The relationship of storm severity to directionally resolved radio emissions

Directionally resolved atmospheric radio frequency emission data were acquired from thunderstorms occurring in the central and southwestern United States. In addition, RF sferic tracking data were obtained from hurricanes and tropical depressions occurring in the Gulf of Mexico. The data were acquired using a crossed baseline phase interferometer operating at a frequency of 2.001 MHz. The received atmospherics were tested for phase linearity across the array, and azimuth/elevation angles of arrival were computed in real time. A histogram analysis of sferic burst count versus azimuth provided lines of bearing to centers of intense electrical activity. Analysis indicates a consistent capability of the phase linear direction finder to detect severe meteorological activity to distances of 2000 km from the receiving site. The technique evidences the ability to discriminate severe storms from nonsevere storms coexistent in large regional scale thunderstorm activity

Goal-Striving Stress, Social Economic Status, and the Mental Health of Black Americans

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75558/1/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08172.x.pd

Forecasting bank failures: Timeliness versus number of failures

Motivated by the observation that very few banks fail in normal years, we explore the impact of that pattern on the precision of a standard statistical failure model and discuss implications for regulation and risk management. Out-of-sample forecasting is found to be worse for a model fitted to recent data with few failures than for a model fitted to much older data with more failures

Goal‐Striving Stress and the Mental Health of College‐Educated Black American Men: The Protective Effects of System‐Blame

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112263/1/j.1939-0025.2011.01116.x.pd

Tensor Product Approximation (DMRG) and Coupled Cluster method in Quantum Chemistry

We present the Copupled Cluster (CC) method and the Density matrix Renormalization Grooup (DMRG) method in a unified way, from the perspective of recent developments in tensor product approximation. We present an introduction into recently developed hierarchical tensor representations, in particular tensor trains which are matrix product states in physics language. The discrete equations of full CI approximation applied to the electronic Schr\"odinger equation is casted into a tensorial framework in form of the second quantization. A further approximation is performed afterwards by tensor approximation within a hierarchical format or equivalently a tree tensor network. We establish the (differential) geometry of low rank hierarchical tensors and apply the Driac Frenkel principle to reduce the original high-dimensional problem to low dimensions. The DMRG algorithm is established as an optimization method in this format with alternating directional search. We briefly introduce the CC method and refer to our theoretical results. We compare this approach in the present discrete formulation with the CC method and its underlying exponential parametrization.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure

Impact of Social Issues on Public Sector Employees: Research Summary and Implications for Workplace Conflict Professionals

Employees in the Public Sector face a range of workplace conflicts from the “macro” to the “micro.” State and federal budget cutbacks can jeopardize programs, which can create conflicts with clients who no longer meet eligibility criteria and/or with coworkers whose positions are no longer funded. Increasing stress in and out of the workplace affects work and home life and employees across the spectrum need additional assistance managing the impact of these complicated issues. Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) were designed as workplace benefit programs to provide services and training to help employees manage the issues most affecting their work

What do family mediators do? A look at practices and models.

The principles and frameworks of family mediation were clearly articulated in a previous issue of Context (Butlin & Elliot, 2001). What I do , as a mediation researcher-practitioner, is try and understand what mediators are doing to practice these principles and fulfil these frameworks. I have been conducting nationwide research into mediation practice over the last two years, which as included a postal questionnaire to mediators all over the UK and observations of practice. This article presents preliminary findings from the survey

Parenting coordinators: An examination of an intervention for high conflict custody cases

Parenting coordination is a client-pay, hybrid alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process designed for parents and guardians involved in on-going, high conflict custody disputes. Although this practice has been known by different names in different states, “Special Master” in California, “Wiseperson” in New Mexico, “Custody Commissioner” in Hawaii, and “Family Court Advisor” in Arizona, all of these designations refer to a child-focused ADR process in which a mental health or legal professional with mediation training and experience assists high conflict families to implement their custody order. The basic idea underlying the parenting coordination process is that a parenting coordinator (PC) can act more quickly than court processes and with more authority than a mediator to resolve the seemingly continuous series of issues arising between high conflict parents. This is the result of the range and combination of roles and skills PCs are expected to have including education, assessment, mediation, and decision-making (AFCC, 2003). Practitioners of parenting coordinator have been the most vocal proponents of the practice and the most responsible for existing ethical guidelines through writing about their own experiences and proposing best practice models to deal with the difficult situations of these clients (Coates, et al. 2004; Boyan, & Termini, 2004; Garrity & Baris, 1994)

Community based divorce education programmes: Short-term and longer-term impacts

Surveys of mandatory parent education in the USA (M J Geasler and K R Blaisure, ‘A review of divorce education programme materials’ (1998) 47 Family Relations 167–175; M J Geasler and K R Blaisure, ‘1998 Nationwide survey of court-connected divorce education programmes’ (1999) 37 Family and Conciliation Courts Review 36–63; S L Pollet and M Lombreglia, ‘A nationwide survey of mandatory parent education’ (2008) 46(2) Family Court Review 375–394) have demonstrated the positive impact of well-designed, evidence-based programmes on children and families. Divorce education programmes for parents are now required in many jurisdictions in 46 states in the USA (Pollet and Lombreglia, above) and in several English-speaking countries around the world (K Blaisure, Divorce intervention and prevention: Comparison of policy initiatives in England/Wales and the US (The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2003)). Although programmes are provided in many places, very few of them have a strong, positive, evidence base that would encourage their application in locations where either no programme exists or existing programmes have not been demonstrated to be effective

Examining the Dispute Resolution Section Pro Bono Mediation Project Lessons learned and a plan for the future

From its inception in the autumn of 2008, of the Dispute Resolution Section’s Pro-Bono Mediation Project represented the best type of collaboration between members of the Dispute Resolution Section and community organizations, one designed to improve the lives of the citizens of North Carolina through the use of alternative dispute resolution. Every option explored and decision made was done in the spirit of the 4ALL Campaign. Those involved have the leadership of the North Carolina Bar Association to thank for their vision and lead-ership in implementing such an innovative and needed project