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International Law - Extrajudicial Killings: Acts of Terrorism Or Acts of Elaborate Cover-Ups: Sullivan v. Republic of Cuba, 891 F.3D 6 (1st Cir. 2018)
Get PDFEqual - But Not for Everyone - Protection? Disparate Transgender Rights in Prisons across the U.S. and the Subsequent Effect on Mental Health
Get PDFGleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers (MS 108), 1880-1996: A Finding Aid
Get PDFThe Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers document the personal and professional activities of Suffolk University’s founder. In addition to being an educator, Archer was also a prolific writer and popular radio broadcaster. The types of materials in the collection include manuscripts and typescripts of his books, journals, articles, speeches, and radio addresses; correspondence; biographical information; genealogy records; photographs; and personal artifacts. The collection also includes family papers, documenting the personal and business activities of members of Archer’s immediate and extended family through account books, contracts, correspondence and photographs
Suffolk University Faculty and Alumni Manuscript Collection, (MS102), 1903-2013: A Finding Aid
Get PDFThis collection contains the following faculty and alumni donations that represent individual academic pursuits, research, memorabilia, and other personal records: Series I: Rosalie L. Warren Papers, 1979-1997 Series II: George C. Kendall Scrapbook, 1903-1944 Series III: Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Nicola Sacco hearing transcript, 4/15/1920 Series IV: Gaylord A. Freeman Jr. Far East and Oceania Letters Collection, 196
How Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations Differ and Compare based on Healthcare Professional Responses
Get PDFAs the demand for research increases over the years, healthcare will be in demand to improve. Currently, the effects of COVID-19 are bringing many questions to light in regards to the safety protocols in place in our various healthcare systems. In our world today, healthcare must be taken seriously, and programs should be put in place to help citizens better understand healthcare guidelines and safety protocols. In attempting to discover my passion and motivation, Suffolk University provided me the resources and tools to pursue my education in relation to Healthcare Management. For this senior capstone class, the overall goal was to learn more about leaders within the oncology departments in hospitals. Originally, I wanted to learn more about leadership within the oncology departments in hopes of finding a centered career path in regards to oncology research. After contacting various professionals in the healthcare field, I adjusted my research to focus on a more generalized group of participants. The initial goal of my research was intended to detect similarities between the interviewee’s professions. After conducting the interviews, it became apparent that those working for nonprofit organizations shared many opinions on healthcare as a whole. I will compare Kouzes and Posner’s book “The Leadership Challenge” to the interviewees responses. The organizations mentioned in this research all relate in some way to the importance of the American healthcare system, most notably, the devotion of interviewees to their jobs and patients
A Factor Analytic Examination of the Underlying Mechanisms of Delay Discounting
Get PDFPeople tend to prefer smaller-but-sooner over later-but-larger rewards, indicating the subjective value of a reward is discounted as a function of time. This phenomenon is referred to as delay discounting and represents a facet of impulsivity that is associated with reward processing. Despite the empirical literature surrounding delay discounting, the underlying mechanisms are not yet well established. The current study investigated whether delay discounting belongs more to one grouping – personality traits or cognitive functioning – than the other. Additionally, neuroimaging metrics (i.e., cortical thickness) was also examined, as it has the potential to mediate these pathways to delay discounting. Data from the Human Connectome Project was used for the current study and included behavioral and neuroimaging data on 1,051 healthy young adults. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA and CFA, respectively) were used to investigate proposed relationships between personality and cognitive variables and delay discounting and examine the extent that neuroimaging variables mediate the relationship. Results from the exploratory factor analysis revealed support for two separate latent constructs of cognition and personality. A progression of CFA models in structural equation modeling demonstrated evidence for the relationship between cognition and delay discounting, while personality appeared to have little explanatory power in understanding delay discounting. Results from the analysis examining cortical thickness in a selected brain region of interest did not provide evidence for a mediative relationship between cognition and delay discounting. This study helps to clarify and explain the construct of delay discounting and highlights the importance of cognition in reward-based decision-making
May it Please the Bot?
