281 research outputs found
From Sherwood Forest to Saskatchewan: The role of the sheriff in a redesigned judgment enforcement system
No full textThe sheriff plays a central role in the judgment enforcement system of Saskatchewan and other provinces. The modem sheriff's office is the product of more than a thousand years of English and Canadian history and a century of unsystematic statutory tinkering with the enforcement writs. This article identifies the issues to be addressed in redesigning that office as the administrative core of a new system of judgment enforcement law, and considers alternative approaches to their resolution. By way of context, the author outlines the sheriff's present role in the enforcement of money judgments and surveys the history of the office
Ex-Sheriff in Holmes Testifies
Full text linkReport on the testimony of former Holmes County (Miss.) Sheriff Andrew P. Smith that he has not allowed African Americans in his county to pay poll taxes for the last 12 years; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1100/thumbnail.jp
Some aspects of plant hydrodynamics with reference to modelling by electrical analogies / by D.W. Sheriff
No full textReprint of an article by the author bound in at back of volumevi, 192 leaves : ill., plates ; 27 cm.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Botany, 197
Debating Africa : BBC's documentary "Heart & soul - return to Zanzibar"
Full text linkThis issue of ISJ carried another article in the irregular series "Debating and Documenting Africa", the first one having been published in volume 1, number 2 (June 2008). This issue carries a discussion between Katy Hickman, Senior Producer at BBC World Service Religion and Ethics and Prof. Abdul Sheriff, formerly Professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam and Director of Zanzibar Museums and the author of forthcoming titles, Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam and The Early Dhow Culture in the Indian Ocean: From the Periplus to the Portuguese. The context of this debate is BBC Radio’s "Return to Zanzibar" programme in their series, Heart & Soul. Setting the scene is Katy Hickman’s contact with Prof. Sheriff in which she enclosed an early outline of the programme. This is followed by Prof. Sheriff’s response which raises various key issue of relevance to the study of Africa. This is followed by Katy Hickman’s response which explains how the final version was influenced by points raised by Prof. Sheriff. Also included is a later piece by the presenter of the programme, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. While not part of this discussion, the latter is included to provide the presenter’s perspective. All these provide a look behind the scene on debates that take place before programmes are made and bring out the key role that historians, researchers and academicians can, and need to play, in social communications. ISJ’s Editorial Board re-presents this debate to stimulate further discussion
Voice Activity Detection: Fusion of Time and Frequency Domain Features with A SVM Classifier
Full text linkVoice activity detection (VAD) discriminates between segments of an audio signal that has speech content from the ones with either noise or silence. It is deployed as the front-end of some speech processing applications such as voice recognition, and speaker recognition to improve their performance in terms of accuracy and efficiency. It is also used in the communication system to bring about efficient utilization of transmission bandwidth by ensuring only segments of the audio signal with voice activity are encoded and transmitted. In this work, the VAD algorithm was implemented using a features-fusion strategy. In the pre-processing stage, contents outside the human auditory frequency range were removed with the aid of a digital Butterworth bandpass filter. The signal was then fragmented into frames from where time-domain features (zero-crossing, standard deviation, normalized envelope, kurtosis, skewness, and root-mean-square energy.) and frequency-domain features (13MFCCs) were extracted and then combined to form a feature representation of each frame. Recursive feature elimination was applied to the dataset to reduce the features to seven (7) which was used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to be able to distinguish between voiced and unvoiced frames. A State-of-art performance was recorded by this simple SVM-based VAD system with an accuracy of 100%, recall of 100%, precision of 100% and F1 score of 100% which is at par with similar implementations which utilizes a complex architecture of deep neural network with high computational cost and training time. Keywords: Voice activity detection, fusion strategy, support vector machine, frequency domain features, time domain features DOI: 10.7176/CEIS/13-3-03 Publication date:May 31st 2022
Multinational corporations and economic growth: the case of the mining industry in Chile, 1984
Full text linkRegional Planning And Inter-Governmental Coordination And Cooperation Within Local Law Enforcement Agencies: New Mexico Region III Office Of The Sheriff.
