A Case Study of Forensic Interviewing of Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosed Inmates

Interview strategies applied in adult criminal justice settings focus on the interviewer and concentrate on obtaining information for the courts, while simultaneously neglecting a forensic understanding of interviewees, including the interviewee\u27s decision-making and behavioral health impairments. As a consequence, there is a deficiency of evidence-based research regarding interview practices with persons diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Using social control and neutralization theories as the foundation, the purpose of this case study of a single justice system in the United States was to better understand the perspectives and experiences of ASPD diagnosed inmates (n =5) compared to incarcerated participants without any mental health diagnosis (n =5) regarding willingness to cooperate with the interviewer. Interview data were triangulated with the Gudjonsson Confession Questionnaire â Revised. Data were inductively coded and then subjected to a thematic analysis procedure. Results indicate that external and internal pressures, intoxication, perception of proof, involvement of third parties, and/or a lack of insight into diagnostic features of ASPD influenced decisions to cooperate with an interviewer, thereby impacting the quality of interview results. The positive social change implications of this study include recommendations to criminal justice systems to explore holistic interview strategies that may improve interview outcomes. Adhering to this recommendation may improve the quality of interviews and ensure that justice system objectives related to truthfulness and accuracy are enhanced as well as improve mental health outcomes of criminal offenders

The Needs of Veterans and Their Families

Servicemembers, veterans, and their families face unique challenges in the United States. Military service can be difficult for families and servicemembers due to the stress of deployments, parenting challenges, financial difficulties, frequent moves, mental health challenges and diagnoses, substance use and abuse, and other psychosocial and external factors. There is a wealth of information regarding mental health in veterans, mental health in veteran families is an understudied topic. A structured literature search and review was performed to provide a brief overview of the demographics of military members, veterans, and their families, to discuss the needs of those affiliated with the military and some of the long term effects of military service. Although the majority of studies for active duty servicemembers and veterans focus on spouses and children, military service can have a vast psychological impact on parents, grandparents, and other family members. This paper provides recommendations for further research and with a specific focus on the mental health needs of veterans and their families.Master of Public Healt

Desulphurization of drop-in fuel produced through lipid pyrolysis using brown grease and biosolids feedstocks

Biosolids can be incorporated as a water replacement into a two-stage thermal process for biofuel production from brown greases, significantly reducing the overall environmental impact of the process. Unfortunately, the use of biosolids resulted in an appreciable amount of sulphur in the pyrolytic oils produced in the final stage of the process. Here, we first evaluated the relationship between the sulphur content of fatty acids pyrolysis liquid products and pyrolytic conditions. Afterwards, we evaluated the sulphur removal efficiency of several approaches such as distillation, extraction and adsorption. Through a combination of distillation and liquid-liquid extraction, we achieved a desulphurization of up to 95% reaching a final sulphur concentration of 15 ± 4 ppm

Beam Studies of the Segmented Resistive WELL: a Potential Thin Sampling Element for Digital Hadron Calorimetry

Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) have the potential of constituting thin, robust sampling elements in Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL) in future colliders. We report on recent beam studies of new single- and double-THGEM-like structures; the multiplier is a Segmented Resistive WELL (SRWELL) - a single-faced THGEM in contact with a segmented resistive layer inductively coupled to readout pads. Several 10$\times$10 cm$^2$ configurations with a total thickness of 5-6 mm (excluding electronics) with 1 cm$^2$ pads coupled to APV-SRS readout were investigated with muons and pions. Detection efficiencies in the 98$$ range were recorded with average pad-multiplicity of $\sim$1.1. The resistive anode resulted in efficient discharge damping, with potential drops of a few volts; discharge probabilities were $\sim10^{-7}$ for muons and $\sim10^{-6}$ for pions in the double-stage configuration, at rates of a few kHz/cm$^2$. Further optimization work and research on larger detectors are underway.Comment: Presented at the $13^{th}$ Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, February 2013 and submitted to its proceeding

Concert recording 2021-11-08

[Track 1]. Six metamorphoses after Ovid. I. Pan ; IV. Bacchus ; V. Narcissus / Benjamin Britten -- [Track 2]. Wind quintet, op. 79. I. Allegro non troppo / August Klughardt -- [Track 3]. Shepherds of provence. I. Pastorale provencale ; II. Chant des berges provencaux (Call at dawn) ; III. Sous les etoiles (Beneath the stars) ; IV. Fete villageoise / Eugene Bozza -- [Track 4]. Trio, op. 87. I. Allegro / Ludwig van Beethoven -- [Track 5]. Brushstrokes. I. Monet / Alyssa Morris -- [Track 6]. The dark-eyed sailor / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; arranged by Bussick

A self-referenced in-situ arrival time monitor for X-ray free-electron lasers

We present a novel, highly versatile, and self-referenced arrival time monitor for measuring the femtosecond time delay between a hard X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser and an optical laser pulse, measured directly on the same sample used for pump-probe experiments. Two chirped and picosecond long optical supercontinuum pulses traverse the sample with a mutually fixed time delay of 970 fs, while a femtosecond X-ray pulse arrives at an instant in between both pulses. Behind the sample the supercontinuum pulses are temporally overlapped to yield near-perfect destructive interference in the absence of the X-ray pulse. Stimulation of the sample with an X-ray pulse delivers non-zero contributions at certain optical wavelengths, which serve as a measure of the relative arrival time of the X-ray pulse with an accuracy of better than 25 fs. We find an excellent agreement of our monitor with the existing timing diagnostics at the SACLA XFEL with a Pearson correlation value of 0.98. We demonstrate a high sensitivity to measure X-ray pulses with pulse energies as low as 30 $\mu$J. Using a free-flowing liquid jet as interaction sample ensures the full replacement of the sample volume for each X-ray/optical event, thus enabling its utility even at MHz repetition rate XFEL sources