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No Child Left Confined: Challenging the Digital Convict Lease
The following is a lightly edited transcript of comments provided at the Journal of Health Care Law & Policyâs Spring Symposium entitled âUneasy Alignments: The Mental Health Turn in The American Legal System.â This event was hosted on March 16, 2023, by University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Social Workâs Daniel Thursz Social Justice Lecture Series. The Symposium examined how legal systems, like child welfare and juvenile law institutions, use coercion to force engagement or compliance with often unproven therapeutic interventions. The presentation took on the question of how the negative impacts of this turn manifest in the home. The lecture centers on the use of digital surveillance technologies, like electronic ankle monitors, by juvenile courts as presumed rehabilitative tools and alternatives to incarceration. It argues that not only is electronic monitoring ineffective as a therapeutic intervention toward adequate adolescent development, but also it leads to a marginalization that severs youth from the community ties necessary for growth. The lecture concludes that a critical race and technology approach is useful for understanding how this practice feeds an expanding data economy that exploits poor families of color under the premise of contributing to public health and public safety
Casino Royale and Franchise Remix: James Bond as Superhero
The article discusses the role of the film Casino Royale in remixing the James Bond franchise. The author believes that the remixed Bond franchise has shifted its genre to a superhero franchise. When Sony acquired MGM in 2004, part of its plan was to transform the 007 franchise at par with Spiderman. The remixed franchise re-aligns its franchise criteria with those established by superhero films. The author cites Casino Royale\u27s narrative structure as an example of the success of the film as franchise remixed for the future. The portrayal of Bond as a superhero by actor Daniel Craig is discussed
Particle Size Distribution of Gypseous Samples
Particle size distribution (PSD) of gypseous soils is important in the soil science community. When gypsum constitutes a major portion of the soil, its removal prior to PSD analysis distorts the results and may lead to textures that do not relate to conditions in the field. In order to understand the true characterization of the soil and the gypsum particles, the entire soil sample should be analyzed. Four different approaches to the BaCl2 method presented in the literature (Hesse, 1976, Matar and Douleimy, 1978, Viellefon, 1979) were used to evaluate the use of BaCl2 solution to reduce the solubility of gypsum by forming a protective coating of BaSO4 around gypsum particles. Results showed that the BaCl2 method was unsatisfactory, as dispersion of clays was not sufficient to allow particle size analysis using the pipette method. A procedure using a laser diffraction particle size analyzer (LPSA) was also evaluated. As gypsum is insoluble in methanol, methanol was selected as a possible solution, but it caused flocculation of clays and could not be used to analyze samples containing silicate clays. Gypsum saturated water containing Na hexametaphosphate was evaluated as a solution. First, 20 non-gypseous samples were analyzed on a sand-free basis using saturated gypsum water with Na hexametaphosphate. Results were used to establish a relationship comparing LPSA results and pipette results. An equation y = 1.37x + 2.03 was established relating LPSA clay percent by volume (x) to the pipette clay percent by weight (y). The equation had a R2 value of 0.84 and was significant at the 1% level. From this equation a comparison of 21 gypseous samples was made, between clay percentages of the pipette method and the LPSA method. Results indicate that LPSA can be used to give a satisfactory particle size distribution of gypseous soils when coupled with sand analysis by sieving
Contestable adulthood: variability and disparity in markers for negotiating the transition to adulthood
Recent research has identified a discreet set of subjective markers that are seen as characterizing the transition to adulthood. The current study challenges this coherence by examining the disparity and variability in young peopleâs selection of such criteria. Four sentence-completion cues corresponding to four differentcontexts in which adult status might be contested were given to 156 British 16- to 17-year-olds. Their qualitative responses were analyzed to
explore patterns whilst capturing some of their richness and diversity. An astonishing amount of variability emerged, both within and between cued contexts.The implications of this variability for how the transition to adulthood is experienced are explored. The argument is made that markers of the transition to adulthood are not merely reflective of the bioâpsychoâsocial development of
young people. Rather, adulthood here is seen as an essentially contested concept,located within the discursive interactional environment in which young people participate
Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamics of Pre-Core Collapse: Oxygen Shell Burning
By direct hydrodynamic simulation, using the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM)
code PROMETHEUS, we study the properties of a convective oxygen burning shell
in a SN 1987A progenitor star prior to collapse. The convection is too
heterogeneous and dynamic to be well approximated by one-dimensional
diffusion-like algorithms which have previously been used for this epoch.
Qualitatively new phenomena are seen.
