Unleashing Cable T.V., Leashing the FCC: Constitutional Limitations on Government Regulation of Pay Television

Article examines the Federal Communications Commission’s 1975 decision to prohibit cablecasters from showing certain types of programming, on the rationale that pay cablevision, through successful competitive bidding, would ‘siphon’ this programming away from broadcast television and deprive the general public of popular programming. Article discusses the history behind the decision, the court of appeals’ treatment of the FCC rules and the decision’s possible effect on future pay cable regulation

From Opponent to Ally: The United States and Efforts to End the Use of Child Soldiers

Since the mid-1990’s, United States’ policy regarding child soldiers has evolved significantly. The US was initially a strong opponent of efforts to negotiate an international treaty prohibiting the participation of children under age 18 in armed conflict. In subsequent years, it not only ratified the treaty, but adopted groundbreaking legislation that allows the US to prosecute child recruiters on US soil, even if the recruitment took place outside the United States, and that restricts US military assistance to foreign governments that recruit or use child soldiers. Although the Obama administration has invoked national security interests to waive these military sanctions in many cases, the US has stepped up its diplomatic engagement on child soldiers, influencing signed agreements by Chad, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to end child recruitment and demobilize children from their forces

Flexible Teaching and Learning in Accounting: innovate, investigate and Improve

The continuing need to improve the quality of education in all tertiary sectors including accounting is ever present. .It is imperative that, as educators, we have some knowledge of our student group in order to best tailor a course that meets students many and varied needs and, importantly, those of the professional accounting bodies. There is no magic formula - as educators involved in flexible delivery we are mindful that we need to innovate by experimenting, evaluate by investigation and reappraise, and thereafter improve, what we do. Importantly we need to remember that we are learners too. The aim of this paper is to measure the perceptions of different groups of learners in a large core accounting course in relation to flexible delivery. It is hoped that by sharing our findings this paper will contribute to the improvement of quality in accounting education

From Opponent to Ally: The United States and Efforts to End the Use of Child Soldiers

Article published in the Michigan State International Law Review

Time-Varying Priority Queuing Models for Human Dynamics

Queuing models provide insight into the temporal inhomogeneity of human dynamics, characterized by the broad distribution of waiting times of individuals performing tasks. We study the queuing model of an agent trying to execute a task of interest, the priority of which may vary with time due to the agent's "state of mind." However, its execution is disrupted by other tasks of random priorities. By considering the priority of the task of interest either decreasing or increasing algebraically in time, we analytically obtain and numerically confirm the bimodal and unimodal waiting time distributions with power-law decaying tails, respectively. These results are also compared to the updating time distribution of papers in the arXiv.org and the processing time distribution of papers in Physical Review journals. Our analysis helps to understand human task execution in a more realistic scenario.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure

Improving Monolithic Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cells From an Optical Viewpoint

Perovskite silicon tandem solar cells are the most promising concept for a future photovoltaic technology. We report on recent progress from an optical viewpoint and disucss how we achieved more than 25 device efficienc

Can exercise limits prevent post-exertional malaise in chronic fatigue syndrome? An uncontrolled clinical trial.

<b>Objective</b>: It was hypothesized that the use of exercise limits prevents symptom increases and worsening of their health status following a walking exercise in people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). <b>Design</b>: An uncontrolled clinical trial (semi-experimental design). <b>Setting</b>: Outpatient clinic of a university department. <b>Subjects</b>: 24 patients with CFS. <b>Interventions</b>: Subjects undertook a walking test with the two concurrent exercise limits. Each subject walked at an <i>intensity</i> where the maximum heart rate was determined by heart rate corresponding to the respiratory exchange ratio =1.0 derived from a previous sub-maximal exercise test and for a duration calculated from how long each patient felt they were able to walk. <b>Main outcome measures</b>: The Short Form 36 Health Survey or SF-36, the CFS Symptom List, and the CFS-Activities and Participation Questionnaire were filled in prior to, immediately and 24 hours post-exercise. <b>Results</b>: The fatigue increase observed immediately post-exercise (p=0.006) returned to pre-exercise levels 24 hours post-exercise. The increase in pain observed immediately post-exercise was retained at 24 hours post-exercise (p=0.03). Fourteen of 24 subjects experienced a clinically meaningful change in bodily pain (change of SF-36 bodily pain score ³10). Six of 24 participants indicated that the exercise bout had slightly worsened their health status, and 2 of 24 had a clinically meaningful decrease in vitality (change of SF-36 vitality score ³20). There was no change in activity limitations/participation restrictions. <b>Conclusion</b>: It was shown that the use of exercise limits (limiting both the intensity and duration of exercise) prevents important health status changes following a walking exercise in people with CFS, but was unable to prevent short-term symptom increases

A Formative Evaluation of a Master\u27s-Level Career-Coaching Course for Performance Improvement Students

The authors conducted a formative evaluation of an iteratively evolving career-coaching course. All 11 master\u27s students who had enrolled in the course between Winter 2016 and Fall 2017 participated in the evaluation. Our evaluation addressed three research questions: (1) To what extent does participation in the career-coaching course affect participant confidence? (2) To what extent did participants attain their stated course goals? (3) To what extent did career coaching contribute to participants\u27 current job situation? Analysis of quantitative and qualitative survey responses indicated that participants consistently reported increased levels of confidence after career coaching in terms of their ability to identify appropriate job positions, pursue job opportunities, and reflect on their own development and their overall career readiness. Most participants also reported that they had met their goals and valued their career-coaching experience. At the time of the survey, five of the participants reported that they had found jobs within the field