Contesting the cruel treatment of abortion-seeking women

NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Reproductive Health Matters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS, [VOL 22, ISSUE 44, (2014)] DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(14)44818-

Development of a flight-qualified whole-body dosimeter system Final report

Whole-body dosimeter system for monitoring radiation exposure to crew during space mission

Geometric approach to Fletcher's ideal penalty function

Original article can be found at: www.springerlink.com Copyright Springer. [Originally produced as UH Technical Report 280, 1993]In this note, we derive a geometric formulation of an ideal penalty function for equality constrained problems. This differentiable penalty function requires no parameter estimation or adjustment, has numerical conditioning similar to that of the target function from which it is constructed, and also has the desirable property that the strict second-order constrained minima of the target function are precisely those strict second-order unconstrained minima of the penalty function which satisfy the constraints. Such a penalty function can be used to establish termination properties for algorithms which avoid ill-conditioned steps. Numerical values for the penalty function and its derivatives can be calculated efficiently using automatic differentiation techniques.Peer reviewe

Magnetic fields and spiral arms in the galaxy M51

(Abridged) We use new multi-wavelength radio observations, made with the VLA and Effelsberg telescopes, to study the magnetic field of the nearby galaxy M51 on scales from 200\pc to several \kpc. Interferometric and single dish data are combined to obtain new maps at \wwav{3}{6} in total and polarized emission, and earlier \wav{20} data are re-reduced. We compare the spatial distribution of the radio emission with observations of the neutral gas, derive radio spectral index and Faraday depolarization maps, and model the large-scale variation in Faraday rotation in order to deduce the structure of the regular magnetic field. We find that the \wav{20} emission from the disc is severely depolarized and that a dominating fraction of the observed polarized emission at \wav{6} must be due to anisotropic small-scale magnetic fields. Taking this into account, we derive two components for the regular magnetic field in this galaxy: the disc is dominated by a combination of azimuthal modes, $m=0+2$, but in the halo only an $m=1$ mode is required to fit the observations. We disuss how the observed arm-interarm contrast in radio intensities can be reconciled with evidence for strong gas compression in the spiral shocks. The average arm--interam contrast, representative of the radii r>2\kpc where the spiral arms are broader, is not compatible with straightforward compression: lower arm--interarm contrasts than expected may be due to resolution effects and \emph{decompression} of the magnetic field as it leaves the arms. We suggest a simple method to estimate the turbulent scale in the magneto-ionic medium from the dependence of the standard deviation of the observed Faraday rotation measure on resolution. We thus obtain an estimate of 50\pc for the size of the turbulent eddies.Comment: 21 pages, 18 figures (some at lower resolution than submitted version), accepted for publication in MNRA

Omega time transmissions and receiving requirements

A short history is given of the development of dual VLF time transmission techniques. The theory of time recovery from the relative phase of the dual frequency transmission is presented. The transmission and receiving requirements for cycle identification and cycle ambiguity resolution are described. Finally, an experiment to test the capability of time transmission of the OMEGA system is propose

Same traits, different variance : Item-Level Variation Within Personality Measures

© 2014 the Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Without requesting permission from the Author or SAGE, you may further copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the article, with the condition that the Author and SAGE Open are in each case credited as the source of the article. The version of record, Jamie S. Churcyard, Karen J. Pine, Shivani Sharma, Ben (C) Fletcher, ' Same Traits, Difference Variance: Item-Level Variation Within Personality Measures', SAGE Open, 2014, is available online via doi: 10.1177/2158244014522634Personality trait questionnaires are regularly used in individual differences research to examine personality scores between participants, although trait researchers tend to place little value on intra-individual variation in item ratings within a measured trait. The few studies that examine variability indices have not considered how they are related to a selection of psychological outcomes, so we recruited 160 participants (age M = 24.16, SD = 9.54) who completed the IPIP-HEXACO personality questionnaire and several outcome measures. Heterogenous within-subject differences in item ratings were found for every trait/facet measured, with measurement error that remained stable across the questionnaire. Within-subject standard deviations, calculated as measures of individual variation in specific item ratings within a trait/facet, were related to outcomes including life satisfaction and depression. This suggests these indices represent valid constructs of variability, and that researchers administering behavior statement trait questionnaires with outcome measures should also apply item-level variability indices.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

