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Differences Between Military, Civilian Life Contribute to Veterans in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2017Politicscivilian life, clark peters, criminal justice, kelli canada, military veterans, out of jail, transition

MU researchers identify themes that could help policymakers keep veterans out of jail

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Military veterans currently account for 8 percent of the national prison and jail population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. However, it is unclear how many veterans are under community supervision or involved community-intervention programs, and little data exist that illustrates how veterans enter the criminal justice system. Now, new research from the University of Missouri establishes that alcohol and drug use, difficulty adjusting to civilian life, and economic disadvantages are main contributors to criminal justice involvement for veterans. Information from this research could help policymakers reduce arrests and prevent incarcerations. (more…)

Force is the Key to Granular State-Shifting

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2013Scienceadding energy, behavior, change, change in force, dirt, granular materials, granular system, heat, james puckett, karen daniels, north Carolina, plastic granules, plastic material, property of equilibration, sand, state, state of material, state university, thermodynamic system, thermodynamics, thermometer, transition, types of particles, underlying ideas

Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be solid enough to support buildings? It’s because granular materials – like sand or dirt – can change their behavior, or state. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the forces individual grains exert on one another are what most affect that transition.

Physicists have explored the changing behavior of granular materials by comparing it to what happens in thermodynamic systems. In a thermodynamic system, you can change the state of a material – like water – from a liquid to a gas by adding energy (heat) to the system. One of the most fundamental and important observations about temperature, however, is that it has the ability to equilibrate: a hot cup of tea eventually cools to match the temperature of the room. (more…)

Adolescents Under Pressure to Speak ‘Properly’

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2012Scienceadolescents, adult expectations, adulthood, boomerang kids, college, employment, happy speech, jobless, linguistics books, michigan state university, nonstandard language, philadelphia, role, social class, social incentives, speaking properly, suzanne evans wagner, transition

As adolescents transition to adulthood, the pressure to meet adult expectations – such as speaking properly – may be greater than expected, according to a new study by a Michigan State University researcher.

Suzanne Evans Wagner, assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Letters, has proven for the first time that language changes with age in addition to community pressures. And, surprisingly, college and post-high school ambitions play a huge role. (more…)

Measuring Table-Top Accelerators’ State-of-the-Art Beams

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2012Scienceaccelerator, berkeley lab, boundary, chen lin, coherent, cotr, density modulation, electron, electron beam, electron laser, fusion research, high density, high energy, hydrogen gas, initial momentum, jeroen van tilborg, laser plasma acceleration, light regime, light source, loasis, longitudinal slice, lpa, modulation, momentum, mylar foil, optical, particle count, photon pattern, plasma, pulse, radiation, transition, ultrathin, vacuum, wim leemans, xray window

Studies by Berkeley Lab scientists of electron beam quality in laser plasma accelerators include novel tests for slice-energy spread

Part Two: Slicing through the electron beam

Wim Leemans of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Division heads LOASIS, the Laser and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies, an oasis indeed for students pursuing graduate studies in laser plasma acceleration (LPA). Among the most promising applications of future table-top accelerators are new kinds of light sources, in which their electron beams power free electron lasers.

“If our LPA electron bunches had good enough quality for free electron lasers – and were really only femtoseconds long – we should see a particular kind of radiation called coherent optical transition radiation, or COTR,” Leemans says. “So I assigned my doctoral student Chen Lin, a graduate of Peking University and now a postdoc there, to find it.” (more…)

Teens Tell Different Tales about Themselves Depending on Gender, Says MU Researcher

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2012Culture, General, Healthadolescence, autobiographical narrative, brown university, emory university, emotional state, gender, jennifer bohanek, missouri, negative stories, parent, personal identity, reflect, robyn fivush, sally grapin, self, sense, transition, university, widaad zaman, young people

Parents can use knowledge to help steer teens through life changes

COLUMBIA, Mo. — During adolescence, the stories young people tell about themselves reflects their development of a personal identity and sense of self, and those autobiographical narratives vary depending on the teens’ gender, according to a University of Missouri psychologist and her colleagues. Parents can use this knowledge of how teens talk about themselves to help understand the tumultuous transitions of their children into adults.

“Autobiographical stories tell us details about adolescent psychology that questionnaires and observations of behavior cannot,” said Jennifer Bohanek, assistant professor of psychological sciences in the College of Arts and Science. “Narratives provide information about how adolescents interpret memories as well as how they come to know themselves. Other people then come to know the teens by the stories they tell about themselves. The differences between study participants’ stories suggest there may be differences in the way male and female teens understand themselves and present themselves to the world.” (more…)

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Differences Between Military, Civilian Life Contribute to Veterans in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Force is the Key to Granular State-Shifting

Adolescents Under Pressure to Speak ‘Properly’

Measuring Table-Top Accelerators’ State-of-the-Art Beams

Teens Tell Different Tales about Themselves Depending on Gender, Says MU Researcher