This article asses what is known and what remains to be understood about problem-solving courts. Specifically, the article asserts that drug courts serve a needy population, court mandated treatment programs have higher retention rates, those who participate longer have better outcomes, those in drug courts had lower rates of recidivism, drug use, and that graduated sanctions have statistically...

Abstract The poster presents the major results of a survey conducted in several German cities to asses preferences citizens have towards aspects of One-Stop Government. One Stop Government has a lot in common with the concept of collaborative CRM. Aspects that play an important role for its success are: channel adoption and assignment , collaborative data usage and privacy, cost reduction poten...

Even though bidirectional, high-quality and low-latency audio systems for network performance are available, the complexity involved in setting up remote sessions needs better tools andmethods to asses and tune network parameters. We present an implementation of a system to intuitively evaluate the Quality of Service (QoS) on best effort networks. In our implementation, musicians are able to co...

Abstract Introduction Fluid optimization is an important feature in haemodynamic resuscitation. Despite recent advances, fluid management in clinical practice remains sometimes highly empirical. Well-defined endpoints of resuscitation, not only global but also focused on the microcirculatory level, as well as the correct timing for fluids administration, always according to any of the available...

This study describes a simulation analysis to asses increased productivity of salterns used for sea salt production by implementing a solar parabolic trough collector to accelerate the evaporation process. The proposed system is designed for Southern Spain, to be coupled with a heat exchanger submerged in the saltern’s channel. A thermal-fluid analysis of the proposed system was modeled using E...

A remote haploscopic video refractor was used to assess vergence and accommodation responses in a group of 32 emmetropic, orthophoric, symptom free, young adults naïve to vision experiments in a minimally instructed setting. Picture targets were presented at four positions between 2 m and 33 cm. Blur, disparity and looming cues were presented in combination or separately to asses their contribu...

This paper presents a new insight into character recognition problem. Implicit polynomial (IP) curves have been used for modelling characters. A unique decomposition theorem is employed to decompose these curves into simple line primitives. For the comparison of the characters, canonical invariants have been computed using so called “related points” of the curves, which are the real intersectio...

Time poverty methodologies are a response to the failure of income-based measures of poverty to reflect gendered aspects of well-being. However, national time use surveys normally fail to examine issues around women and men’s qualitative evaluation of their time uses, or the extent of their control over their own time. The result could be distorted policy responses which lose sight of the origi...

In order to more accurately asses variations in the apparent diffusion coefficient used for therapy evaluation, we have studied the variation in sulci density in the human brain. Sagittal, axial and coronal magnetic resonance imaging scans have been analyzed to determine the change of the coefficient of variance of pixel intensity as a function of position. In the sagittal direction, relative t...