The simulations are two-dimensional, with good resolution in radius and
angle, and use a large (90-degree) slice centered at the equator. The
microphysics and the initial model were carefully treated. Many of the
qualitative features of previous multi-dimensional simulations of convection
are seen, including large kinetic and acoustic energy fluxes, which are not
accounted for by mixing length theory. Small but significant amounts of
carbon-12 are mixed non-uniformly into the oxygen burning convection zone,
resulting in hot spots of nuclear energy production which are more than an
order of magnitude more energetic than the oxygen flame itself. Density
perturbations (up to 8%) occur at the `edges' of the convective zone and are
the result of gravity waves generated by interaction of penetrating flows into
the stable region. Perturbations of temperature and electron fraction at the
base of the convective zone are of sufficient magnitude to create angular
inhomogeneities in explosive nucleosynthesis products, and need to be included
in quantitative estimates of yields. Combined with the plume-like velocity
structure arising from convection, the perturbations will contribute to the
mixing of nickel-56 throughout supernovae envelopes. Runs of different
resolution, and angular extent, were performed to test the robustness of theseComment: For mpeg movies of these simulations, see
http://www.astrophysics.arizona.edu/movies.html Submitted to the
Astrophysical Journa
Nuclear liquid-gas phase transition and supernovae evolution
It is shown that the large density fluctuations appearing at the onset of the
first order nuclear liquid-gas phase transition can play an important role in
the supernovae evolution. Due to these fluctuations, the neutrino gas may be
trapped inside a thin layer of matter near the proto-neutron star surface. The
resulting increase of pressure may induce strong particle ejection a few
hundred milliseconds after the bounce of the collapse, contributing to the
revival of the shock wave. The Hartree-Fock+RPA scheme, with a finite-range
nucleon-nucleon effective interaction, is employed to estimate the effects of
the neutrino trapping due to the strong density fluctuations, and to discuss
qualitatively the consequences of the suggested new scenario.Comment: version2 - precise that nuclear liquid-gas phase transition is 1st
order and the unique instable mode is isoscala
Expression, Purification, Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Analysis of \u3cem\u3ePseudomonas aeuginosa\u3c/em\u3e AlgX
AlgX is a periplasmic protein required for the production of the exopolysaccharide alginate in Pseudomonas sp. and Azotobacter vinelandii. AlgX has been overexpressed and purified and diffraction-quality crystals have been grown using iterative seeding and the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion method. The crystals grew as flat plates with unit-cell parameters a=46.4, b=120.6, c=86.9Ă
, ÎČ=95.7°. The cyrstals exhibited the symmetry of space group P21 and diffracted to a minimimum d-spacing of 2.1Ă
. On the basis of the Matthews coefficient (VM=2.25Ă
3 Da-1), two molecules were estimated to be present in the asymmetric unit
Today\u27s Electronic Communication Facilitators: A Profile of Fortune 1000 Webmasters
This profile of Webmasters of Fortune 1000 companies is based on electronic mail survey responses. In general, the people who hold the webmaster title or position within these large organizations are very satisfied with their jobs, are fairly young, and are highly educated although the disciplines of their academic backgrounds are considerably diverse. The Webmasters are also very interested in the characteristics of their professional counterparts in other large organizations. Beyond the demographics, this paper highlights Webmaster perceptions relative to the creation and use of home pages
Algal culture studies for CELSS
Microalgae are well-suited as a component of a Closed Environmental Life Support System (CELSS), since they can couple the closely related functions of food production and atmospheric regeneration. The objective was to provide a basis for predicting the response of CELSS algal cultures, and thus the food supply and air regeneration system, to changes in the culture parameters. Scenedesmus growth was measured as a function of light intensity, and the spectral dependence of light absorption by the algae as well as algal respiration in the light were determined as a function of cell concentration. These results were used to test and confirm a mathematical model that describes the productivity of an algal culture in terms of the competing processes of photosynthesis and respiration. The relationship of algal productivity to cell concentration was determined at different carbon dioxide concentrations, temperatures, and light intensities. The maximum productivity achieved by an air-grown culture was found to be within 10% of the computed maximum productivity, indicating that CO2 was very efficiently removed from the gas stream by the algal culture. Measurements of biomass productivity as a function of cell concentration at different light intensities indicated that both the productivity and efficiency of light utilization were greater at higher light intensities
Evidence for a Mid-Atomic-Number Atmosphere in the Neutron Star 1E1207.4-5209
Recently Sanwal et al. (2002) reported the first clear detection of
absorption features in an isolated neutron star, 1E1207.4-5209. Remarkably
their spectral modeling demonstrates that the atmosphere cannot be Hydrogen.
They speculated that the neutron star atmosphere is indicative of ionized
Helium in an ultra-strong (~1.5x10^{14} G) magnetic field. We have applied our
recently developed atomic model (Mori & Hailey 2002) for strongly-magnetized
neutron star atmospheres to this problem. We find that this model, along with
some simp le atomic physics arguments, severely constrains the possible
composition of the atmosphere. In particular we find that the absorption
features are naturally associated with He-like Oxygen or Neon in a magnetic
field of ~10^{12} G, comparable to the magnetic field derived from the spin
parameters of the neutron star. This interpretation is consistent with the
relative line strengths and widths and is robust. Our model predicts possible
substructure in the spectral features, which has now been reported by
XMM-Newton (Mereghetti et al. 2002). However we show the Mereghetti et al.
claim that the atmosphere is Iron or some comparable high-Z element at ~
10^{12} G is easily ruled out by the Chandra and XMM-Newton data.Comment: 5 pages, AASTeX, Revised version. Accepted for publication in ApJ
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