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Title: Soviet Russia: Promise or menace?.
Creator: Petersen, Arnold
Date Issued: 1940
Identifier: 2100306, CFDT2100306, ucf:4906
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100306

Title: British labor's rise to power.
Creator: Laidler, Harry Wellington
Date Issued: 1945
Identifier: 2100343, CFDT2100343, ucf:4911
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100343

Title: American workers need a labor party.
Creator: Hansen, Joseph
Date Issued: 1944
Identifier: 363251, CFDT363251, ucf:5278
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363251

Title: The virus of anarchy: Bakuninism vs. Marxism.
Creator: Petersen, Arnold, Johnson, Olive M. (Olive Malmberg)
Date Issued: 1932
Identifier: 369430, CFDT369430, ucf:5453
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369430

Title: THE IMPLICATIONS OF DOMESTIC PARTY IDEOLOGIES ON REFUGEE POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF BANGLADESH AND THE ROHINGYA.
Creator: Schiffer, Samuel S, Mirilovic, Nikola, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Why do some political parties in Bangladesh discriminate against the Rohingya, while some do not? Much has been written about the conflict in Myanmar, but the plight of Rohingya in Bangladesh remains understudied. This lack of understanding is underscored by the five million Syrian refugees fleeing their own civil war that dominates the news and the attention of scholars. The Rohingya, however, are stateless: they are denied citizenship in their native Myanmar and are forced to find refuge in...
Show moreWhy do some political parties in Bangladesh discriminate against the Rohingya, while some do not? Much has been written about the conflict in Myanmar, but the plight of Rohingya in Bangladesh remains understudied. This lack of understanding is underscored by the five million Syrian refugees fleeing their own civil war that dominates the news and the attention of scholars. The Rohingya, however, are stateless: they are denied citizenship in their native Myanmar and are forced to find refuge in whichever country will take them. Much has been published that links immigration policy to security considerations and the national identity and ethnic homogeneity of the host country. I argue that it is the domestic politics of Bangladesh that directly influences the policies concerning, and subsequent treatment of, the Rohingya migrants. This leads back to the question I pose: why is it that some political parties in Bangladesh actively support the ethnic group while others actively discriminate against the Rohingya? I argue that it is the individual ideologies of that party that can be directly attributed to their stance on Rohingya. Using qualitative analysis, I measure how a party's foreign policy, social policy, and political ideology affects that organization's attitude toward Rohingya refugees. Understanding the largely political nature of refugee policy will allow policy-makers, intergovernmental organizations, and human rights groups to be better equipped to improve the conditions of, not only the Rohingya population, but other vulnerable refugee groups that seek safety in foreign states.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFH2000307, ucf:45789
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000307

Title: The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I.
Creator: Gromoll, Michael, Crepeau, Richard, Murphree, Daniel, Solonari, Vladimir, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: ABSTRACTRecognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general strikes and their brash appeal. The group advocated tactics which, the organization believed, would strengthen the country's labor movement, which included (")dual unionism(") and a stance...
Show moreABSTRACTRecognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general strikes and their brash appeal. The group advocated tactics which, the organization believed, would strengthen the country's labor movement, which included (")dual unionism(") and a stance against politically affiliated groups. During a period of poor labor conditions and inadequate income with long working hours the United States experienced a swell of labor unions that looked to change the status quo. The IWW fought for industrial workers as opposed to craft workers, which meant the organization consisted of those who were rejected from craft union groups such as immigrant as well as ethnic workers. The creation of the IWW was a response to the monopoly the American Federation of Labor (AFL) held over the rest of the labor unions. As one of its primary qualities, the IWW separated itself from the AFL and other labor groups by enforcing its (")dual unionist(") stance, which prohibited any IWW member from infiltrating said labor unions. Towards the end of World War I the Bolshevik Party inside Russia overthrew the Tsar and the provisional government during the Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks then created a state in which the workers held control of the country. While the Communist ideology and the syndicalist beliefs of the IWW were not identical, leaders of the IWW saw the advantages of supporting Communism. However, the General Executive Board (GEB) of the IWW prohibited affiliation with the Communist Party, as the organization felt threatened by the party's attraction. Remaining firm in its stance as a (")dual unionist(") organization the IWW disassociated itself from the Communist Party. The inability for the GEB to compromise on tactics that could have potentially amalgamate the two groups shrank the organization. Former IWW members, such as Bill Haywood, William Z. Foster, and James P. Cannon left the IWW and joined the Communist Party with hopes of furthering America's labor movement. To better understand what life was like for labor activists in the early twentieth-century one has to see the progressions workers took to achieve their goals. In this case, (")history from above,(") represented by the three former IWW members already mentioned, (Haywood, Foster, and Cannon) shows how change was accomplished by the transition from one organization to another. The IWW was a change from previous labor groups in the 1900s and 1910s, but became stagnate as the organization refused to alternate the tactics it implemented. In order to establish a successful labor movement, collaboration was paramount, which, in turn, rejected the concept of (")dual unionism.(")
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: CFE0005953, ucf:50800
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005953