No full textThis study contains a detailed assessment of four New Mexico Sheriff\u27s departments that comprise a unit for State planning purposes and is designated Region III. The contiguous counties are Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia. Data on the Sheriff\u27s departments was obtained by the author from the Bernalillo County Sheriff\u27s Office, the Office of the Bernalillo County Commissioners and New Mexico\u27s Governor\u27s Policy Board for Law Enforcement, a branch of state government. From the data collected, a profile of the Sheriff\u27s departments was derived. This profile revealed that the Office of the Sheriff in Region III is in need of increased funding to improve law enforcement. The need for planning and coordination agencies with law enforcement oriented mission elements is evident. The Federal government is the only source of funds in sufficient quantity to alleviate the situation through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The hypothesis of this study is that regional planning and intergovernmental cooperation can improve conditions within law enforcement agencies and provide programs to establish law enforcement as a profession. The study contains a history of the role of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in New Mexico, the evolution of Federal aid in the form of block grants, the national trend in Federal law enforcement grant legislation and a model for coordination. The dominant theme of the profile of the Office of the Sheriff in Region III is that it is a political office. There is little intergovernmental relations practiced. The Sheriff due to his elective office is free to administer his office as he chooses. The county normally does not provide the Sheriff the services of a research and development staff to evaluate his needs. In New Mexico both the Regional Law Enforcement Planning Commission and the Governor\u27s Policy Board for Law Enforcement through lack of staff and strong responsible and responsive directors and coordinators have not served the public interest well. The pluralism or multiple access common to the American form of government complicates the coordination of law enforcement grants and confuses the establishing of a sense of hierarchy among the many agencies with law enforcement oriented mission elements. Law enforcement as a profession in the Office of the Sheriff is found to be virtually nonexistent in the sense that a policeman can\u27t be considered a professional. For the Office of the Sheriff with its heavy overlay of political patronage the concept is inapplicable. Again the source of upgrading law enforcement to a profession is through intergovernmental cooperation and coordination by passing legislation to improve pay and fringe benefits and raising educational and training standards for the Office of the Sheriff
Pour l’histoire des femmes artistes : historiographie, politique et théorie
Full text linkL’article s’inscrit dans les recherches dédiées à l’histoire de l’histoire des femmes artistes, autrement dit, il dresse un bilan historiographique embrassant près de trois cents ans, au cours desquels ont paru un certain nombre d’ouvrages européens et états-uniens consacrés, totalement ou en partie, à l’histoire des femmes qui ont œuvré dans le domaine des arts. Mary Sheriff relève les livres essentiels de cette production savante et contextualise les différents temps de son histoire autour de deux époques majeures : la fin du xixe siècle, en parallèle des premiers mouvements féministes occidentaux, et les années 1970 et 1980 comme deuxième vague de cet engouement pour l’écriture de l’histoire des femmes dans la création, à partir des travaux inauguraux de Linda Nochlin et Griselda Pollock.Un certain nombre de modèles théoriques qui ont présidé à la compréhension des sources et des archives de cette histoire, de même que l’étude de ses modalités spécifiques d’écriture, amènent l’auteure à confronter son matériau à des genres historiographiques divers : histoire particulière, histoire générale, histoire de l’art, histoire des femmes, études de genre… tandis que l’ambition de l’article est de mieux connaître l’historiographie pour ajuster nos projets actuels : les siens, notamment dans le cadre de ses travaux sur les artistes femmes du xviiie siècle avec Melissa Hyde ; mais aussi ceux que d’autres chercheurs partagent avec elle, sur les questions de sexe et de genre dans les différents domaines d’activités liés aux arts visuels.This article relates to research on the historiography of women artists. In other words, it presents a historiographic assessment covering nearly three hundred years, during which a number of European and American works, devoted wholly or in part to the history of women who have contributed to the arts, were written. Mary Sheriff highlights the essential texts of this scholarly production and contextualizes different periods of its history around two major moments: the end of the nineteenth century, in parallel to the first feminist movements in the West, and the 