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Erie County Legislature
New York State County Law allows each county to designate a board of supervisors to supervise the county. However, if the county chooses, it may establish an elected county legislative body to take on the functions, powers, obligations and duties of the board of supervisors. In Erie County this elected legislative body is the Erie County Legislature. The Erie County Legislature serves all of the residents of Erie County. In order to equally represent all residents, the county is broken up into legislative districts that are determined by Census population numbers. Erie County currently consists of 15 legislative districts. In every district, one elected Erie County Legislator represents approximately 62,000 citizens. These legislators “each operate a staffed district office which offers residents a variety of services.
Undergraduate Students’ Perception of the Consequences of Alcohol Consumption
Due to the high-risk outcomes of college drinking, much attention and research has focused on the issues of binge drinking, alcohol overconsumption, and the experience of adverse consequences due to drinking on college campuses. Yet, little research has been conducted regarding how college students perceive the consequences of drinking alcohol. This descriptive study examines students’ perceptions of a number of potential alcohol consequences (e.g., having a hangover, being ticketed or arrested, missing class or an assignment, or getting into a physical fight) and the extent to which they view them as motivators or deterrents to future drinking. An online survey was administered to 324 undergraduates from Butler University to examine these ideas. The survey measured participants’ perception of drinking consequences, social motivations to drink, friends’ support of drinking, alcohol use, and experience of drinking consequences. Survey findings revealed students with strong social motivations to drink and with strong support from friends to drink are more likely to perceive drinking consequences as motivators. Further, the survey demonstrated that students with positive perceptions of drinking consequences have higher levels of alcohol consumption than students who perceive alcohol consequences more negatively. The results from this study have the potential to benefit college administrators and researchers working to deter risky drinking and its potential adverse effects for college students
Open Meetings Law
By law, citizens have the right to attend meetings of public bodies, listen to the debates, and watch the decision-making process in action. These meetings are considered “open meetings.” Article seven of the New York State Public Officers Law is entitled, Open Meetings Law. This law lays out all of the requirements and exemptions for meetings held by public bodies. The Open Meetings Law went into effect in 1977
Public libraries in the social accountability of local administrations
This work represents a first reflection with respect to certain issues such as:
- the importance of social reporting, and in particular the use of the social accountability for
public libraries Italian in order to communicate more effectively on the outside their values; being
generally recognized the effectiveness of the balance for the purposes of reporting, there does not
seem to be any reasons why libraries should not take advantage of such an instrument;
- a higher visibility of public libraries, perceived not only by the professionals in the industry,
but also by the public administrations, in order to make more significant component the local
librarian within the administrations of reference, as agency for change in the community and
therefore of necessary service;
- analysis of best practices to recognized today, in order to highlight the methodologies and
the main features of some excellent Italian examples;
- Proposal for a methodology of investigation, through which retrieve the information
necessary for the preparation of a social accountability, based on standard can also be used in scope
librarian, as ISO 2789, 11620, 16489
Modeling Na clusters in Ar matrices
We present a microscopic model for Na clusters embedded in raregas matrices.
The valence electrons of the Na cluster are described by time-dependent
density-functional theory at the level of the local-density approximation
(LDA). Particular attention is paid to the semi-classical picture in terms of
Vlasov-LDA. The Na ions and Argon atoms are handled as classical particles
whereby the Ar atoms carry two degrees of freedom, position and dipole
polarization. The interaction between Na ions and electrons is mediated through
local pseudo-potentials. The coupling to the Ar atoms is described by
(long-range) polarization potentials and (short-range) repulsive cores. The
ingredients are taken from elsewhere developed standards. A final fine-tuning
is performed using the NaAr molecule as benchmark. The model is then applied to
embedded systems Na8ArN. By close comparison with quantum-mechanical results,
we explore the capability of the Vlasov-LDA to describe such embedded clusters.
We show that one can obtain a reasonable description by appropriate adjustments
in the fine-tuning phase of the model.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Annalen der Physi
Heterodyne Near-Field Scattering
We describe an optical technique based on the statistical analysis of the
random intensity distribution due to the interference of the near-field
scattered light with the strong transmitted beam. It is shown that, from the
study of the two-dimensional power spectrum of the intensity, one derives the
scattered intensity as a function of the scattering wave vector. Near-field
conditions are specified and discussed. The substantial advantages over
traditional scattering technique are pointed out, and is indicated that the
technique could be of interest for wave lengths other than visible light.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Soret driven convection in a colloidal solution heated from above at very large solutal Rayleigh number
Convection in a colloidal suspension with a large negative separation ratio
is studied experimentally by heating from above. Shadowgraph observation at
very large solutal Rayleigh numbers are reported as a function of time. Fast
relaxation oscillations are reported for the root mean square value of the
shadowgraph intensity. While pure fluids exhibit a transition to turbulent
convection for Rayleigh number of about 10^6, stable spoke-pattern planform
with up and down columnar flows are observed up to solutal Rayleigh numbers of
the order of 10^9. It is suggested that the surprising stability of the
planform against turbulence is due to nonlinear focusing arising from the
concentration dependence of the diffusion coefficient.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
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