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Delivering the recommendations of the Fraud Review 2006 and the paradox of police leadership
The purpose of this context statement is to investigate those factors which either contributed towards or impeded delivery of key recommendations from the Fraud Review, Attorney General (2006). These public works comprise three independent but intrinsically linked projects; the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC), National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and the Economic Crime Academy (ECA). Critical analysis shows how the success of each project influenced and contributed directly to the next project. Examination is made of how, without vision and the continuity of leadership, these public works would either not exist today or would have failed to be as successful as they are. Reflection upon this, together with analyses of individual and organisational leadership styles, stimulated two unavoidable and fundamental questions to be raised: What does the Police Service now stand for? Is the current model of police leadership fit for purpose? Critical analysis of the role of police leadership in the delivery of these public works led to a further, specific question: Is the police response to fraud appropriate? This is because police responses to fraud often appear to be in conflict with Peelian Principles, ACPO (2012) and are more biased towards serving the criminal justice system rather than delivering social justice through interventions that are morally and ethically grounded. On commencement of this context statement the intention was for it to be read by like-minded leaders and visionaries, those who do not fit the norm or stereotype of a typical police manager; as the context statement evolved so too has the intended readership. Throughout reflective assessment and consideration of police leadership and today’s performance culture, it became increasingly apparent that this subject should be core reading for police leaders of the future. However, on completion of the context statement, it is apparent that readership audience should extend beyond the Police Service and the policy makers within government and the Ministry of Justice. The real audience should be the public we serve, those with whose consent we police. Therefore, it seems logical that public should be the ultimate critical assessors of this contribution, together with the effectiveness and appropriateness of the current and ongoing culture of police leadership and the response to fraud
The Hopf Rings for KO and KU
We compute the mod two homology Hopf rings of the spectra KO and KU. The
spaces in these spectra are the infinite classical groups and their coset
spaces, and their homology was first calculated in the Cartan seminars, but the
Hopf ring structure was first determined in the second author's unpublished PhD
thesis. The presentation given here serves as an introduction to the first
author's much more intricate work on the connective spectrum bo. The Hopf ring
viewpoint turns out to be very convenient for understanding the homological
effect of various maps between classical groups and fibrations of their
connective covers.Comment: 20 pages; to appear in JPA
Planning assistance for the NASA 30/20 GHz program. Network control architecture study.
Network Control Architecture for a 30/20 GHz flight experiment system operating in the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) was studied. Architecture development, identification of processing functions, and performance requirements for the Master Control Station (MCS), diversity trunking stations, and Customer Premises Service (CPS) stations are covered. Preliminary hardware and software processing requirements as well as budgetary cost estimates for the network control system are given. For the trunking system control, areas covered include on board SS-TDMA switch organization, frame structure, acquisition and synchronization, channel assignment, fade detection and adaptive power control, on board oscillator control, and terrestrial network timing. For the CPS control, they include on board processing and adaptive forward error correction control
Matching pre-equilibrium dynamics and viscous hydrodynamics
We demonstrate how to match pre-equilibrium dynamics of a 0+1 dimensional
quark gluon plasma to 2nd-order viscous hydrodynamical evolution. The matching
allows us to specify the initial values of the energy density and shear tensor
at the initial time of hydrodynamical evolution as a function of the lifetime
of the pre-equilibrium period. We compare two models for the pre-equilibrium
quark-gluon plasma, longitudinal free streaming and collisionally-broadened
longitudinal expansion, and present analytic formulas which can be used to fix
the necessary components of the energy-momentum tensor. The resulting dynamical
models can be used to assess the effect of pre-equilibrium dynamics on
quark-gluon plasma observables. Additionally, we investigate the dependence of
entropy production on pre-equilibrium dynamics and discuss the limitations of
the standard definitions of the non-equilibrium entropy.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures,v2: minor modifications and updated references.
Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
The impacts of tourism on two communities adjacent to the Kruger National Park, South Africa
This paper explores the socioeconomic impacts of tourism associated with the Kruger National Park, South Africa's flagship national park, on the neighbouring villages of Cork and Belfast. Case study research, where the study area was characterised as a social-ecological system, was used to investigate the impacts of Park tourism on these communities. The findings offer a micro-scale, local community perspective of these impacts and indicate that the enclave nature of Park tourism keeps local communities separate from the Park and makes it hard for them to benefit from it. The paper concludes with reflections on this perceived separation, and suggests the need to make the Park boundaries more 'permeable' so as to improve relationships with adjacent communities, while also pragmatically managing community expectation
Leadership Perspectives of Tennessee School Leaders
The problem was to determine factors Tennessee school leaders consider important to effective leadership. Organizational frames by Bolman and Deal were used. The four organizational frames used in the study were structural, human resource, political, and symbolic approaches to leadership. The frames were examined with regard to their relationship to Tennessee superintendent\u27s leadership and management styles with the perception of his/her style by their superordinates and subordinates. Leadership Orientations, a validated instrument designed by Bolman and Deal, was used to gain insight about school leader perceptions from superintendents and from individuals who work in school administration with the superintendents. Individual school systems, the director of the Tennessee Academy of School Leaders (TASL), the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents (TOSS), and the Tennessee School Board Association (TSBA) received the data analysis results about leadership perspectives. The research provided school system personnel a method to understand individual, subordinate, and superordinate expectations as they relate to the four organizational frames. Additionally, the findings indicated predictors of management and leadership effectiveness as perceived by the respondents
Human nutrition in Mongolia during economic liberalisation: available data and key research issues
Over the past two years, Mongolia has been attempting to move from a
largely Soviet-inspired command economy to one which is led by market
forces. Privatisation of the livestock, although not the grazing lands, of
pastoralist collective farms has been proceeding to various degrees in
different areas. This has taken place in a context in which, since the
ending of Soviet subsidies to satellite Asian republics in early 1991,
international trade in foodstuffs has been disrupted.
The consequences of this economic liberalisation for the nature of food
supplies have differed between states. Meat, milk, fruit and vegetables
have been hard to obtain in Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (the Central Asian Republics - CAR states),
where consumption of bread and potatoes has risen sharply to compensate for
shortages of these items (Chen et al. 1992) . These changes broadly resemble
those which have affected some Eastern European states since the late
1980s, notably Poland (Szostak and Sekula 1991) but also some other
countries (Traill and Henson 1991). By contrast, in Mongolia the large
livestock sector has permitted increasing dependence on meat and milk, to
compensate for reductions in the absolute availability of flour and
vegetable foods. In both regions, there has therefore been concern over the
food security of groups vulnerable to poor health and nutrition. Baseline
information is central to understanding the nutritional correlates of
economic change in this case; and this paper therefore reviews available
data concerning nutrition in Mongolia with the aim of identifying specific
lines of inquiry for future nutritional research
Thermalization and the chromo-Weibel instability
Despite the apparent success of ideal hydrodynamics in describing the
elliptic flow data which have been produced at Brookhaven National Lab's
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, one lingering question remains: is the use of
ideal hydrodynamics at times t < 1 fm/c justified? In order to justify its use
a method for rapidly producing isotropic thermal matter at RHIC energies is
required. One of the chief obstacles to early isotropization/thermalization is
the rapid longitudinal expansion of the matter during the earliest times after
the initial nuclear impact. As a result of this expansion the parton
distribution functions become locally anisotropic in momentum space. In
contrast to locally isotropic plasmas anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of
soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse
chromo-magnetic/-electric fields at short times. This instability is the QCD
analogue of the Weibel instability of QED. Parametrically the chromo-Weibel
instability provides the fastest method for generation of soft background
fields and dominates the short-time dynamics of the system.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, Invited plenary talk given at the 19th
International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions:
Quark Matter 2006 (QM 2006), Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov 200
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