Book Review of \u3ci\u3e Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology\u3c/i\u3e by John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys

As an undergraduate sociology major, the only thing I learned about Oklahoman Laud Humphreys\u27s classic, Tearoom Trade (1970) was how it violated standards of informed consent in social science research. As Galliher, Brekhus, and Keys recount in their biography, Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology, sociology graduate student Laud Humphreys needed to supplement his (quite likely, participant) observational research of men who had sex in public bathrooms (i.e., tearooms) in St. Louis in the mid-1960s with a formal questionnaire. Knowing that these men would never agree if they knew they were selected because of their participation in highly stigmatized and criminal behavior, Humphreys recorded their license plates, got their home addresses, and interviewed them as part of a community health survey. Herein lies the deception and the major source of the controversy. What I didn\u27t fully appreciate when I was a student, however, and what the authors so deftly illuminate is the importance of this work not only for debates around ethical issues of social science research, but more importantly, perhaps, for the study of sexuality, deviance, and urban life

Book Review of \u3ci\u3e Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology\u3c/i\u3e by John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, and David P. Keys

As an undergraduate sociology major, the only thing I learned about Oklahoman Laud Humphreys\u27s classic, Tearoom Trade (1970) was how it violated standards of informed consent in social science research. As Galliher, Brekhus, and Keys recount in their biography, Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology, sociology graduate student Laud Humphreys needed to supplement his (quite likely, participant) observational research of men who had sex in public bathrooms (i.e., tearooms) in St. Louis in the mid-1960s with a formal questionnaire. Knowing that these men would never agree if they knew they were selected because of their participation in highly stigmatized and criminal behavior, Humphreys recorded their license plates, got their home addresses, and interviewed them as part of a community health survey. Herein lies the deception and the major source of the controversy. What I didn\u27t fully appreciate when I was a student, however, and what the authors so deftly illuminate is the importance of this work not only for debates around ethical issues of social science research, but more importantly, perhaps, for the study of sexuality, deviance, and urban life

A signaling protocol for service function localization

Current proposals for chaining service functions (SFs) do not address some critical management issues, such as the discovery of SF instances close to IP data paths. This information is crucial for deploying complex services both in large cloud networks, where SFs may be moved or replicated, and in the emerging fog/mobile edge computing systems. For this purpose, in this letter, we propose the distributed off-path signaling protocol. We show the protocol functions and demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness by experimental results

Development and validation of a 3D coupled hydrologic-biogeochemical model for evaluation of the impact of water-table management on nitrate loads from tile-drained agricultural fields

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Estimating shallow recharge and discharge in northeastern Illinois using GIS and pattern recognition procedure

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Multicriteria management of groundwater quality under uncertainty

The primary purpose of this research project is to incorporate parameter uncertainty into the development of multicriteria planning and management tools for groundwater quality problems. We have focused upon three criteria--cost, water quality, and sensitivity . 'We have also focused upon a particular type of management strategy--the use of injection and extraction wells to control and remove a contaminant plume. Two different stochastic management tools have been developed in this project--the Marginal Sensitivity Technique (MST), and the Parameter Configuration Technique (PCT) . The former technique designs a "best" pumping scheme with respect to cost and parameter sensitivity and determines the tradeoff between these two criteria. The latter technique seeks to identify unfavorable (but physically plausible) spatial distributions of groundwater parameters. The MST uses an efficient method to compute the sensitivity of the hydraulic gradient along the plume boundary with respect to changes in transmissivity values throughout the flow domain. The maximum sensitivity is constrained to be less than or equal to a user-supplied parameter . A parametric linear programming algorithm is used to determine the tradeoff between cost and sensitivity. The PCT finds a "bad" set of spatially varying transmissivity values by solving a constrained optimization problem. The constraints, which guarantee that the transmissivity field is phsically reasonable, are based upon geostatistical concepts. The MST has been applied to a simple hypothetical problem involving uniform flow through a two-dimensional, homogeneous aquifer. The MST shows that it is possible to increase pumping (i.e., cost) in such a way so as to manipulate the groundwater system into states of low sensitivity to parameter changes. A hypothetical example problem was constructed to illustrate the use of the PCT. Two pumpout schemes were designed, under the assumption of uniform transmissivity; one scheme was based on one extraction well, the other on one extraction and one injection well. The least-cost design (pumping scheme) of each was then subjected to a PCT-generated transmissivity field. For the dataset used, the least-cost one-well scheme captured 85% of the contaminant and the two-well design captured 86%.U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Surve

Feminist Scholarship Review: Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Liberal Arts Education

Published from 1991 through 2007 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, the Feminist Scholarship Review is a literary journal that describes women\u27s experiences around the world. FSR began as a review of feminist scholarly material, but evolved into a journal for poetry and short storie