Title: The Communist Party: A manual on organization.
Creator: Peters, J.
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 368031, CFDT368031, ucf:5375
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/368031

Title: New opportunities in the fight for peace and democracy: Main report delivered at the National Conference of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
Creator: Stevens, Andrew
Date Issued: 1953
Identifier: 1745499, CFDT1745499, ucf:4783
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/1745499

Title: The McCarran conspiracy against the Bill of Rights: The Communist Party's answer to the charges of the Attorney-General under the McCarran Act.
Creator: Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1951
Identifier: 2683236, CFDT2683236, ucf:5049
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683236

Title: Program for survival: The Communist position on the Jewish question.
Creator: Bittelman, Alexander, Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: 359817, CFDT359817, ucf:5212
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/359817

Title: The people against the war-makers.
Creator: Browder, Earl, Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: c1940
Identifier: 370381, CFDT370381, ucf:5494
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370381

Title: America at the crossroads: Postwar problems and communist policy.
Creator: Dennis, Eugene
Date Issued: 1945
Identifier: 369655, CFDT369655, ucf:5468
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369655

Title: Program for survival: The Communist position on the Jewish question.
Creator: Bittelman, Alexander, Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: 340745, CFDT340745, ucf:5183
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/340745

Title: The revolutionary crisis is maturing.
Creator: Manuil'skii, Dmitrii Zakhar'evich
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 886193, CFDT886193, ucf:5604
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886193

Title: Moscow vs. Peking: The meaning of the great debate.
Creator: Novack, George Edward, Warde, William F. (pseudonym), Farber, Nathan
Date Issued: c1963
Identifier: 671327, CFDT671327, ucf:5543
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671327

Title: A CUP OF TEA: A STUDY OF THE TEA PARTY CAUCUS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Creator: Phillips, Stephen, Pollock, Philip, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Over the course of the last few years, a new movement has taken the American political system by storm, the Tea Party. The movement has not only captivated our media but also the minds of ordinary Americans and political elites. According to popular consensus and academic opinion, the Tea Party is comprised of a group of conservative-leaning Republicans who want a smaller government and a lesser tax burden. This is what we think of the Tea Party, but is it true? It is perceived that Tea Party...
Show moreOver the course of the last few years, a new movement has taken the American political system by storm, the Tea Party. The movement has not only captivated our media but also the minds of ordinary Americans and political elites. According to popular consensus and academic opinion, the Tea Party is comprised of a group of conservative-leaning Republicans who want a smaller government and a lesser tax burden. This is what we think of the Tea Party, but is it true? It is perceived that Tea Party members differ significantly from their Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives, but do they? Do they truly represent the Tea Party philosophy and agenda? By creating an original data set on the Republican members of the United States House of Representatives, and examining variables such as the political lean, economic and employment make-up of a member's district, their endorsements and incumbency, as well as high priority legislative votes from the 112th Congress, I will be able to investigate the characteristics and tendencies of Tea Party Caucus members. Once one looks at the 242 member House Republican Caucus and further examines the sixty members of the Tea Party Caucus, the data shows that Tea Party Caucus members largely originate from safe Republican districts and have served in previous congressional terms. Analysis shows that Tea Party Caucus members do vary significantly from their House Republican colleagues when examining their districts, but do not vary as considerably when examining their voting patterns.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: CFH0004151, ucf:44851
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004151

