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Cosmic Ray Origin, Acceleration and Propagation
This paper summarizes highlights of the OG3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 sessions of the
XXVIth International Cosmic Ray Conference in Salt Lake City, which were
devoted to issues of origin/composition, acceleration and propagation.Comment: To appear in the Summary-Rapporteur Volume of the 26th International
Cosmic Ray Conference, ed. B. L. Dingus (AIP, New York, 2000). Latex, 16
pages, no figures (Minor correction to text
Sexual Assault Case Processing: A Descriptive Model of Attrition and Decision Making
The outcomes of sexual assaults involving one suspect and one victim reported to the Anchorage Police Department (APD) in 2000 to 2003 were examined. Overall, 1,235 sexual assaults were reported to APD during this period, of which 1,074 involved one suspect and one victim. Data were collected on 1,052 of these cases to learn how the Alaska Department of Law disposed of these cases. Of the 1,052 cases examined, 188 (17.9%) were referred to the Department of Law, 127 were accepted for prosecution, and 111 resulted in a conviction. Clearly, the point of greatest attrition is from report to referral, with 85.2 percent of reported sexual assaults not being referred for prosecution. However, most offenders whose cases reach prosecutors are held accountable in some degree through the imposition of criminal sanctions.National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice.
Grant No. 2004-WB-GX-0003.Acknowledgements / Executive Summary / Statement of Research / Data Collection / Overview of Case Progression / Results / Conclusions and Discussion / Appendice
Higher Dimensional Thompson Groups
We construct a "higher dimensional" version 2V of Thompson's group V. Like V
it is an infinite, finitely presented, simple subgroup of the homeomorphism
group of the Cantor set, but we show that it is not isomorphic to V by showing
that the actions on the Cantor set are not topologically conjugate: 2V has an
element with "chaotic" action, while V cannot have such an element. A theorem
of Rubin is then applied which shows that for these two groups, isomorphism
would imply topological conjugacy.Comment: 27 pages To appear in Geometriae Dedicat
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