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Can Neuroscience Help Predict Future Antisocial Behavior?
Part I of this Article reviews the tools currently available to predict antisocial behavior. Part II discusses legal precedent regarding the use of, and challenges to, various prediction methods. Part III introduces recent neuroscience work in this area and reviews two studies that have successfully used neuroimaging techniques to predict recidivism. Part IV discusses some criticisms that are commonly levied against the various prediction methods and highlights the disparity between the attitudes of the scientific and legal communities toward risk assessment generally and neuroscience specifically. Lastly, Part V explains why neuroscience methods will likely continue to help inform and, ideally, improve the tools we use to help assess, understand, and predict human behavior
Counterexamples in the theory of fair division
The formal mathematical theory of fair division has a rich history dating
back at least to Steinhaus in the 1940's. In recent work in this area, several
general classes of errors have appeared along with confusion about the
necessity and sufficiency of certain hypotheses. It is the purpose of this
article to correct the scientific record and to point out with concrete
examples some of the pitfalls that have led to these mistakes. These examples
may serve as guideposts for future work.Comment: Available at http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/rgp_rsr/73
Investigation of LANDSAT follow-on thematic mapper spatial, radiometric and spectral resolution
The author has identified the following significant results. Fine resolution M7 multispectral scanner data collected during the Corn Blight Watch Experiment in 1971 served as the basis for this study. Different locations and times of year were studied. Definite improvement using 30-40 meter spatial resolution over present LANDSAT 1 resolution and over 50-60 meter resolution was observed, using crop area mensuration as the measure. Simulation studies carried out to extrapolate the empirical results to a range of field size distributions confirmed this effect, showing the improvement to be most pronounced for field sizes of 1-4 hectares. Radiometric sensitivity study showed significant degradation of crop classification accuracy immediately upon relaxation from the nominally specified values of 0.5% noise equivalent reflectance. This was especially the case for data which were spectrally similar such as that collected early in the growing season and also when attempting to accomplish crop stress detection
Spectro-Morphology of Galaxies
We present a quantitative method to classify galaxies, based on
multi-wavelength data and elaborated from the properties of nearby galaxies.
Our objective is to define an evolutionary method that can be used for low and
high redshift objects. We estimate the concentration of light (C) at the galaxy
center and the 180 degree-rotational asymmetry (A), computed at several
wavelengths, from ultraviolet (UV) to I-band. The variation of the indices of
concentration and asymmetry with the wavelength reflects the proportion and the
distribution of young and old stellar populations in galaxies. In general C is
found to decrease from optical to UV, and A is found to increase from optical
to UV: the patchy appearance of galaxies in UV with no bulge is often very
different from their counterpart at optical wavelengths, with prominent bulges
and more regular disks. The variation of C and A with the wavelength is
quantified. By this way, we are able to distinguish five types of galaxies that
we call spectro-morphological types: compact, ringed, spiral, irregular and
central-starburst galaxies, which can be differentiated by the repartition of
their stellar populations. We discuss in detail the morphology of galaxies of
the sample, and describe the morphological characteristics of each
spectro-morphological type. We apply spectro-morphology to three objects at a
redshift z=1 in the Hubble Deep Field North, that gives encouraging results for
applications to large samples of high-redshift galaxies. This method of
morphological classification could be used to study the evolution of the
morphology with the redshift and is expected to bring observational constraints
on scenarios of galaxy evolution.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic
Development of a global model for atmospheric backscatter at CO2 wavelengths
The variation of the aerosol backscattering at 10.6 micrometers within the free troposphere was investigated and a model to describe this variation was developed. The analysis combines theoretical modeling with the results contained within three independent data sets. The data sets used were obtained by the SAGE I/SAM II satellite experiments, the GAMETAG flight series, and by direct backscatter measurements. The theoretical work includes use of a bimodal, two component aerosol model, and the study of the microphysical and associated optical changes occurring within an aerosol plume. A consistent picture is obtained that describes the variation of the aerosol backscattering function in the free troposphere with altitude, latitude, and season
Development of global model for atmospheric backscatter at CO2 wavelengths
The improvement of an understanding of the variation of the aerosol backscattering at 10.6 micron within the free troposphere and the development model to describe this was undertaken. The analysis combines theoretical modeling with the results contained within three independent data sets. The data sets are obtained by the SAGE I/SAM II satellite experiments, the GAMETAG flight series and by direct backscatter measurements. The theoretical work includes use of a bimodal, two component aerosol model, and the study of the microphysical and associated optical changes occurring within an aerosol plume. A consistent picture is obtained, which describes the variation of the aerosol backscattering function in the free troposphere with altitude, latitude, and season. Most data are available and greatest consistency is found inside the Northern Hemisphere
Provably Secure Experimental Quantum Bit-String Generation
Coin tossing is a cryptographic task in which two parties who do not trust
each other aim to generate a common random bit. Using classical communication
this is impossible, but non trivial coin tossing is possible using quantum
communication. Here we consider the case when the parties do not want to toss a
single coin, but many. This is called bit string generation. We report the
experimental generation of strings of coins which are provably more random than
achievable using classical communication. The experiment is based on the ``plug
and play'' scheme developed for quantum cryptography, and therefore well suited
for long distance quantum communication.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. A complete security
analysis for the experiment is given in quant-ph/040812
Simple Impurity Embedded in a Spherical Jellium: Approximations of Density Functional Theory compared to Quantum Monte Carlo Benchmarks
We study the electronic structure of a spherical jellium in the presence of a
central Gaussian impurity. We test how well the resulting inhomogeneity effects
beyond spherical jellium are reproduced by several approximations of density
functional theory (DFT). Four rungs of Perdew's ladder of DFT functionals,
namely local density approximation (LDA), generalized gradient approximation
(GGA), meta-GGA and orbital-dependent hybrid functionals are compared against
our quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) benchmarks. We identify several distinct
transitions in the ground state of the system as the electronic occupation
changes between delocalized and localized states. We examine the parameter
space of realistic densities () and moderate depths of the
Gaussian impurity (). The selected 18 electron system (with closed-shell
ground state) presents transitions while the 30 electron system
(with open-shell ground state) exhibits transitions. For the former
system, the accuracy for the transitions is clearly improving with increasing
sophistication of functionals with meta-GGA and hybrid functionals having only
small deviations from QMC. However, for the latter system, we find much larger
differences for the underlying transitions between our pool of DFT functionals
and QMC. We attribute this failure to treatment of the exact exchange within
these functionals. Additionally, we amplify the inhomogeneity effects by
creating the system with spherical shell which leads to even larger errors in
DFT approximations.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRB as a regular article revisited
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