Title: Anti-capitalism in the Contemporary Age: The Case of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Creator: Maddens, William, Marien, Daniel, Jacques, Peter, Hamann, Kerstin, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the popularity of anti-capitalist parties around the world has fallen. However, there are still surviving anti-capitalist political parties that survived this fall. In examining these parties, it must be determined whether they have any fresh ideas to overcoming the challenges of transitioning to a socialist society, and if they have any answers to the problems that plagued past attempts at socialism. One such party that has enjoyed much...
Show moreSince the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the popularity of anti-capitalist parties around the world has fallen. However, there are still surviving anti-capitalist political parties that survived this fall. In examining these parties, it must be determined whether they have any fresh ideas to overcoming the challenges of transitioning to a socialist society, and if they have any answers to the problems that plagued past attempts at socialism. One such party that has enjoyed much electoral success is the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. When taking a look at party programs, platforms, and statements made by party leaders, it does not appear that this party has made any conscious goal to answer the questions posed by previous attempts to transition away from capitalism, nor do they appear to answer criticisms posed by scholars on the subject. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela seems to have failed to learn from history.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFE0007221, ucf:52218
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007221

Title: SIMULATION FOR COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE THIRD PARTY TESTER TESTING.
Creator: Truong, Henry, Lin, Kurt, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: The advance of technology is thought to help ease the myriad tasks that are usually involved in operating equipment. Training and testing in modern times have been replacing with simulation technologies that mimic the actual live operations and testing. Many successful stories of flight simulation come from military fighter aircraft and commercial pilot programs. The possibilities of safety in saving lives, economic incentive in reducing the operational cost and reducing the carbon footprint...
Show moreThe advance of technology is thought to help ease the myriad tasks that are usually involved in operating equipment. Training and testing in modern times have been replacing with simulation technologies that mimic the actual live operations and testing. Many successful stories of flight simulation come from military fighter aircraft and commercial pilot programs. The possibilities of safety in saving lives, economic incentive in reducing the operational cost and reducing the carbon footprint via simulation makes simulation worth looking into. These considerations quickly boosted the transfer from live training operations to virtual and simulation, as were easily adopted in the history of flight training and testing. Although, there has been a lack of application, the benefits of the computer based simulation as a modeling and simulation (M&S) tool can be applied to the commercial driver license (CDL) for the trucking industry. Nevertheless, this is an uphill battle to convince CDL administrators to integrate modern technology into the CDL program instead of using the traditional daily business of manual testing. This is because the cost of trucking industry live operations is still relatively affordable; individuals and companies are reluctant to adopt the use of the modeling and simulation driving or testing system. Fortunately, cost is not the only variable to consider for the training and testing administrators and their management. There is a need to expand the use of technology to support live operations. The safety of the student, trainer, and tester should be taken into account. The availability of training or testing scenarios is also an influencing factor. Ultimately, the most important factor is driving safety on the American road. The relationship of accidents with driver license fraud has led the Federal Department of Transportation to want to reduce fraud in third-party Commercial Driver License (CDL) administration. Although it is not a perfect solution that can fix all, the utilization of simulation technologies for driving assessment could be a solution to help reduce fraud if it is applied correctly. The Department of Transportation (DOT) authorized the statesÃ‚Â' independent authority to administrate the local CDL including the use of the Third-Party Tester (TPT). As a result, some criminal activities prompted the Federal investigation to recommend changes and to fund the states to take action to stay in compliance with the Federal regulation. This is the opportunity for the state CDL administrator to explore the use of M&S to support its mission. Recall, those arguments for the use of the M&S is the thought of safety in saving lives, economic incentive in reducing the operational cost, and reducing the carbon footprint via using simulation. This makes simulation a viable resource. This paper will report the research study of using the computer based testing modeling and simulation tools to replace or augment the current state examiner as means of assessing the CDL TPT proficiency in basic backing skills. This pilot study of this system has several aspects to address. The scenarios must be relevant to test the knowledge of the TPT by using closely comparable scenarios to the current manual testing method. The scenario-based simulation should incorporate randomness to provide a greater sense of reality. In addition, the reconfigurable built-in random behavior scenarios provide the administrator greater control of behaviors and allow the administrator to be able to select among the random scenarios. Finally, the paper will present the data sampling from relevant participants of the CDL TPT and methodology applied. The analysis of data presents in this research study will be valuable for the State and Federal CDL administrator to consider the pros and cons of applying or adding a computer based simulation to their current testing methodology.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: CFE0003222, ucf:48577
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003222

