Aggression Among Same-Sex Couples

Researchers have been studying intimate partner violence (IPV) since the 1970s but the majority of the research has focused on heterosexual couples. With little research on IPV among same-sex couples there is little knowledge, education, or resources among the people that are employed (or recruited) to assist victims of same-sex couple IPV. This means that social service and law enforcement agencies have not been able to properly meet the needs of the LGBT community. A mixed-method research design using an online survey was used to gather data from a non-randomized convenience sample. Fifty-one respondents completed the survey. The findings showed that one of the most common motives for using verbal abuse against a romantic partner was due to the participants wanting to gain control over the situation; 42% of the participants indicated that this motive applied to their use of verbal abuse against their partner. Results also revealed that while the incidences of physical aggression were low in this sample, 5% of the participants that used physical aggression noted that they used it to get their own way. In regards to the perception of agency and law enforcement by individuals from the LGBT community, 60% of participants that had reported abuse to a social service agency or law enforcement felt that they were treated disrespectfully by the officer/agency personnel. These findings imply that individuals in same-sex relationships do not feel entirely safe reporting IPV to social service agencies or law enforcement

Derived rules for predicative set theory: an application of sheaves

We show how one may establish proof-theoretic results for constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, such as the compactness rule for Cantor space and the Bar Induction rule for Baire space, by constructing sheaf models and using their preservation properties

When Insurgents Go Terrorist: The Role of Foreign Support in the Adoption of Terrorism

What role does foreign support play when an insurgent group adopts terrorism? Utilizing both quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies, this thesis examines the effects of foreign support among other commonly cited explanations for an insurgency\u27s adoption of terrorism. In addition to observing the effects of foreign support on the adoption of terrorism, the effects of government regime type, insurgent group goal type, insurgent group strength, and foreign benefactor type are analyzed. After executing a multiple logistic regression analysis of 109 intrastate conflicts occurring from 1972 to 2007 and conducting detailed case studies for the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Kurds in Iraq, this thesis concludes that specific types of foreign support from non-state actors not only make insurgent groups significantly stronger but also make them more likely to adopt terrorism thus calling into question the weapon of the weak argument

Global On-line, Interactive and Simulated Learning Techniques via BIRS

Role-playing simulations have been effective techniques to encourage global skills in the engineering and design classrooms. May, Wold and Moore (2014), defined global skills as student display of respect, recognition, adjustment and integration. Gray, Debs, Exter, and Krause (2016), took this one step further and looked-for empathy in the design classroom. This has yet to be realized in the regulatory science education realm. Therefore, there is a need for on-line, interactive regulatory science education focusing on global skill outcomes. To assess the gap, four sets of data are collected. The first set was a review of evaluations from a regulatory science course teaching documents and dialogues necessary for drug and device approvals. The evaluations stated that more global skills, problem-solving and innovation needed to be a part of the curricula. The course was reformatted and an interactive simulation called the BIRS Experience included. The second data set came from the student’s final assignments after the BIRS Experience was delivered. The assignments were analyzed for global skills and creative inquiry movements. The students participating in the BIRS Experience were both from the United States and Tanzania. Both sets of participants again answered questions after a regulatory intelligence workshop. This was the third data set. The comments from the questionnaire were analyzed for global skills and creative inquiry movements. The fourth data set was answers to a world café experience delivered at a quality and regulatory affairs summit. In this case, the participants were working professionals asked what competencies were needed for the regulatory science discipline moving forward, again, comments were analyzed for global skills and creative inquiry movements. The theme of needing both global skills and creative inquiry movements was consistent in all four data sets

Diversity Combining Using Maxima Ratio Combining for All Modulation Mode

The destruction caused by channel can be seen by the existence of Amplitude and Phase Shift. By using the 6 Ways Diversity Combining method (6 Antennas/Receivers), it is expected that the disruption caused by Amplitude and Phase Shift can be suppressed as small as possible. In addition, by using diversity combining module, we will get a large SNR output which has a value sum of SNR of each diversity path. The design of Diversity combining module begins with MATLAB functional design as a big picture of the whole system. Subsequently, it will be made the hardware based on the MATLAB functional. This architectural design that will be the cornerstone in the MATLAB bit precision manufacturing. Then MATLAB bit precision will be designed as the foundation of the VHDL design. Diversity combining the output module meets the standards specified by the DVB consortium. In the hardware (FPGA) test results of diversity combining, the maximum working frequency is 44.56 MHz which has shown that is qualified with the standard sampling clock (9.142 MHz). This design also needs 4% of total FPGA Cyclone II 484I8 combinational units which is 2499 units and it needs also 3% of total register of FPGA Cyclone II 484I8 which is 1720 register units

Local Perspectives on Actions

Giving an account of agents acting in the world—sensing, planning, com-municating, doing—requires a coordinated account of, at least, three differ-ent kinds of action: ontic, epistemic, and communicative, which focus, re-spectively, on fact, knowledge and communication. In this note we are concerned primarily with ontic actions. The motivat-ing example is the STRIPS approach to the frame problem, where actions are restricted to change only specified fluents. We present an algebraic setting for ontic actions modeled as relations de-scribing controlled state change. We start from a standard model that encodes STRIPS updates to address the frame problem in logical terms. This model is a system, in the sense of Resende and Baltag. We describe a structure that introduces a notion of local perspective or experiment. This provides a novel treatment of causal relations (which are closely related to integrity constraints and domain axioms in the AI-planning literature). We show how this local structure arises naturally from the semantic struc-ture of the set of possible states, and suggest that it may also help in modeling agents with different perspectives.

Logics for Action

Abstract. Logics of action, for reasoning about the effects of state change, and logics of belief, accounting for belief revision and update, have much in common. Furthermore, we may undertake an action because we hold a particular belief, and revise our beliefs in the light of observed consequences of an action. So studies of these two aspects are inevitably intertwined. However, we argue, a clear separation of the two is helpful in understanding their interactions. We give a semantic presentation of such a separation, introducing a semantic setting that supports one logic for describing the effects of actions, which are modeled as changing the values of particular atomic properties, or fluents, and another for expressing more complex facts or beliefs about the world. We use a simple state-logic, to account for state change, and show how it can be integrated with a variety of domain-logics, of fact or belief, for reasoning about the world. State- and domain-logics are linked, syntactically and semantically; but separate. The state-logic, our logic for action, is quantified propositional logic. Bounded existential propositional quantification is used to specify which literals may b