The NASA/MSFC global reference atmospheric model: MOD 3 (with spherical harmonic wind model)

Improvements to the global reference atmospheric model are described. The basic model includes monthly mean values of pressure, density, temperature, and geostrophic winds, as well as quasi-biennial and small and large scale random perturbations. A spherical harmonic wind model for the 25 to 90 km height range is included. Below 25 km and above 90 km, the GRAM program uses the geostrophic wind equations and pressure data to compute the mean wind. In the altitudes where the geostrophic wind relations are used, an interpolation scheme is employed for estimating winds at low latitudes where the geostrophic wind relations being to mesh down. Several sample wind profiles are given, as computed by the spherical harmonic model. User and programmer manuals are presented

Computational psychiatry: a Rosetta Stone linking the brain to mental illness.

PCF is supported by the Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fund and the Wellcome Trust. This work was carried out within the Wellcome- and MRC-funded Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and the Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Lancet Psychiatry at: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366%2814%2970298-6/fulltex

Effects of thermotherapy and virus status on yield, annual growth and grape composition of Sultana

A high yielding Sultana clone, H5, infected with yellow speckle and leafroll diseases was compared over 5 harvests with 6 heat-treated H5 clones, 3 of which still contained both diseases and 3 from which leafroll had been eliminated, and also with a Thompson Seedless clone (FV B6Vl HT91) from California. There were no differences between .the untreated H5 clone and the Thompson Seedless clone which was infected with only yeilow speckle for any of the measured variables in any season.The mean yield of heat-treated H5 clones was reduced by 6 % in those which still contained both diseases and was not affected in those from which leafroll had been eliminated. The yield reduction was related to fewer inflorescences.The mean weight of annual shoot growth, berry weight, calculated bunch. weight, sugar concentration and pH and titratable acidity of juice, did not differ between the 4 groups.Long periods of heat treatment (196-938 d) produced no clones with yields or annual shoot growth superior to the untreated source clone.Except for expression of leaf symptoms associated with leafroll, all 6 heat-treated H5 clones showed no obvious morphological differences from their original source clone, nor did the heat-treated Thompson Seedless clone.Der Einßuß von Thermotherapie und Virusbefall auf Traubenertrag, Holzproduktion und Traubenqualität der Rebsorte SultanaZusammenfassung. - Der an Yellow speckle und Leafroll erkrankte ertragsstarke Sultana-Klon H5 wurde 5 Ernteperioden lang mit 6 wärmebehandelten H5-Klonen - 3 davon noch mit beiden Krankheiten, 3 nur noch mit Yellow speckle behaftet - sowie mit einem Thompson-Seedless-Klon (FV B6Vl HT91) aus Kalifornien verglichen.Zwischen dem unbehandelten H5-Klon und dem Thompson-Seedless-Klon, der nur an Yellow speckle erkrankt war, wurden in keinem Jahr irgendwelche Unterschiede der erfaßten Meßgrößen festgestellt.Der mittlere Traubenertrag der wärmebehandelten H5-Klone war bei den doppelt erkrankten Reben um 6 % verringert und bei den Leafroll-freien Reben nicht beeinflußt. Der Ertragsrückgang war mit einer geringeren Anzahl von Infloreszenzen verbunden.Die 4 Versuchsgruppen zeigten keine Unterschiede bei jährlichem Holzzuwachs, Beerengewicht und kalkuliertem Traubengewicht sowie Zuckerkonzentration, pH und titrierbarer Säure des Beerensaftes.Lange Perioden der Wärmebehandlung (196-338 d) ergaben keine Klone, die in ihrem Traubenertrag oder der Holzproduktion dem unbehandelten Ausgangsklon überlegen gewesen wären.Abgesehen von den Leafroll-Symptomen der Blätter zeigten alle 6 wärmebehandelten H5-Klone keine erkennbaren morphologischen Abweichungen von ihrem Ausgangsklon; Entsprechendes gilt für den wärmebehandelten Thompson-Seedless-Klon