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Evaluation of a JAIBG-Funded Project: Emmonak Elders' Group
Since 1999, the Emmonak Elders' Group Project has handled certain non-felony juvenile cases in the village of Emmonak, a predominately Yup'ik community on the Yukon Delta of western Alaska. The project permits youth to remain within the community while their offenses are adjudicated through the body of elders – thus avoiding formal justice system processing which usually entails removal from the village. Youths are held accountable within the context of the local community and its traditions. This article describes the results of an initial evaluation of the program in early 2001, after the court had been in operation for approximately a year and a half. The evaluation comprised a review of program files, direct observations of meetings, discussions with community residents and interviews with parents and juveniles. It primarily focused on project implementation: how the court was established, its procedures, and the working relationships among institutions and individual participants.Bureau of Justice Statistics, United States Department of Justice.
Grant No. 1999-JR-VX-K005Background / Introduction / Methodology / Overview of Program / Collaborative Relationships with Key Entities / Results / Interviews / Summary and Recommendations / Appendice
Using Delay Tolerant Networks as a Backbone for Low-cost Smart Cities
Rapid urbanization burdens city infrastructure and creates the need for local
governments to maximize the usage of resources to serve its citizens. Smart
city projects aim to alleviate the urbanization problem by deploying a vast
amount of Internet-of-things (IoT) devices to monitor and manage environmental
conditions and infrastructure. However, smart city projects can be extremely
expensive to deploy and manage. A significant portion of the expense is a
result of providing Internet connectivity via 5G or WiFi to IoT devices. This
paper proposes the use of delay tolerant networks (DTNs) as a backbone for
smart city communication; enabling developing communities to become smart
cities at a fraction of the cost. A model is introduced to aid policy makers in
designing and evaluating the expected performance of such networks. Preliminary
results are presented based on a public transit network data-set from Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. Finally, innovative ways of improving network performance
in a low-cost smart city is discussed.Comment: 3 pages, accepted to IEEE SmartComp 201
In Vivo Evaluation of the Secure Opportunistic Schemes Middleware using a Delay Tolerant Social Network
Over the past decade, online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and
Facebook have thrived and experienced rapid growth to over 1 billion users. A
major evolution would be to leverage the characteristics of OSNs to evaluate
the effectiveness of the many routing schemes developed by the research
community in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we showcase the Secure
Opportunistic Schemes (SOS) middleware which allows different routing schemes
to be easily implemented relieving the burden of security and connection
establishment. The feasibility of creating a delay tolerant social network is
demonstrated by using SOS to power AlleyOop Social, a secure delay tolerant
networking research platform that serves as a real-life mobile social
networking application for iOS devices. SOS and AlleyOop Social allow users to
interact, publish messages, and discover others that share common interests in
an intermittent network using Bluetooth, peer-to-peer WiFi, and infrastructure
WiFi.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted in ICDCS 2017. arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1702.0565
Footnoted Folklore: Robert Burns\u27s Halloween
Robert Burns & Friends
essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows
presented to G. Ross Roy
edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson
This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of the writing of Burns and that of his friends and contemporaries; and Burns\u27s influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy\u27s own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published writings.
G. Ross Roy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, founded the journal Studies in Scottish Literature in 1963, and as its editor for nearly fifty years he has had a central role in establishing international academic recognition for the field. His own scholarly work includes the standard Letters of Robert Burns (2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1985). His contributions to Scottish literature have earned him honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh (2002) and Glasgow (2009).
The contributors are all former W. Ormiston Roy Visiting Fellows at the University of South Carolina.
This book is also available in a print edition (ISBN: 978-1439270974) through the usual on-line vendors. It is not available for direct purchase from the editors or the University of South Carolina
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Characterizing the Inhibition of Katanin Using Tubulin Carboxy-Terminal Tail Constructs
Understanding how the cellular cytoskeleton is maintained and regulated is important to elucidate the functions of many structures such as the mitotic spindle, cilia and flagella. Katanin p60, microtubule-severing enzymes from the ATPase associated with cellular activities (AAA+) family, has previously been shown in our lab to be inhibited by free tubulin as well as α- and β-tubulin carboxy-terminal tail (CTT) constructs. Here we investigate the inhibition ability of several different tubulin CTT sequences. We quantify the effect of the addition of these constructs on the severing and binding activity of katanin. We find that some constructs inhibit katanin better than others and two constructs that appear to enhance katanin activity. Our findings add nuance to our previous findings that consensus α-tubulin tails are less inhibitory of katanin than consensus β-tubulin [3]. Surprisingly, we find that a polyglutamate sequence activates katanin while it has previously been shown to inhibit spastin, a different microtubule-severing enzyme associated with the neuromuscular disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [23]. These results highlight that different CTT sequences can control the activity of severing enzymes and ultimately affect the cytoskeletal network organization in a cell type and location-dependent manner
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