Selecting Software to Evaluate the Anticipated Effectiveness of CMP Strategies

DVRPC is seeking a software program or programs to evaluate the anticipated performance of a range of congestion management strategies. This is a required task in federal regulations for the Congestion Management Process (CMP). DVRPC staff would share this resource with partner organizations. Thirty-four software packages are reviewed. The conclusion is that a sketch planning-level program would be the most useful type of software; however, there is no one program able to analyze all of the strategies used in the CMP. Initial testing of Cal-B/C, a free, downloadable spreadsheet-based sketch modeling tool, shows potential. Future plans to continue testing software for CMP strategy analysis are outlined

Interest Convergence and Neoliberalism: Effects on Entry-Level Staff of Color Who Perform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

Higher education was not originally built to benefit people of color. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are many ways in which universities seek to change higher education. However, higher education has a staff retention problem and is at risk of losing more than half of its current workforce. Retention problems also impact entry-level staff of color who perform DEI in universities. Through a lens of interest convergence and neoliberalism, this qualitative study gathered the experiences of entry-level staff of color who perform DEI in student affairs, looked at how their experiences are shaped by the structures of the university, and examined the relationship between university structures and racism that affected entry-level staff of color. Participants in this study consisted of six current entry-level staff of color from three public Hispanic Serving Institutions in California. The findings from this study contributed to the limited research on entry-level staff of color performing DEI in higher education. The experiences revealed by the participants are org­­anized into six themes: (1) identities influenced DEI positions, (2) joy experienced by performing DEI, (3) value found in supervisors with similar identities, (4) funding insecurities harm DEI staff, (5) budget cuts impact DEI initiatives, and (6) racism often experienced in university structures. Findings suggests entry-level staff of color are at the crossroads of working in environments which embrace their marginalized identities yet are situated in institutions that have made all participants think about resigning due to the oppressive treatment they systematically endure while performing DEI. Recommendations were developed from findings, which include practices in how universities can retain entry-level staff of color who perform DEI, and suggestions for future research to include entry-level staff of color and their experiences in higher education

Responsible Leadership in Education and Development

"This paper explores the themes of responsible leadership in ‘education’ and ‘development’ from the perspective of applied ethics. In philosophical discourse, ethics deals with values, norms and attitudes. Applied ethics has to do with the practices derived from these three ingredients of ethics. The words ‘education’ and ‘development’ are two of the most over-used, misused and abused labels today. Too often, ‘education’ has been used as a synonym for ‘schooling’ and ‘literacy’, especially with reference to the so-called ‘developing’ countries. At the same time, ‘development’ has been commonly used as an indicator of the extent to which a former colony has adopted the North Atlantic mode of industrial production, economic organisation and political governance. In this era of ‘globalisation,’ there is great need for open discussion and critique on these words, and the processes they are intended to describe. Unfortunately, these words are often taken for granted in discourses on ‘education’ and ‘development,’ while they presuppose a wide variety of meanings and connotations. In the following pages it will be shown that ‘education’ is a cultural process through which individuals are socialised to become responsible adults within the community. (...).", p. 79 (Conceptual Clarifications

African Church Leadership

This article deals mainly with two issues: the relationship between Christianity and culture on the one side and the relation between religion (Christianity and Islam) and politics on the other side, both issues being seen as important roots for social crisis and conflicts in African countries. Finally the article also raises the question of the future of religions in Africa

Meaning and method : a comparative study of Edmund Husserl and Ezra Pound

In his essay entitled Phenomenology of Heading Georges Poulet explains how a reading is possible The universe of fiction is infinitely more elastic than the world of objective reality. It lends itself to any use; it yields with little resistance to the importunities of the mind. Moreover - and of all the benefits I find this the most appealing - this interior universe constituted by language does not seem radically opposed to the me who thinks it.... In short, since everything has become part of my mind, thanks to the intervention of language, the opposition between the subject and its objects has been considerably attenuated. And thus the greatest advantage of literature is that I am freed from my usual sense of incompatibility between my consciousness and its objects. The dissolution of this subject-object dualism is not the only factor involved. Poulet shows that reading is a way of giving way not only to a host of alien words, images, ideas, but also to the very alien principle which utters them and shelters them

