This study examines a drunk driving population sentenced to a Day Reporting Center in a southwestern Indiana county from January 2002 through December 2003._ Specifically, using crosstqbulations and chi-square analyses, this study concentrates on the "exit status" and "post-program recidivism" among those participants._The results of this study suggest that placing convicted drink drivers in a ...

We studied the Einstein-Brans-Dicke cosmology in detail. The difference of the evolution of the universe is significant between Einstein-Brans-Dicke cosmology and standard big-bang model during the radiation-dominated era. The power-law evolution of the scale factor is fast enough to solve the cosmological puzzles and slow enough to avoid the graceful exit problem. However, the constraints from...

String cosmology solutions are examined in a generalized phase-space including sources representing arbitrary corrections to lowest order string-dilatongravity effective action. We find a set of necessary conditions for a graceful exit transition from a dilaton-driven inflationary phase to a radiation dominated era. We show that sources allowing such a transition have to violate energy conditio...

Firms can motivate workers by offering them social status. Much of the literature argues that a rise in status is a powerful work incentive while ignoring its impact on coordination. However, when workers need to collaborate while having individual vested interests, too large a difference in status distorts how workers coordinate, i.e., one worker compromises too much with respect to his most p...

Further, even though it is intellectually accepted that we have methodological means to combat these factors and provide benefits during the evolutionary process, development managers still choose short term goals over these long term benefits. Given a choice between getting a system out as early as possible and doing a proper design that will evolve gracefully, the first is invariably chosen a...

This document provides implementation guidelines for the use of return codes in RFC 3435, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0. Return codes in RFC 3435 do not cover all possible specific situations that may ever occur in a gateway. That is not possible and not necessary. What is important is to ensure that the Call Agent that receives a return code behaves appropriately and consis...

introduction evaluation of the delivered dose of externally wedged photon beams by external diode dosimeters during the treatment process requires the estimation of exit surface dose correction factors in various wedge angles and field sizes. materials and methods a system of absorbed dose evaluation, using p-type diode dosimeters placed on the exit surface of a phantom, was characterized for e...

INTRODUCTION Medical school selection is a first step in developing a general practice workforce. AIM To determine the relationship between medical school selection scores and intention to pursue a career in general practice. METHODS A longitudinal cohort study of students selected in 2006 and 2007 for The University of Auckland medical programme, who completed an exit survey on career inte...