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Predictors of psychosocial functioning change in state\u27s custody at six months
Our nation\u27s most troubled, needy, and vulnerable youths are among the 650,000 children in out-of-home care (National Center for Policy Analysis, 1997). These youths have been determined to be abused, delinquent, unruly, dependent, and/or neglected. In Tennessee alone there is presently a total of 11,390 children in out-of-home care (State of Tennessee Department of Finance, 1998). The number of children in out-of-home care increases as the number of children entering care outnumber those leaving care (Children\u27s Bureau, 1999). Foster Care Drift was a term first used in the 1970\u27s when the number of children in out-ofhome care soared to 500,000 in 1977 (National Commission on Children, 1990). This prompted passing of legislation such as the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - Public Law 96-272 and The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 - P.L. 105-89. Public Law 96-272 was the first attempt to reduce the number of children in out-of-home care. Permanency planning framework was to end foster care drift; the law\u27s fiscal incentives were intended to assist in increasing the adoption of special needs children and to encourage the development of placement prevention programs. The law also required states to create an information system on the children in states care so that basic demographic information regarding these children and their families would be readily available
Predictors of psychosocial functioning change in state\u27s custody at six months
Our nation\u27s most troubled, needy, and vulnerable youths are among the 650,000 children in out-of-home care (National Center for Policy Analysis, 1997). These youths have been determined to be abused, delinquent, unruly, dependent, and/or neglected. In Tennessee alone there is presently a total of 11,390 children in out-of-home care (State of Tennessee Department of Finance, 1998). The number of children in out-of-home care increases as the number of children entering care outnumber those leaving care (Children\u27s Bureau, 1999). Foster Care Drift was a term first used in the 1970\u27s when the number of children in out-ofhome care soared to 500,000 in 1977 (National Commission on Children, 1990). This prompted passing of legislation such as the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - Public Law 96-272 and The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 - P.L. 105-89. Public Law 96-272 was the first attempt to reduce the number of children in out-of-home care. Permanency planning framework was to end foster care drift; the law\u27s fiscal incentives were intended to assist in increasing the adoption of special needs children and to encourage the development of placement prevention programs. The law also required states to create an information system on the children in states care so that basic demographic information regarding these children and their families would be readily available
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Temporal summation in a neuromimetic micropillar laser
Neuromimetic systems are systems mimicking the functionalities orarchitecture
of biological neurons and may present an alternativepath for efficient
computing and information processing. We demonstratehere experimentally
temporal summation in a neuromimetic micropillarlaser with integrated saturable
absorber. Temporal summation is theproperty of neurons to integrate delayed
input stimuli and to respondby an all-or-none kind of response if the inputs
arrive in a sufficientlysmall time window. Our system alone may act as a fast
optical coincidence detector and paves the way to fast photonic spike
processing networks
Quantum dot-cavity strong-coupling regime measured through coherent reflection spectroscopy in a very high-Q micropillar
We report on the coherent reflection spectroscopy of a high-quality factor
micropillar, in the strong coupling regime with a single InGaAs annealed
quantum dot. The absolute reflectivity measurement is used to study the
characteristics of our device at low and high excitation power. The strong
coupling is obtained with a g=16 \mueV coupling strength in a 7.3\mum diameter
micropillar, with a cavity spectral width kappa=20.5 \mueV (Q=65 000). The
factor of merit of the strong-coupling regime, 4g/kappa=3, is the current
state-of-the-art for a quantum dot-micropillar system
Noise investigation of a dual-frequency VECSEL for application to Cesium clocks
We theoretically and experimentally study the noise of a class-A
dual-frequency vertical external cavity surface emitting laser operating at
Cesium clock wavelength. The intensity noises of the two orthogonally polarized
modes and the phase noise of their beatnote are investigated. The intensity
noises of the two modes and their correlations are well predicted by a theory
based on coupled rate equations. The phase noise of the beatnote is well
described by considering both thermal effects and the effect of phase-amplitude
coupling. The good agreement between theory and experiment indicates possible
ways to further decrease the laser noises
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