<p> Growing numbers of America&rsquo;s 1,281,432 active licensed attorneys open their own law firms due to strained employment opportunities. With 50% of small businesses failing within 5 years, and solo law offices accounting for 75% of attorneys in private practice, there is a need for preparing solo criminal law practitioners for business success. Some solo criminal law practitioners do not understand the critical business performance variables that impact small business success. The total population for this quantitative correlational study included solo criminal law practitioners from the Philadelphia Bar Association <i>Legal Directory</i> and Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers members. Barney&rsquo;s resource-based theory (RBV) and Lussier&rsquo;s nonfinancial success-failure business prediction model were the foundational frameworks of this study. I used Lussier&rsquo;s nonfinancial success-failure questionnaire to collect data via a self-administered survey. A Kendall tau correlation was used to determine the relationship between Lussier&rsquo;s 16 independent variables measuring success or failure and a single dependent variable of &lsquo;level of profits&rsquo; for the 31 participants. 31 participants (4%) is a very low response rate. Increased participation is needed for better research results. Fifteen of the 16 variables showed no relationships with the level of success. Only 1 hypothesis showed a relationship between the type of start-up plan developed by the firm and the level of success (&tau; = .322, p = .032). The findings from this study support the Small Business Association&rsquo;s definition of a business plan as a living roadmap for business success. The implications for positive social change include the potential to increase employment opportunities by directly impacting the economy in creating economic expansion.</p><p>

<p> The federal government is devoted to an open, safe, free, and dependable cyberspace that empowers innovation, enriches business, develops the economy, enhances security, fosters education, upholds democracy, and defends freedom. Despite many advantages&mdash; federal and Department of Defense cybersecurity policies and standards, the best military power equipped with the most innovative technologies in the world, and the best military and civilian workforces ready to perform any mission&mdash;the defense cyberspace is vulnerable to a variety of threats. This study explores cybersecurity requirements in the defense acquisition process. The literature review exposes cybersecurity challenges that the government faces in the federal acquisition process, and the researcher examines cybersecurity requirements in defense acquisition documents. The study reveals that cybersecurity is not at a level of importance equal to that of cost, technical, and performance in the current defense acquisition process. The study discloses the defense acquisition guidance does not reflect the change of cybersecurity requirements, and the defense acquisition processes are deficient, ineffective, and inadequate to describe and consider cybersecurity requirements, weakening the government&rsquo;s overall efforts to implement cybersecurity framework into the defense acquisition system. The study recommends defense organizations elevate the importance of cybersecurity during the acquisition process, to help the government&rsquo;s overall efforts to develop, build, and operate in an open, secure, interoperable, and reliable cyberspace. </p>

On April 18, 1989, eighteen school aged children from the metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut area, acting through their parents, commenced a civil action in the Hartford Superior Court. The suit named the State of Connecticut, constitutionally elected officials, and officials of various state commissions and agencies as defendants. The plaintiffs alleged significant constitutional violations under applicable sections of the State constitution which they believe constituted a denial of their fundamental rights to an education and rights to equal protection under the law. In the landmark civil rights decision of Sheff v. O'Neill, the Connecticut Supreme Court, on July 16, 1996, ruled that based upon these constitutional claims, the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity. This constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation. The Court further concluded that school districting based upon town and city boundary lines are unconstitutional. The implications and potential ramifications of this decision are significant. This dissertation chronicles the events and examines the issues surrounding this landmark decision. The background contributing to the plaintiffs claims, the state's position, the historical evolution of the case, and reaction/actions and proposals to remedy and comply with the court's order are examined.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Economics, 2007. / Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0690. Adviser: Eric Rasmusen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2009. / Title from home page (viewed on Jul 12, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3782. Advisers: Heidi A. Ross; Martha McCarthy.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006. / Thesis Advisor(s): Christopher Bellavita, "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-98). Also available online.

In Taiwan, prior to the petroleum industry liberalization starting from 1990, the whole petroleum market was highly regulated and monopoly. Since 90s, the first private owned gas station was built in 1997; the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation went public in September, 2000; the Petroleum Administration Law was implemented on October 13th, 2001; and almost all famous international petroleum businesses had plans to establish branches in Taiwan. As the result, the monopoly market gradually became more and more competitive during that period. The China Petroleum Corporation, one of the state-owned enterprises, was the only price leader in the market, and currently still has absolute influence. This research, therefore, is focus on how CPC adjusting its business strategies and marketing management while facing the intensive competition in this liberalizing market. The main findings are as follows: 1. Since the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation and other international petroleum companies joined into this competitive market, CPC has actively adopted much adjustment. However, the company and all staffs must try harder if they plan to keep 70% market share. 2. For future competition, CPC has adopted not only some defensive tactics to keep the current market shares, but also many aggressive strategies so that the company can continuously penetrate, expand, and diversify the new market . Moreover, CPC has asked its staffs to provide their best service in order to secure the client base and to improve the competence. In fact, those good business strategies really helped CPC increase its total sales and profits; or keep its current market shares at least. However, CPC still need to deploy some other marketing approaches such as to keep its cost down, to better off its service, and to train qualified staffs, so that the company can advance its competitive preference and diversify its marketing strategies as well. Keywords: petroleum industry liberalization, the Petroleum Administration Law, business strategies, and market share

