How Can Civilian Retention in the Army Contracting Command Contracting Professional Community Be Affected?

Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program)There is a civilian retention issue within the contracting professional community at the Army Contracting Command (ACC). This research paper explores the causes and impacts of it, and offers solutions. The presented solutions are supported through the introduction of a novel formula which provides helpful indicators for the issue.Acquisition Research ProgramApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

The Neglected Pillar: The Teaching Tolerance Provision Of The International Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination

As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u27 this year, I would like to take particular note of the first of the core human rights treaties developed since adoption of the Universal Declaration, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

The Rights of Women in International Human Rights Law Textbooks: Segregation, Integration, or Omission?

Our panel was asked to address the question: whom do feminist law journals serve, and how does that affect the answers to questions of autonomy versus integration? One important role of any student-edited law journal is the pedagogical role, with students as one constituency whom law journals serve. Authors who place articles may end up supplementing the teaching of students who edit the journal. This was the case with the publication of my article on the international law on trafficking in women for prostitution.’ One section of the article dealt with the “due diligence” standard for assessing when the state may be held responsible for the human rights abuses by non-state actors. This is the standard used, for example, in the United Nations (UN) Declaration on Violence against Women,2 and in the sections on violence against women in the Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.3 When I got my edited draft back from the journal with which I had placed it, every reference to the term “due diligence” had been stripped from the article and replaced with such phrases as “diligently” and “with diligence.” It was apparent that if the student editor had taken a human rights or international law course, the student had not been exposed to one of the most important principles i n t he p rotection o f t he human rights o f women. Although the journal involved was an international human rights journal, not a feminist law journal, colleagues have had similar experiences with their articles in women and the law journals. It is apparent that such journals provide a forum and opportunity for students to become familiar with aspects of human rights law that they may not learn about elsewhere

“Color” in the Non-Discrimination Provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Two Covenants

The United Nations Charter declares in its opening article that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to promote respect for human rights “without distinction as to” any of four grounds: race, sex, language, or religion. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”), adopted three years later, expands the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination and proclaims that everyone is entitled to human rights “without distinction of any kind, such as” the following: “race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.” Numerous international and regional human rights treaties adopted after the Universal Declaration reproduce the UDHR’s list virtually verbatim in their non-discrimination clauses, and therefore include “color” in addition to “race” among the prohibited grounds of discrimination. These clauses usually appear near the very beginning of the treaty, thereby emphasizing the importance of the non-discrimination principle What led the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to add “color” to its non-discrimination clause, rather than just adopt the language from the UN Charter is an important question considering its inclusion in so many other documents. This paper examines the drafting history behind that development. It then addresses “color” in the two treaties that grew out of the UDHR and which, together with that instrument, form the International Bill of Human Rights: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Article concludes with an overview of some of the key features of those treaties that can be used to address discrimination on the basis of color

Investigation of the Statistics of Pure Tone Sound Power Injection from Low Frequency, Finite Sized Sources in a Reverberant Room

The effect of finite source size on the power statistics in a reverberant room for pure tone excitation was investigated. Theoretical results indicate that the standard deviation of low frequency, pure tone finite sources is always less than that predicted by point source theory and considerably less when the source dimension approaches one-half an acoustic wavelength or greater. A supporting experimental study was conducted utilizing an eight inch loudspeaker and a 30 inch loudspeaker at eleven source positions. The resulting standard deviation of sound power output of the smaller speaker is in excellent agreement with both the derived finite source theory and existing point source theory, if the theoretical data is adjusted to account for experimental incomplete spatial averaging. However, the standard deviation of sound power output of the larger speaker is measurably lower than point source theory indicates, but is in good agreement with the finite source theory

A realist review to explore how low-income pregnant women use food vouchers from the UK’s Healthy Start programme

Objectives: To explore how low-income pregnant women use Healthy Start food vouchers, the potential impacts of the programme, which women might experience these impacts and why. Design: A realist review. Eligibility criteria for selecting studies: Primary or empirical studies (of any design) were included if they contributed relevant evidence or insights about how low-income women use food vouchers from the Healthy Start (UK) or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (US) programmes. The assessment of ‘relevance’ was deliberately broad to ensure that reviewers remained open to new ideas from a variety of sources of evidence. Analysis: A combination of evidence synthesis and realist analysis techniques was used to modify, refine and substantiate programme theories, which were constructed as explanatory ‘context – mechanism – outcome’ (CMO) configurations. Results: 38 primary studies were included in this review: four studies on Healthy Start and 34 studies on WIC. Two main outcome strands were identified: dietary improvements (intended) and financial assistance (unintended). Three evidence-informed programme theories were proposed to explain how aspects of context (and mechanisms) may generate these outcomes: the ‘relative value’ of healthy eating (prioritisation of resources); retailer discretion (pressure to ‘bend the rules’); the influence of other family members (disempowerment). Conclusions: This realist review suggests that some low-income pregnant women may use Healthy Start vouchers to increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables and plain cow’s milk, whereas others may use them to reduce food expenditure and save money for other things

Body, mind, spirit, voice : Helen Kemp and the development of the children's choir movement

The purpose of this research was to document the contributions of Helen Kemp to the development of the children's choir movement. As a result of her professional contributions, Kemp became an internationally recognized specialist in the area of children's choirs and the child's voice. A brief overview of the children's choir movement in the United States is included to provide a context from which Helen Kemp's role in the children's choir movement can be more clearly understood. Helen Kemp (1918-)received vocal and church music training at Westminster Choir College. As a result of early experiences as a vocalist, children's choir director, and mother, Kemp developed an interest in child vocal development and children's choirs. After moving to Oklahoma with her husband in 1949, Kemp established many of her children's choir philosophies and techniques while serving as children's choir director at First Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City

Cytochrome analysis of a cytoplasmic mutant of neurospora crassa

Much insight into the structure and function of genes has been obtained through the comparison of the wild type gene with its mutant allele. The only mutations that could be studied were those that resulted in identifiable phenotypic changes (markers). Nuclear chromosomes have been well characterized through those genetic markers which occurred as either the primary or secondary effects of mutation. Cytoplasmic inheritance has not been characterized as clearly as nuclear inheritance due to a shortage of available mutants and a lack of suitable genetic markers. Various cytoplasmic mutants of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa have provided some insight into cytoplasmic inheritance. The phenotypic expression of these mutations was typically a changed pattern of growth and a change in cytochrome concentration and distribution due to alterations in the mitochondria. By the use of these characteristic markers, successive stages may be observed in the phenotypic change produced in wild type cells by the micro-injection of [mi-l] mitochondria