UMD Theses and Dissertations
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Item Clerical Conduct Related to the Perpetuation of Child Sexual Abuse in Pennsylvania Catholic Dioceses: A Developing Framework(2019) Britto, Crystel; Roy, Kevin; Family Studies; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis reiterated that clericalism played a major role in the global Catholic sexual abuse crisis. Research has not been able to back this claim due to lack of data on cultural and structural elements that have contributed to the various crises. The present study aims to fill this gap in research by examining narratives regarding clerical sexual abuse and seeks to explore themes contributing to a framework of abuse. Qualitative data analysis was conducted by examining the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report of Pennsylvania, focusing on correspondence between various actors regarding 12 priests in Pennsylvania and their involvement in child sexual abuse. Using grounded theory with elements of narrative analysis, the study seeks to explore themes of belief, behavior and emotion of clergy between 1930-2016. The results provide insight into the nature of the Catholic Church’s involvement in the perpetuation of child sexual abuse.Item The Politics of Insurgency(2015) Gandy, Maegen; Quester, George; Government and Politics; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This dissertation introduces a new definition of insurgency for academic discourse. It argues that four components of a defined relationship framework must interoperate to satisfy organizational requirements and processes in order for an insurgency to achieve increasing levels of scale. From a systemic perspective, it presents a connective theory of constitutive and destructive mechanisms to assess why certain movements expand or ignite while others degrade or get stuck in a particular phase. The proposed perspective provides improved analytic leverage over existing phasing models. Chapter 1 introduces the scope and definition of the politics of insurgency. Chapter 2 presents academic, military, and legal perspectives of the phenomenon. Chapters 3 and 4 explain the limitations of existing insurgency models within the context of two historic case studies, the Chinese and Algerian Revolutions. Chapter 5 introduces the dissertation’s full phasing model. Chapters 6 and 7 present case studies to further elucidate the proposed relationship framework and composite phasing construct, assessing strengths and weaknesses in light of two comparable cases. The Chechen and Kosovar Albanian insurgencies provide insight and applied examples of the activities that occur within each phase. Chapter 8 then consolidates the findings and analysis from the case studies and assesses the viability of the phasing model as a usable tool to better comprehend insurgency behavior, movement scalability, and associated response options.Item Flexible and Efficient Control of Data Transfers for Loosely Coupled Components(2008-04-26) Wu, Shang-Chieh; Sussman, Alan; Computer Science; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Allowing loose coupling between the components of complex applications has many advantages, such as flexibility in the components that can participate and making it easier to model multiscale physical phenomena. To support coupling of parallel and sequential application components, I have designed and implemented a loosely coupled framework which has the following characteristics: (1) connections between participating components are separately identified from the individual components, (2) all data transfers between data exporting and importing components are determined by a runtime-based low overhead method (approximate match), (3) two runtime-based optimization approaches, collective buffering and inverse-match cache, are applied to speed up the applications in many common coupling modes, and (4) a multi-threaded multi-process control protocol that can be systematically constructed by the composition of sub-tasks protocols. The proposed framework has been applied to two real world applications, and the deployment approach and runtime performance are also studied. Currently the framework runs on x86 Linux clusters, and porting strategies for multicore x86 processors and advanced high performance computer architectures are also explored.