This thesis examines the development of the concept of individual and collective self-defence as expressed in Article 51 of the UN Charter. In doing so, it will analyse the attempts to stretch the scope of the right of self-defence beyond the limits allowed under Article 51 and assess whether such attempts have undermined the Charter regime. The concept of self-defence is seen as part of a series of evolutionary attempts to limit the horrors of war by formulating criteria for the legitimacy of armed force. This study looks at the developments from the racial and religiously- motivated medieval concept of "Just War", and the "defensive" Islamic concept of Jihad, through arbitration and treaty between sovereign states, to the development of the legal doctrine of self-defence, subject to the criteria of necessity and proportionality, established in the Caroline case. The focus is on the modem development of the concept of self-defence in the UN era, has developed within the context of a global collective security system.However, the circumstances of its drafting left Article 51 with a number of ambiguities and inadequacies, which are explored with reference to illustrative examples from recent history. Attention is drawn to the nature and scope of the so-called "inherent right"; the difficulties surrounding the definitions of "armed attack" and "aggression" as events which activate the sight of self-defence; and the unforeseen burden placed on Article 51 as a result of the paralysing effect of the Cold War on the collective security system. A further development in recent years has been a trend to fit Article 51 to the scope of the post-colonial, post-Cold War era, by attempting to enlarge it, both temporally and spatially. The former leads to claims for various forms of anticipatory and retrospective defence; the latter to broader conceptions of the people, territory and governance system to be defended whereby the legal framework of Article 51 is made subject to political and humanitarian considerations. However well-intentioned, such trends would greatly increase the number of exceptions to the prohibition in Article 2(4) and open the door to misuse of the Article 51 provision thereby increasing the danger of threats to peace and security.Clearly, the 1945 conception of self-defence is no longer adequate to deal with the changing force of international relations. Article 51 must change; the question is whether it can do so within the spirit of its nature as an "emergency" response with value especially to weaker and third world nations.

This thesis examines the question of international responses to system criminality. It argues that the assignation of moral responsibility, expressed in the act of prosecuting individuals, expresses a fundamental conceptual shift towards an international polity. Although political rhetoric, the media and international legislation express the moral dimension of system criminality, the character of humanitarian law and the contingency of its operation is the most concrete indicator of such a development. The status of an embryonic international polity becomes particularly evident- with 'individual responsibility' being a criminally liable offence, as set against 'collective responsibility' which entails 'civil', (non-penal) liabilities. However, the principle of individual criminal responsibility, and therefore the expression of a nascent international polity, is by no means as well developed as it may appear because the moral consensus necessary to fully support this shift is still undeveloped. A thoroughly radical re-orientation to a potential international polity had not fully arrived with the Nuremberg Principles and a paucity of individual prosecutions for system crimes indicates the limits of this development. Nevertheless, the contribution to knowledge of this thesis lies in its finding that with the radical developments of criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court there has been a qualitative shift in the structure of international legal norms.

The problems that sex industry brings have existed in human¡¦s society for a long time without being eliminated. Except for some licensed prostitutes (sex workers), sex trading is prohibited in Taiwan by law. However, neglecting the impossibility of eliminating sex industry intentionally will lead to the encouragement of underground prostitution and related social problems of public security. After the Council of Grand Justices made the interpretation of No. 666, the Social Order Maintenance Act was amended allowing local government to set up and manage red light districts. It stipulates that any sex trade outside of the designated areas will be penalized, and sex trade inside the areas will be exempted from penalty. However, local governments are opposed to setting up the red light districts, which disillusion the expectation that disadvantage workers had to solve the difficulty they have encountered. Due to the considerable accounts of underground sex industry and scarcity of effective result of banning it, I want to analyze whether the problems are brought by the deficiency of the legal system and managing policy with this study. Based on the 5 major frameworks of administration law, including the legal principles, administrative organization, administrative authority, administrative remedy and administrative supervision, this study aims at analyzing the legal system of managing the sex industry in Taiwan. Through researching with the 5 major frameworks, the reason why sex industry can not be run like other industries has been found out. Due to the traditional and conservative perspective of the public, sex industry has been regarded as a low class industry without ethics, so that a comprehensive legal system of managing sex industry can not be made, let alone protecting the right to work, the right of equality and the right to exist of sex workers and the balanced development of sex industry. The legal system of managing sex industry has not been adhering to the principle of legal reservation. The ineffectiveness of the scale of administrative organization, the fuzzy space of administrative remedy, the scarcity and insufficiency of the design and practice of administrative authority and the undeveloped interior and exterior controlling function of administrative supervision are all left to be adjusted by the government and the society with a profound discussion and a comprehensive mechanism. Finally, based on the 5 major frameworks of administrative law, this study will provide comprehensive suggestions as followings. A. Manage sex industry with the believing of goodness of human nature. Regard this industry as a regular category and respect its equity right given by the Constitution. B. Learn from the effective managing method from abroad to decriminalize the trading relationship between customers and providers and also to ban the ¡§third party¡¨ for exploiting with strict regulations. C. Establish a managing law for sex industry with coherence in the nation and to regulate authorized local governments to manage the industry. D. Administrate by the managing concept of administrative guidance and administrative contract in lieu of administration with public power. E. Enforce regional cooperative administration with related organizations and its participation in the management of sex industry. F. Design administrative penalty which is awarding the good and punishing the bad with public announcement. G. Strengthen the opinion exchanging on the Internet for supervising the management and starting a quick and effective administrative remedy by public will and the responds of sex workers. H. Facilitate the managing system of interior controlling to prevent the abuse of administrative authority by imitating universities evaluation. Followed by the above-mentioned suggestions, an appropriate adjustment is expected to create a balanced environment and development for sex workers and sex industry.