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Chaos Theory and Military Applications
Get PDFThis paper reviews the fundamentals of Chaos theory, military systems that are Chaotic, Chaos in non-physical systems, Chaos control, and the applications of Chaos theory for the military. This fairly new mathematical concept is still being explored and it is expanding in its applications for the military. Glenn James in his paper Chaos theory: The Essentials for Military Applications, capitalizes the word “chaos” throughout his paper when discussing mathematical chaos. This method will be used throughout this paper as well to distinguish mathematical chaos from social chaos. In order to help understand Chaos theory, the logistic map, a difference equation developed by Robert May, will be used. Understanding how to detect Chaos in a system and looking at the possibility of using Chaos to decode enemy signals can be essential for military personnel, especially when combating terrorism. The more terrorist attacks that can be prevented, the more peaceful the world will be. The military uses communication for everything it does and it is important to keep these communications as secure as possible. Applications of Chaos theory include using it in this military communications and also for decoding enemy signals, searching for enemy missiles, and using it in assembly lines. Part of understanding how to use Chaos in the military comes from knowing how Chaos can be controlled
Locke and the Problem of Toleration
Get PDFMore than ever before, being able to draw a distinction between the tolerable and the intolerable is necessary. Unfortunately the traditional understanding, as identified with the Enlightenment view first articulated by John Locke, presents merely formalistic criteria. Lacking substantive criteria, our contemporary understanding of toleration is inadequate to our needs
AS Minutes 2007 02 02
Get PDFFACULTY ASSEMBLY MEETING
Friday, February 2, 2007
1:00 -2:30 pm
O’Hare 260 – O’Hare Academic Center
AGENDA
Call to Order
Acceptance of Minutes of the November and December Faculty Assembly Meetings
Treasurer’s Report
Committee Reports
FACSB: Lois Eveleth
Valedictorian preparation committee report
Announcements
Letter from Steve Myslinski
Thanks to Tim Neary and Khalil Habib for a successful social evening
Reminder to complete survey forms for VPAA
Request for posting of minutes of council meetings and common readings for
Core and First Year Experience
Workload Proposal Summary
Revision of Protocol for Faculty Assembly Involvement in Changes Concerning
Curriculum and Education Policy
Unfinished Business
Proposal from Art Department : Sr. Marialyn Riley ; for discussion and vote
New Business
Proposal from Biology/Biomedical Sciences: Sr. Lisa Zuccarelli for information/clarification purposes; discussion and vote at March meeting
Business from the floor
Adjournmen
Munroe Center
No full textExterior courtyard view of Munroe Center.Back of photograph: Munroe Center, Salve Regina College. Del Bogart photo. Copyright 1989, Del Bogart.The Munroe Center was acquired in 1972 as a gift from former board member Martin J. Munroe. It was originally built as a carriage house for the Wakehurst estate. Currently it houses the information technology department.1989. Black and white photograph. 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 inch).https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1030/thumbnail.jp
Founders Hall
No full textPhotograph of Founders Hall, front view, showing cars parked in front.Back of photograph: Founders Hall.Founders Hall was purchased by the University in 1964. It is named after the founders of Salve Regina College. It is currently used as a residence hall for upperclassmen.ca. 1970. Black and white photograph. 9 x 12 cm. (4 x 6 inch).https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/heritage/1022/thumbnail.jp
The Catholic University in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Ideals, Pitfalls, and Strategies [video]
No full textDr. Mark W. Roche shares his view on the Catholic University in the 21st Century during a lecture to the faculty at Salve Regina University on May 17, 2007
Preparations for Instruction in Lettering
Get PDFThis lettering manual is named Preparations for Instruction because it contains the notes handed out in the classroom by the author in 1971. Although slightly informal, this booklet contains some very useful advice, some beautifully executed sample plates, and a moving tribute to the author\u27s teacher, John Howard Benson, author of the full-length classic, The Elements of Lettering (1950).https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/jvg-books/1005/thumbnail.jp
Using ethics and technology in addressing police officer behavior.
No full textThis dissertation examines how ethics, law, and technology are used to control the behavior of people and in particular how technologies such as video cameras are used to control police officers. In addition, the teaching of ethics to police officers is studied. The use of technologies as control devices will be compared and contrasted with the teaching of ethics to police officers. The thesis of this study is that in current society there is a greater reliance on technology to control the behavior of police officers than on the teaching and reinforcement of ethics. This study assesses which method is most effective at controlling behavior and how the two could work together to achieve the goal of producing ethical behavior in police officers. This is a qualitative study and it will be done by an examination of the literature of the field and by an analysis of research conducted on the effects of video cameras on human behavior. Research into the teaching of ethics to police officers is also studied to assess the frequency of such training and its effectiveness. This dissertation argues that while in Classical Greece the emphasis was on character education and ethics with control coming from within the person, ethics and law in the West have become increasingly rationalized with the shift in emphasis to controls from outside the person. This is manifested in the growth in law in modern society and the proliferation of technology, such as video cameras, that are used to guide human behavior while the emphasis on character education has declined. The concept and theory of the Panopticon as theorized by Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault will be analyzed for its contribution to this study. Both saw the Panopticon as the all seeing eye which would lead people to proper behavior under the conception that they were always being watched. While it is believed by some that modern society has become the Panopticon as envisioned by Foucault, others disagree, arguing that while there has been a growth in video surveillance, it has not achieved its stated purpose. Those arguments are analyzed in this study as well
A deal with the devil? The clergy-penitent privilege in the United States military.
No full textThis dissertation seeks to answer the question, How does the understanding and use of professional confidentiality—particularly its subset, privileged communications—affect the ministerial functionality of U.S. military chaplains? Within the U.S. military, communications made to doctors, lawyers, social workers, and psychotherapists are either unprotected or protected to severely limited degrees. Communications made to chaplains and their assistants, however, are protected absolutely, and thus military law affords penitents far greater protection than that offered by current state or other federal statutes. Because of this singular protection, the influence of uniformed religious professionals upon individual lives, and upon the readiness and mission of the unit to which they and penitents are assigned, cannot be overstated. Yet, while the moral value of clergy-penitent confidentiality is a given among chaplains and their assistants, its historical, ethical, and legal dimensions are ill-understood by them, by penitents, military lawyers, and commanding officers. In this lack of understanding lies potential trouble that might reduce confidentiality from a pastoral tool that provides critical support to a unit\u27s mission to a noble, but empty, ideal. This study provides an analysis of the protections provided to confidential and privileged communications made to military chaplains and assistants in the course of their ministry. The analysis is done with a goal to (a) defining the nature—legal, ethical, and theological—of the constructs placed by a variety of professions upon the protection of these communications and (b) assigning to confidentiality and privileged communications an appropriate weight as critical ministry tools within the military. Examination of this topic requires an understanding of the historical roots of the clergy-penitent privilege as it developed, first, within Western European religious traditions and, second, its translation into the legal arena. Hand-in-hand with historical-theological concerns, which primarily address the spiritual potential inherent in pastoral silence, are psychologically-rooted ideas about the benefits and dangers in the areas of privacy, human development, and identity. This study will address a multitude of ethical questions regarding the use and abuse, cause and effect, understanding and ignorance of the clergy-penitent privilege within the U.S. military. Finally, this study addresses the ways in which the concepts of confidentiality and privileged communications affect both military function and ethical concerns for the human and common good within the military environment. This examination of confidentiality and privileged communications will enable individuals working in the disciplines of religion, ethics, and law to reflect on the significance of this tool in an increasingly legalized culture and society