Does Involvement in Religion Help Prisoners Adjust to Prison? (FOCUS)

Research conducted by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency has uncovered an abundant variety of religious responses to incarceration. First, religious participation can help an inmate overcome the depression, guilt, and self-contempt that so often accompanies the prison sentence. Second, inmates may seek a way to avoid the constant threats faced in prison. In many ways, the prisoner's desire for religion is not very different from that of the free-world citizen in that he or she seeks religion to make life more livable

Du hast keine Chance, aber nutze sie. Vom Pariser Frühling zum Pariser Herbst. Zur Bedeutung der Schülerrevolte im November 1990

Der Beitrag berichtet über die Schülerrevolte in Frankreich 1990. Die von den Demonstranten eingeklagten Maßnahmen lassen auf den Wunsch nach mehr Disziplin und Effizienz schließen: Einstellung von mehr Lehrern mit geringerem Stundendeputat, die, auf diese Weise entlastet, einen konzentrierteren Unterricht gewährleisten könnten; mehr Verwaltungspersonal für einen reibungslosen Ablauf der administrativen Prozesse; mehr finanzielle Mittel für die Anschaffung von Büchern und Materialien. Zwar wurde auch der Ruf nach größerer Redefreiheit in den Schulen und nach pädagogischen Reformen laut, er verhallte aber ungehört neben den pragmatischen Forderungen. (DIPF/Orig.

Directed percolation with incubation times

We introduce a model for directed percolation with a long-range temporal diffusion, while the spatial diffusion is kept short ranged. In an interpretation of directed percolation as an epidemic process, this non-Markovian modification can be understood as incubation times, which are distributed accordingly to a Levy distribution. We argue that the best approach to find the effective action for this problem is through a generalization of the Cardy-Sugar method, adding the non-Markovian features into the geometrical properties of the lattice. We formulate a field theory for this problem and renormalize it up to one loop in a perturbative expansion. We solve the various technical difficulties that the integrations possess by means of an asymptotic analysis of the divergences. We show the absence of field renormalization at one-loop order, and we argue that this would be the case to all orders in perturbation theory. Consequently, in addition to the characteristic scaling relations of directed percolation, we find a scaling relation valid for the critical exponents of this theory. In this universality class, the critical exponents vary continuously with the Levy parameter.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures. v.2: minor correction

Gas Enrichment at Liquid-Wall Interfaces

Molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones systems are performed to study the effects of dissolved gas on liquid-wall and liquid-gas interfaces. Gas enrichment at walls is observed which for hydrophobic walls can exceed more than two orders of magnitude when compared to the gas density in the bulk liquid. As a consequence, the liquid structure close to the wall is considerably modified, leading to an enhanced wall slip. At liquid-gas interfaces gas enrichment is found which reduces the surface tension.Comment: main changes compared to version 1: flow simulations are included as well as different types of gase