87 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
'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
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
Photoelectric properties of ITO/p(+)-p(-)-InP solar cells in linearly polarized light
No full textIndium phosphide heterostructures and transparent conducting films of wide-gap oxides have previously been used in the development of highly efficient solar cells, making it possible to bring their efficiencies up to 18% [M, M. Koltun, Optics and Metrology of Solar Cells [in Russian], Nauka, Moscow (1985); V. M. Botnaryuk, L. S. Gagara, L. V. Gorchak et al., Geliotekhnika 23, 37 (1990); V. Botnariuc, L. Gagara, E. Negru et al., Solar Energy in Romania 2(1), 53 (1993)]. In the present paper results are reported from the first studies of the photoelectric properties, in linearly polarized light, of solar cells consisting of a heterojunction between single crystal indium phosphide and a mixed indium and tin oxide film (ITO film, E-g congruent to 3.6 eV [G. Check and A. Genis, Solid Stale Techol. 23(1), 102 (1980)]). (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S1063-7842(98)01305-1]
Queerfeministische Politiken affektiv strukturierter Paradoxien
No full text"Der Beitrag geht von der These aus, dass Heteronormativitätskritik als Entgegensetzung von Normalisierung und Entnormalisierung für ein Denken queerfeministischer Politiken zu eng ist, um deren Gleichzeitigkeit und Ambivalenz adäquat fassen zu können. Am Beispiel der Verquickung von normalisierenden und entnormalisierenden Implikationen von Politiken sogenannter Regenbogenfamilien schlägt der_die Autor_in ein affekttheoretisch gewendetes Verständnis von Heteronormativität vor. Dieses dient im Beitrag als Ausgangspunkt für ein dreifaches Spannungsgefüge queerfeministischer Politiken: als affektiv durch Paradoxien strukturiert, als temporal nicht fortschrittsbezogen linear und als Raum scheinbar unpolitischer Sozialität." (Autorenreferat)"The article argues that a critique of heternormativity as the contrasting juxtaposition of normalization and subversion processes does not grasp the simultaneity and ambivalences of these processes, and thus proofs to be an inadequate tool to theorize queerfeminist politics. The author draws on examples of the politics of queer families and the entanglement of normalizing and subverting impacts therein to reconsider the concept of heteronormativity through an affect theory lens. This reconsideration of heteronormativity is the starting point for a threefold reformulation of queerfeminist politics: as affectively structured by paradoxes, as a non-linear temporality devoid of a narrative of progress, and as a locus for apparently apolitical socialities." (author's abstract
Bepaling van het verband tussen indrukking en belasting bij ijzervilt en de invloed van de tijd hierop
No full textCivil Engineering and GeosciencesStructural Engineerin
Homonormative und nationalistische Politiken des Fortschritts in Debatten um nicht-hegemoniale Familien und Verwandtschaft
No full textDieser Beitrag untersucht, wie der Wandel familialer und verwandtschaftlicher Nähe- und Fürsorgeverhältnisse durch die Forderungen von Familien mit schwul, lesbisch, bisexuell, trans* und/oder genderqueer lebenden Eltern nach rechtlicher Anerkennung politisch diskutiert wird. Anhand einer diskurstheoretischen Analyse der Debatten im Schweizer Bundesparlament sowie ethnografischen Datenmaterials wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Zeitlichkeiten in der polarisierten Auseinandersetzung um die Bedeutung des Phänomens ‚Regenbogenfamilien‘ und deren politischen Forderungen aufgerufen werden. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie die Erweiterung der rechtlichen Anerkennung von Familie durch homonormative und nationalistische Grenzen abgesichert wird und wie sich ambivalente Normalisierungsprozesse konstitutiv für Fortschrittspolitiken herausstellen.Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and genderqueer parents are currently transforming kinship and family. This article scrutinizes how the calls for legal recognition of so-called "rainbow families" are debated at the political level. It analyses the temporalities invoked both in the discourse on adoption rights for same-sex parents in parliamentary debates in Switzerland and in ethnographic interview material. The author argues that legal recognition of same-sex families is based on homonormative and nationalist regimes and that ambivalent processes of normalization are constitutive for the idea of the politics of progress
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