Get PDFImagine a system where appellate attorneys could be virtually assured of how a panel of judges would decide what otherwise appears to be a close case. Imagine how the work of an overburdened legal aid attorney could be lightened if she could accurately predict the exact amount of fees that a judge would award her client in an eviction case. Imagine the benefits to a law firm that could have paralegals write the first drafts of important motions, citing only the cases preferred by the local magistrate. Finally, imagine how the work of writing judicial opinions would become easier for a judge if she was able to recognize the framework the Supreme Court would use to decide whether her decision should be overturned. These are only some of the benefits we envision for re-thinking the ways that judges write judicial opinions and encouraging the adoption of methods that better utilize modern technologies./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe American judiciary plays an integral role in defining and upholding the law. For decades, the legal informatics community has sought to use information technology to search, analyze, and make predictions based on large corpora of judicial opinions. Unfortunately, while these data-driven technologies have made significant progress, they face a lingering limitation: the language and structure of the opinions themselves. Judicial opinions — particularly appellate decisions — lack common standards for language, structure, and conveying critical information about the decision. Some will see this as a feature, not a bug. However, because judicial decisions come in many forms and styles, it is up to lawyers and courts to tease out essential elements of past decisions: e.g., holdings, tests, relative weights of factors./= / \u3e/= / \u3eIn this essay, we argue that judges should write opinions in anticipation of later machine processing, and that in doing so they can increase the efficiency and predictability of the legal system. Below, we lay out our theory for why this is within grasp, identify the challenges we expect along the way, and describe approaches we envision
Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies
Get PDFDespite an academic consensus that easing land use regulations to increase the supply of housing can help lower housing prices, local opposition to new development remains prevalent. Onerous zoning regulations and resistance to new housing persist not only in wealthy suburbs, but also in lower-income urban neighborhoods. In addition to making housing more expensive, such policies increase residential segregation, exacerbate urban sprawl, and have detrimental environmental effects. If increasing supply tends to reduce costs, what explains this opposition, particularly during a period of rising housing costs?/= / \u3e/= / \u3eOne factor is concern about the localized costs of greater density and its effect on neighborhood character and livability. There is a perception that new development may, by changing the character and desirability of its immediate neighborhood, play some role in increasing housing prices and exacerbating gentrification and displacement in lower-income communities. Empirical evidence suggests this is not the case, but efforts to exclude new development and demands for greater local control over land use persist in lower-income urban neighborhoods. These tendencies mirror responses in wealthier communities./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThis Article compares these exclusionary tendencies and asks whether there is a normative basis for differentiating them. It concludes that there is a modest case for distinct treatment, based on a combination of factors including the historical treatment of lower-income urban communities, the more fragile relationship between property and personhood in such neighborhoods, the structure of local government law, and the principle of subsidiarity. However, any preferential treatment must avoid undermining broader efforts towards reducing regulatory and procedural obstacles to denser development and increased housing supply. It should primarily address concerns about neighborhood character and the claims of long-term residents to a distinct stake in the neighborhood that entitles them to some degree of deference and perhaps some share of the increased property values generated by a zoning change. Rather than provide additional process or opportunities for public participation, legal responses should carefully circumscribe local authority in the realm of planning and grant individual residents a property entitlement they can freely transfer. This entitlement, granted to both owners and tenants, would allow residents to derive some benefit from new development while strengthening the voice of a more representative share of the local population
The Framing of Past Bullying Experiences: Impact on Social Decision Making, Emotions, and Predictions of the Future
Get PDFBackground: Studies on framing demonstrate that the way ideas are presented influence the way individuals feel emotionally, conceptualize risk, and make decisions. Few studies have examined framing in social contexts, particularly within bullying. Many bullying interventions involve competing frames, with some discussing bullying in terms of negative effects and others in terms of resiliency from the experience. Gender is closely related to frames about bullying, as culturally communicated expectations and past experiences contribute to differences in individuals’ internalized frames about bullying. To explore this gender by frame effect within the context of bullying, the current study examines how creating either a resiliency or negative effects frame impacts emotions and social decision making across males and females. Methods: Participants (N = 92) were randomized to one of two groups. Participants answered self-report questionnaires around self-construal, internalized beliefs about bullying, and current bullying experiences. Next, participants wrote about a previous bullying experience in which they demonstrated either resilience (Resiliency Group) or negative effects (Negative Effects Group) and were further divided by self-identified gender. Lastly, participants answered self report questionnaires around predictions of future bullying, current emotions, and social decision-making. Results: First, the four groups (Negative Effects female, Negative Effects male, Resiliency female, Resiliency male) were entered in a MANOVA and compared across dependent measures. The overall model was significant (Wilks Lamda = .51, F = 1.94, p = 0.004, ηp2 = .20). Second, MANOVA results demonstrated significant differences between male and female participants (Wilks Lamda, F = 3.41, p = 0.00) across self-construal, beliefs about bullying, and current levels of bullying. Third, these variables that differed significantly across gender (self- construal, prior bullying beliefs, current bullying) were then entered into the MANCOVA model as covariates to better understand the gender by frame relationship. The overall model was significant (Wilks Lamda = 0.57, F(30,228) = 1.81, p = 0.009, ηp2= 0.20) as well as significant at each level, demonstrating that the effect of group remained significant after controlling for self-construal, bullying beliefs, and current bullying. Each of these covariates partially accounted for the gender by frame variance. Qualitative and exploratory mixed methods results were also investigated. Conclusions: Results demonstrate that frames around bullying influence emotions and social decision making and that this impact differs across gender. Clinical implications and future directions are discussed