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Fluctuation Results from PHENIX
The PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has made
measurements of event-by-event fluctuations in the net charge, the mean
transverse momentum, and the charged particle multiplicity as a function of
collision energy, centrality, and transverse momentum in heavy ion collisions.
The results of these measurements will be reviewed and discussed.Comment: Proceedings for the Workshop on Correlations and Fluctuations in
Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, April 21-23, 2005; 10 pages, 17 figure
Internet-Facilitated Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
This bulletin summarizes findings from the InternetâFacilitated Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (IFâCSEC) component of the 2006 Second National Juvenile Online Victimization study. Following are some key findings from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preventionâsponsored study: ⢠An estimated 569 arrests for IFâCSEC were made in the United States in 2006; more than half of the arrests involved the offender marketing and selling child pornography. ⢠Most offenders (83%) purchased child pornography or sex with a minor, but an important minority (17%) profited from the exploitation. Profiteers appeared to be more seasoned offenders who were involved in larger, organized networks of criminals, such as prostitution and human trafficking rings. ⢠Many offenders (39%) were acquaintances of the IFâCSEC victims, 23% were family members, and 17% were people the victims had met online. The rest were mostly pimps. ⢠Compared with victims of Internet sexual crimes that do not involve a commercial aspect, a greater perâ centage of IFâCSEC victims, as part of the current crime, were assaulted, given drugs or alcohol, and were the subject of child pornography
Youth Internet Safety Study (YISS): Methodology Report.
The Youth Internet Safety Surveys (YISSâ1, YISSâ2, and YISSâ3) were conducted in order to quantify and detail youth experiences with unwanted or problematic Internet experiences including sexual solicitations, harassment, and unwanted exposure to pornography on the Internet. YISSâ3 collected additional information about youth produced sexual images (YPSI) or âsexting.â The YISSâ1, YISSâ2 and YISSâ3 studies were conducted in 2000, 2005 and 2010, respectively, providing important comparative information on changes in the numbers of youth reporting unwanted or problematic Internet experiences at 5âyear intervals since 2000. This is a critical timeframe for observation given the sharp rise in the use of Internet and new technologies by youth from 2000â2010 1 . The YISS were conducted via telephone surveys with separate national samples of 1500 youth Internet users, ages 10 to 17, and their parents. A sample size of 1,500 was preâdetermined based upon a maximum expected sampling error of +/â2.5% at the 5% significance level. Human subject participation in the YISS studies were reviewed and approved by the University of New Hampshire Institutional Review Board (IRB) and conformed to the rules mandated for research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice
Serre Duality, Abel's Theorem, and Jacobi Inversion for Supercurves Over a Thick Superpoint
The principal aim of this paper is to extend Abel's theorem to the setting of
complex supermanifolds of dimension 1|q over a finite-dimensional local
supercommutative C-algebra. The theorem is proved by establishing a
compatibility of Serre duality for the supercurve with Poincare duality on the
reduced curve. We include an elementary algebraic proof of the requisite form
of Serre duality, closely based on the account of the reduced case given by
Serre in Algebraic Groups and Class Fields, combined with an invariance result
for the topology on the dual of the space of repartitions. Our Abel map, taking
Cartier divisors of degree zero to the dual of the space of sections of the
Berezinian sheaf, modulo periods, is defined via Penkov's characterization of
the Berezinian sheaf as the cohomology of the de Rham complex of the sheaf D of
differential operators, as a right module over itself. We discuss the Jacobi
inversion problem for the Abel map and give an example demonstrating that if n
is an integer sufficiently large that the generic divisor of degree n is
linearly equivalent to an effective divisor, this need not be the case for all
divisors of degree n.Comment: 14 page
The effects on health of a publicly funded domestic heating programme: a prospective controlled study
<b>Objective</b>: To assess the effect of a publicly funded domestic heating programme on self-reported health.
<b>Design, setting and participants</b>: A prospective controlled study of 1281 households in Scotland receiving new central heating under a publicly funded initiative, and 1084 comparison households not receiving new heating. The main outcome measures were self-reported diagnosis of asthma, bronchitis, eczema, nasal allergy, heart disease, circulatory problems or high blood pressure; number of primary care encounters and hospital contacts in the past year; and SF-36 Health Survey scores.
<b>Results</b>: Usable data were obtained from 61.4% of 3849 respondents originally recruited. Heating recipients reported higher scores on the SF-36 Physical Functioning scale (difference 2.51; 95% CI 0.67 to 4.37) and General Health scale (difference 2.57; 95% CI 0.90 to 4.34). They were less likely to report having received a first diagnosis of heart disease (OR 0.69; 95% CI 0.52 to 0.91) or high blood pressure (OR 0.77; 95% CI 0.61 to 0.97), but the groups did not differ significantly in use of primary care or hospital services.
<b>Conclusions</b>: Provision of central heating was associated with significant positive effects on general health and physical functioning; however, effect sizes were small. Evidence of a reduced risk of first diagnosis with heart disease or high blood pressure must be interpreted with caution, due to the self-reported nature of the outcomes, the limited time period and the failure to detect any difference in health service use
Entangled photon apparatus for the undergraduate laboratory
We present detailed instructions for constructing and operating an apparatus
to produce and detect polarization-entangled photons. The source operates by
type-I spontaneous parametric downconversion in a two-crystal geometry. Photons
are detected in coincidence by single-photon counting modules and show strong
angular and polarization correlations. We observe more than 100 entangled
photon pairs per second. A test of a Bell inequality can be performed in an
afternoon.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
A REGIONAL COMPARISON OF FARM COSTS AND RETURNS AMONG TOP DAIRY PRODUCERS
The purpose of this paper is to compare costs and returns of the top dairy producers in the Upper Midwest to those in other major dairy regions of the U.S. The analysis is based on the 1989 Farm Costs and Returns Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The top dairy farmers are defined in several ways, including: (1) highest returns to capital and management, (2) lowest total cash costs, and (3) highest milk marketings per cow.Livestock Production/Industries,
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