Update of the Navy Contract Writing Guide

MBA Professional ReportThe purpose of this MBA Project is to provide a comprehensive update of the Navy Contract Writing Guide. The project was conducted with the sponsorship and assistance of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition. The now out of date guide was originally written in 1996 in an effort to reduce problem disbursements as related to contract wording and organization. Extensive research, incorporating interviews, websites, periodicals, and texts, was employed to make the guide current. It has been reorganized to address issues and solutions in the same order in which the forms used by contracting officers and administrators have them listed. New issues have been raised since the original writing of this guide and are now incorporated with their recommended solutions. Individuals new to Naval contracting or those who have decades of experience will find the information provided useful to the efficient and effective writing and administration of government contracts.http://archive.org/details/updateofnavycont1094534235Second Lieutenant, United States Air ForceCaptain, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Diamanda Galás and Amanda Todd: Performing Trauma’s Sticky Connections

Though trauma transgresses borders and produces displacements, too often its study and the treatment of its harmful affects contain it historically, geographically, and institutionally. In the process, trauma becomes dislocated from the larger affective economies through which it is produced. Following the lead of feminist and queer studies scholars, Ann Cvetkovich and Sara Ahmed, Helene brings together two performances—Diamanda Galás’s Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead , and Amanda Todd’s My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm —to illuminate sticky connections across the geopolitical particularities of violently produced trauma. She proposes that Galás’s and Todd’s performances of two radically disparate traumas—genocide and sexual assault—need to be understood as contemporary variations of traditional laments that use embodied affective expression to communicate the overwhelming and “inarticulate grief” associated with the trauma of loss and violation (Holst-Warhaft Cue 4). With this essay, Vosters aspires not only to bring Galás and Todd into dialogue, but also to join with them as part of an interdisciplinary and polyphonic chorus of lament against the forgetfulness of trauma’s production.Même si le traumatisme transgresse les frontières et provoque des déplacements, l’étude et le traitement de ses effets nuisibles imposent trop souvent des limites historiques, géographiques et institutionnelles. Le traumatisme est ainsi décalé par rapport aux économies de l’affectivité qui le produisent. Suivant l’exemple d’Ann Cvetkovich et de Sara Ahmed, chercheures en études féministes et queer, Helene Vosters réunit deux performances— Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead de Diamanda Galás et My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm d’Amanda Todd—pour jeter la lumière sur les liens qui traversent les particularités géopolitiques de traumatismes liés à la violence. Vosters fait valoir qu’il faut lire les performances de Galás et de Todd sur deux traumatismes radicalement différents—le génocide et l’agression sexuelle—comme des variations contemporaines de complaintes traditionnelles qui font appel à des expressions affectives similaires pour communiquer l’immense « deuil qui ne peut se faire jour » associé au traumatisme de la perte et de la violation (Holst-Warhaft Cue 4). Dans cette contribution, Vosters tente non seulement de créer un dialogue entre Galás et Todd, mais aussi de les rejoindre dans un chœur interdisciplinaire et polyphonique de complaintes contre l’oubli associé à la production de traumatismes

Letter From Bunny Vosters to Eleanor Snell, May 6, 1970

This handwritten letter from Madge Bunny Vosters, Ursinus College Class of 1940, congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on her teachings.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/snell_docs/1036/thumbnail.jp

Emergent Completion of Multistep Instructions via Joint Control

Teaching procedures that facilitate the emergence of novel responses allow for increased efficiency, which is critical when providing early-intervention services to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Three children diagnosed with ASD between 5 and 6 years old participated. In Study 1, we demonstrated functional control over the effects of teaching echoic rehearsals on the emergence of completing novel two-step instructions via joint control. In Study 2, we conducted an experimental analysis of joint control by disrupting rehearsal of the instruction and tacts of the objects in the instruction, which served as the sources of joint control. Our results support the efficacy of the procedures for establishing first-trial performance with novel instructions and indicate joint control is the behavioral process responsible for the emergent responses produced by our teaching procedures

Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and Its Lost Subjects

Using the Highway of Heroes as my point of departure, in “Good Mourning Canada? Canadian Military Commemoration and its Lost Subjects” I interrogate the role of Canadian military commemoration in the production of hierarchies of grievability and the construction of nationalist narratives. I argue that military commemoration plays a critical role in the performative constitution of the privileged—and the “lost”—subjects of Canadian nationalism. My investigation looks first at how Canadian military memorial projects operate as a means of interpellating Canada’s citizen populations into a particular kind of settler-nationalism, and second, at how performance might serve as a methodology towards the production of counter-memorials that resist the forgetful narratives of Canadian nationalism. My methodological approach weaves historical, theoretical, and performance analyses with first-person reflections on three counter-memorial meditations I performed as a method of embodied inquiry and critical engagement. While the reflective remains of Impact Afghanistan War are scattered throughout this dissertation, and Unravel: A meditation on the warp and weft of militarism and Flag of Tears are discussed explicitly in the final chapters, all three counter-memorial meditations inform—and are informed by—the entire project. Throughout this dissertation I deliberately posit both Canadian military commemoration, and performance, as broadly construed. I investigate repertorial performances of commemoration—like the Highway of Heroes, Remembrance Day ceremonies, and Impact—in addition to the archival performances of institutions and objects—like the Canadian War Museum, military fatigues, and Unravel’s threaded remains. I also intentionally wander outside the constructed borders of Canadian military commemoration to consider how these memorials disappear the violence of settler-colonialism. I bring popular culture performances of nationalist and counter-nationalist narratives—like the Winter Olympics and Jeff Barnaby’s film, Rhymes for Young Ghouls—into conversation with performances overtly linked to the contested terrains of Canadian social memory, like the World War I and II documentary, The Valour and the Horror, and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In bringing this range of performances together under the umbrella of Canadian military commemoration I make visible the larger scenario of Canadian settler nationalism and its sticky “inter(in)animations” with militarism and colonialism.

Group treatment for the parents of children with learning-disabilities : as a means of changing the attitudes of parents towards such children, and the effect of such a change on the remediation of the learning disability

[page 127 missing] A research was done on the attitudes of parents towards learning-disabled children and on the behaviour rating of the children by their parents (experiment A) and on group treatment for parents of learning-disabled children (experiment B). EXPERIMENT A The experimental group consisted of parents of 28 learning-disabled children. The children were in sub A, B, or std I, attending regular primary schools and received remedial tuition. The control group consisted of 30 parents of children who achieve normally. The two groups were matched for socio-economic status, family structure, age and sex of child. The attitudes of the two groups of parents were compared with the help of the Hereford Parent Attitude Survey (1963). It is designed to measure the dimensions of attitudes of parents towards their children. The scale consists of five subscales measuring: confidence in parental role, causation of child's behaviour, acceptance of child's behaviour and feelings, mutual understanding and mutual trust. Every subscale contains 15 items, each of which is rated on a five point scale ranging from +2 to -2. The sum of the item score in each area serves as the parent's total score for that attitude area. The higher the score the better the attitude. VI It was found that: Parents of normal achieving children scored higher on the subscales measuring understanding, causation and on the total score of the attitude survey than parents of learning-disabled did. The parents' behaviour ratings of their children were compared with the Parent-Teacher Behavior Rating Scale for Underachieving Children by Rie (1976). This scale measures overt behaviour characteristics of children. It consists of seven subscales, measuring: activity, achievement, sociability, attention, distractibility, disruptability, and need-achievement. Each subscale contains five items each of which is rated on a five point scale of frequency of occurrence. The higher the score the more favourable the behaviour. It was found that: experimental group parents rated their children's behaviour less favourably on each subscale than parents in the control group. EXPERIMENT B: Mothers of learning-disabled children were divided into three groups: experimental group A, the counselling group; experimental group B, the teaching group; and control group C, the non-treatment group. Group A participated in supportive, reflective group counselling, the discussions were 'parent focussed'. The characteristics of a learning-disability were explained to the parents in group B, discussions were 'child focussed'. Parental attitude and behaviour measures taken after treatment were compared with the previous measures. Teachers moni- Vil tored the behaviour of .the children with the same behaviour rating scale on a weekly basis, while treatment took place. It was found that: Mothers in group A scored higher after treatment on the attitude subscale measuring 'trust' than before treatment. Teachers found that behaviour of children whose parents participated in group B improved significantly. The results of the study indicate that if treatment procedures based on counselling and teaching methods are combined, attitude change of parents and behaviour improvement in children will be facilitated

Efficient dense blur map estimation for automatic 2D-to-3D conversion

Focus is an important depth cue for 2D-to-3D conversion of low depth-of-field images and video. However, focus can be only reliably estimated on edges. Therefore, Bea et al. [1] first proposed an optimization based approach to propagate focus to non-edge image portions, for single image focus editing. While their approach produces accurate dense blur maps, the computational complexity and memory requirements for solving the resulting sparse linear system with standard multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques, are infeasible within the stringent requirements of the consumer electronics and broadcast industry. In this paper we propose fast, efficient, low latency, line scanning based focus propagation, which mitigates the need for complex multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques. In addition we propose facial blur compensation to compensate for false shading edges that cause incorrect blur estimates in people's faces. In general shading leads to incorrect focus estimates, which may lead to unnatural 3D and visual discomfort. Since visual attention mostly tends to faces, our solution solves the most distracting errors. A subjective assessment by paired comparison on a set of challenging low-depth-of-field images shows that the proposed approach achieves equal 3D image quality as optimization based approaches, and that facial blur compensation results in a significant improvemen

Specialized depth extraction for live soccer

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