Throwing the Book versus Cutting Some Slack: Factors Influencing the Use of Discretion by Game Wardens in Kentucky

An article written by Stephen L. Eliason and published in the 2003 issue of Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, pages 129-152

The Design of a Multiple Intake Drainage Well

The reclamation of water-logged land by suitable yet inexpensive forms of drainage is becoming a problem of constantly increasing magnitude. A fairly large portion of the extensive land areas, once considered as worthless has proved to be valuable by the introduction of proper drainage systems. Land areas, in which drainage in its simpler forms has proved inadequate, could perhaps be made valuable were it possible to develop an inexpensive yet effective form of drainage. This paper has been prepared primarily for a consideration of poorly drained land areas and a possible means of their reclamation by a suitable choice and distribution of wells. We shall review a few of the fundamental concepts of soil gydro-dynamics and attempt to give to these concepts a practical application in a special case described hereafter. As a preface to the following developments it may be instructive to consider, incidentally, the source and sphere of ground water; also its intimate relation to surface saturation of water-logged land

Norming the Wold-Pacific Sentence Copying Test

Normative data reported for the Wold Sentence Copying Test (WSCT) have questionable validity, according to Kurt Oland and Kyle Kenison.1 This project was designed to expand upon the data reported by Oland and Kenison, as well as explore new areas. The new areas explored included correlating copying performance with academic performance as measured by the California Test of Basic Skills (CTBS); determining test-retest reliability; and generating ratios of copying speed of letters vs. numbers and ratios of number of head movements needed to copy letters vs. numbers. The test was normed for both copying speed and number of head and/or eye movements made during the copying task for grades two through six. Results were compared to those reported by Wold, and Kenison and Oland. Similar to Oland and Kenison, a parallel test was administered which substituted numbers for letters and generated normative data for copying speed and head/eye movements. Ratios were calculated comparing letter to number copying speed, as well as head/eye movements made to copy letters vs. numbers. This was done to take into account difficulties with fine motor and ocular motor skills and tease out short-term memory or visual memory factors. Normative data in this study were roughly comparable to those published by Oland and Kenison, but differed significantly from those published by Wold. CTBS national percentile scores in reading and math showed a low to moderate correlation to copying performance for grade six, but for grade three, a slightly higher correlation. Test reliability as shown by retest gave correlation coefficients of 0.91 and 0.94 for letter and number copying speed respectively, and 0.90 and 0.93 for the number of head/eye movements for the letter and number copying sentence respectively. The generated ratios, however, did not have high test-retest reliability, nor did they correlate well with academic performance

Non-Contact Measurement of Thermal Diffusivity in Ion-Implanted Nuclear Materials

Knowledge of mechanical and physical property evolution due to irradiation damage is essential for the development of future fission and fusion reactors. Ion-irradiation provides an excellent proxy for studying irradiation damage, allowing high damage doses without sample activation. Limited ion-penetration-depth means that only few-micron-thick damaged layers are produced. Substantial effort has been devoted to probing the mechanical properties of these thin implanted layers. Yet, whilst key to reactor design, their thermal transport properties remain largely unexplored due to a lack of suitable measurement techniques. Here we demonstrate non-contact thermal diffusivity measurements in ion-implanted tungsten for nuclear fusion armour. Alloying with transmutation elements and the interaction of retained gas with implantation-induced defects both lead to dramatic reductions in thermal diffusivity. These changes are well captured by our modelling approaches. Our observations have important implications for the design of future fusion power plants.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure

CD-ROM publication of the Mars digital cartographic data base

The recently completed Mars mosaicked digital image model (MDIM) and the soon-to-be-completed Mars digital terrain model (DTM) are being transcribed to optical disks to simplify distribution to planetary investigators. These models, completed in FY 1991, provide a cartographic base to which all existing Mars data can be registered. The digital image map of Mars is a cartographic extension of a set of compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM) volumes containing individual Viking Orbiter images now being released. The data in these volumes are pristine in the sense that they were processed only to the extent required to view them as images. They contain the artifacts and the radiometric, geometric, and photometric characteristics of the raw data transmitted by the spacecraft. This new set of volumes, on the other hand, contains cartographic compilations made by processing the raw images to reduce radiometric and geometric distortions and to form geodetically controlled MDIM's. It also contains digitized versions of an airbrushed map of Mars as well as a listing of all feature names approved by the International Astronomical Union. In addition, special geodetic and photogrammetric processing has been performed to derive rasters of topographic data, or DTM's. The latter have a format similar to that of MDIM, except that elevation values are used in the array instead of image brightness values. The set consists of seven volumes: (1) Vastitas Borealis Region of Mars; (2) Xanthe Terra of Mars; (3) Amazonis Planitia Region of Mars; (4) Elysium Planitia Region of Mars; (5) Arabia Terra of Mars; (6) Planum Australe Region of Mars; and (7) a digital topographic map of Mars

Long-segment thoracoabdominal aortic occlusions in childhood

Developmental coarctation, hypoplasia, and occlusion of the abdominal aorta is a rare disease encompassing many differing etiologies and diverse methods of treatment. Long-segment thoracoabdominal aortic occlusion, an extreme manifestation of this disorder, has not previously been reported in children. Two pediatric patients with this entity, a 5- and 13-year-old with uncontrolled hypertension, underwent extensive arterial reconstructions for this entity and provided the impetus for this report. An ascending thoracic aorta to infrarenal aortic expanded polytetrafluoroethylene bypass was undertaken in the younger child. A distal thoracic aorto-bi-iliac artery expanded polytetrafluoroethylene bypass, with implantation of the left renal artery to one graft limb and a right renal artery bypass originating from the other limb, was performed in the older child. There were no major perioperative complications. Both patients were discharged with easily controlled blood pressures. They have remained normotensive at 13 and 14 months follow-up

A course redesign project to change faculty orientation toward teaching

This article discusses the development, implementation, and outcomes of a Faculty Course Redesign Camp for full-time and adjunct faculty members. The purpose of the camp was to educate and coach faculty in effective strategies to promote learner-centered teaching skills. Evaluation results show that the participants changed their orientation toward teaching in the dimension of their role in instruction, but they made little change in balance of power and responsibility for learning

A Wavelet Based Dissipation Method for ALE Schemes

Wavelet analysis is natural tool to detect the presence of numerical noise, shocks and other features which might drive a calculation to become unstable. Here we suggest ways where wavelets can be used effectively to define a dissipation flag to replace dissipation flags traditionally used in ALE numerical schemes