Evaluating Biblical and Theological Training in the Developing World Through the Lens of Communication Infrastructure Theory

Research that shows the impact of training throughout the developing world is positive and limited. Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT) and framed within the Cybernetic tradition, this study expands communication research to understand the impact of biblical and theological training among marginalized people in San Gabriel Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Through semi-structured interviews and direct observation, this qualitative research study shows how the curriculum developed by Shepherd’s Global Classroom (SGC) and deployed through Ezra Biblical Seminary in San Gabriel works to equip believers and church leaders in their developing-world context. The storytelling network of CIT is examined and discovered to be active and growing in San Gabriel Mixtepec to inform those who need and desire the biblical and theological training extended by SGC through Ezra Biblical Seminary. This study has found that the information processing characteristic of the cybernetic communication tradition is critical to communicating content from one language and culture to another. Hindrances to communication and training were discovered to have been recognized by professors and eliminated. Thoroughly identifying and evaluating the outcomes of this biblical and theological training effort, this study answered whether the SGC curriculum, through the training efforts of Ezra Biblical Seminary, is working to equip believers and church leaders in the developing world. Future research should consider additional contexts in which the SGC curriculum is disseminated and used throughout the developing world to understand whether commonalities in training strategy and outcome exist and identify markers that shape the best results

Pruning, Pushdown Exception-Flow Analysis

Statically reasoning in the presence of exceptions and about the effects of exceptions is challenging: exception-flows are mutually determined by traditional control-flow and points-to analyses. We tackle the challenge of analyzing exception-flows from two angles. First, from the angle of pruning control-flows (both normal and exceptional), we derive a pushdown framework for an object-oriented language with full-featured exceptions. Unlike traditional analyses, it allows precise matching of throwers to catchers. Second, from the angle of pruning points-to information, we generalize abstract garbage collection to object-oriented programs and enhance it with liveness analysis. We then seamlessly weave the techniques into enhanced reachability computation, yielding highly precise exception-flow analysis, without becoming intractable, even for large applications. We evaluate our pruned, pushdown exception-flow analysis, comparing it with an established analysis on large scale standard Java benchmarks. The results show that our analysis significantly improves analysis precision over traditional analysis within a reasonable analysis time.Comment: 14th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulatio

An Analysis of Terry v. Ohio and Its Implications upon the California Law of Stop and Frisk

The controversy surrounding the legality of police stop and frisk practices at last has been partially resolved by the Supreme Court. In the case of Terry v. Ohio, which is further illuminated by its companion case Sibron v. New York, the Court established a constitutional standard for the frisk under the search and seizure clause of the fourth amendment. Additionally, it strongly suggested that the same standard would be applied to the stop. Thus, not only did the Court resolve the debate in favor of this often employed police practice, but under the doctrine of Mapp v. Ohio, the standard it set applies to the states. This note will seek: (1) To analyze Terry v. Ohio to determine what the standard is, what trends are suggested by the dicta, where problem areas remain in applying the standard; and (2) to discuss the California law of stop and frisk in order to ascertain how the California practice correlates to the constitutional standard defined in Terry v. Ohio: what practices are compatible and which appear either below the minimum standard or in need of greater clarity

Jurisdictional Problems of Maritime Tort Actions: Application of State and Federal Remedies

At common law, death terminated all causes of action for personal injuries, and gave rise to no causes of action for compensation of the decedent\u27s estate or family. Admiralty, which adopted the common law, therefore provided neither a remedy for wrongful death nor for survival of causes of action. To correct this, there have been a number of Congressional enactments and judicially created remedies which, however, are complicated by inconsistencies and vagaries. If death results from an injury occurring on navigable waters, recovery may be sought under the Death on the High Seas Act, the Jones Act, the Longshoremen\u27s and Harbor Workers\u27 Compensation Act, state statutes, or foreign law. The purpose of this Article is two-fold. First, some of the jurisdictional problems of the Death on the High Seas Act, the Longshoremen\u27s and Harbor Workers\u27 Compensation Act, and the Jones Act will be examined with special emphasis upon the question of when a state remedy will be applied in death action falling under these particular acts. Second, many difficulties in the application of these enactments will be traced to the inconsistent recovery and uniformity principles in an attempt to point out the need for establishing an over-riding policy as to the applicability of state remedies in connection with these acts