning, design and construction of public waterborne transportation facilities. A critical review of a typical corps of Engineers survey report on the improvements to a harbor should provide an insight to the means of allocating the costs and benefits resulting from government expenditures. The purpose of this paper is to review this process using as a vehicle the proposed improvements to the navigation channel at New London, Connecticu

Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2) Naval Analysis

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThe Navy needs to play a vital role in JADC2 and to serve as a central pillar. Leveraging extensive knowledge of agile C2 and rapid organization reconfiguration, along with experience with mission command and C2 knowledge flow integration, this project seeks to address questions regarding how the Navy should prepare for this role; how naval fires and assets should cross COCOMs; how the Navy Tactical Grid should integrate into the Joint Grid; and how Service unique knowledge needs and capabilities should balance with important goals of convergence, commonality and interoperability.N2/N6 - Information WarfareThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2) Naval Analysis

NPS NRP Technical ReportThe Navy needs to play a vital role in JADC2 and to serve as a central pillar. Leveraging extensive knowledge of agile C2 and rapid organization reconfiguration, along with experience with mission command and C2 knowledge flow integration, this project seeks to address questions regarding how the Navy should prepare for this role; how naval fires and assets should cross COCOMs; how the Navy Tactical Grid should integrate into the Joint Grid; and how Service unique knowledge needs and capabilities should balance with important goals of convergence, commonality and interoperability.N2/N6 - Information WarfareThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2) Naval Analysis

NPS NRP Project PosterThe Navy needs to play a vital role in JADC2 and to serve as a central pillar. Leveraging extensive knowledge of agile C2 and rapid organization reconfiguration, along with experience with mission command and C2 knowledge flow integration, this project seeks to address questions regarding how the Navy should prepare for this role; how naval fires and assets should cross COCOMs; how the Navy Tactical Grid should integrate into the Joint Grid; and how Service unique knowledge needs and capabilities should balance with important goals of convergence, commonality and interoperability.N2/N6 - Information WarfareThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Complex experimentation processes: Fleet battle experiment implementation ; summary report

This report provides an interim description of methodology and experimentation process emerging in Fleet battle experiments. The developing science of complex system experimentation is expanded in this report, and applicable to other DOD related complex systems projects. -- Report documentation page.This study was sponsored by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Major-Caliber Ammunition Program Office, Crane, Indiana.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Developing a Formal Navy Knowledge Management Process

Prepared for: Chief of Naval Operations, N1Organization tacit and explicit knowledge are required for high performance, and it is imperative for such knowledge to be managed to ensure that it flows rapidly, reliably and energetically. The Navy N1 organization has yet to develop a formal process for knowledge management (KM). This places N1 in a position of competitive disadvantage, particularly as thousands of people change jobs every day, often taking their hard earned job knowledge out the door with them and leaving their replacements with the need to learn such knowledge anew. Building upon initial efforts to engage with industry and conceptualize a Navy KM strategy, the research described in this study employs a combination of Congruence Model analysis, Knowledge Flow Theory, and qualitative methods to outline an approach for embedding a formal Navy KM process. This work involves surveying best tools and practices in the industry, government and nonprofit sectors, augmented by in depth field research to examine two specific Navy organizations in detail. Results are highly promising, and they serve to illuminate a path toward improving Navy knowledge flows as well as continued research along these lines.Chief of Naval Operations, N1Chief of Naval Operations, N1.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

The Running Estimate (RE) for the MEF Command Element

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThe Running Estimate (RE) for the MEF Command ElementII Marine Expeditionary Forces (II MEF)This research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Punishing Drug Use During Pregnancy: Is It Time to “Just Say No” to Fetal Rights?

In family courts throughout the country, civil neglect and abuse petitions are routinely brought against individuals based on their drug use during pregnancy. While some may be quick to justify such state interventions in the name of child protection based on the presumption that drug use always harms fetuses in utero and the child once it is born, this note questions the propriety of such justifications. While drug use during pregnancy may result in detrimental health outcomes, the theoretical underpinning of this premise has been dramatically distorted due to racist and classist assumptions that permeate child protective schemes. Medical research suggests that harm to the child resulting from in utero exposure to substances has been vastly overstated due in large part to the pervasive rhetoric of the war on drugs, “crack babies,” and the vilification of Black motherhood. Furthermore, punishing individuals for drug use during pregnancy in the name of fetal protection highlights the law’s recent tendency to afford legal protections to fetuses, often at the expense of their mothers’ privacy and reproductive liberty interests. Thus, the justifications for state intervention (i.e., preventing harm to the child) must be carefully scrutinized. Otherwise, family courts, despite their purported rehabilitative and non-punitive purpose, are simply carrying out state-sanctioned family separation, the trauma of which cannot be overstated. About half the states consider drug use during pregnancy as child abuse or neglect per se under their child-welfare statutes. The remaining states either have no specific requirement or require a showing of harm to the child caused by the parent’s drug use before a finding of neglect or abuse can be made. This note focuses on New York State’s approach, which requires a showing of harm to the child caused by drug use during pregnancy. While preferable to state approaches which permit such a finding without any showing of harm, New York caselaw suggests ample room for improvement. First, New York must promulgate clear standards for establishing harm to the child. New York also cannot ignore the harm of the most drastic and invasive of its interventions—removal of the infant—in its analysis. New York must establish clear guidelines for drug testing and subsequent reporting of pregnant women. Finally, to truly work in the best interests of children and families and to best align with its “rehabilitative” purpose, New York family courts must reject a punitive approach and should prioritize interventions supporting maternal health and recovery

Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both reflect and build upon his academic predecessors. In particular, I trace the expansion of imitation and reading-writing connections in his major works, the co-authored Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts and Ways of Reading. Doing this allows my readers to view Bartholomae’s writing not only as an extension of trends in the field of composition, but as driving force of those trends. I ultimately conclude that, because of its impact on his learning, imitation is an indispensable aspect of Bartholomae’s career that should not be overlooked