FY 2000 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) mandates removal of status offenders and nonoffenders from secure detention and correctional facilities, sight and sound separation of juveniles and adults, and removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups. In Alaska, 2 instances of status offenders held in secure detention were recorded in FY 2000, compared with 485 violations in the baseline year of CY 1976. In Alaska, 17 separation violations were recorded in FY 2000 (45 projected), representing a 98% reduction from the CY 1976 baseline of 824 violations. 82 jail removal violations were projected (50 actual), representing an substantial reduction from the CY 1980 baseline.Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Juvenile JusticeA. General Information / B. Removal of Status Offenders and Nonoffenders from Secure Detention and Correctional Facilities / C. De Minimis Request / D. Progress Made in Achieving Removal of Status Offenders and Nonoffenders from Secure Detention and Correctional Facilities / E. Separation of Juveniles and Adults / F. Removal of Juveniles from Adult Jails and Lockups / G. De Minimis Request: Substantive / APPENDICES / I. Method of Analysis / II. Fiscal Year 2000 Violations by Offense Type and Location / III. Common Offense Acronym

The First Hypervelocity Star from the LAMOST Survey

We report the first hypervelocity star (HVS) discovered from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. It is a B-type star with a heliocentric radial velocity about 620 km/s, which projects to a Galactocentric radial velocity component of ~477 km/s. With a heliocentric distance of ~13 kpc and an apparent magnitude of ~13 mag, it is the nearest bright HVS currently known. With a mass of ~9Msun, it is one of the three most massive HVSs discovered so far. The star is clustered on the sky with many other known HVSs, with the position suggesting a possible connection to Galactic center structures. With the current poorly-determined proper motion, a Galactic center origin of this HVS remains consistent with the data at the 1sigma level, while a disk run-away origin cannot be excluded. We discuss the potential of the LAMOST survey to discover a large statistical sample of HVSs of different types.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL, updated contour plot for the ejection positions after correcting a mistake in the calculatio

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over 20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.Comment: 596 pages. Also available at full resolution at http://www.lsst.org/lsst/sciboo

Framing a Killing: The Stuart Murder Hoax, the Boston News Media, and the Politics of Modern Racism

In October, 1989, Charles Stuart murdered his wife in inner-city Boston by staging a robbery-homicide, which he would blame on a nondescript black man. News of the suburban white couple\u27s alleged attack sent shock waves throughout Boston and made national headlines, resulting in an outpouring of sympathy for the Stuarts and condemnation for the alleged attacker. Accepting Stuart\u27s claim at face value, the Boston media would devote over two months of coverage to the alleged incident, before the hoax was revealed. This research carries out a framing analysis of news coverage during the hoax period, as reported in The Boston Globe and Boston Herald, and demonstrates that such reportage should not be surprising, as it is based on prevailing crime discourse that is the product of expectations and stereotypes of race, class, violent crime, and notions of who ought to be protected from such crime. Prior to the framing analysis, I will provide some background on shifting white racial perceptions and how a prevailing violent crime news narrative has developed and become accepted by the mainstream media, the political class, and the public. After the framing analysis, I will examine the discourse of Boston\u27s African American newspaper, The Bay State Banner, during the hoax period of the Stuart case, in an effort to have a sense of its alternative framing and what implications this alternative framing might have for the broader public sphere. I will conclude this thesis with some thoughts on what the 21-year-old murder case might reveal about our current media and political landscape

Calibration of Commercial Eddy Current Instruments for Quantitative NDE

Eddy current testing is typically used in the field to detect defects in a specimen that exceed a set threshold. In most conventional techniques this is done by calibrating the test setup with a reference standard in a way that will correlate the output signal to a known and standard flaw size, such as 10% metal loss due to corrosion thinning in a aircraft skin. However, these standard methods cannot completely characterize a defect in a quantitative manner. In general, reliable quantitative NDE requires quantitative measurements and a theory to interpret them. Theoretical eddy current NDE usually models the test coil’s impedance change (in ohms) as the quantitative measure that varies with specimen and flaw parameters. Specific laboratory instruments such as impedance analyzers are capable of making quantitative measurements that allow researchers to compare experimental data directly to theory. But typical commercial eddy current instruments are not designed to measure probe impedances quantitatively. Rather, they measure relative changes in the coil impedance.</p

Research of BCA 1996 building classification reform.

The Australasian Fire Authorities Council commissioned the project team to gather the opinions of various stakeholders concerning the need for reform to the classification system within the Building Code of Australia. In the Building Code of Australia 1996 buildings are classified by use alone, and fail to consider fire load and occupant behavior when specifying various life safety and fire protection systems. Through interviews with stakeholders the authors have exposed opinions regarding possible reforms to the current classification system