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"Meddling with Royal Hearts": Interiority and Privanza (1598-1643)
This paper studies how seventeenth-century writers in Spain elaborated different conceptions of interiority in connection with the intimacy they imagined between the king and his favorite or privado. Authors in the days of Lerma, Uceda and Olivares portrayed the relation between king and privado in terms that generally relied on inherited notions of ideal friendship, which nonetheless would clash with concerns about the ubiquity of deceit, simulation and dissimulation at the court. This seemed to set boundaries to the unlimited transparency and trust expected between friends. I will address three issues. First, the way writers imagine the favorite’s access to the king’s secrets, as well as the nature of these secrets. Second, the space of intimacy and shared loneliness in which they conceive the friendship of king and privado to materialize. Third, the transformations that take place in the favorite’s interiority as a result of his relation with the king and his position at the court
Bright branes for strongly coupled plasmas
We use holographic techniques to study photon production in a class of finite
temperature, strongly coupled, large-Nc SU(Nc) quark-gluon plasmas with Nf <<
Nc quark flavours. Our results are valid to leading order in the
electromagnetic coupling constant but non-perturbatively in the SU(Nc)
interactions. The spectral function of electromagnetic currents and other
related observables exhibit an interesting structure as a function of the
photon frequency and the quark mass. We discuss possible implications for heavy
ion collision experiments.Comment: 29 pages, 14 figure
Juvenile Justice in Florida: What Kind of Future?
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency conducted a study to determine the potential benefits to Florida of adopting a data-driven approach to juvenile corrections that is based on the best national research. This study seeks to complement the ongoing work of the Florida Office of Program Policy and Government accountability (OPPAGA). In this study, NCCD has assessed the potential impact of alternative program and policy options, and provided recommendations that move toward a model continuum of graduated sanctions
Reforming Juvenile Detention in Florida
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency was sponsored by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to independently study and assess the quality of care in juvenile detention facilities in Florida and how effectively resources are being used. This study is a fair assessment of the conditions of confinement, needs of youth entering the system, and services received as reported by youth and staff
Thermal photon production in a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
Photons produced in heavy ion collisions escape virtually unperturbed from
the surrounding medium, thus representing an excellent probe of the conditions
at the emission point. Using the gauge/gravity duality, we calculate the rate
of photon production in an anisotropic, strongly coupled N=4 plasma with Nf<<Nc
quark flavors. We consider arbitrary orientations of the photon momentum with
respect to the anisotropic direction, as well as arbitrary values of the
anisotropy. We present results for the correlation functions of two
electromagnetic currents and for the electric conductivity. These quantities
can be larger or smaller than the isotropic ones, depending on the direction of
propagation and polarization of the photons. The total production rate is
however always larger than the isotropic one, independently of the frequency,
direction of propagation, and value of the anisotropy.Comment: 27 pages, 13 figures; v2: minor changes, added reference
Executive Summary: Reforming Juvenile Detention in Florida
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency was sponsored by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to independently study and assess the quality of care in juvenile detention facilities in Florida and how effectively resources are being used. This summary provides major findings from the study and recommendations based on these findings
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency's Evaluation of the Project Development of National Institute of Corrections/Child Welfare League of America's Planning and Intervention Sites Funded to Address the Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) was contracted by the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) to conduct a process and outcome evaluation of program development for demonstration sites funded by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC). The grantees were to develop projects that would address the needs of children of incarcerated parents. There were ten demonstration sites, four of which received 18 month planning grants, and six of which received three year grants toimplement their intervention programs. The goal of the evaluation was to gain a better understanding of the processes involved in developing and implementing programs that address the needs of children of incarcerated parents
Hadron production in electron-positron annihilation computed from the gauge gravity correspondence
We provide a non-perturbative expression for the hadron production in
electron-positron annihilation at zero temperature in a strongly coupled,
large-Nc SU(Nc) field theory with Nf << Nc quark flavors. The resulting
expressions are valid to leading order in the electromagnetic coupling constant
but non-perturbatively in the SU(Nc) interactions and the mass of the quark. We
obtain this quantity by computing the imaginary part of the hadronic vacuum
polarization function Pi_q using holographic techniques, providing an
alternative to the known method that uses the spectrum of infinitely stable
mesons determined by the normalizable modes of the appropriated fields in the
bulk. Our result exhibits a structure of poles localized at specific real
values of q^2, which coincide with the ones found using the normalizable modes,
and extends it offering the unique analytic continuation of this distribution
to a function defined for values of q^2 over the complex plane. This analytic
continuation permits to include a finite decay width for the mesons. By
comparison with experimental data we find qualitatively good agreement on the
shape of the first pole, when using the rho meson parameters and choosing a
proper normalization factor. We then estimate the contribution to the anomalous
magnetic moment of the muon finding an agreement within 25%, for this choice of
parameters.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure. Extended version with minor changes in emphasis
and references adde
Bridging Community, Research, and Action: An Emerging Center on Latino Youth Development (FOCUS)
This NCCD FOCUS is an update on the community conversations held across California with Latino community stakeholders on the status of Latino youth and the creation of a Center on Latino Youth Development
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