Vice President Research Articles

State Institutional Format in the Constitution of 1945 After Amendment: Political and Legal Perspectives

This research discusses the state institutional format in the Constitution of 1945 after the amendment. Since the Constitution 1945 had four changes from 1999 to 2022, so need to know what implications for all state institutions. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land in the Indonesian legal system, which was used as the basis for all social practice, nation, and state. This research used a normative approach in which the formation of the state is in accordance with its designation or not. The study of the content used normative juridical or doctrinal methods. This study found that the third and fourth amendments to the 1945 Constitution established three new institutions, namely the DPD, the Constitutional Court (MK) and the Judicial Commission, while the Supreme Consultative Council was abolished. With amendments to the 1945 Constitution, the MPR is no longer the highest institution. Likewise, changes in the constitutional system. These changes cover the government system (the President and Vice President as one leading institution), the representative system (MPR consisting of the DPR and DPD), and the justice system (MA and MK). The reformed format for organizing state institutions in the 1945 Constitution applies a system of enhancing power and the principle of checks and balances between state institutions, as in democratic countries.

Message from Vice President, Indian Psychiatric Society.

Message from Vice President, Indian Psychiatric Society.

Understanding Kenyan Politics: The Case of Deputy Presidency from 1963 to 2022

According to Kenyan Constitution (2010, Section 147), the duties of the Deputy President (previously Vice President) include assisting the President with administrative tasks, representing the President in international forums, and filling any vacancies that may occur in the event that the current President passes away, is impeached, or is found guilty. The Deputy President is thus the second-highest political official in Kenya. Hence, the Vice President is Kenya’s second-highest elected office. He or she is the President’s assistant. Yet, since independence, there have consistently been disputes in Kenya between the State Presidents who have led the country successively and their deputies. This article attempts at finding the root that defines the disputes. The article also argues that while the Kenyans changed their constitution in 2010, the issue did not improve, instead, it became worse since the Deputy President is now being protected by the constitution from being dismissed by the President. Thus, continued friction has a serious impact on the lives of ordinary people. The article is hinged on desk review and some insights observed by the author as an “outsider” who resided in that country. The article is a modification of the essay developed and shared in public through the author’s blog in 2022 as Kenya prepared for its general elections. The feedback received from the readers further shaped the article in its current form. The article takes a historical approach as it tracks the key events from 1963 to 2022 with regard to the two offices in Kenya. It concludes that the problem emanated from ambitious deputies but was also amplified by the insecurities felt by the successive Presidents. The article recommends a review of the constitution to allow members of the public to decide on the fate of a deputy president in extreme cases.

The role of Thomas Jefferson's political activity in the history of American statehood.

The subject of the study is the results, results and consequences of the political activity of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, considered one of the founding fathers of the United States. The first American president to hold the posts of Secretary of State, Vice President and President of the United States successively. The article examines the political ideas of Jefferson, who was one of the first political figures who spoke and justified the idea of separating its North American colonies from Great Britain. His political ideas and decisions as a statesman and politician were timely and brought much benefit to his country. As the author of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, he made a huge contribution to the creation of the United States. Its adoption meant the formation of a new state - the United States. For him, the principles of the declaration were to create a free American state based on the principles of democracy and civil liberty. The Declaration defined the social and legal status of a person in society. Declaring the people the only source of power, she put them on a par with the great ideologists of the Enlightenment. As Ambassador to France, he managed to secure a number of trade agreements with European countries. His merits as president undoubtedly lie in the acquisition of Louisiana and the establishment of diplomatic relations with Russia, as well as the pacification of relations with Great Britain.

Envisioning a Better Future: An Interview with American Institute of Architects CEO Lakisha Woods

Lakisha Woods, the new CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and William J. Bates, FAIA, NOMA, current National Trust Board Member and 2019 AIA President explore the design and construction industry's efforts to make practices more sustainable and equitable. Ms. Woods shares the AIA's strategic priorities and how it views the preservation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings as "climate action."

