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Multidimensional measurement within adult protective services: design and initial testing of the tool for risk, interventions, and outcomes.
This study describes the development, field utility, reliability, and validity of the multidimensional Tool for Risk, Interventions, and Outcomes (TRIO) for use in Adult Protective Services (APS). The TRIO is designed to facilitate consistent APS practice and collect data related to multiple dimensions of typical interactions with APS clients, including the investigation and assessment of risks, the provision of APS interventions, and associated health and safety outcomes. Initial tests of the TRIO indicated high field utility, social worker "relevance and buy-in," and inter-rater reliability. TRIO concurrent validity was demonstrated via appropriate patterns of TRIO item differentiation based on the type of observed confirmed abuse or neglect; and predictive validity was demonstrated by prediction of the risk of actual APS recurrence. The TRIO is a promising new tool that can help meet the challenges of providing and documenting effective APS practices and identifying those at high risk for future APS recurrence
Surface spin waves in superconducting and insulating ferromagnets
Surface magnetization waves are studied on a semi-infinite magnetic medium in
the perpendicular geometry. Both superconducting and insulating ferromagnets
are considered. Exchange and dipole energies are taken into account, as well as
retardation effects. At large wave vectors, the spectrum for a superconductor
and insulator is the same, though for the former the branch is terminated much
earlier than for the latter due to excitation of plasmons. At small wave
vectors, the surface wave is more robust in the superconductor since it is
separated from the bulk continuum by a finite gap.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Thermodynamic Entropy And The Accessible States of Some Simple Systems
Comparison of the thermodynamic entropy with Boltzmann's principle shows that
under conditions of constant volume the total number of arrangements in simple
thermodynamic systems with temperature-independent heat capacities is TC/k. A
physical interpretation of this function is given for three such systems; an
ideal monatomic gas, an ideal gas of diatomic molecules with rotational motion,
and a solid in the Dulong-Petit limit of high temperature. T1/2 emerges as a
natural measure of the number of accessible states for a single particle in one
dimension. Extension to N particles in three dimensions leads to TC/k as the
total number of possible arrangements or microstates. The different microstates
of the system are thus shown a posteriori to be equally probable, with
probability T-C/k, which implies that for the purposes of counting states the
particles of the gas are distinguishable. The most probable energy state of the
system is determined by the degeneracy of the microstates.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Approximate Analytic Solution for the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Wave Packets undergoing Arbitrary Dispersion
We apply expansion methods to obtain an approximate expression in terms of
elementary functions for the space and time dependence of wave packets in a
dispersive medium. The specific application to pulses in a cold plasma is
considered in detail, and the explicit analytic formula that results is
provided. When certain general initial conditions are satisfied, these
expressions describe the packet evolution quite well. We conclude by employing
the method to exhibit aspects of dispersive pulse propagation in a cold plasma,
and suggest how predicted and experimental effects may be compared to improve
the theoretical description of a medium's dispersive properties.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, RevTe
Limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers
It is shown that even a single pair created by a super strong laser
field in vacuum would cause development of an avalanche-like QED cascade which
rapidly depletes the incoming laser pulse. This confirms the old N. Bohr
conjecture that the electric field of the critical QED strength
could never be created.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Small Disks and Semiclassical Resonances
We study the effect on quantum spectra of the existence of small circular
disks in a billiard system. In the limit where the disk radii vanish there is
no effect, however this limit is approached very slowly so that even very small
radii have comparatively large effects. We include diffractive orbits which
scatter off the small disks in the periodic orbit expansion. This situation is
formally similar to edge diffraction except that the disk radii introduce a
length scale in the problem such that for wave lengths smaller than the order
of the disk radius we recover the usual semi-classical approximation; however,
for wave lengths larger than the order of the disk radius there is a
qualitatively different behaviour. We test the theory by successfully
estimating the positions of scattering resonances in geometries consisting of
three and four small disks.Comment: Final published version - some changes in the discussion and the
labels on one figure are correcte
Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage analogs in classical physics
Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) is a well established technique
for producing coherent population transfer in a three-state quantum system. We
here exploit the resemblance between the Schrodinger equation for such a
quantum system and the Newton equation of motion for a classical system
undergoing torque to discuss several classical analogs of STIRAP, notably the
motion of a moving charged particle subject to the Lorentz force of a
quasistatic magnetic field, the orientation of a magnetic moment in a slowly
varying magnetic field, the Coriolis effect and the inertial frame dragging
effect. Like STIRAP, those phenomena occur for counterintuitively ordered field
pulses and are robustly insensitive to small changes in the interaction
properties
Diffractive orbits in isospectral billiards
Isospectral domains are non-isometric regions of space for which the spectra
of the Laplace-Beltrami operator coincide. In the two-dimensional Euclidean
space, instances of such domains have been given. It has been proved for these
examples that the length spectrum, that is the set of the lengths of all
periodic trajectories, coincides as well. However there is no one-to-one
correspondence between the diffractive trajectories. It will be shown here how
the diffractive contributions to the Green functions match nevertheless in a
''one-to-three'' correspondence.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
Temperature-dependent quantum electron transport in 2D point contact
We consider a transmission of electrons through a two-dimensional ballistic
point contact in the low-conductance regime below the 0.7-anomaly. The
scattering of electrons by Friedel oscillations of charge density results in a
contribution to the conductance proportional to the temperature. The sign of
this linear term depends on the range of the electron-electron interaction and
appears to be negative for the relevant experimental parameters.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Apparent Superluminal Behavior
The apparent superluminal propagation of electromagnetic signals seen in
recent experiments is shown to be the result of simple and robust properties of
relativistic field equations. Although the wave front of a signal passing
through a classically forbidden region can never move faster than light, an
attenuated replica of the signal is reproduced ``instantaneously'' on the other
side of the barrier. The reconstructed signal, causally connected to the
forerunner rather than the bulk of the input signal, appears to move through
the barrier faster than light.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
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