The early Christian attitude toward war

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Directions to Improve Application of Systems Approach to Fire Protection Requirements for Buildings

Recent and progressing work in the development of systems approach for design of fire protection in buildings is examined. Scope of coverage includes such areas as review of fire safety systems approach in the U.S. and an overview of extensive and more pertinent fire growth systems analysis approaches. A fire model with its impact based on a state's-transition concept is proposed. Fire is viewed as two distinct sequences: fire behavior and human behavior. Finally, a plan for the derivation of viable fire protection engineering technology is presented

The Newsmen\u27s Privilege Against Disclosure of Confidential Sources and Information

When the barrage of subpoenas began in early 1969, statutes of some states recognized an evidentiary privilege of journalists not to reveal confidential sources. In April 1970, the possibility of an additional protective avenue opened when the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted constitutional protection under the first amendment\u27s freedom of the press clause. By March 1971, this decision had been upheld and extended; the highest courts of three states had ruled upon the claim to constitutional protection with widely divergent results; and at least three petitions had been filed for Supreme Court review of these decisions in the hope that certiorari, uniformly denied in earlier similar cases, now would be granted. This article will examine the decisions since April 1970 and suggest some implications flowing from them, particularly as they bear on the constitutional issues. As a prelude, it will seek to summarize the state of the law on newmen\u27s privilege prior to April 1970

A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Festinger\u27s Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

The purpose of this paper is to attempt an evaluation, in cross-cultural terms, of Leon Festinger\u27s Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, as a research tool. The specific problem to be treated is a consideration of the extent to which dissonance theory can be made applicable in varying situations in diverse cultural settings. Prior to an exposition of methodology, a short abstract of the hypothesis and some of its ramifications is appropriate

The experience of becoming a member of a systemic design team

This workshop adopted a sequence of systemically integrated exercises to simulate the different transformational states a group of individuals experience as they transition between being a gathering of individuals, to being a cohesive group, to being a productive team, to becoming a high performance design team. Participants experienced the essence of such transformation along with an intellectual framework tying the experiences into a coherent systemic whole. Participants were presented with a series of guiding schema for the overall workshop and for each of three exercises. The exercises were a combination of individual and group work. The exercise were critiqued on how well participants thought they did meeting the objective of the exercise, which was to experience a change in interrelationships of an emerging systemic design team. The workshop was focused on creating an experience of three significant transformations in the evolution of a design team. It also included each individual reporting out reflectively the essence of their experiences—i.e. what would each participant take away from having had such experiences with others