Buffalo City Comptroller

Under the Buffalo Charter and Code, the Comptroller is the head of the Department of Audit and Control. The Department of Audit and Control is broken down into three divisions: Division of Audit, Division of Accounting, and Division of Investment and Debt Management. The Division of Audit is headed by the City Auditor; the Division of Accounting is headed by the City Accountant, and the Division of Investment and Debt Management is headed by the Investment and Debt Management Officer. All heads are Deputies of the Comptroller who can be appointed and removed at the pleasure of the Comptroller. The City Auditor exercises all powers and duties with respect to audits and approves all checks signed by the Comptroller or the Comptroller’s Deputies. The City Accountant exercises all powers and duties with respect to accounts and accounting and prepares all checks. The Investment and Debt Management Officer exercises all the powers and duties with respect to depositories, security, and investment of general fund moneys

Propagation of Nonsinusoidal Waveforms in Power Systems

Several computationally efficient and innovative methods for the calculation of power system voltages due to nonsinusoidal demand currents are studied. The method is useful for power quality calculations. The method is introduced by using Laplace transform analysis to simplify the convolution of the transfer impedances and the demand currents. An iterative numerical inverse Laplace transform method is briefly examined. However, the problem characteristics allow Fourier transform analysis to be used. Furthermore, the fast Fourier transform is used to approximate the continuous Fourier transform. This discrete transform analysis method proves to be conveniently suitable to the problem definition. More importantly the discrete transform method proves to be superior to well known time domain methods. A real transform, the Hartley transform, which is computationally more efficient than the complex Fourier transform is also used to solve the problem. The methods are tested on an eight bus example power system. The main contribution of this thesis is the presentation of computationally efficient methodologies which are useful for the accurate analysis of the propagation of nonsinusoidal waveforms in power systems

The Organizational Leadership Framework

The field of leadership has evolved quite drastically over the years. Douglas McGregor showed us the evolution from a Theory X style belief that employees are unmotivated and dislike their work to his Theory Y style belief that employees are motivated and receive a sense of enjoyment from their work. Abraham Maslow expanded on this work with his Theory Z belief that optimal employee performance would prevail with the proper leadership approach. For years now, leadership has focused on various approaches or styles that produce the best performance resulting from the relationship between the leader and their follower. Organizations, research, and literature alike have stagnated on this leader-follower relationship, placing the individual leader and their performance on a pedestal. If assigned a letter, this research would be Theory O for an organizational approach to leadership. It recognizes that need for organizations to create a leadership strategy instead views the role of leadership as the function of a collective unit. This research desired to offer a foundation in which leadership may continue to evolve by shifting the focus from understanding leadership as an individual experience to leadership as a collective group. This qualitative case study of 12 individuals from a retail organization\u27s district and store manager levels offered a leadership framework. The utilization of ATLAS.ti for the coding of transcribed interviews revealed a theme that reflected alignment in participants\u27 leadership approach of their organization\u27s leadership framework. The remaining four themes reflected opportunities for improved performance under a leadership framework stemming from its execution. While results were unexpected, a foundation remains for the next evolution in leadership, the shift from the individual to the collective group

Their Perceptions: African American Males in African American Male Initiatives at Two Predominantly White Institutions

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Robert De\u27Andre Sparks on April 9, 2019

Space-group changes: a revision to a revision

The space group for the entry under the reference codes FEBMUU and FEBMUU01 in the Cambridge Structural Database (1992) should be further corrected to space group C2/c rather than P1(FEBMUU) or C2(FEBMUU01)