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The validity of phallometric assessment with rapists : Comments on Looman & Marshall
No full textThe original publication is available at www.springerlink.comIn a recent article Looman and Marshall (2005) questioned the validity of phallometric assessment of rapists based on the results of a study of incarcerated rapists and child molesters. In this commentary we offer (1) a critique of the methods used and conclusions reached by Looman and Marshall and (2) a discussion of important methodological issues relevant to phallometry. We conclude that the correct inference from Looman and Marshall’s
study is that rapists, as a group, show a pattern of sexual arousal to audiotaped scenarios of coercive and non-coercive sex that significantly differs from the pattern of groups of non-sex offenders, in agreement with the general literature on this question.Ye
Euthanasia and other medical decisions concerning the end of life
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Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Scheduling of Periodic Event-Triggered Control to balance Control Performance and Average Inter-Sample Times
No full textTraditionally, Event-Triggered Control (ETC) methods are sample-and-hold control schemes that implement a triggering condition in order to reduce the number of control updates. Given a decay rate of the Lyapunov function, they focus on minimizing the (average) Inter-Sample Time (IST). In this thesis, we focused on the scheduling of Periodic Event-Triggered Control (PETC) controllers. By dynamically switching between triggering conditions, weare maximizing the average rate of decay of the Common Lyapunov Function (CLF) given a minimum Average Inter Sample Time (AIST) or burst condition.Given the physical system, we construct a switched system which captures all possiblescheduling behaviors. The l-complete abstraction of the switched system is constructed by solving a conjunction of quadratic equations. By setting a minimum AIST or burst condition, a set of states in the abstraction is marked and a safety game is played to construct the Maximal Permissive Controller (MPC). On the safe behaviors inside the MPC, the guaranteed minimum control performance is maximized for the infinite horizon problem, i.e. by maximizing the minimum weighted time average of the primitive cycles in the MPC. First, several energy games are played to estimatethe maximum control performance. Thereafter, a mean-payoff game is played to generate the strategy securing this maximum control performance, which is used to construct the infinite horizon controller.http://gitlab.tudelft.nl/sync-lab/ETCetera/-/tree/menno_thesis Link to the gitlab branch with all relevant code used and produced during this thesis projectMechanical Engineering | Systems and Contro
Membrane fouling: Study on fouling inside an Organ on a Chip
No full textOrgan on a Chip (OoC) systems are of high interest through its use for medicine testing in a small time scale without the need for animal testing. Membranes used in OoCs form a base to grow cells on and need to be suitable for cell-attachment and porous. Fouling is the 'Achilles heel' in membrane performance. Research shows that as a result of fouling the viability of the skin cells grown in the chip decreased to zero after 3 weeks. If research on organs is to extend and research on cell- or tissue growth will include longer time spans, the influence of membrane fouling with conditions similar to the OoC is an important factor to understand. In this research a microfluidic flow cell is produced and used to explore fouling within the OoC. Static and dynamic fouling experiments are executed on membranes having pore sizes ranging from 0.4 to 5 μm. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images indicate that standard blocking and cake layer formation are dominating fouling mechanisms.Membranes with 1 μm pore size are the most susceptible to standard blocking. Further a decrease in pore area of 0%, 11% and 20% and a decrease in uncovered amount of pores of 27%, 34% and 80% for Glycine, BSA and λ-DNA respectively are measured after one week of fouling. Cake layer formation is seen after fouling for a shorter duration for BSA (one day) than for Glycine (one hour) and a higher concentration of BSA particles is permitted through all tested membranes than Glycine, therefore the conclusion is drawn that BSA causes less fouling than Glycine.Mechanical Engineering | Micro and Nano Engineerin
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
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