Predicting the Future: Why Citizen Engagement No Longer Is Optional

For years, we who are involved in local government have treated citizen engagement as an option to enhance policymaking and community building in local government. I would argue that now engagement no longer is an option; it is imperative. It is made mandatory by the challenging and often confusing context of contemporary local governance, increasingly characterized by the ad hoc presence of foundations, nongovernmental organizations, private firms, and other nongovernmental actors in processes and decisions that significantly affect community development and well-being. If we are to anticipate effectively and plan for coherence in community building as an overarching goal of professionalism in local government, we must find a way to channel toward the collective good the diversity of actors, their energy, and their collaborative minds. One way to do this is through a significant commitment and more systematic approach to planned citizen engagement. To understand the role of engagement, first we must distinguish two types. The initial form is spontaneous. This is the expression of citizenship that local government professionals have grown to expect and often dismiss as emotion driven, self-interested, and influence yielding. Planned engagement, an alternative form, has taken time to reach a place of legitimacy in the administrative arsenal in part, I would maintain, because we lump all engagement under the same rubric—the one we would prefer to avoid! But we must realize that planned engagement is different. It leads to an expression of the rational community mind as it deals with issues of community importance, as a balance to the emotion that comes from the heart in spontaneous engagement

Cross Sector Collaboration and Politics

This document presents the transcript, in outline form, of a presentation given to the Civic Council of Kansas City, Missouri on June 23rd, 2011

Short-Term Retention of Location-Identity Bindings for Complex Objects

Knowing what is where is an essential and complex component of human perception. This ability refers to the concept of Situation Awareness (SA). The underlying mechanisms for this ability show parallels to the tracking of a set of identical objects moving on a screen, a theory known as Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) (Pylyshyn & Storm, 1988). This theory was useful for investigating the fundamental factors of visual tracking, but lacked a connection to real-world scenarios. In an attempt to bridge that gap, Oksama and Hyönä (2008) created the Model of Multiple Identity Tracking (MOMIT), which includes unique identities for each object being tracked and posits a combination of peripheral and focal perception in tracking, as opposed to strictly peripheral in the MOT paradigm. This model was then applied to air traffic control (ATC) displays to create a predictive utility for analyzing controllers’ performance (Hope, Rantanen, & Oksama, 2010). However, the call sign objects used in the MIT application study (Hope et al., 2010) only required the observer to remember a single letter from the object’s identity, negating the need to memorize the entire identity. Using a similar structure of typical ATC call signs (6-7 character alphanumeric strings), the experiment investigated the study time duration necessary to acquire and retain the identity and location information of complex objects, and in effect, form a level 1 SA. Furthermore, the accuracy of the location-identity bindings formed in level 1 SA are also investigated for various object set sizes (4, 8, or 12 objects). The object array size of 4 had the highest accuracy. As the object set size increased from 4 objects to 12 objects, the error in location information and identity information increased. Finally, it was found that approximately 3 complex ATC-like objects were retained by participants in all conditions

Dissociation and Metacognition: A Mixed Methods Analysis

Dissociation commonly occurs as a defense against trauma and can be understood as a breakdown in metacognition. The present research investigated the relationship between trauma, dissociation, and metacognition in subjects with PTSD, a trauma-related disorder. Specifically, we investigated a potential inverse relationship between metacognition and dissociation in participants who have undergone psychoanalytic therapy. Participants were patients admitted to the Austen Riggs Center, who consented to be a part of the Follow Along Study (FAS), a longitudinal investigation spanning 15 years. Quantitative and qualitative analyses examined differences in themes of dissociation across initial and follow-up-clinical interviews. Quantitatively, all subscales for metacognition showed significant and large improvements after psychoanalytic therapy. Qualitatively, follow-up-interviews revealed greater remembering, selfacceptance, emotional accessibility, generosity, and social connectedness. Thus, psychoanalytic therapy increased participants’ metacognitive abilities, allowed participants to develop a more coherent narrative of the self, and reduced participants’ dissociative tendencies. Implications and future directions are discussed

The Challenges Facing African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights

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A sensitive S-band noise receiver developed for the Mariner Mars 1964 spacecraft program

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Defining Facilitative Leadership: A View from Inside the Mayor’s Office in Lawrence, KS,

This article combines practice and theory in describing the experiences of a mayor who also was a public administration faculty member

Low concentration ratio solar array for low Earth orbit multi-100 kW application

An ongoing preliminary design effort directed toward a low-concentration-ratio photovoltaic array system based on 1984 technology and capable of delivering multi-hundred kilowatts (300 kW to 1000 kW range) in low earth orbit is described. The array system consists of two or more array modules each capable of delivering between 80 kW to 172 kW using silicon solar cells or gallium arsenide solar cells respectively. The array module deployed area is 1320 square meters and consists of 4356 pryamidal concentrator elements. The module, when stowed in the Space Shuttle's payload bay, has a stowage volume of a cube with 3.24 meters on a side. The concentrator elements are sized for a geometric concentration ratio (GCR) of six with an aperture area of 0.5 meters x 0.5 meters. The structural analysis and design trades leading to the baseline design are discussed. The configuration, as well as optical, thermal and electrical performance analyses that support the design and overall performance estimates for the array are described