Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Nurse education. The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Designing the Curriculum for a Minor in Cyber Criminology

Abstract: We are living in an age of growing cyber crime and the costs associated with it. With more and more people and devices being connected through the Internet, there are plenty of opportunities for new kinds of criminal activity as the Internet provides cyber criminals with anonymity and global reach. According to the FBI, in 2018 the Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3) [1] received 351,936 complaints with total losses exceeding $2.7 billion. The threat of cyber crime is real and pertinent when the Internet is intertwined with our everyday lives. We must prepare today’s undergraduate students, tomorrow’s future workforce, to fight this growing threat of cyber crime. If we do not prepare today, we will be vulnerable tomorrow. This paper details our experiences in developing and implementing an interdisciplinary minor in Cyber Criminology. The minor is designed for students who are interested in learning about cyber crime from the dual perspectives of computer science and criminal justice.

Muhammad and the jews according to ibn ishaq

Abstract: This paper examines the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, shedding light on one component of the Islamic tradition, namely, the earliest extant biography of the Prophet Muhammad, the Sirat Rasul Allah, or The Life of the Prophet of God by Ibn Ishaq (d.767 CE.)

Song discrimination by male Mourning Warblers ( Geothlypis philadelphia ) and implications for population divergence across the breeding range

Abstract: Geographic variation in song may reduce or eliminate the ability of some populations to recognize each other as conspecifics, possibly leading to assortative mating, reproductive isolation, and speciation Song playback experiments, used to evaluate the significance of geographic variation in song, have been particularly useful in discovering divergence among previously unknown populations of sibling species In this study, I report the results of song playback to male Mourning Warblers ( Geothlypis philadelphia ) from populations throughout the breeding range and discuss the implications for population divergence Four regions in the breeding range contain unique song types or regiolects: western, eastern, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland Results of reciprocal song playback experiments showed that males from the western and Newfoundland regiolects respond more aggressively to songs in their own regiolect than those in the other regiolects Interior populations, ie, eastern and Nova Scotia regions, showed little or no difference in aggressive response toward their own versus other regiolects This pattern may be due to a combination of geographic proximity of populations belonging to different regiolects, song learning, experience, and contact during migration Song discrimination by populations from the western Prairie Provinces and Newfoundland is consistent with the existence of at least partial reproductive isolation at the geographic extremes of the breeding range

Daoism and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Bioethics

Abstract: Daoism does not find anything objectionable in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Bioethics, but the rationale for the rights are quite different with the result that some of the articles will need elaboration. This argument attempts to demonstrate two conclusions: (1) All people are manifestations of the Dao and therefore have rights. Ziran, a person’s inviolable place in the Dao, is the basis for a Daoist discussion of human rights. (2) The Daoist body, as a cosmic body, brings together the rights of the individual with the well-being of the community and cosmos. For this reason, individual rights must be understood as being conjoined with individual duties, especially in the realm of health and medicine.

What is Right About the Contra-Life Argument Against Contraception?*:

Abstract: The contra-life argument against contraception by Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William May maintains that contraception is always and everywhere morally wrong because it involves a contra-life choice to impede new human life. This article develops four problems that people might have with the contra-life argument and then shows that none of those problems undercut the argument. The most serious problem is that the contra-life argument seems to fail to show adequately what is wrong with impeding new human life, and this article neutralizes that problem by showing that choices to impede new human life are wrong because they involve unreasonable self-preference. Finally, this article shows that the moral character of contraceptive use for non-contraceptive reasons is often difficult to determine.