Several flights were conducted by the University of Wyoming King Air near Cape Mendocino, California, during June 2004 to examine finescale features of the coastal low-level jet (CJ) that frequently forms during summer over the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. The primary goal of these flights was to measure the horizontal pressure gradient force (PGF) and hence to determine the f...

In a jury decision-making, individuals must compromise in order to reach a group consensus. If individuals compromise for non-rational reasons, such as a preference for conformity or due to erroneous information, then the final decision of the group may be biased. This paper presents original experimental data which shows that groups do have a significant tendency to compromise in jury-like set...

In a homogeneous jury, in which each vote is correct with the same probability, and each pair of votes correlates with the same correlation coefficient, there exists a correlation-robust voting quota, such that the probability of a correct verdict is independent of the correlation coefficient. For positive correlation, an increase in the correlation coefficient decreases the probability of a co...

In efforts to divert persons with mental illness from jails and prisons, the option of community mental health treatment in lieu of incarceration is sometimes offered. In addition, community treatment can be mandated, or "leveraged," as a condition of probation or parole. However, little is known about the characteristics and attitudes of persons who are and who are not leveraged into community...

We analyze the front structures evolving under the difference-differential equation ∂tCj = −Cj + C j−1 from initial conditions 0 6 Cj(0) 6 1 such that Cj(0) → 1 as j → ∞ sufficiently fast. We show that the velocity v(t) of the front converges to a constant value v∗ according to v(t) = v∗ − 3/(2λ∗t) + (3√π/2) Dλ∗/(λ∗Dt)3/2 + O(1/t2). Here v∗, λ∗ and D are determined by the properties of the equa...

The underlying idea of the ESOM [2] is to incorporate the topological neighborhood preserving property of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and the convex-hull property (a global optimality) of TSP together. The learning rule of its generalized version is as follows: ! w j(t+ 1) = cj(t) [ ! w j(t) + j(t) ( ! x t !w j(t))] where !w j is the weight of jth neuron, !x t the input city coordinate, cj(t) the...

In the United States, the right to a jury trial is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. The Sixth Amendment states, in part, “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed...

We present first results from the analysis of multi-epoch VLBI observations of the EGRET detected sources [9] in the CJ-F sample (Caltech Jodrell-Flat-spectrum, [10]). These objects form a subsample of 14 sources within the 293 AGN of the full CJ-F sample. 5 GHz VLBI snapshot observations of the CJ-F sources are continuously being performed in order to create a valid database for thorough stati...