Alaska's System for Monitoring Compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

Pursuant to Section 223(1)(15) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and 28 CFR Part 31.303(f), states are required to describe their plans and procedures for annually monitoring compliance with the Act. Alaska's monitoring plan was developed by the Justice Center of the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1988 under contract with the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS).Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesI. The Monitoring Plan / A. Identification of Monitoring Universe / B. Classification of the Monitoring Universe / C. Inspection of Facilities / D. Data Collection and Verification / II. Barriers to Implementation of the Monitoring System / III. Violation Procedures / Appendix. Timetables for Completion of Monitoring Task

JJDP Monitoring Data — 1988: JJDP Violations and Juvenile Detention Counts for Lockups, Jails, Adult Correctional Facilities and Juvenile Detention Centers

This data supplement to the 1988 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report (Mar 1990) presents data on 1988 violations in Alaska of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), which mandates removal of status offenders and nonoffenders from secure detention and correctional facilities, sight and sound separation of juveniles and adults, and removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups.Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesJJDP Violations — 1988 / Offense Type by Duration of Detention — 1988 / All Facilities / Lockups / Jails / Correctional and Youth Facilitie

New electrocatalysts for hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells

Platinum-silver, palladium-gold, and platinum-gold alloys serve as oxygen reduction catalysts in high-current-density cells. Catalysts were tested on polytetrafluoroethylene-bonded cathodes and a hydrogen anode at an operating cell temperature of 80 degrees C

Development of cathodic electrocatalysts for use in low temperature hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells with an alkaline electrolyte Final report, 1 Jul. 1965 - 30 Jun. 1968

Development of cathodic electrocatalysts for use in low temperature hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells with alkaline electrolyt

Droplet shapes on structured substrates and conformal invariance

We consider the finite-size scaling of equilibrium droplet shapes for fluid adsorption (at bulk two-phase co-existence) on heterogeneous substrates and also in wedge geometries in which only a finite domain $\Lambda_{A}$ of the substrate is completely wet. For three-dimensional systems with short-ranged forces we use renormalization group ideas to establish that both the shape of the droplet height and the height-height correlations can be understood from the conformal invariance of an appropriate operator. This allows us to predict the explicit scaling form of the droplet height for a number of different domain shapes. For systems with long-ranged forces, conformal invariance is not obeyed but the droplet shape is still shown to exhibit strong scaling behaviour. We argue that droplet formation in heterogeneous wedge geometries also shows a number of different scaling regimes depending on the range of the forces. The conformal invariance of the wedge droplet shape for short-ranged forces is shown explicitly.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures. (Submitted to J.Phys.:Cond.Mat.

Development of cathodic electrocatalysts for use in low temperature H2/O2 fuel cells with an alkaline electrolyte Quarterly report, 1 Jul. 1965 - 30 Jun. 1967

Improved oxygen electrode for alkaline hydrox fuel cell

Development of cathodic electrocatalysts for use in low temperature H2/O2 fuel cells with an alkaline electrolyte Quarterly report, Jul. 1, 1965 - Jun. 30, 1967

Cathodic electrocatalyst materials studied for use in low temperature hydrogen oxygen fuel cells with alkaline electrolyt

Policies and Procedures for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring

Pursuant to Section 223(1)(15) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) of 1974 and 28 CFR Part 31.303(f), states are required to describe their plans and procedures for annually monitoring compliance with JJDPA. This document presents Alaska's monitoring procedures developed by the Justice Center of the University of Alaska Anchorage under contract with the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS).Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesPART 1: Monitoring Guidelines / I. Introduction / II. Startup/Initial Contacts / III. Identification of the Monitoring Universe / IV. Classification of the Monitoring Universe / V. Data Collection / VI. Site Visit/Inspection of Facilities / VII. Data Analysis / VIII. Preparation of Monitoring Report / APPENDICES / A. Checklist of Monitoring Activities / B. Monitoring Universe / C. Acronyms and Abbreviations Commonly Used in Detention Records / D. Mailing List / E. Monitoring Forms / F. Correspondence and Sample Letters / G. Alaska Laws, Regulations and Executive Orders Related to Juvenile Detention / PART 2: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention act of 1974 — As Amended Through December 31, 1989 / PART 3: The Formula Grant Regulation and Related Federal Register Issues / PART 4: The Monitoring Plan: Alaska's System for Monitoring Compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (1988) / PART 5: Field Audit of Compliance Monitoring System—Alaska, September 1987 / PART 6: Revised 1987 Jail Removal Plan / PART 7: Three Year Plan (Appendix G, 1987 Formula Grant Application) / PART 8: 1989 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Repor

Optimal management of perimenopausal depression

Only recently has the perimenopause become recognized as a time when women are at risk for new onset and recurrence of major depression. Untreated depression at this time not only exacerbates the course of a depressive illness, but also puts women at increased risk for sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Although antidepressant medication is the mainstay of treatment, adjunctive therapy, especially with estrogen replacement, may be indicated in refractory cases, and may speed the onset of antidepressant action. Many, but not all, studies, report that progesterone antagonizes the beneficial effects of estrogen. Although some antidepressants improve vasomotor symptoms, in general they are not as effective as estrogen alone for relieving these symptoms. Estrogen alone, however, does not generally result in remission of major depression in most (but not all) studies, but may provide benefit to some women with less severe symptoms if administered in therapeutic ranges. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in addition to estrogen are usually more beneficial in improving mood than SSRIs or estrogen treatment alone for major depression, whereas the selective norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitors do not require the addition of estrogen to exert their antidepressant effects in menopausal depression. In addition to attention to general health, hormonal status, and antidepressant treatment, the optimal management of perimenopausal depression also requires attention to the individual woman’s psychosocial and spiritual well being

A microscopic approach to critical phenomena at interfaces: an application to complete wetting in the Ising model

We study how the formalism of the Hierarchical Reference Theory (HRT) can be extended to inhomogeneous systems. HRT is a liquid state theory which implements the basic ideas of Wilson momentum shell renormalization group (RG) to microscopic Hamiltonians. In the case of homogeneous systems, HRT provides accurate results even in the critical region, where it reproduces scaling and non-classical critical exponents. We applied the HRT to study wetting critical phenomena in a planar geometry. Our formalism avoids the explicit definition of effective surface Hamiltonians but leads, close to the wetting transition, to the same renormalization group equation already studied by RG techiques. However, HRT also provides information on the non universal quantities because it does not require any preliminary coarse graining procedure. A simple approximation to the infinite HRT set of equations is discussed. The HRT evolution equation for the surface free energy is numerically integrated in a semi-infinite three-dimensional Ising model and the complete wetting phase transition is analyzed. A renormalization of the adsorption critical amplitude and of the wetting parameter is observed. Our results are compared to available Monte Carlo simulations.Comment: To be published in Phy. Rev.