FY 1998 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report

This report was superseded by an amended FY 1998 compliance monitoring report prepared by Eric W. Weatherby, Juvenile Probabation Officer IV, Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice, July 2001.The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) 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. In Alaska, 3 instances of status offenders held in secure detention were recorded in FY 1998, compared with 485 violations in the baseline year of CY 1976. 2 separation violations were recorded in FY 1998, representing a 99.8% reduction from the CY 1976 baseline of 824 violations. 57 jail removal violations were projected (52 (actual), representing an 93% reduction from the CY 1980 baseline.Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth ServicesA. General Information / B. Removal of Status Offenders and Nonoffenders from Secure Detention and Correctional Facilities / C. Full Compliance Request / D. Progress Made in Achieving Removal of Status Offenders and Nonoffenders from Secure Detention and Correctional Facilities / E. Separation of Juveniles and Adults / F. Removal of Juveniles from Adult Jails and Lockups / G. De Minimis Request: Substantive / APPENDICES / I. Method of Analysis / II. Fiscal Year 1998 Violations by Offense Type and Location / III. Common Offense Acronym

NASTRAN used in a production environment

A finite element analysis procedure built around the NASTRAN system is assessed. A number of support programs that were either written or modified to interface with NASTRAN and some improvements that were made to NASTRAN itself are noted. Some typical models are analyzed and an actual schedule is followed for constructing and analyzing the models to support a large design program

Optimum maneuvers of hypervelocity vehicles

Optimum maneuvering of glide vehicle at hypersonic speed

Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors

While laboratory instruction is a cornerstone of physics education, the impact of student behaviours in labs on retention, persistence in the field, and the formation of students' physics identity remains an open question. In this study, we performed in-lab observations of student actions over two semesters in two pedagogically different sections of the same introductory physics course. We used a cluster analysis to identify different categories of student behaviour and analyzed how they correlate with lab structure and gender. We find that, in lab structures which fostered collaborative group work and promoted decision making, there was a task division along gender lines with respect to laptop and equipment usage (and found no such divide among students in guided verification labs).Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 3 table

Does Aerobic Exercise Decrease Bloating Symptoms in Females with Pre-Menstrual Syndrome?

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this selective EBM review is to determine whether aerobic exercise is effective at improving bloating symptoms in females with premenstrual syndrome. STUDY DESIGN: A systematic review of two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and one quasi-experimental trial (analyzed as a case series) published in English after 2010. DATA SOURCES: All articles were obtained from peer reviewed databases and journals via PubMed, AMED, Cochrane Library. OUTCOMES MEASURED: The outcome measured was reduction in bloating symptoms after an aerobic exercise regimen using the questionnaires of temporary determination of PMS for Dehnavi et al, premenstrual distress questionnaire and daily symptom report for Maged et al., and Menstrual Symptom Questionnaire for Vishnupriya and Rajarajeswarm. RESULTS: In the RCT conducted by Dehnavi et al (BMC Womens Health. 2018: 18 (1):80.doi:10.1186/s12905-018-0565-5), there was an improvement in bloating with a mean change from baseline of -0.54 which was determined to be statistically significant with a p value of 0.01. In the RCT conducted by Maged et al (Arch Gynecol Obstet.2018;297(4):951-959. doi:10.1007/s00404-018-4664-1), there was improvement in bloating with a mean change from baseline of -55.05, which was determined to be statistically significant with a p value of 0.0001. In the case series analysis from the study conducted by Vishnupriya and Rajarajeswarma (J Obstet Gynaecol India. 2011;61(6):675-685. doi:10.1007/s13224-011-0117-5), there was improvement in bloating noted with a mean change of -2.65 which with a p value of 0.000 was found to be statistically insignificant. CONCLUSION: While a reduction in bloating symptoms was found by all three studies based on a decrease in mean change from baseline, the statistical significance was variable across the studies. Due to high variability and limitations across all three studies, further research is needed to better evaluate the effects of aerobic exercise on reduction of bloating symptoms in individuals with PMS

Turbulence-Turbine Interaction: The Basis for the Development of the TurbSim Stochastic Simulator

A combination of taller wind turbines with more flexible rotors and towers operating in turbulent conditions that are not well understood is contributing to much higher than anticipated maintenance and repairs costs and is associated with lower energy production. This report documents evidence of this and offers the turbine designers an expanded tool that resolves many of these shortcomings

Evolution of basin and range structure in the Ruby Mountains and vicinity, Nevada

Results from various age dating techniques, seismic reflection profiling hydrocarbon maturation studies, and structural analysis were used to evaluate the Cenozoic deformation in the Ruby Mountains and adjoining ranges (pinyon Range and Cortez Range) in Elko and Eureka Counties, Nevada. Age dating techniques used include potassium-argon ages of biotites from granites published by Kistler et al. (1981) and fission track ages from apatite and zircon. Fission track ages from apatite reflect a closing temperature of 100 plus or minus 20 deg C. Zircon fission track ages reflect a closing temperature of 175 plus or minus 25 deg C and potassium-argon ages from brotite reflect a closing temperature of 250 plus or minus 30 deg C. Thus these results allow a reasonably precise tracking of the evolution of the ranges during the Cenozoic. Seismic reflection data are available from Huntington Valley. Access to seismic reflection data directly to the west of the Harrison Pass Pluton in the central Ruby Mountains was obtained. In addition results are available from several deep exploration holes in Huntington Valley

The Effects of Simultaneous Script-Training and Fading Procedures on the Mand Variability of Children with Autism

Individuals with autism often display rote and repetitive responding across behavioral topographies. One area that is often affected is the individual’s verbal repertoire. In an attempt to build and expand verbal repertoires, script and script fading procedures have often been implemented to teach individuals new and varied verbal behavior. Script training and fading procedures have also been used specifically to remediate deficits in an individual’s mand repertoire. Researchers have examined the effects of script training and fading procedures on the variability within an individual’s mand repertoire. This line of research is of great importance since a lack of variability in mands can limit an individual’s access to desired and/or needed items as well as social interactions. In the present study, we implemented simultaneous script training and fading procedures to increase the variability of mands used by three preschool-aged children (one male and two females) diagnosed with autism. We implemented these procedures in an attempt to promote mand variability using antecedent only procedures and to teach variability explicitly in our script training and fading preparation. It was also our goal to address some of the limitations that arose in the previously conducted mand variability studies, namely, the suppression of the default mand frame. At the conclusion of the study, and following procedural modifications, all three participants demonstrated an increase in variability of mand frames. This increase was observed following the inclusion of extinction procedures and following low levels of variability while using antecedent-only procedures. Participants in this study demonstrated an average of one mand frame following antecedent-only procedures and this increased to an average of three mand frames following the inclusion of extinction procedures. The combination of the antecedent procedures and extinction further increased variability across participants. The need for the extinction condition led to many limitations in this study including the limitations analyzed in the simultaneous script training and fading procedures