141 research outputs found
Assessment of Strengths in Criminal Justice System-Impacted Youth: A Retrospective Validation Study of the SAPROF-YV
No full textThis is an online first open access publication.The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk-Youth Version (SAPROF-YV; de Vries Robbé et al., 2015) was designed specifically to assess strengths as a complement to risk assessment tools. We retrospectively examined its reliability and validity in 305 Canadian community-sentenced youth, both in the overall sample and in male and female, and Black and White, subgroups. In all groups, the total score had strong internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, and convergent validity, and significantly predicted general recidivism at 3-year fixed follow-up. The SAPROF-YV showed incremental validity over the YLS/CMI only in Black youth. In the total sample, a moderation effect was identified whereby strengths were protective at lower levels of risk but not for moderate or high risk youth. The SAPROF-YV shows promising reliability and validity; however, more research is needed before clear guidance can be provided regarding the use of this measure in clinical practice.Funding for this research was supported in part by a SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship to the first author
California recession and recovery
No full textCalifornia ; Economic conditions - United States ; Recessions
A new Mechanism for Interpreting the Motion of Auroral Arcs in the Nightside Ionosphere
No full textInternal_Co_Author2 = YV Bogdanov
Conjunction of anti-parallel and component reconnection at the dayside MP: Cluster and Double Star coordinated observation on 6 April 2004
No full textPrevious theoretical and simulation studies have suggested that the anti-parallel and component reconnection can occur simultaneously on the dayside magnetopause. Certain observations have also been reported to support global conjunct pattern of magnetic reconnection. Here, we show direct evidence for the conjunction of anti-parallel and component MR using coordinated observations of Double Star TC-1 and Cluster under the same IMF condition on 6 April, 2004. The global MR X-line configuration constructed is in good agreement with the "S-shape" model. Citation: Wang, J., Z. Y. Pu, S. Y. Fu, X. G. Wang, C. J. Xiao, M. W. Dunlop, Y. Wei, Y. V. Bogdanova, Q. G. Zong, and L. Xie (2011), Conjunction of anti-parallel and component reconnection at the dayside MP: Cluster and Double Star coordinated observation on 6 April 2004, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10105, doi:10.1029/2011GL047125
'Happy as in Queer' - The Affective Paradoxes of Queer Families
No full textThe restrictive legal and political regulations of queer families in Switzerland provide the basis of this paper. Within this context, Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender and Queers (LGBTQ's) aim to have their families recognized less through shared genetic substances and more through the public mediation of affects such as happiness. Consequently, the author attends to the affective politics of imagining and living families by LGBTQ's. The author draws upon ethnographic data to explore how happiness structures modes of relatedness in terms of family. With an affect theory stance, the paper turns to two case studies which allow to apply and eventually extend Sara Ahmed's concept of the family as a 'promise of happiness' (Ahmed 2010a). By means of the case studies, the author elaborates on how queer families are linked to a normalized, heteronormative figure of 'the family,' as well as to dissident modes of relatedness. An affect theory-based analysis leads the author finally to challenge the contrasting juxtaposition of normalized and dissident politics of LGBTQ's by concluding that such politics of affects blur the lines between assimilationist versus resisting politics and have to be understood as paradoxical
Cluster observations of the midaltitude cusp under strong northward interplanetary magnetic field
No full textWe report on a multispacecraft cusp observation lasting more than 100 min. We
determine the cusp boundary motion and reveal the effect on the cusp size of the
interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) changing from southward to northward. The cusp
shrinks at the beginning of the IMF rotation and it reexpands at the rate of 0.40°
invariant latitude per hour under stable northward IMF. On the basis of plasma signatures
inside the cusp, such as counterstreaming electrons with balanced fluxes, we propose
that pulsed dual lobe reconnection operates during the time of interest. SC1 and
SC4 observations suggest a long-term regular periodicity of the pulsed dual reconnection,
which we estimate to be ~1–5 min. Further, the distances from the spacecraft to
the reconnection site are estimated on the basis of observations from three satellites. The
distance determined using SC1 and SC4 observations is ~15 RE and that determined
from SC3 data is ~8 RE. The large-scale speed of the reconnection site sunward motion is
~16 km s-1. We observe also a fast motion of the reconnection site by SC1, which
provides new information about the transitional phase after the IMF rotation. Finally, a
statistical study of the dependency of plasma convection inside the cusp on the IMF clock
angle is performed. The relationship between the cusp stagnation, the dual lobe
reconnection process, and the IMF clock angle is discussed
On the Stability of Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems
No full textConcerning the absolute stability of a nonlinear time-varying feedback system, an important correction to the results of the author [1] is presented
An irreducible semigroup of non-negative square-zero operators
No full textWe construct an irreducible multiplicative semigroup of non-negative square-zero operators acting on L-P[0, 1), for 1 less than or equal to p < infinity.PT: J; CR: CHOI MD, 1993, INDIANA U MATH J, V42, P15 DRNOVSEK R, IN PRESS OPERATOR TH DRNOVSEK R, 2000, P EDINBURGH MATH S 1, V43, P43 HADWIN D, 1986, INTEGR EQUAT OPER TH, V9, P739 HALMOS PR, 1950, MEASURE THEORY RADJAVI H, 2000, SIMULTANEOUS TRIANGU RUDIN W, 1986, REAL COMPLEX ANAL TUROVSKII YV, 1999, J FUNCT ANAL, V162, P313 ZHONG Y, 1995, T AM MATH SOC, V347, P3093; NR: 9; TC: 1; J9: INTEGRAL EQUATION OPER THEORY; PG: 12; GA: 533RTSource type: Electronic(1
Towards a Chronology of the Yogavāsistha/Moksopāya
No full textIn this article the author wishes to summarize the facts – and sometimes the opinions – available at the time concerning the chronology of the YV/MU, and to supply some that had never been considered before, furnishing some guidelines for further researches
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