New Year Editorial 2023

DEAR readers, happy 2023! I have recently been elected as the Vice President for Publications for the CAS Society for the 2023–2024 term. Because of that I am unable to complete my term as EiC, which would have otherwise elapsed on 31 December 2023. We are lucky to have two outstanding leaders, Alison Burdett and Nicole Mcfarlane, presently serving as Associate Editors-in-Chief (AEiC). The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) has formally appointed Nicole Mcfarlane to serve as the IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS) Editor-in-Chief for the 2023 calendar year and I am glad that she accepted to work in this capacity. I have no doubts that Nicole will carry her new appointment flawlessly and I wish her all the best.

Inaugural Editorial. Can We Achieve Our Mission: Fast, Accessible, Cutting-edge, and Top-quality?

We are pleased to launch the first issue of the New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science (NEJSDS). NEJSDS is the official journal of the New England Statistical Society (NESS) under the leadership of Vice President for Journal and Publication and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut. The aims of the journal are to serve as an interface between statistics and other disciplines in data science, to encourage researchers to exchange innovative ideas, and to promote data science methods to the general scientific community. The journal publishes high quality original research, novel applications, and timely review articles in all aspects of data science, including all areas of statistical methodology, methods of machine learning, and artificial intelligence, novel algorithms, computational methods, data management and manipulation, applications of data science methods, among others. We encourage authors to submit collaborative work driven by real life problems posed by researchers, administrators, educators, or other stakeholders, and which require original and innovative solutions from data scientists.

The US Congress 118th: a Gender Portrait

Senator Patty Murray of Washington was solemnly sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris in the Old Senate Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 3, 2023, in front of Murray's husband, Rob Murray. She became the first woman to temporarily become President of the Senate. The episode is like a historical symbol of the conquest of heights of power by American women in the first quarter of the 21st century: a duet of American women perform a "routine" action in the procedure for transferring power. The American press, not without reason, interprets the results of the election of women to various levels during the 2022 midterm elections as “new records”. The 118th US Congress (2022-2024) has a record number of women. The point of view that it was the issue of abortion that helped "limit the losses of the Democrats" in the last election cycle was widely accepted among specialists. The Supreme Court's dismissal of Roe v. Wade has placed abortion at the center of the election debate, along with the economy, inflation and immigration. The election took place amid a global financial downturn and a notable rise in the cost of living in the United States. In addition, they are the first since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The Democrats retained control of the Senate. The Republican Party won a majority in the House of Representatives. In thinking about expanding the political power and representation of American women, it is necessary to consider the barriers to women's retention in office and how to remove those barriers, recognizing the full range of diversity among them—and, in particular, the diversity of their political experiences and opportunities—in political institutions. The gubernatorial level of power demonstrates the same trend. Nearly a quarter of all US governors are women. Moreover, there are twice as many women democrats among them. In total, 12 American women occupy this level of office: 8 of them are Democrats, 4 - Republicans.

Cleaning Up After Covid: Hotel Staffing During the Great Resignation

Ben Hom sat at his desk at McKibbon Hospitality’s Tampa corporate office. He waited for his meeting with the Regional Vice President of Operations (RVPO), who oversaw the Tampa market to discuss the 2023 budget for his 10 hotels. The RVPO feared that staffing shortages and labor costs would wreck his budgets again, as they had in 2022. Hom knew that labor costs were the second most significant variable in the budget, behind revenue, and getting anything close to accurate seemed impossible. Hom understood the RVPO’s frustration and knew similar concerns were echoing across the company. The labor force that the industry had relied upon for decades had evaporated. What worked before Covid-19 was no longer effective. Hom contemplated his options for reliable and lower-cost housekeeping staff and the best solution to this problem. Hom was Vice President of Human Resources at McKibbon Hospitality, a third-party hotel management company with 100 hotels in eight states encompassing 23 brands and 13 ownership groups (Exhibit 1). The term "Great Resignation" was coined as a systemic labor shortage resulting from resignations from current jobs or not returning to a previous position discarded because of the lower demand due to Covid-19 restrictions. Since Covid-19, hourly labor costs had escalated rapidly and varied drastically across the portfolio. There was an industry-wide labor shortage, especially for Housekeeping. Also, due to the “Great Resignation,” recruiting and retaining quality hourly associates was incredibly competitive. Hom was acutely aware of the problems and had several potential solutions to the staffing challenges. Raising starting salaries would have aided recruiting but would have reduced profit margins. Foreign workers with H2B visas could have provided needed recruits at the government-defined prevailing wage in each market, typically lower than the market wage. Staffing companies could have been used as needed but included a 30-50% premium cost. Hom also wondered if there was a way to invest in analytics and technology to disrupt the historical labor model. While solving the staffing problem was necessary for his managers, Hom also had to satisfy the goals of McKibbon’s client, the hotel owner, to deliver high-profit margins using data-driven solutions, as this was key to the company’s continued growth.

(Im)politeness Strategies Used in Vice -Presidential Candidates Debate Between Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris

Politeness is necessary for the way people socialize. However, some people choose to communicate impolitely despite knowing that it’s inappropriate. This study aims to find out how people use impoliteness strategies in communication, and identify the impoliteness strategies used in the Vice-Presidential United States of Amerika candidates debate between Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris on October 8th, 2020, while also figuring out the purpose of using these strategies in the debate. For this reason, to identify the use of impoliteness strategies, the researcher used Jonathan Culpeper's (2005) theory of impoliteness strategies and a qualitative approach to analyze the data. The data was taken from a YouTube video entitled “Full Debate: Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris | WSJ” posted by the Wall Street Journal on October 8, 2020. The results of this study revealed that four out of five impolite strategies were used, with negative impoliteness as the most commonly used strategy. The other four strategies are bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and sarcasm and mock politeness. Meanwhile, withholding politeness was never used in the debate.

International Law and the Regulation of Cyberoperations Below the Jus Ad Bellum Threshold. An Irish Cybersecurity Perspective

Josep Borrell, Vice President of the European Commission, set out his fears that the EU was at risk of being “always principled but seldom relevant” (2021, p. 2). International law could be said to be similarly threatened, particularly in relation to cyberoperations, in respect of which its application has been strongly challenged. While states now broadly agree that international law applies in cyberspace, how it applies remains uncertain and contested. This paper analyses why the application of international law to cyberspace has been so fraught with difficulties and considers whether international law can provide the Irish State with a means of enhancing its cybersecurity and deterring state-led cyberoperations below the threshold of armed conflict. The paper finds that the application of international law in cyberspace is problematic due to the manifestation of cyberoperations below the jus ad bellum threshold, and the challenging geopolitical environment that inhibits agreement on the principles of the international law of cyberoperations. International law is an object of dispute (Delerue, Douzet, & Gery, 2020, p. 15) and arguments on the application of international law in cyberspace represent states’ strategic positions in the evolving geopolitical power struggle. The paper finds that, as cyberoperations are transnational, unilateral responses cannot be effective, and that small states have an interest in promoting international law and norms to create a more favourable international environment. The paper concludes that, as international law continues to exert a normative force on state behaviour, it has the potential to regulate sub-threshold cyberoperations as part of the comprehensive approach to cybersecurity.

“Debussy Garden” by Andrey Zolotov

The publication is dedicated to the two-volume work of the renowned Russian art critic, Academician, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Professor Andrei Andreevich Zolotov, titled “Debussy`s Garden: Epic Moments from the Life of Art. A Critic`s Book. In 2 Parts” (Moscow: Progress-Tradition, 2021) and includes fragments of statements about the “Debussy Garden” by Russian art critics and artists – S.N. Biryukov, M.M. Verholantsev, M.V. Vyazhevich, A.G. Gacheva, A.N. Inshakov, L.V. Kazakova, E.M. Levashev, V.A. Lenyashin, E.D. Martynovskaya, G.A. Pozhidaeva, D.O. Shvidkovsky, K.A. Shcherbakov, A.K. Jakimovicz.

Proceedings of the 3rd Indian Cancer Genome Atlas Conference 2022: Biobanking to Omics: Collecting the Global Experience.

