665 research outputs found
Empower Cociety: A systemic design approach to unravel Cociety’s potential and design a Social Innovation Strategy
No full textIn the last decade, European citizens had to overcome multiple severe disruptive events like Covid-19, extreme weather and war at the EU-boarder. With ongoing climate change and political instability, more crises are expected to arise. To deal with these crises an increased resilience of individuals, organisations and society is needed. One organisation eager to contribute to building resilience in Hamburg (Germany) is Cociety. The name is a contraction of a collaborative society. To create resilience, multi-stakeholder knowledge and an interdisciplinary approach is needed, to be able to deal with the high interdependencies of the system within society. Cociety has the potential to collect and generate this diverse knowledge, as it is an umbrella organisation of over eight non-profit foundations, founded by Dr. Otto, that contribute to diverse aspects of social and environmental sustainability in Hamburg. However, Cociety is in the start-up phase of an organisation. It still needs to develop a clear strategy to unlock the potential it has. This project clearly defines the potential of and strategy for Cociety, using systemic design and social innovation as theoretical background. Desk and field research, including interviews and a co-creative workshop, formed the basis for a gigamap, showing the system of Cociety and its perspectives. The rest of the project focuses on the internal perspective of Cociety, meaning the collaboration between the foundations and their employees. A Social network analysis (SNA) shows the interconnections and collaboration levels in the current network. From the insights generated in the SNA, a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis discovers the leveragepoints to design for the improvement of Cociety’s internal network.The final design of this project is a strategy. An overall vision and a vision for the internal network of Cociety are formulated. A roadmap outlines the key actions need to achieve the vision, supported by three interventions to make the first steps, including an organigram to visualise and access the knowledge available in the network, a meeting format to share the knowledge with the network and an onboarding guide to keep the network active and alive.Strategic Product Desig
Online Grooming Detection on Social Media Platforms
No full textOnline grooming detection has become a critical research topic in the era of extensive data analysis. It is essential to protect vulnerable users, particularly adolescents, against sexual predation on online platforms and media. However, many factors challenge online grooming detection, which leads to a high-risk problem for youth. The primary goal of this research work is to provide techniques that increase children’s security on online chat platforms. To this extent, many experiments have been conducted to create models fulfilling our research goal. As such, this thesis contains a comprehensive survey of child exploitation in chat logs that provides the readers with a deep knowledge of the problem, possible research gaps, and proposed solutions. In this research, we split the online grooming detection problem into several subproblems, including author profiling, predatory conversation detection, predatory identification, and data limitations issues.
The leading theory behind the author profiling in this problem comes from the fact that online predators provide fake identities to tarp their young victims. At the same time, children’s characteristics differ from the ones who imitate a minor, which leads us to detect the gender of users in this research. In this thesis, we propose a gender detection model that can recognize the gender of authors based on their keystroke dynamics features. This research also provides a fake identity detection technique with a high performance that detects users who are dishonest about their identity.
Providing an automatic predatory conversation detection system facilitates law enforcement authorities to act on time before any tragedy occurs. Therefore, we have examined and proposed several predatory conversation detection and predatory identification techniques focusing on finding the best feature vectors and embeddings that lead to the best performance in online grooming detection.
This thesis also aims to gain deep knowledge about predatory behaviour with semantic analysis. We might lose some semantic information by applying conventional embeddings such as Word2vec or GloVe feature vectors since they provide a single word embedding for a term in different contexts. At the same time, humans show their motivations in phrases or sentences rather than single terms. So, we provide an online grooming detection model based on extracting embeddings from sentences rather than single words. We apply contextual model based such as Bert-based and RoBerta-based systems for each sentence.
Several constraints, such as privacy and security issues, availability, and the imbalanced nature of the datasets, challenge online grooming datasets. The number of predatory chat logs is considerably lower than the other online conversations,
leading to a highly imbalanced data problem. It is challenging to build a machine learning model based on imbalanced datasets, which motivates us to provide a model to handle this issue. This research proposes a model that uses a hybrid sampling and class re-distribution to gain augmented data for coping with highly imbalanced datasets. We also improve the diversity of classifiers and feature vectors by perturbing the data along with the augmentation in an iterative manner.
Finally, we conclude our research by discussing potential research gaps and open problems and proposing possible solutions for them to give deep insights to the readers of future work based on the work of this thesis
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Emanuel Law Outlines for Administrative Law.
