Understanding Inequality and the Justice System Response: Charting a New Way Forward

This is one of a series of five papers outlining the particular domains and dimensions of inequality where new research may yield a better understanding of responses to this growing issue.This paper focuses on inequality in the justice system. Using a fact-based approach the recognizes the complexitites surrounding the issue, it argues that the system itself is implicated in the exacerbation of inequality, especially for blacks and other minorities. The first part of this paper addresses what is known about crime, offenders, and victims. The second part examines what is known about the justice system response, in particular how this response has, in fact, exacerbated inequality. The third part of this paper discusses promising directions for future research, as well as directions for future work on programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequality related to justice outcomes for youth ages 5 to 25 in the United States

Robust stability of linear systems: Some computational considerations

The cases of both additive and multiplicative perturbations were discussed and a number of relationships between the two cases were given. A number of computational aspects of the theory were also discussed, including a proposed new method for evaluating general transfer or frequency response matrices. The new method is numerically stable and efficient, requiring only operations to update for new values of the frequency parameter

Elastic orifice automatically regulates gas bearings

Elastic, pressure-sensitive orifice is used to automatically regulate the rate of gas flow into bearings under varying loads. Formed of a molded elastomer, theses orifices increase the stability of gas bearings

Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

gender, biodiversity, agrobiodiversity, indigenous knowledge, conservation, sustainable management, genetic

Slit regulated gas journal bearing Patent

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Recirculation of a Two-phase Fluid by Thermal and Capillary Pumping

Closed-cycle gas supply system for gas bearings using thermal and capillary pumpin

Keeping Signals Straight: How Cells Process Information and Make Decisions

As we become increasingly dependent on electronic information-processing systems at home and work, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that our very survival depends on highly complex biological information-processing systems. Each of the trillions of cells that form the human body has the ability to detect and respond to a wide range of stimuli and inputs, using an extraordinary set of signaling proteins to process this information and make decisions accordingly. Indeed, cells in all organisms rely on these signaling proteins to survive and proliferate in unpredictable and sometimes rapidly changing environments. But how exactly do these proteins relay information within cells, and how do they keep a multitude of incoming signals straight? Here, I describe recent efforts to understand the fidelity of information flow inside cells. This work is providing fundamental insight into how cells function. Additionally, it may lead to the design of novel antibiotics that disrupt the signaling of pathogenic bacteria or it could help to guide the treatment of cancer, which often involves information-processing gone awry inside human cells

Monte Carlo Estimation of the Density of the Sum of Dependent Random Variables

We study an unbiased estimator for the density of a sum of random variables that are simulated from a computer model. A numerical study on examples with copula dependence is conducted where the proposed estimator performs favourably in terms of variance compared to other unbiased estimators. We provide applications and extensions to the estimation of marginal densities in Bayesian statistics and to the estimation of the density of sums of random variables under Gaussian copula dependence