On January 13th and 14th 2022, the Center for Translational Cancer Research organized the virtual third Indian Cancer Genome Atlas (ICGA) Conference 2022 "Biobanking to Omics - Collecting the Global Experience." This conference was planned as the steppingstone to help ICGA understand the road ahead and the probable roadblocks in its preparatory phase as ICGA begins to streamline the tumor tissue biobanking and multi-omics efforts in the Indian subcontinent. The first day of the conference was dedicated to updates on the current status of ICGA, the future prospect, and the global understanding of multi-omics efforts. The key highlights included two keynote speeches by Dr Wui Jin Koh, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Office, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and by Dr Christina Curtis, Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine. The first day ended with an intriguing panel discussion on "ICGA updates and Future Steps." The second day focused on biobanking practices across the globe and several aspects of biobank setup such as infrastructure, maintenance, quality control, patient consent, and lessons learned from established biobanking setups. The talk by Rosita Kammler, Head, Translational Research Coordination, International Breast Cancer Study Group, Switzerland, and Ruhul Amin, Director, Bangladesh Medical Research Council were the key highlights. The second day also ended with an engaging panel discussion on "Tumor tissue biobanking - national and international perspectives." Overall, the conference was well received and had good attendance from national and international students, researchers, and faculty from academia as well as industry.

미국령(U.S. Territory) 주민들의 연방 선거권

The United States is a federal state, which means the Federal Constitution distributes legislative and executive power between the federal government and the state governments. In this regard, the Federal Constitution states that the right of election for the members of the House of Senate and the House of Representative, as well as the President and the Vice President is vested in each states. The electoral college system is a result of the constitutional determination, and its premise is the citizens of the United States are primarily the members of each states. However, this very design has created an alignation of the U.S. territory residents. Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Samoa, etc, are not states according to the Federal Constitution, therefore their residents are not subject to the right to vote for the federal representatives. Futhermore residents who were originally residents of a state but have moved to a U.S. territory are also deprived of such right, for they are no longer members of any state.
 The denial of the right to vote on federal level for the U.S. territory residents is largely supported by the decisions of the U.S. federal and district courts. The “Insular Cases” set up “Incorporation Doctrine”, which situated the right to vote as artificial or remedial right. Throughout the 20th century, the right to vote has clearly been considered as the fundamental right, yet the territorial residents’ right to vote for the federal representatives has taken as a privilege that can be neglected. Particularly, the issue of violation of equal protection on the matter of territorial residents who originally resided in a state, has consistently been ignored, as the courts overlooked the inherent legislative flaw of UOCAVA.
 The denial of the territorial residents’ right to vote for the federal representatives is problematic on two levels. For one, it contradicts the interpretation of the U.S Supreme Court on the right to vote, thus threatening its legitimacy. On another note, the territorial residents become repudiated as second class citizens, which leads to the negligence of the federal government’s duty to create an environment where all members are equally respected, posing questions on the relevance of the institution.

From Shaking Hands to [Shaking] Elbows: Hadith Reviewed From The Theory of Maqashid Syaria in Indonesia’s Covid-19 Period

This article discusses the shifting of hadith eyes while shaking hands and the phenomenon of changing the practice of shaking hands to elbow greetings initiated by the Indonesian government in 2020. Sri Mulyani (Minister of Finance) and Ma'ruf Amin (Vice President) practiced how to shake hands during the Corona Virus outbreak with elbow greetings, considering Indonesia occupies the first position in the spread of Coronavirus in Southeast Asia. The elbow greeting is opposed to the Sunnah, and the Prophet Muhammad taught his people to shake hands by shaking hands by the hadith of the Prophet narrated by Abu Daud. This paper uses the qualitative descriptive method of Maqashid Sharia theory, namely contextualizing verses with social conditions, which aims to find benefits and reduce harm in Indonesian society. The results of research using Maqashid Sharia theory in the phenomenon of elbow greeting practice have not been well elaborated so the practice of elbow greetings has not been able to minimize the spread of the Corona Virus in Indonesia with positive koban data and deaths continue to increase. The criteria for goodness and mudharatan in changing the practice of shaking hands to elbow greetings were not met, considering that there are some more important and precarious 'uzur elements that are not implemented by the Indonesian government.

