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Body camera footage leads to lower judgments of intent than dash camera footage.
Police departments use body-worn cameras (body cams) and dashboard cameras (dash cams) to monitor the activity of police officers in the field. Video from these cameras informs review of police conduct in disputed circumstances, often with the goal of determining an officer's intent. Eight experiments (N = 2,119) reveal that body cam video of an incident results in lower observer judgments of intentionality than dash cam video of the same incident, an effect documented with both scripted videos and real police videos. This effect was due, in part, to variation in the visual salience of the focal actor: the body cam wearer is typically less visually salient when depicted in body versus dash cam video, which corresponds with lower observer intentionality judgments. In showing how visual salience of the focal actor may introduce unique effects on observer judgment, this research establishes an empirical platform that may inform public policy regarding surveillance of police conduct
Design guidelines for use of adhesives and organic coatings in hybrid microcircuits
A study was conducted to investigate the reliability of organic adhesives in hybrid microcircuits. The objectives were twofold: (1) to identify and investigate problem areas that could result from the use of organic adhesives and (2) to develop evaluation tests to quantify the extent to which these problems occur for commercially available adhesives. Efforts were focused on electrically conductive adhesives. Also, a study was made to evaluate selected organic coatings for contamination protection for hybrid microcircuits
Solar Sail Simplified Optimal Control Law for Reaching High Heliocentric Distances
The aim of this paper is to analyze optimal trajectories of a solar sail-based spacecraft in missions towards the outer Solar System region. The paper proposes a simplified approach able to estimate the minimum flight time required to reach a given (sufficiently high) heliocentric distance. In particular, the effect of a set of solar photonic assists on the overall mission performance is analyzed with a simplified numerical approach. A comparison with results taken from the existing literature show the soundness of the proposed approach
Artificial Collinear Lagrangian Point Maintenance With Electric Solar Wind Sail
This article discusses the maintenance of an L-1-type artificial equilibrium point in the Sun-[Earth+Moon] circular restricted three-body problem by means of an electric solar wind sail. The reference configuration instability is compensated for with a feedback control law that adjusts the grid voltage as a function of the distance from the natural L-1 point. Two different control strategies are analyzed assuming the solar wind fluctuations to be modeled through a statistical approach
Electric sail phasing maneuvers for constellation deployment
The aim of this work is to investigate heliocentric phasing maneuvers performed by a spacecraft propelled by an Electric Solar Wind Sail, that is, an innovative propellantless propulsion system that consists of a spinning grid of charged tethers that uses solar wind momentum to produce thrust. It is assumed that the Electric Solar Wind Sail may be controlled by varying its attitude with respect to a classical orbital reference frame, and by switching the tether grid off to obtain Keplerian arcs along its phasing trajectory. The analysis is conducted within an optimal framework, the aim of which is to find both the optimal control law and the minimum-time phasing trajectory for a given angular drift along the (assigned) working orbit. A typical phasing scenario is analyzed, by considering either a drift ahead or a drift behind maneuver on a circular, heliocentric orbit of given radius. The paper also investigates the possibility of using an Electric Solar Wind Sail-based deployer to place a constellation of satellites on the same working orbit. In that case, the optimal flight time is obtained in a compact, semianalytical form as a function of both the propulsion system performance and the number of the sail-deployed satellites
Electric Sail Phasing Maneuvers for Constellation Deployment
The aim of this work is to investigate heliocentric phasing maneuvers performed by a spacecraft propelled by an Electric Solar Wind Sail, an innovative propellantless propulsion system. It is assumed that the sail may be controlled by varying its attitude, and by switching the tether grid off to obtain Keplerian arcs in the trajectory. The analysis is conducted within an optimal framework, whose aim is to find the minimum-time phasing trajectory for a given angular drift, and the corresponding time variation of the control variables. A typical phasing scenario is analyzed, by considering either a drift ahead or a drift behind maneuver option. We also investigate the possibility of using an Electric Solar Wind Sail-based deployer to place a constellation of satellites on the same heliocentric circular orbit. The corresponding flight times are obtained as a function of the sail performance and the number of satellites
Generalized minimal output entropy conjecture for one-mode Gaussian channels: definitions and some exact results
A formulation of the generalized minimal output entropy conjecture for
Gaussian channels is presented. It asserts that, for states with fixed input
entropy, the minimal value of the output entropy of the channel (i.e. the
minimal output entropy increment for fixed input entropy) is achieved by
Gaussian states. In the case of centered channels (i.e. channels which do not
add squeezing to the input state) this implies that the minimum is obtained by
thermal (Gibbs) inputs. The conjecture is proved to be valid in some special
cases.Comment: 7 pages, updated version minor typos correcte
Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network
We investigate the predictability of extreme events in a dissipative
Olami-Feder-Christensen model on a small world topology. Due to the mechanism
of self-organized criticality, it is impossible to predict the magnitude of the
next event knowing previous ones, if the system has an infinite size. However,
by exploiting the finite size effects, we show that probabilistic predictions
of the occurrence of extreme events in the next time step are possible in a
finite system. In particular, the finiteness of the system unavoidably leads to
repulsive temporal correlations of extreme events. The predictability of those
is higher for larger magnitudes and for larger complex network sizes. Finally,
we show that our prediction analysis is also robust by remarkably reducing the
accessible number of events used to construct the optimal predictor.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Nonadditive entropy and nonextensive statistical mechanics - Some central concepts and recent applications
We briefly review central concepts concerning nonextensive statistical
mechanics, based on the nonadditive entropy . Among others, we focus on
possible realizations of the -generalized Central Limit Theorem, including
at the edge of chaos of the logistic map, and for quasi-stationary states of
many-body long-range-interacting Hamiltonian systems.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figs., to appear in Journal of Physics: Conf.Series (IOP,
2010
Analysis of Self-Organized Criticality in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model and in real earthquakes
We perform a new analysis on the dissipative Olami-Feder-Christensen model on
a small world topology considering avalanche size differences. We show that
when criticality appears the Probability Density Functions (PDFs) for the
avalanche size differences at different times have fat tails with a q-Gaussian
shape. This behaviour does not depend on the time interval adopted and is found
also when considering energy differences between real earthquakes. Such a
result can be analytically understood if the sizes (released energies) of the
avalanches (earthquakes) have no correlations. Our findings support the
hypothesis that a self-organized criticality mechanism with long-range
interactions is at the origin of seismic events and indicate that it is not
possible to predict the magnitude of the next earthquake knowing those of the
previous ones.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. New version accepted for publication on PRE Rapid
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