‘No place to hide’

MSSMP : No Place to Hide

The Multipurpose Security and Surveillance Mission Platform (MSSMP) system is a distributed network of remote sensors mounted on vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) mobility platforms plus portable control stations. The system is designed to provide a rapidly deployable, extended-range surveillance capability for a wide variety of security operations and other tactical missions. While MSSMP sen...

Commentary: no place to hide.

Law schools usually teach that the standards and burden of proof for civil and criminal cases are different because civil cases are about mere money and criminal cases are about liberty. Mental health law, however, rather unhappily, sits in the middle—it is quasicriminal. I could not think of a worse position to be in than that of a mental heath detainee when civil standards (and due process pr...

Book Review: No Place To Hide

No place to hide: when shame causes proselfs to cooperate.

Shame is considered a social emotion with action tendencies that elicit socially beneficial behavior. Yet, unlike other social emotions, prior experimental studies do not indicate that incidental shame boosts prosocial behavior. Based on the affect as information theory, we hypothesize that incidental feelings of shame can increase cooperation, but only for self-interested individuals, and only...

No place to hide: microclimates of Sonoran Desert Drosophila

1. We characterized year-round microclimate conditions (temperature and humidity) in and around necrotic cacti of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern North America. Necrotic cacti serve as host plants for four endemic species of Drosophila. 2. Flies in the field were exposed to high and variable temperatures, sometimes ranging between o5 C to >40 C in a single 24-h period. Habitat temperatures o...