Rescuing Expedited Discovery From the Commodity Futures Trading Commission & Returning It To Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(d)(1): Using a Doctrine\u27s Forgotten History to Achieve Legitimacy

For over a decade, judicial decisions have “authorized” the CFTC to conduct expedited discovery irrespective of 26(d)(1)’s structure and text. Instead, courts typically allow discovery because either: (i) “good cause” exists, or (ii) for no articulated reason at all. Consider that the so-called Good-Cause Test merely proclaims, “[g]ood cause exists for the plaintiff [CFTC] to conduct expedited discovery . . . .” Hence, judicial decisions have developed the doctrine in ways that are attenuated from 26(d)(1). The overall result is if the Commission asks for accelerated discovery, then courts will grant such relief. This is somewhat unsurprising because the very decisions—the court orders—that “authorize” early discovery are written by the CFTC and signed by federal judges with little if any modification. In Part I, this Article describes the CFTC expedited discovery context. Then, Part II presents courts’ illegitimate development of CFTC expedited discovery. Part III follows by showing how to legitimize the doctrine through the historical blueprint. Part IV concludes this Article by explaining the imperative for legitimacy: why courts should return CFTC expedited discovery to 26(d)(1). Cite as: 42 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 393 (2012)

Rescuing Expedited Discovery From the Commodity Futures Trading Commission & Returning It To Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(d)(1): Using a Doctrine\u27s Forgotten History to Achieve Legitimacy

For over a decade, judicial decisions have “authorized” the CFTC to conduct expedited discovery irrespective of 26(d)(1)’s structure and text. Instead, courts typically allow discovery because either: (i) “good cause” exists, or (ii) for no articulated reason at all. Consider that the so-called Good-Cause Test merely proclaims, “[g]ood cause exists for the plaintiff [CFTC] to conduct expedited discovery . . . .” Hence, judicial decisions have developed the doctrine in ways that are attenuated from 26(d)(1). The overall result is if the Commission asks for accelerated discovery, then courts will grant such relief. This is somewhat unsurprising because the very decisions—the court orders—that “authorize” early discovery are written by the CFTC and signed by federal judges with little if any modification. In Part I, this Article describes the CFTC expedited discovery context. Then, Part II presents courts’ illegitimate development of CFTC expedited discovery. Part III follows by showing how to legitimize the doctrine through the historical blueprint. Part IV concludes this Article by explaining the imperative for legitimacy: why courts should return CFTC expedited discovery to 26(d)(1). Cite as: 42 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 393 (2012)

Flume Experiment Evaluating Shear Stresses Under Turbulent Flowing Conditions

Shear stresses are produced when a fluid is flowing along a solid boundary layer. Shear stress measurements can be used to evaluate sediment and soil erosion transportation in natural bodies of water, like rivers. With this information, engineers improve risk assessment evaluation on earthen water- retaining structures and mitigate the dangers of overtopping. Inside the COAS Wave Lab water tank, a flume was built with a 5% slope, simulating a riverbed at an angle. At the 20ft marker, three shear stress sensors were installed in a working envelope. AC Drivers were used to control the flow from four pumps that provided the water flow on the wall shear sensors. The experiment data is collected using a LabView code and then processed in a MATLAB code that provides graphs and CSV files. A magnetic flowmeter and Micro PIV read by a laser and highspeed camera are used to collect velocity data on the velocity of the flow and compare it with the information gathered on the shear sensors. Multiple tests have been conducted to collect the best sample data sets from the experiment. A successful data sets will be used to create a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model using COMSOL Multiphysics. This model will demonstrate the flow velocity and wall shear stress ranges at a given flow rate, variable turbulence and roughness of the boundary layers