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Overview of State Government
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
General overview of the organization of Missouri state government prepared by David C. Valentine for the Missouri Legislative Academy.
Sex Offender Risk Assessment
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
Compared to clinical methods, actuarial risk instruments are a preferred method to discern sex offenders risk for sexual as well as violent recidivism because, unlike clinical practices, they are considered inexpensive, ...
Missouri's Budget Reserve Fund
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The value of what has been called a “rainy day fund” was made obvious by several years
of minimal revenue growth in the early 1980s. Without a reserve of this kind, the State had no sources of funds to help to cover ...
A Meta-analysis of Missouri Drug Court Performance Measures
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The first Missouri drug court was established in the early 1990s to focus the state's effort towards treatment and other alternatives to incarceration and probation. Drug courts are popular and the number of such courts, ...
Assessing Change Following Interagency Education
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
House Bill 1453 (2004) brought about a number of changes in the way child welfare cases are processed and approached in the State of Missouri. These statutory changes affect not only the children and families involved, but ...
Sex Offender Recidivism in Missouri and Community Correction Options
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
There has been substantial public scrutiny over the release of sex offenders to the community, predominantly for individuals who have assaulted young children. The vast
majority of sex offenders, however, will be returned ...
Alternative Sentencing & Strategies for Successful Prisoner Reentry
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
Nationally, more than two million people are serving time in prison on any given day. Missouri ranks eighth in the nation in terms of imprisonment and has experienced substantial growth in incarceration over the past two ...
What is the Focus and Emphasis on Calculators in State-Level K-8 Mathematics Curriculum Standards Documents?
(NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership, 2006)
We conducted our own analysis of official state mathematics curriculum standards documents so that we might understand and describe the extent to which states support use of calculators in elementary and middle school ...
A Climatology of Northern Hemisphere Blocking
(American Meteorological Society, 2006-03)
In this paper a 55-yr (1948-2002) Northern Hemisphere blocking climatology is presented. Traditional blocking indices and methodologies are revised and a new blocking detection method is designed. This algorithm detects ...
Analysis of Weather Data Collected From Two Locations in a Small Urban Community
(Missouri Academy of Science, 2006-01)
The heat island effect is a well known feature in the microclimate of urban areas, and is considered to be the difference between the urban area and its surroundings. While this study only employs two instruments, the ...
Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...
Who should receive vertebroplasty?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Percutaneous vertebroplasty has been used to treat aggressive vertebral hemangiomas, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, and vertebral lesions from metastatic disease or myeloma. Consider it for patients with ...
Time-dependent density-functional theory beyond the adiabatic approximation: Insights from a two-electron model system
(American Institute of Physics, 2006)
Most applications of time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) use the adiabatic local-density approximation (ALDA) for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential Vxc(r,t). An exact (i.e., nonadiabatic) extension ...
Collective excitations in quantum Hall liquid crystals: Single-mode approximation calculations
(American Physical Society, 2006)
A variety of recent experiments probing the low-temperature transport properties of quantum Hall systems have suggested an interpretation in terms of liquid crystalline mesophases dubbed quantum Hall liquid crystals. The ...
The dynamics of superfluid 4He
(arXiv, 2006)
We present neutron scattering results for the dynamic response by superfluid and normal-fluid 4He and the results of a simple perturbation-theory analysis which allows us to describe all aspects of the observed behavior ...
The ground state of a quantum critical system
(arXiv, 2006)
The competition between the tendency of magnetic moments to order at low temperatures, and the tendency of conduction electrons to shield these moments, can result in a phase transition that takes place at zero Kelvin, the ...
Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in Ce(Ru1‑xFex)2Ge2 : Cause and effect
(American Physical Society, 2006)
We present inelastic neutron scattering measurements on the intermetallic compounds Ce(Ru1−xFex)2Ge2 (x=0.65, 0.76, and 0.87). These compounds represent samples in a magnetically ordered phase, at a quantum critical point, ...
Coulomb corrections to the extrinsic spin-Hall effect of a two-dimensional electron gas
(American Physical Society, 2006)
We develop the microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin-Hall conductivity of a two- dimensional electron gas, including skew- scattering, side-jump, and Coulomb interaction effects. We find that while the spin-Hall ...
Exchange and correlation effects on the plasmon dispersions and the Coulomb drag in low-density electron bilayers
(arXiv, 2006)
We investigate the effect of exchange and correlation (xc) on the plasmon spectrum and the Coulomb drag between spatially separated low-density two-dimensional electron layers. We adopt a new approach, which employs dynamic ...
Integral charge quasiparticles in a fractional quantum Hall liquid
(American Physical Society, 2006)
Starting from a collective description of the incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquid as an elastic medium that supports gapped neutral excitations, I show that the one-electron spectral function of this system ...