1970s and 1980s, following the second wave of this interest in the writing of the history of women in the arts, beginning with seminal works by Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock.A number of theoretical models that governed the understanding of this history’s sources and archives, as well as the study of its specific modes of writing, lead the author to relate her material to various historiographic genres: particular history, general history, art history, women’s history, gender studies, etc. The purpose of the article is to better understand this historiography in order to modify current projects: not only her own (particularly within the framework of her project on eighteenth-century women artists undertaken with Melissa Hyde), but also those of other scholars who share her interest in gender and gender studies in the various fields related to the visual arts.Der Artikel bezieht sich auf bestehende Forschungsbeiträge und zieht Bilanz einer nahezu dreihundert Jahre umfassenden Künstlerinnenhistoriographie, gesäumt von europäischen und amerikanischen Publikationen, die sich ganz oder teilweise der Geschichte der Frauen in der Kunstwelt widmen. Mary Sheriff nimmt sich der Hauptwerke dieser wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung an und gruppiert die unterschiedlichen Phasen ihrer Geschichte um zwei Schlüsselepochen: das Ende des 19. Jahrhundert, welches die ersten westlichen Feministenbewegungen hervorbrachte, sowie die 1970er und 1980er Jahre als zweite Welle eines nachdrücklichen Einsatzes für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte kunstschaffenden Frauen – angeleitet von den wegweisenden Arbeiten von Linda Nochlin und Griselda Pollock.Einige der theoretischen Modelle, die sich prägend auf das Verständnis von Quellen und Archiven dieser Geschichte ausgewirkt haben, wie auch die Untersuchung der spezifischen Gegebenheiten ihrer Verschriftlichung, führen die Autorin zu einer Gegenüberstellung ihres Forschungsgegenstandes mit anderen Gattungen der Geschichtsschreibung : darunter Individualgeschichte, Universalgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte, die Geschichte der Frauen, Genderstudies... Das Anliegen des Artikels besteht hingegen darin, ein besserer Verständnis für die existierende Historiographie zu erlangen und aktuelle Projekte anzupassen: dazu zählen jene der Autorin – vor allem die gemeinsam mit Melissa Hyde angestellten Forschungen zu weiblichen Künstlerinnen des 18. Jahrhunderts –, ebenso wie solche, die sie mit anderen Kollegen bezüglich der Fragen von Geschlecht und Gender in den Bereichen der bildenden Künste teilt.L’articolo si inserisce nel filone delle ricerche dedicate alla storia della storia delle donne artiste, tracciando un bilancio storiografico che abbraccia quasi trecento anni, nel corso dei quali è stato pubblicato un certo numero di opere europee e statunitensi dedicate, integralmente o in parte, alla storia delle donne che hanno operato nell’ambito artistico. Mary Sheriff raccoglie i libri essenziali di questa produzione erudita e contestualizza i differenti tempi della loro storia intorno a due epoche principali: la fine del xix secolo, in contemporanea con lo sviluppo dei primi movimenti femministi occidentali, e gli anni Settanta e Ottanta del Novecento, al momento della seconda ondata d’interesse per la scrittura della storia delle donne nella creazione artistica, a partire dai lavori inaugurali di Linda Nochlin e Griselda Pollock.Un certo numero di modelli teorici che hanno presieduto alla comprensione delle fonti e degli archivi di questa storia, come lo studio delle sue modalità specifiche di scrittura, conduce l’autrice a confrontare il suo materiale con dei generi storiografici diversi: storia particolare, storia generale, storia dell’arte, storia delle donne, studi di genere… mentre l’ambizione dell’articolo è di conoscere meglio la storiografia per adattare i nostri progetti attuali: i suoi, in particolare nel quadro dei suoi lavori sulle artiste del xviii secolo con Melissa Hyde; ma anche quelli che altri ricercatori condividono con lei, sulle questioni di sesso e di genere nei differenti ambiti delle attività legate alle arti visive.El artículo se inscribe en el marco de las investigaciones sobre la literatura de la historia de artistas mujeres. Este balance historiográfico abarca casi trecientos años, en el curso de los cuales aparecieron un cierto número de obras europeas y americanas dedicadas, totalmente o en parte, a la historia de las mujeres que han trabajado en el dominio de las artes. Mary Sheriff identifica los libros esenciales de esta producción ilustrada y contextualiza los distintos momentos de su historia siguiendo dos épocas mayores: el final del siglo xix, en donde inician los primeros movimientos feministas occidentales, y los años 1970 y 1980, en donde aparecen trabajos inaugurales tales como los de Linda Nochlin y Griselda Pollock.El estudio de un cierto número de modelos teóricos que han precedido la comprensión de las fuentes y de los archivos de estas obras, así como el estudio de sus modalidades específicas de escritura, llevan a la autora a confrontar su material a géneros historiográficos diversos: historia particular, historia general, historia del arte, historia de las mujeres, estudios de género… La ambición del artículo es la de conocer mejor la historiografía para así ajustar proyectos actuales: sobre todo aquellos relacionados con los trabajos que lleva a cabo la autora junto con Melissa Hyde sobre las mujeres artistas del siglo xviii; así como los que otros investigadores comparten con ella, fundamentalmente la cuestión del sexo y del género en los diferentes dominios de actividades relacionadas con las artes visuales
