Family Drug Courts Family drug courts (FDCs) are specialized courts within the justice system, which handle cases of child abuse and neglect that involve substance use by the child’s parents or guardians (Brook et al. 2015; Chuang et al. 2012). FDCs are one method of addressing parental substance use disorders and parenting issues within the court and child welfare systems, using a collaborativ...

The mathematical limits for the percolation of rigid and floppy clusters throughout continuous networks are considered. Results are compared to the previous prediction of Thorpe based on the assumption that the threshold condition is the equality of degrees of freedom and the number of constraints. It is demonstrated that, in two-dimensional systems, the thresholds values predicted here and in ...

As floppy disks and other similar media age, they may lose data due to a reduction in the retention of electromagnetic fields over time, mainly due to environmental factors. However, the coding techniques used to write data can be exploited along with the fault mechanisms themselves to successfully read data from failing floppy disks. This paper discusses the problem of recovering data from fai...

We show how one may sometimes perform singular ambient surgery on the complex locus of a real algebraic curve and obtain what we call a floppy curve. A floppy curve is a certain kind of singular surface in CP (2), more general than the complex locus of a real nodal curve. We derive analogs for floppy curves of known restrictions on real nodal curves. In particular we derive analogs of Fiedler’s...

John R. Campbell MD and I recently reported on two companion studies that we undertook to study the incidence, characteristics, surgical outcomes, and etiology of floppy irides during cataract surgery1. We named this condition the intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS). Based upon retrospective observations by Dr. Campbell regarding a possible association with tamsulosin (Flomax®, Boehringe...

Human mitral valves (32 floppy and 17 rheumatic) obtained at surgery were analysed and compared with 35 normal (autopsy) valves. Total amounts of collagen, proteoglycan and elastin were increased approx. 3-fold in floppy and rheumatic valves. The water content of rheumatic cusps was lower than normal. The most significant changes in floppy valves were the 59% increase in mean value of the prote...