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Expanding Community Identity: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Government Practices to Engage Local-born and Foreign-born Residents in Building A Stronger Community

Neighborhood building is essential to a diverse and strong New York. We are currently in a progressive political climate where legislation is being crafted so that the laws of New York reflect its ... focused on immigrant communities make a difference in the quality of life in a community? This author has been asking this question as the New York political climate has shifted to a progressive government

Expanding Community Identity: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Government Practices to Engage Local-born and Foreign-born Residents in Building A Stronger Community

Neighborhood building is essential to a diverse and strong New York. We are currently in a progressive political climate where legislation is being crafted so that the laws of New York reflect its ... focused on immigrant communities make a difference in the quality of life in a community? This author has been asking this question as the New York political climate has shifted to a progressive government

Book Review: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

that of the typical worker in just a few generations, and the unworthiness of Wall Street bankers’ subsidized salaries, has led to the rise of the disenfranchised working poor and centralized political ... influence and power to an oligarchical few. The book concludes in part three with several policy reforms to countervail the current political powers, including implementing a national minimum wage

Book Review: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

the rise of the disenfranchised working poor and centralized political influence and power to an oligarchical few. The book concludes in part three with several policy reforms to countervail the current ... political powers, including implementing a national minimum wage, overturning Citizens United, banning gerrymandering of districts, and requirements to disclose all political expenditures. In short, since

Polynomial-Time Axioms of Choice and Polynomial-Time Cardinality

Choice. Throughout this paper, our general philosophy is that “set” should become “language in P” and “function” should become “function in FP.” Where there are several obvious choices for how to

Lossy Kernelization of Same-Size Clustering

categorical, that is, can admit a fixed number of possible values. For example, it could be gender, blood type, or political orientation. A prominent example of categorical data is binary data, where the points

Obvious Strategyproofness, Bounded Rationality and Approximation

” implementation [ 30 ] shares some of the motivations and philosophy behind OSP. The authors note that the implementation (via normal-form games) of a social choice function is more obvious if there exists a

Seeking Social Justice in the Literature: Guidelines for Critical Review

, under the heading of Social and Political Action: “Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of ... race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability

Seeking Social Justice in the Literature: Guidelines for Critical Review

, under the heading of Social and Political Action: “Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate domination of, exploitation of, and discrimination against any person, group, or class on the basis of ... race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability

Restorative Justice: A Look at Victim Offender Mediation Programs

reenactment. Mamdani (2001) defined survivor justice as a form of political justice, which allows for reconciliation where individual trauma has the power to transcend its cyclical nature when it is addressed ... Abuse to Political Terror . NY: Basic Books. Mamdani , M. ( 2001 ). When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Marshall

Restorative Justice: A Look at Victim Offender Mediation Programs

reenactment. Mamdani (2001) defined survivor justice as a form of political justice, which allows for reconciliation where individual trauma has the power to transcend its cyclical nature when it is addressed ... Abuse to Political Terror . NY: Basic Books. Mamdani , M. ( 2001 ). When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Marshall

The Social Justice Project: The Art of Change

combination of racist police practices and systematic oppression throughout the prison, political, and legal systems, a vastly disproportionate proportion of Black and Latino men are arrested and incarcerated

The Social Justice Project: The Art of Change

a combination of racist police practices and systematic oppression throughout the prison, political, and legal systems, a vastly disproportionate proportion of Black and Latino men are arrested and

The Social Justice Project: The Art of Change

a combination of racist police practices and systematic oppression throughout the prison, political, and legal systems, a vastly disproportionate proportion of Black and Latino men are arrested and

Climate Change: Threats to Social Welfare and Social Justice Requiring Social Work Intervention

main focus is given to economic and social variables, it also takes into account other influences (i.e., political, social, cultural, and ecological factors) relevant to the situation (Beverly ... , the paper frames the forces which have created climate change, providing the reader with an overview of the ecological, scientific, economic, and political forces surrounding the topic. Social Welfare

Climate Change: Threats to Social Welfare and Social Justice Requiring Social Work Intervention

main focus is given to economic and social variables, it also takes into account other influences (i.e., political, social, cultural, and ecological factors) relevant to the situation (Beverly ... , the paper frames the forces which have created climate change, providing the reader with an overview of the ecological, scientific, economic, and political forces surrounding the topic. Social Welfare

A Generalized Characterization of Algorithmic Probability

An a priori semimeasure (also known as “algorithmic probability” or “the Solomonoff prior” in the context of inductive inference) is defined as the transformation, by a given universal monotone Turing machine, of the uniform measure on the infinite strings. It is shown in this paper that the class of a priori semimeasures can equivalently be defined as the class of...

Conditional Cash Transfers, Community, and Empowerment of Women in Colombia

groups for three-quarters of Colombia’s political killings in 1998, and the trend has continued: fighting among the guerrillas, paramilitaries and government forces has turned rural areas into ... brutally hunted as many as 4000 “disposables” and political enemies each year: “In 1998, of the 2,104 serious violations of international humanitarian law… 1,479 were carried out by various paramilitary

Conditional Cash Transfers, Community, and Empowerment of Women in Colombia

groups for three-quarters of Colombia’s political killings in 1998, and the trend has continued: fighting among the guerrillas, paramilitaries and government forces has turned rural areas into ... brutally hunted as many as 4000 “disposables” and political enemies each year: “In 1998, of the 2,104 serious violations of international humanitarian law… 1,479 were carried out by various paramilitary

Programs, Proofs, Processes

aims include the promotion of the study of philosophy and history of computing as it relates to questions of computability. The theme of CiE 2010 was directed at the usual CiE synergy between computer