Title: Novel Computational Methods for Integrated Circuit Reverse Engineering.
Creator: Meade, Travis, Zhang, Shaojie, Jin, Yier, Orooji, Ali, Zou, Changchun, Lin, Mingjie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Production of Integrated Circuits (ICs) has been largely strengthened by globalization. System-on-chip providers are capable of utilizing many different providers which can be responsible for a single task. This horizontal structure drastically improves to time-to-market and reduces manufacturing cost. However, untrust of oversea foundries threatens to dismantle the complex economic model currently in place. Many Intellectual Property (IP) consumers become concerned over what potentially...
Show moreProduction of Integrated Circuits (ICs) has been largely strengthened by globalization. System-on-chip providers are capable of utilizing many different providers which can be responsible for a single task. This horizontal structure drastically improves to time-to-market and reduces manufacturing cost. However, untrust of oversea foundries threatens to dismantle the complex economic model currently in place. Many Intellectual Property (IP) consumers become concerned over what potentially malicious or unspecified logic might reside within their application. This logic which is inserted with the intention of causing harm to a consumer has been referred to as a Hardware Trojan (HT).To help IP consumers, researchers have looked into methods for finding HTs. Such methods tend to rely on high-level information relating to the circuit, which might not be accessible. There is a high possibility that IP is delivered in the gate or layout level. Some services and image processing methods can be leveraged to convert layout level information to gate-level, but such formats are incompatible with detection schemes that require hardware description language.By leveraging standard graph and dynamic programming algorithms a set of tools is developed that can help bridge the gap between gate-level netlist access and HT detection. To help in this endeavor this dissertation focuses on several problems associated with reverse engineering ICs. Logic signal identification is used to find malicious signals, and logic desynthesis is used to extract high level details.Each of the proposed method have their results analyzed for accuracy and runtime. It is found that method for finding logic tends to be the most difficult task, in part due to the degree of heuristic's inaccuracy. With minor improvements moderate sized ICs could have their high-level function recovered within minutes, which would allow for a trained eye or automated methods to more easily detect discrepancies within a circuit's design.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: CFE0006896, ucf:51716
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006896

Title: Institutional vs. Non-Institutional Sources of Presidential Influence: Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations in the Age of Polarization.
Creator: Culp, Derek, Ilderton, Nathan, Lanier, Drew, Houghton, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This thesis examines the determinants of presidential success with Congress. Seven essential sources of presidential power in the current era of party polarization were derived from the extant literature, and these factors were delineated into the institutional (formal) and non-institutional (informal) policymaking tools of the presidency. Variables that explain presidential legislative success include: intraparty support in Congress, the use of veto bargaining, executive orders and signing...
Show moreThis thesis examines the determinants of presidential success with Congress. Seven essential sources of presidential power in the current era of party polarization were derived from the extant literature, and these factors were delineated into the institutional (formal) and non-institutional (informal) policymaking tools of the presidency. Variables that explain presidential legislative success include: intraparty support in Congress, the use of veto bargaining, executive orders and signing statements (institutional factors); as well as public approval, 'going public,' and strategic lobbying of Congress (non-institutional factors). Case studies of the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush analyze the role of these policymaking tools in four key legislative battles of each presidency. Regression models were constructed to test the effect of these variables on presidential legislative success. The case studies elucidate the relationship between non-institutional factors and their subsequent impact on key presidential policy priorities, particularly the interaction between public approval and going public. Findings indicate a positive relationship between a president's strategic bargaining ability with Congress and subsequent legislative success. Findings also show no significant relationship between intraparty support and presidential success when focusing on only key legislative battles between the executive and legislative branches, contrary to the findings of prior research. Future research might examine the various relationships between these policymaking tools and how they affect the nature of presidential power in the current era of heightened party polarization and ideological homogeneity.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFE0004832, ucf:49705
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004832

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