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Citizen participation in Latin America's supreme audit institutions: progress or impasse?
No full textAccountability Working Paper. August 2020, Number 6. 58 pages.This working paper provides an overview of citizen participation in external auditing in Latin America. After the introduction, Chapter 2 presents a synthesis of the evolution on citizen participation within the OLACEFS, as well as the progress observed in SAIs in the region. Chapter 3 proposes an analytical framework on citizen participation in auditing based on two dimensions: its scope and depth. Chapter 4 examines a set of SAI citizen participation practices in the region according to the four-level classification (basic / low / intermediate and advanced) proposed in the OLACEFS Declaration of Punta Cana. Chapter 5 analyzes a couple of practices and experiences of citizen participation in auditing due to its degree of institutionalization: participatory planning in the annual audit program of Argentina’s General Audit Office and the articulated audit at the General Comptroller Office of Colombia. Chapter 6 delves into the citizen participation policy of the General Comptroller Office of Colombia. Finally, the conclusion highlights some findings and recommendations for the future
The Use of Psychology with Candidates for Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic Church.
No full textThe use of scientific disciplines as such psychology to determinate the ability of an ordain minister to exercise ministry in the Catholic Church by performing psychological screening that is allowed by the Church, as well as, the canonical meaning of concept of irregularity in reference to ordination based in the 1917 code of canon law with reference to the present code of 1983, and the practical application in a diocesan context.Canon lawPhysiological psychologyCanon LawDegree Awarded: J.C.L. Canon Law. The Catholic University of Americ
Penalties as a service to the Church's mission: A comparison of the Codex Iuris Canonici and Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum orientalium to develop principles for a proposed revision
No full textPhilip-Michael F. Tangorra.Typescript.Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2019.Bibliography: leaves 64-70.Also available in microfilm.Also available in microfiche
Carlos of the Mt. Pleasant Library Friends
No full textCarlos of the Mt. Pleasant Library Friends wears a mask outside of the Mt. Pleasant Library
Mindful Breathing With or Without Controlled Yogic Breathing Promotes Smoking Abstinence: A Preliminary Laboratory Investigation
No full textMindful attention to breath is often a component of mindfulness-based interventions for smoking, but there has been little research investigating its unique effects on smoking outcomes. The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of mindful attention to breath with and without a controlled yogic breathing component on smoking behavior. Twelve-hour abstinent daily smokers (N = 36; 39% female; M = 9.89 cigarettes per day; 69% African American) were randomly assigned to a 20 minute intervention consisting of 1. mindful attention to breath (MB); 2. mindful attention to breath with controlled yogic breathing (MYB); or 3. no-treatment (NT) control. During a 50-minute smoking versus money choice task, both MB and MYB significantly reduced the risk of smoking compared to NT with no significant differences between the two. The MB group reported greater increases in feelings of serenity compared to MYB and NT. There were no effects for negative or positive affect, craving, tobacco withdrawal, or state mindfulness. In this preliminary investigation, controlled yogic breathing did not enhance the effectiveness of MB. MB is an easily disseminable and cost-effective strategy that may promote smoking abstinence and should be further explored.PsychologyAffect, Breathing, Craving, Mindfulness, Smoking CessationPsychologyDegree Awarded: M.A. Psychology. American Universit
Exterior of Walgreens and signage
No full textExterior of Walgreens and signage that indicates that face protection is mandatory to enter, and to remain 6 feet away from others once inside to practice social distancing. It also includes a sign with their new hours, and one that reads 'Heroes work here'
Weight approximation for spatial outcomes
No full textSustainability (Switzerland), Volume 12, Issue 14, July 2020, Article number 5588.When preferences explicitly include a spatial component, it can be challenging to assign weights to geographic regions in a way that is both pragmatic and accurate. In multi-attribute decision making, weights reflect cardinal information about preferences that can be difficult to assess thoroughly in practice. Recognizing this challenge, researchers have developed several methods for using ordinal rankings to approximate sets of cardinal weights. However, when the set of weights reflects a set of geographic regions, the number of weights can be enormous, and it may be cognitively challenging for decision makers to provide even a coherent ordinal ranking. This is often the case in policy decisions with widespread impacts. This paper uses a simulation study for spatial preferences to evaluate the performance of several rank-based weight approximation methods, as well as several new methods based on assigning each region to a tier expressing the extent to which it should influence the evaluation of policy alternatives. The tier-based methods do not become more cognitively complex as the number of regions increases, they allow decision makers to express a wider range of preferences, and they are similar in accuracy to rank-based methods when the number of regions is large. The paper then demonstrates all of these approximation methods with preferences for water usage by census block in a United States county
Finite Element Method on wave propagation in various solid settings
No full textThe Finite Element Method (FEM) have been widely used in various fields such as structural analysis and heat transfer. This thesis aims to explain how the FEM procedure for wave propagation analysis happens under different solid heterogeneous settings. This includes static analysis and dynamic wave analysis for one dimensional bar and two dimensional plane. To analyze both static and wave problems using FEM, there are three steps to be followed. First step is that a strong form Partial differential Equation (PDE) is introduced together with its boundary conditions. The next step is to transform this into its weak form. Lastly, approximation or test functions are introduced in order to transform the equation into time dependent form. The parameters then can now be solved using the Newmark time integration.This thesis have shown that the FEM analysis can be used to analyze 2D wave propagation by the transformation of PDEs. These PDEs can also be used to determine the energy or work there is in a solid particle.Civil engineeringFinite Element Method, wave propagationCivil EngineeringDegree Awarded: M.C.E. Civil Engineering. The Catholic University of Americ
Correction to: Thirty years of small business economics: a bibliometric overview (Small Business Economics, (2020), 10.1007/s11187-020-00342-y)
No full textCorrection to: Thirty years of small business economics: a bibliometric overview (Small Business Economics, (2020), 10.1007/s11187-020-00342-y).The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in some of the data in the Table 3
Towards a social justice disposition in communication and sport scholarship
No full textCommunication and Sport, Volume 8, Issue 4-5, 1 August 2020, Pages 435-451.In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice