Perceptions of juvenile confessions as a function of police report and questioning quality

Recent research has shown that mock jurors are sensitive to interrogation coerciveness and its relation to risk of false confessions in adults if they can see interrogation tactics used, but not if provided with a police report that omits these tactics (Kassin et al., 2017). The present study was designed to extend these findings to a juvenile confession case. The current study analyzed the effects of interrogation quality and type of evidence presented on mock jurors\u27 perceptions of a juvenile confession. Participants (N= 602) read a case in which coerciveness (highly vs slightly), police report type (accurate vs inaccurate vs no report), and interrogation transcript presence (present vs. not present) were manipulated. Regardless of coercion level or accuracy, police report presence led to more guilty verdicts. Consistent with prior studies of adult interrogations, results indicate that reading a police report significantly diminishes mock jurors’ capacity to critically analyze juvenile confessions

The First Step Toward the Future of Wearables in Rehabilitation

Tibial stress fractures are a major problem for runners and military athletes due to the high-intensity nature of their training. This injury is commonly treated through subjective measures including rest and management of symptoms that are evaluated by a therapist or trainer. With the advancement of technology such as inertial measurement units with accelerometers, clinicians may have the potential to provide an objective way to rehabilitate tibial stress fractures. Wearable technology is becoming more popular to be used in training but has not made it to rehabilitation yet. This study examines the validity of derived measures from the IMeasureU IMU compared to forces calculated from a validated 3D motion capture system during a running task. It was found that an IMU placed on the low back provided good to excellent correlations (0.776-0.972) between IMU derived measures and ground reaction and joint forces. Utilizing IMUs may provide clinicians with a tool to track loading over time, tailor protocols to individual athletes, and possibly heighten the rehabilitation process

Ptolemy: An instrument aboard the Rosetta lander Philae, to unlock the secrets of the solar system

Ptolemy is a miniature chemical analysis suite currently on board the ESA Rosetta comet lander Philae. This poster describes the operation of the instrument, and presents data generated thus far during a comprehensive ground testing programme

Evaluation of ddRADseq for reduced representation metagenome sequencing

Background. Profiling of microbial communities via metagenomic shotgun sequenc- ing has enabled researches to gain unprecedented insight into microbial community structure and the functional roles of community members. This study describes a method and basic analysis for a metagenomic adaptation of the double digest restriction site associated DNA sequencing (ddRADseq) protocol for reduced representation metagenome profiling. Methods. This technique takes advantage of the sequence specificity of restriction endonucleases to construct an Illumina-compatible sequencing library containingDNA fragments that are between a pair of restriction sites located within close proximity. This results in a reduced sequencing library with coverage breadth that can be tuned by size selection. We assessed the performance of the metagenomic ddRADseq approach by applying the full method to human stool samples and generating sequence data. Results. The ddRADseq data yields a similar estimate of community taxonomic profile as obtained from shotgun metagenome sequencing of the same human stool samples. No obvious bias with respect to genomic G + C content and the estimated relative species abundance was detected. Discussion. Although ddRADseq does introduce some bias in taxonomic representa- tion, the bias is likely to be small relative to DNA extraction bias. ddRADseq appears feasible and could have value as a tool for metagenome-wide association studies

"A perilous and terrible medicine": Milton and the Problem of Divorce in Protestant England

Although John Milton was one of the earliest writers to argue for no-fault, mutual consent divorce, his arguments engage with ideas about bad marriages already present in contemporary marriage literature. The Protestant Reformation stripped marriage of its sacramental status and fueled provision for fault divorce across converted European countries. However, shifting politics in England obstructed divorce legislation, and the Protestant country was left to grapple with indissoluble marriage laws similar to those supported by Catholicism. Contemporary marriage pamphlets published by clergymen and laymen alike give readers advice on how to choose a spouse, how to behave within a marriage, and how to prevent and treat marital discord. This study places Milton's divorce treatises alongside marriage pamphlets to demonstrate not only that Milton’s thoughts did not come from a vacuum, but that England could neither ignore nor satisfactorily respond to the question of divorce.Bachelor of Art

MARSIS remote sounding of localized density structures in the dayside Martian ionosphere:a study of controlling parameters

Enhanced topside electron densities in the dayside Martian ionosphere have been repetitively observed in areas of near-radial crustal magnetic fields, for periods of tens of days, indicating their long-term spatial and temporal stability despite changing solar wind conditions. We perform a statistical study of these density structures using the ionospheric mode of the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) onboard Mars Express. We estimate the apparent extents of these structures relative to the altitude of the surrounding ionosphere. The apex of the density structures often lies higher than the surrounding ionosphere (median vertical extent of 18 km), which indicates upwellings. These structures are much wider than they are high, with latitudinal scales of several degrees. The radar reflector regions are observed above both moderate and strong magnetic anomalies, and their precise locations and latitudinal extents match quite well with the locations and latitudinal extents of magnetic structures of given magnetic polarity (oblique to vertical fields), which happen to be regions where the field lines are open part of the time. The majority of the density structures occur in regions where ionospheric plasma is dominant, indicating closed field regions shielded from shocked solar wind plasm

Low CO/CO₂ ratios of comet 67P measured at the Abydos landing site by the <i>Ptolemy</i> mass spectrometer

Comets are generally considered to contain the best-preserved material from the beginning of our planetary system, although the mechanism of their formation and subsequent evolution are still poorly understood. Here we report the direct in situ measurement of H2O, CO, and CO2 by the Ptolemy mass spectrometer onboard the Philae lander, part of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, at the Abydos site of the Jupiter-family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A CO/CO2 ratio of around 0.07 ± 0.04 is found at the surface of the comet, a value substantially lower than the one measured by ROSINA in the coma. Such a major difference is a potential indication of heterogeneity of the nucleus and not of changes in the CO/CO2 ratio of the coma with radial distance

The Viability of Pop-Up Thrift Shops in Increasing Revenues for Goodwill Industries of Akron

The Honors Project in Business Administration course at The University of Akron (UA) College of Business (CoB), conducted September 2021 through May 2022, involved partnership with the local nonprofit Goodwill Industries of Akron (GIA) at the direction of Interim Dean of the CoB, Dr. Susan Hanlon. The purpose of this capstone project was to generate ideas and recommendations to GIA for a new, sustainable business unit, the revenue of which would cover the annual $250,000 operating cost of a new transportation support initiative to overcome GIA’s clients’ barriers to employment. During the secondary research phase of this project undertaken from September 2021 through December 2021, three options for a new business unit were explored: a childcare center business unit; a vocational services and training business unit; and a curated pop-up shop business unit. Ultimately, the latter-most option was chosen as the focus for primary research, as GIA already has high brand recognition for resale goods in the eyes of consumers and operational experience in clothing and accessory sales that they could capitalize on to target a key demographic willing to spend additional monies (found to be called the “creativist” thrift shopper) to sustain a profitable business unit. In this publication, authors Morgan Andrews, Casey Bachowski, Caitlin Croston, Zach Dunphy, and Weston Latham (“Contributor Consultants”) discuss the primary research process which led to arriving at the recommendation that GIA implement a Pop-Up Thrift Shop business unit to increase revenues

Orientation uncertainty reduces perceived obliquity

The influence of prejudice on perception should be greatest when certainty about stimulus identity is least. We exploited this relationship to reveal visual biases for the cardinal orientations: vertical and horizontal. Specifically, when we increased the variance of orientations in an array of grating patches, estimates of the mean became less oblique. This result is consistent with a stable prior, or prejudice, for those orientations most prevalent in natural scenes