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Alaska Results First Initiative: Progress Report & Initial Findings
This report presents the initial results of Alaska’s Results First Initiative, which is examining both the effectiveness and the efficiency of the state's adult criminal justice programs by conducting a comprehensive review of the full array of programs funded by the state. The review includes a thorough inventory of state-funded programs, determining the proportion of those programs that are evidence-based, and detailing both the costs of operating those programs, as well as the benefits derived from them via reductions in offender recidivism. The Alaska Results First Iniative is a participant in the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, a "smart justice" approach to reducing recidivism under the auspices of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, that is being led in our Alaska by the Alaska Justice Information Center (AJiC), housed in the UAA Justice Center.Jointly funded by the State of Alaska and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority[Introduction] /
Organization of Report /
Key Findings /
SECTION ONE: Alaska RF Initiative Program Inventory /
Identifying Alaska’s Adult Criminal Justice Programs /
What is a Program? /
Collecting Budgetary Data for Adult Criminal Justice Programs /
SECTION TWO: Matching Adult Criminal Justice Programs to the Evidence Base /
SECTION THREE: NEXT STEPS — Transitioning to Entering Programs into the Benefit-Cost Model /
Task #1: Estimating Per-Participant Costs for Alaska’s Programs /
Task #2: Estimating Criminal Justice Resource Use and Cost Parameters /
Task #3: Recidivism Cohorts and Conducting Recidivism Analyses /
Task #4: Populate the Benefit-Cost Model and Conduct Analyses /
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIO
Three-Loop Calculation of the Anyonic Full Cluster Expansion
We calculate the perturbative correction to every cluster coefficient of a
gas of anyons through second order in the anyon coupling constant, as described
by Chern-Simons field theory.Comment: 10 pages, PlainTex with macro 'manumac', include
On Core Collapse Supernovae in Normal and in Seyfert Galaxies
This paper estimates the relative frequency of different types of
core-collapse supernovae, in terms of the ratio f between the number of type
Ib--Ic and of type II supernovae. We estimate f independently for all normal
and Seyfert galaxies whose radial velocity is <=14000 km/s, and which had at
least one supernova event recorded in the Asiago catalogue from January 1986 to
August 2000. We find that the ratio f is approx. 0.23+/-0.05 in normal
galaxies. This value is consistent with constant star formation rate and with a
Salpeter Initial Mass Function and average binary rate approx. 50 %. On the
contrary, Seyfert galaxies exceed the ratio f in normal galaxies by a factor
approx. 4 at a confidence level >= 2 sigma. A caveat is that the numbers for
Seyferts are still small (6 type Ib-Ic and 6 type II supernovae discovered as
yet). Assumed real, this excess of type Ib and Ic with respect to type II
supernovae, may indicate a burst of star formation of young age (<= 20 Myr), a
high incidence of binary systems in the inner regions (r <= 0.4 R25) of Seyfert
galaxies, or a top-loaded mass function.Comment: Accepted for Publication in MNRA
Dynamical seesaw mechanism for Dirac neutrinos
So far we have not been able to establish that, as theoretically expected,
neutrinos are their own anti-particles. Here we propose a dynamical way to
account for the Dirac nature of neutrinos and the smallness of their mass in
terms of a new variant of the seesaw paradigm in which the energy scale of
neutrino mass generation could be accessible to the current LHC experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Decaying warm dark matter and neutrino masses
Neutrino masses may arise from spontaneous breaking of ungauged lepton
number. Due to quantum gravity effects the associated Goldstone boson - the
majoron - will pick up a mass. We determine the lifetime and mass required by
cosmic microwave background observations so that the massive majoron provides
the observed dark matter of the Universe. The majoron DDM scenario fits nicely
in models where neutrino masses arise a la seesaw, and may lead to other
possible cosmological implications.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Replaced to match published version. Minor
changes made to address referees' comments. References adde
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