Information Producers, Information Consumers : Location Data Privacy in Institutional Settings

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Queensland rainfall decline

Queensland rainfall has been declining over much of the state in recent decades and is more regionally extensive than the winter rainfall decline that has been well described from southwestern Western Australia (SWWA). The SWWA rainfall decline has been attributed to a number of factors, but the rainfall decline in Queensland has only been recently documented and no major attributes identified. Correlation analysis of rainfall with a number of factors including seas surface temperatures and sea level pressure is presented and some of the key elements discussed that have a major role in the rainfall decline observed from this region

'Two-speed' Scotland : patterns and implications of the digital divide in contemporary Scotland

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A sketch planning methodology for determining interventions for bicycle and pedestrian crashes: an ecological approach

Bicycle and pedestrian safety planning have recently been gaining increased attention. With this focus, however, comes increased responsibilities for planning agencies and organizations tasked with evaluating and selecting safety interventions, a potentially arduous task given limited staff and resources. This study presents a sketch planning framework based on ecological factors that attempts to provide an efficient and effective method of selecting appropriate intervention measures. A Chicago case study is used to demonstrate how such a method may be applied

Estates and Trusts - Inter Vivos Gifts - Mental Competence - Undue Influence - Confidential Relationship

The burden of proof is initially on the donor to overcome the presumption of mental competence of the donor. Moser v DeSetta, 589 A2d 679, 527 Pa 157 (1991)

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Effectiveness in Southeastern Ohio

Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine how leadership implemented the positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) framework and what conclusions could be ascertained from implementing it. Leadership in southeastern Ohio districts was examined to understand how they used PBIS and if PBIS made significant differences before and after implementation. The comparison included demographically diverse areas (urban, suburban, rural) in southeastern Ohio. PBIS implementation was measured with the School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET) administered to district administrators. The resulting data from the SET and Ohio assessment scores showed no significant difference in PBIS implementation and fourth-grade reading scores of students. The data also demonstrated that the SET results did not always match the responses obtained from interviews. The data analysis results were reported and discussed. The findings were summarized, and recommendations for further research were made. Keywords: positive behavior interventions and supports, school-wide evaluation tool survey, Ohio improvement process, SET survey, Ohio Department of Education, leadership, staff training, Tier I interventio

MaaS surveillance : Privacy considerations in mobility as a service

Funding Information: König, D., Eckhardt, J., Aapaoja, A., Sochor, J.L., Karlsson, M., 2016. Deliverable 3: Business and operator models for MaaS. MAASiFiE project funded by CEDR. Submitted to: CEDR Conference of European Directors of Roads. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Peer reviewedPostprin

“Life Swarms with Innocent Monsters” : the Monstrosity of Gender Inversion in Bram stoker’s Dracula

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) has elicited a range of different interpretations from critics over the years. Readings range from covering issues of race and colonization to science and religion, and everything in between. These interpretations all feature different anxieties relevant to fin de siecle culture, a title given to the period of transition at the end of the nineteenth century wrought with anxiety and conspiracy about what might come next. One of the sources of this unease stemmed from the rapid change in what constituted women\u27s social roles, as well as developing definitions of gender and sexuality. This socio-cultural concern is highlighted in the characters who Stoker chooses to portray as monsters: five women, and a foreigner man who exists outside of the strict gender stereotypes of Victorian England. To destroy these monsters, patriarchal order must be restored by any means necessary. Lucy Westenra, beloved companion of several of the novel’s most important characters, transforms into a monstrous femme fatale as a result of Dracula’s virile bite. Framed loosely as a castration narrative, she is rightfully eliminated by Arthur Holmwood, he who would have been her betrothed in life. Driven through her chest is the wooden stake, an image of the phallus meant to restore her intended into the dominant role. Stepping into the realm of the Female Gothic, the three vampire women who haunt Dracula’s castle invert the paradigm on the helpless Jonathan Harker. Jonathan navigates his stay at Castle Dracula through the lens of the brave – yet frightened - heroine in a tale reminiscent of that of the tyrannical Bluebeard. Mina Harker and Count Dracula, the final two subjects, exist as equals in a space outside of strict gender roles. To Stoker and his fellow late Victorians, this makes them the most monstrous creatures in the whole novel. Their presentation of masculine and feminine traits is constantly changing within the novel. This transition is only righted when Dracula is staked as a proxy for Mina at the end of the novel. Only then is she allowed to settle into her intended role as beloved wife to Jonathan and nurturing mother to their son, Quincy, by the novel’s close

Hybrid Solution of Stochastic Optimal Control Problems using Gauss Pseudospectral Method and Generalized Polynomial Chaos Algorithms

Two numerical methods, Gauss Pseudospectral Method and Generalized Polynomial Chaos Algorithm, were combined to form a hybrid algorithm for solving nonlinear optimal control and optimal path planning problems with uncertain parameters. The algorithm was applied to two concept demonstration problems: a nonlinear optimal control problem with multiplicative uncertain elements and a mission planning problem sponsored by USSTRATCOM. The mission planning scenario was constructed to find the path that minimizes the probability of being killed by lethal threats whose locations are uncertain to statistically quantify the effects those uncertainties have on the flight path solution, and to use the statistical properties to estimate the probability that the vehicle will be killed during mission execution. The results demonstrated that the method is able to effectively characterize how the optimal solution changes with uncertainty and that the results can be presented in a form that can be used by mission planners and aircrews to assess risks associated with a mission profile