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The sheriff: America's defense of the New World order
No full textSince the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, 2001, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States’ role in the world. In this hard-nosed but sophisticated examination, Colin S. Gray argues that America is the indispensable guardian of the world order. Gray’s constructive critique of recent trends in national security is comprehensive, rooting defense issues and prospective answers in both U.S. national security policy and in the emerging international security environment.
Colin S. Gray, professor of international politics and strategic studies at the University of Reading, England, and senior fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy, is the author of numerous books, including Modern Strategy and Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History. He lives in Berkshire, England.
A very fine contribution in the field of national security. --Center for Research on Geopolitics
Highly recommended. This seminal work should be required reading for security policy practitioners. --Choice
For over 30 years, Colin Gray has been the most consistently brilliant strategic thinker in the English-speaking world. . . . Makes a persuasive case for America\u27s role as sheriff of the new world order. --Claremont Review of Books
A significant contribution—the metaphor of the U.S. as sheriff is just right. World order is not self-enforcing; but this proposition, which contradicts neorealism\u27s view on the balance of power and is anathema to globalism, suggests to Gray truly sound ideas to help the U.S. understand its proper role in the world to maintain international order. --Mark T. Clark, California State University
Gray makes a strong case for the U.S. role in regulating international politics. --Naval War Review
Argues that the United States is, and should continue to be, the world\u27s guardian in the post-11 September 2001 world. --Proceedings
A must for anyone who wants a serious understanding of the difficult position America is in and why the challenges if faces is wider than Iraq and al-Qaeda. . . . Challenges the reader to think beyond current events. --Survival
A stellar contribution to the continuing debate over America’s security role in the world. Will definitely make required reading in my seminars. I do not believe it will ever become out of date as it deals with core and enduring principles of U.S. strategy and foreign policy as well as matters of current interest and debate. --William R. Van Cleave, Southwest Missouri State
“Thoughtful as well as prolific. . . . The Sheriff is a rather brief but persuasive argument . . . that the U.S. ought to become . . . a selectively responding ‘sheriff’ acting in its own best interest.” --International Journal of Naval History
The Sheriff effectively demonstrates why traditional realism, geopolitics, and the cyclical view of history, after 2,500 years, retain their relevance. --Parameters
Named a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_science_international_relations/1001/thumbnail.jp
Key performance measures in the BC Sheriff Service
Full text linkThis paper provides a mixed-method analysis of existing performance indicators in the provision of court security across Canada. In addition, it will provide recommendations on the development and implementation of performance metrics to the British Columbia Sheriff Service (BCSS) in the provision of court security. BCSS is charged under provincial statute and regulation to provide security to all levels of the provincial justice system, including BC Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and Provincial Court. This includes provision of security for all types of trials held in a wide variety of facilities in various locations across the province. The BCSS has several key performance indicators in place that are used by the organization to measure effectiveness in various business areas including financial, human resources, and vehicle utilization. There is not, however, established performance metrics currently used to monitor or report on the operational effectiveness in the provision of security services, a core area of business for BCSS.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b160052
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