Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Political Science, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-245).

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-75). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Todd D. Sigler, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Education Administration Higher Education, presented on October 28, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND CAMPUS PUBLIC ORDER POLICING: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MIXED-ISSUE CAMPUS DISTURBANCES AT THREE MIDWEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Kathryn Ann Hytten The purpose of this qualitative study analyzed mixed-issue campus disturbance events at three similar public universities located in the Midwest region of the United States. Using a case study research design, the analysis draws from interviews conducted with campus police officers employed at the selected institutions assigned to work one or more disturbances during the last decade. A related purpose analyzed the element of space/location and territoriality where these disturbances occurred, including an assessment of the value and meaning of space to the police and how police use space to achieve public order maintenance objectives. As the primary social control agent, the police - through their interface with crowd participants - can influence positive or negative relationships that subsequently impact disturbance outcomes. The research methodology incorporated naturalistic qualitative methods including: (1) one-on-one interviews of 15 campus police officers - both front-line police officers and command officers divided among three campuses; (2) open source public documents such as task force reports and newspaper articles; and (3) closed-source documents, such as unpublished pre- and post-action reports completed by law enforcement or campus administration. Finally, I conducted field research observations of the disturbance locations combined with my own experience in campus law enforcement. Among some of the important findings are the importance of officer experience, consistent and recent training for officers in both traditional crowd control tactics, as well as crowd management skills, especially communication (accomplished through techniques such as dialogue policing and social media technology to recognize and mitigate triggering behaviors on both sides. Additional public order policing tactics include recognizing the importance of territoriality and the value of mitigating tactics such as crowd combing, and controlling space to reduce density. This study will support law enforcement officials in higher education with planning, developing and responding proactively to disturbances using public order policing strategies suitable for campus communities. Special emphasis is placed on the elaborated social identity model and the negotiated management model to explain police and crowd behaviors. Of value to crowd management practitioners is the critical need to interface crowd theory with practical public order policing techniques to develop an effective response.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1937 M34

The applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have risen in recent years both in the civilian and military sectors. While a number of WSN-based systems have been proposed and developed, vast majority of them focus on capability demonstration rather than the issues of deployment. As a result, even though the systems can serve useful purposes, they are very hard to deploy. The objective of this thesis is to focus on the deployment issues of WSNs. In addition, this thesis assesses the optimal configurations and environment that enables the sensor networks to thrive in a C4ISR environment. This thesis presents a technology review of the ZigBee and the IEEE 802.15.4 standards which form the core technology in WSNs. The thesis also discusses the IEEE 802.15.4 Physical and Media Access Control Layers that comprise the bottom two layers of WSNs. This thesis also provides a brief introduction to the hardware and software that deal with WSN technology. Lastly, this thesis evaluates the military applications of WSNs. It is hoped that the military can employ wireless sensors to increase situational awareness, attain information superiority, and improve decision-making.

Traditionally robots have been preprogrammed to execute specific tasks. Thisapproach works well in industrial settings where robots have to execute highlyaccurate movements, such as when welding. However, preprogramming a robot isalso expensive, error prone and time consuming due to the fact that every featuresof the task has to be considered. In some cases, where a robot has to executecomplex tasks such as playing the ball-in-a-cup game, preprogramming it mighteven be impossible due to unknown features of the task. With all this in mind,this thesis examines the possibility of combining a modern learning framework,known as Learning from Demonstrations (LfD), to first teach a robot how toplay the ball-in-a-cup game by demonstrating the movement for the robot, andthen have the robot to improve this skill by itself with subsequent ReinforcementLearning (RL). The skill the robot has to learn is demonstrated with kinestheticteaching, modelled as a dynamic movement primitive, and subsequently improvedwith the RL algorithm Policy Learning by Weighted Exploration with the Returns.Experiments performed on the industrial robot KUKA LWR4+ showed that robotsare capable of successfully learning a complex skill such as playing the ball-in-a-cupgame. / Traditionellt sett har robotar blivit förprogrammerade för att utföra specifika uppgifter.Detta tillvägagångssätt fungerar bra i industriella miljöer var robotar måsteutföra mycket noggranna rörelser, som att svetsa. Förprogrammering av robotar ärdock dyrt, felbenäget och tidskrävande eftersom varje aspekt av uppgiften måstebeaktas. Dessa nackdelar kan till och med göra det omöjligt att förprogrammeraen robot att utföra komplexa uppgifter som att spela bollen-i-koppen spelet. Medallt detta i åtanke undersöker den här avhandlingen möjligheten att kombinera ettmodernt ramverktyg, kallat inläraning av demonstrationer, för att lära en robothur bollen-i-koppen-spelet ska spelas genom att demonstrera uppgiften för denoch sedan ha roboten att själv förbättra sin inlärda uppgift genom att användaförstärkande inlärning. Uppgiften som roboten måste lära sig är demonstreradmed kinestetisk undervisning, modellerad som dynamiska rörelseprimitiver, ochsenare förbättrad med den förstärkande inlärningsalgoritmen Policy Learning byWeighted Exploration with the Returns. Experiment utförda på den industriellaKUKA LWR4+ roboten visade att robotar är kapabla att framgångsrikt lära sigspela bollen-i-koppen spelet