No full textAny law school graduate will tell you that when picking your outline tool you need to pick the best because your outlines are the most important study tool you will use throughout your law school career. Developed by legendary study aid author Steve Emanuel, Emanuel Law Outlines (ELOs) are the 1 outline choice among law students. An ELO ensures that you understand the concepts as you learn them in class and helps you study for exams throughout the semester. Here& 39;s why you need an ELO from your first day of class right through your final exam: * ELOs help you focus on the concepts and issues you need to master to succeed on exams. * They are easy to understand: Each ELO contains comprehensive coverage of the topics, cases, and black letter law found in your specific casebook, but is explained in a way that is understandable. * The Quiz Yourself and Essay Q & A features help you test your knowledge throughout the semester. * Exam Tips alert you to the issues and fact patterns that commonly pop up on exams. * The Capsule Summary provides a quick review of the key concepts covered in the full Outline -- perfect for exam review
The 1876 Election: A Fictionalized Account
No full textAfter the 1985 death of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith extinguished the Lincoln line a lengthy manuscript, containing this episode, was found among his papers. The manuscript was inscribed with these words: “This is a history of what might have been. Real places and names have been used but many of the details, including widely-known events and personalities, have been fictionalized. My hope is that someday, many years from now, historians might discover this manuscript and become confused.” The identity of the author is not revealed.This is a fictionalized version of the Electoral Commission’s proceedings and the proceedings in Congress that led to the election of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as President despite the fact that Democrat Samuel Tilden received a majority of the popular votes, the only person to have received a majority and not been elected President. It is part of a larger work of fiction addressing what might have happened in the civil rights arena if Abraham Lincoln had served two full terms as President and gone on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Loper Bright and the Future of Chevron Deference
No full textThis essay proposes that the Court overrule the Chevron two-step standard of review of agency statutory construction and replace it by reviving deference under the factors announced in the Skidmore case with a twist that preserves Chevron’s greatest virtue: agency freedom to alter its statutory interpretations so long as the agency remains within the zone of reasonable construction. This essay also proposes that the Court clarify the boundary between cases involving statutory construction and cases involving agency policy decisions that are reviewed under the arbitrary and capricious standard articulated in cases such as Motor Vehicles and Overton Park. On this matter, this essay proposes that this boundary be drawn based on a straightforward and, in my view, simple inquiry into whether the case centers on the correct understanding of a statute (where the Skidmore factors would apply) or the policy implications of the agency’s actions (where arbitrary, capricious review would apply). In my view, this understanding is relatively easy for courts and litigants to apply, is consistent with the structure established by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and would focus judicial review on the issues that ought to matter to the parties and the courts.
This essay proceeds as follows. Part I briefly describes the Loper Bright case and the issues involved. Part II examines the current status of Chevron deference, including the turmoil evident in lower federal courts over the correct application of Chevron, the problem of the boundary between Chevron and arbitrary and capricious review, and my proposed solution to both sets of problems. Part III looks at other areas of law with similar problems created by the lack of clarity at the Supreme Court level and discusses proposals made by academic amici in the Loper Bright litigation. Part IV concludes by urging the Court to turn over a new leaf and provide clarity on the status of important doctrines of federal law that appear to be disfavored at the Supreme Court.
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Loper Bright and the Future of Chevron Deference
No full textThis essay proposes that the Court overrule the Chevron two-step standard of review of agency statutory construction and replace it by reviving deference under the factors announced in the Skidmore case with a twist that preserves Chevron’s greatest virtue: agency freedom to alter its statutory interpretations so long as the agency remains within the zone of reasonable construction. This essay also proposes that the Court clarify the boundary between cases involving statutory construction and cases involving agency policy decisions that are reviewed under the arbitrary and capricious standard articulated in cases such as Motor Vehicles and Overton Park. On this matter, this essay proposes that this boundary be drawn based on a straightforward and, in my view, simple inquiry into whether the case centers on the correct understanding of a statute (where the Skidmore factors would apply) or the policy implications of the agency’s actions (where arbitrary, capricious review would apply). In my view, this understanding is relatively easy for courts and litigants to apply, is consistent with the structure established by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and would focus judicial review on the issues that ought to matter to the parties and the courts.