“YUK NABUNG SAHAM” Antara Untung dan Buntung Deteksi Dini dengan ICHIMOKU

Yuk Nabung Saham (YNS) is a campaign to invite the public as potential investors to invest in the capital market by buying stocks regularly and periodically. This campaign is intended to change the habits of the Indonesian people from the habit of saving to investing, so that the Indonesian people begin to move f om a saving society to an investment society. Since the Yuk Nabung Saham campaign was launched on the 12 November 2015 by the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia Mr. Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, it turned out that the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) was able to encourage an increase in the number of investors including millennial investors. Based on IDX data, the number of single investor identification (SID) at the end of 2020 increased by 1.39 million, a jump of 61% compared to the end of 2019. So that the number of SID increased from 2.4 million to 3.88 million. In fact, as of 4 February 2021, the number of SIDs on the capital market has exceeded 4.1 million. In this regard, people who have chosen the capital market as a medium for saving, however, need to be enlightened about the need for indicators to be used to anticipate whether stock savings will increase or vice versa. Deep downtrend conditions have an impact on the risk of eroding the value of stock deposits so that you must take cut-loss steps as soon as possible so that the losses will deepen. For this reason, the team of lecturers, through community service activities in collaboration with DEKOPINDA, gave a webinar with the title "Let's Save Stocks", between the advantages and disadvantages of early detection with ICHIMOKU.

The Concept of Impeachment in The Indonesia's Constitutional System From The Perspective of Fiqh Siyasah

This study discusses the Siyasah Fiqh Review of the concept of Impeachment in the Indonesian State Administration. The aim is to find out and understand the mechanism for impeachment/dismissal of the President or Vice President in Indonesia's constitutional system as stipulated in Articles 7 a and 7 b of the 1945 Constitution and the fiqh siyasa perspective on these rules. This research belongs to normative legal research that uses normative, juridical, and historical approaches. Data were collected using literary techniques, then analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. The results of this study indicate that the practice of impeaching the President in the past occurred more often due to political issues, namely the disputes between the legislature and the executive regarding the issue that the President had violated the law. In the past two impeachment proceedings, there has been no precise regulation regarding the impeachment mechanism of the President in the country's Constitution. After the amendment, the issue of impeachment was adopted in Articles 7A and 7B of the 1945 Constitution. Article 7A limits the grounds for impeachment, while Article 7B complicates impeachment by the presence of a judicial institution. From the perspective of Fiqh,siyasa, the head of State's impeachment can be carried out if it meets the criteria and reasons that Syara has determined'

The dialectics of hope and critique: Reflections on Colombia's new government

A year ago, many would have considered the idea of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez becoming the President and the Vice President of Colombia a delirium in a country with 200 years of right-wing political domination. In this contention piece, we reflect on critical points of their government's agenda, some of its challenges, and their strategies to face them. To do that, we draw from the election's extensive press coverage and our own experience as scholar-activists in Colombia and the United States. We also combine our interdisciplinary analytical lenses (Sociology, Philosophy, Feminist Political Ecology, and Critical Race Feminism) to shed light on the complexity of this current political conjecture, the interplay between hope and despair, and the general affective politics that traverses our understanding.

Supporting Students with Disabilities to be Successful in an Online Learning Environment

This study examined the factors that contributed to students with disabilities’ positive and challenging experiences transitioning to remote learning in the spring 2020 semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic at a small, two-year community college located in the Midwestern United States. The study administered a confidential survey to students with disabilities to learn about their positive and challenging experiences and concluded with an interview with the Vice President for Academic Affairs to gain additional insight into the college’s timeline and transition procedures to remote learning. This study discovered both positive and challenging experiences with remote learning for students with disabilities. The positive experiences were comfort with the learning management software Blackboard, ease of access to grades, instructor helpfulness with accommodations, and images and video instructional materials utilized in their courses. The challenges discovered were related to faculty and peer communication, testing services, confidence with remote learning, and lack of knowledge about Student Accessibility Services. The data concluded that students diagnosed with a mental health disability were less aware of Student Accessibility Services than students with other disabilities. The recommendations outlined in this study will help higher education institutions, faculty, and student Accessibility Services Offices design effective approaches in supporting students with disabilities’ accommodation needs when taking online courses.

Make diversity, bias training a positive experience

LAS VEGAS — “This is a training about how to make diversity training and bias training palatable to law enforcement,” Lewis Eakins, Ph.D., CPP, Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, said. Eakins spoke at the recent annual conference for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.