Cette thèse présente une nouvelle édition critique de quatre discours de Libanios : les discours 34 (En réponse aux médisances du pédagogue), 35 (À ceux qui ne prennent pas la parole), 36 (Sur les maléfices), et 43 (Sur la convention), ainsi que de nouvelles traductions commentées. Ce premier ensemble est complété par des études thématiques prenant en compte la dimension rhétorique et historique de ces textes. Le corpus libanien a joué un rôle déterminant dans l’émergence et le développement des études sur l’Antiquité tardive. Une nouvelle approche de ces quatre textes offre un intérêt indiscutable pour la connaissance du monde scolaire de cette époque : ils délivrent un grand nombre d’informations sur l’univers et le statut des maîtres de rhétorique, sur le rôle social de l’école et la place de la rhétorique dans l’enseignement. Ils constituent ainsi une source très riche pour l’histoire institutionnelle, culturelle et sociale du IVe siècle ap. JC. Leur contribution à l’histoire de l’espace urbain d’Antioche, champ de recherche actuellement en cours d’exploration, ne doit pas non plus être dédaignée. / This thesis presents a new critical edition of four orations by Libanius : oration 34 (in response to the pedagogue’s badmouthing), 35 (To those who do not speak), 36 (About witchcraft) and 43 (About the convention) and new translations with commentaries. This first set is completed by thematic studies taking into account the rhetoric and historical dimension of these texts. The Libanius corpus played a key role in the emergence and development of Late Antiquity studies. A new approach to these four texts offers an undisputable interest for the knowledge of the school world of that time; they issue indeed a lot of information about the world and the status of teachers of rhetoric, on the social role of the school and the place of rhetoric in education. They constitute a very rich source for institutional, cultural and social history of the 4th century AD. Their contribution to the history of the urban area of Antioch, search field currently being explored, should not be left out.

<p>Background: During a house demonstration a real estate agent have the chance to make new contacts which is of big importance to spread the word about the agency and keep up with the competition. If the realtor makes a good impression on the customers, it increases the chance for making the customers return to the same realtor when time comes to sell their own house. The interpretation of this non-verbal communication has been shown to have a fundamental effect on the participant’s perception of the encounter. This makes the study aim regards investigating which non-verbal signals a real estate agent express.</p><p>Purpose: This study has a two-parted purpose whereas the first part intends to point out similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. The other part aim to create an understanding for the consequences a real estate agent’s non-verbal communication can lead to.</p><p>Theory: To fulfil the purpose, theories about non-verbal communication were chosen which brings the expressions kinesics, proxemics, physical appearance and paralanguage into use.</p><p>Research method: As an empirical research method observations were used to study the real estate agents non-verbal communication. Four educated and authorised realtors were chosen to be observed at different house demonstrations. The focus was set on the realtors interactions with the customers.</p><p>Conclusion: Results from the observations point out that there are both similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. Depending on how this communication takes place, which can differ between realtors, different consequences can be pointed out in the interaction with the customers.</p><p>Keywords: Non-verbal communication, Real estate agent, House demonstrations, Kinesics, Proxemics, Paralanguage</p>

Background: During a house demonstration a real estate agent have the chance to make new contacts which is of big importance to spread the word about the agency and keep up with the competition. If the realtor makes a good impression on the customers, it increases the chance for making the customers return to the same realtor when time comes to sell their own house. The interpretation of this non-verbal communication has been shown to have a fundamental effect on the participant’s perception of the encounter. This makes the study aim regards investigating which non-verbal signals a real estate agent express. Purpose: This study has a two-parted purpose whereas the first part intends to point out similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. The other part aim to create an understanding for the consequences a real estate agent’s non-verbal communication can lead to. Theory: To fulfil the purpose, theories about non-verbal communication were chosen which brings the expressions kinesics, proxemics, physical appearance and paralanguage into use. Research method: As an empirical research method observations were used to study the real estate agents non-verbal communication. Four educated and authorised realtors were chosen to be observed at different house demonstrations. The focus was set on the realtors interactions with the customers. Conclusion: Results from the observations point out that there are both similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. Depending on how this communication takes place, which can differ between realtors, different consequences can be pointed out in the interaction with the customers. Keywords: Non-verbal communication, Real estate agent, House demonstrations, Kinesics, Proxemics, Paralanguage