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Stemming the Tide: Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System [PDF]

, 2013
The federal prison population has escalated from under 25,000 inmates in 1980 to over 219,000 today. This growth has come at great expense to taxpayers and other important fiscal priorities.
Julie Samuels, Nancy La Vigne, Samuel Taxy   +2 more
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MARCH1 protects the lipid raft and tetraspanin web from MHCII proteotoxicity in dendritic cells [PDF]

, 2018
Dendritic cells (DCs) produce major histocompatibility complex II (MHCII) in large amounts to function as professional antigen presenting cells. Paradoxically, DCs also ubiquitinate and degrade MHCII in a constitutive manner.
Anderson, Anderson, Baravalle, Bartee, Berditchevski, Björkholm, Charrin, Charrin, Chen, Chyi-Song Hsieh, Corcoran, De Gassart, Giudicelli, Golshayan, Hanada, Haribhai, Heather Pua, Hiltbold, Hoffmann, Hsieh, Hsieh, Jaehak Oh, Jeoung-Sook Shin, Justin S.A. Perry, Kato, Klein, Kondoh, Kropshofer, Kurts, Lehner, Matsuki, Metz, Mottet, Nicole Irgens-Möller, Odintsova, Oh, Oh, Ohmura-Hoshino, Perry, Powrie, Roy, Sachl, Sala-Valdés, Satoshi Ishido, Sharom, Shin, Simons, Stritesky, Unternaehrer, van Niel, Veerapathran, Walseng, Yamaji, Yamazaki, Zimmerman   +54 more
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and seed mass drive intraspecific variation in seed longevity in storage

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Conservation seed banks are essential for ex situ plant conservation, but stored seeds slowly deteriorate and lose viability. Seed longevity in storage is determined by the initial seed viability and the rate of seed viability loss. The rate of seed viability loss in storage varies between species and possibly between populations or ...
Lea Klepka, Sascha Liepelt, Anna Bucharova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Smarter Management of Overtourism in Historic Centres Through Visitor-Flow Monitoring [PDF]

, 2019
Historic centres are highly regarded destinations for watching and even participating in diverse and unique forms of cultural expression. Cultural tourism, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), is an important and consolidated tourism ...
Alonso, Itziar, Gandini, Alessandra, Izkara, Jose Luis, Saralegui, Unai, Zubiaga, Mikel   +4 more
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arrival time pattern and waiting time distribution of patients in the emergency outpatient department of a tertiary level health care institution of North India

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014
Background: Emergency Department (ED) of tertiary health care institute in India is mostly overcrowded, over utilized and inappropriately staffed.
Yogesh Tiwari, Sonu Goel, Amarjeet Singh
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Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner, Erica N. Browne, Marissa Raymond‐Flesch, Mary Kate Shapley‐ Quinn, Nivedita L. Bhushan, Alondra Jaime‐Aguilar, Carmen Ramirez, Jessica Huante, Daisy Gallardo, Sue Napierala, Megan Comfort, Alexandra M. Minnis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Overcrowding in Italian Jails. A Quantitative Analysis of Foreigners (Supraaglomerarea în închisorile italiene. O analiză cantitativă asupra străinilor) [PDF]

Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2013
Victims of prison-overcrowding in Italy are part of a structural and systemic problem which is still struggling to find plausible solutions. When natives and foreigners are separately considered, the overcrowding phenomenon assumes a perspective that ...
Stefania GIRONE, Francesca De PALMA
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