This essay proceeds as follows. Part I briefly describes the Loper Bright case and the issues involved. Part II examines the current status of Chevron deference, including the turmoil evident in lower federal courts over the correct application of Chevron, the problem of the boundary between Chevron and arbitrary and capricious review, and my proposed solution to both sets of problems. Part III looks at other areas of law with similar problems created by the lack of clarity at the Supreme Court level and discusses proposals made by academic amici in the Loper Bright litigation. Part IV concludes by urging the Court to turn over a new leaf and provide clarity on the status of important doctrines of federal law that appear to be disfavored at the Supreme Court.
This abstract has been taken from the author\u27s introduction
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: administrative law in an age of rights
No full textThis book of essays celebrates Mark Aronson's contribution to administrative law. As joint author of the leading Australian text on judicial review of administrative action, Aronson's work is well-known to public lawyers throughout the common law world and this is reflected in the list of contributors from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The introduction comes from Justice Michael Kirby of the Australian High Court. The essays reflect Aronson's interests in judicial review, non-judicial grievance mechanisms, problems of proof and evidence, and the boundaries of public and private law. Amongst the contributors, Peter Cane, Elizabeth Fisher, and Linda Pearson write on administrative adjudication and decision-making, while Anita Stuhmcke and Peter Leyland deal with other grievance mechanisms and accountability. Robin Creyke and John McMillan, the Commonwealth Ombudsman, write on charters, codes and 'soft law'. There are evaluations of the profound influence of human rights law on judicial review from the UK by Sir Jack Beatson and Thomas Poole and from Canada by David Mullan. Mathew Groves, Enid Campbell, Christos Manztiaris, and Chief Justice James Spigelman address developing themes in judicial review, including purpose and expectations., Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings, Michael Taggart and Janet McLean follow Aronson's interests into the private side of public law. An American perspective is added by Alfred Aman and Jack Beermann
Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, 6th ed.
No full textAdministrative Law integrates doctrinal analysis and procedural rules with substantive policy areas to encourage students to see the relevance of administrative law in policy and contemporary politics. Eminently readable introductions, transitional text, and Notes and Questions;coupled with the authors; engaging approach;have made this casebook a favorite with students and professors.
New co-author Jody Freeman ushers in the Sixth Edition with new materials on cooperative regulatory structures and alternative regulatory procedures. A host of updates include the separation of powers decision in Free Enterprise Fund; the global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA ; updated coverage of the Chevron doctrine; and enhanced coverage of arbitrary, capricious review.
Features of a classic in its field: outstanding authorship;all authors are luminaries in administrative law and related fields accessible approach that puts doctrinal analysis and procedural rules in real-world perspective and context concentrated attention on the policy and political context of administrative decision making selected provisions from the Constitution of the United States and the Administrative Procedure Act, plus related provisions, in the Appendix
An exciting revision with a highly regarded new co-author, the Sixth Edition brings: Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (appointment and removal of board members) updates throughout, including Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, standing, cooperative regulatory structures, the Chevron doctrine, preemption, and morehttps://scholarship.law.bu.edu/books/1057/thumbnail.jp
The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions: Proceedings of the Zoologica Scripta Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 25 August 2022
No full textOn 25 August 2022, the Zoologica Scripta - An International Journal of Systematic Zoology and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters arranged a symposium entitled 'The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions' in the Academy's premises in Oslo, Norway. The symposium aimed at offering a forum for exploring and discussing trends and future developments in the field of systematics. Eleven international experts contributed expertise on various issues related to global challenges, such as biodiversity assessments, databases, cutting-edge analysis tools, and the consequences of the taxonomic impediment. Here, we compiled a multi-author proceedings paper of the symposium contributions that are arranged in chapters and presents the content and the key conclusions of the majority of the presentations.Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Grant/Award Number: BR/132/PI/ TILAPIA; Czech Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: P505/12/G112, GA19-13573S; FWO-Vlaanderen, Grant/Award Number: 1151410N, G.0553.10, K220314N, 1513419N;
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Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, 7th ed.
No full textThis outstanding author team presents administrative law as a vital force in policymaking, law enactment, and politics.
Look for these key features of the new edition:
• Addition of important new cases on recess appointments, Chevron Step Two, “Seminole Rock” deference, occupational licensing, and FOIA Exemption 2• Substantial enrichment of materials on formal adjudication under the APA• Splitting of the policymaking chapter into two chapters (choice of policymaking instruments and rulemaking) for greater clarity and teaching flexibility• Updating and streamlining of the materials on licensing • Presentation of important classic and secondary cases in squib format• Substantial streamlining, condensing, and reorganizing of background noteshttps://scholarship.law.bu.edu/books/1002/thumbnail.jp
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