984 resultados para super-orbital re-entry
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The Iowa Department of Corrections faces a growing prison population expected to quickly exceed current capacities. Additionally, nine out of every ten offenders have a history of alcohol or drug problems often both. Research suggests that alcohol and drugs lead to criminal behavior, which lead offenders right back to prison creating a vicious circle and placing a financial and societal burden on the state. However, research also shows that substance abuse treatment can minimize criminal behavior, and offers a way to shut the revolving prison door. Substance abuse programming attempts to change offender thinking patterns and behavior in order to facilitate re-entry back into the community, lessen substance abuse relapse and reduce recidivism. Yet nearly 60% of offenders with identified needs are not treated, and many lacking treatment are high risk. Additionally, the percentage of offenders returning to prison varies significantly from program to program and some programs can not show they have reduced recidivism when compared to offender groups with substance abuse problems and receiving no treatment at all. All of which minimize the effect substance Abuse programming has in curbing prison population growth and reducing crime.
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*********** Some files are large and will take time to load. *********** Seven Files: 1)Report Cover, 2)Table of Contents, 3)Statewide Financial Summaries, 4)Department Budgets, 5)Capitol Projects, 6)Associated Financial Documents, 7)Budget Report. To Members of the 82nd General Assembly, As we begin the second year of our Administration, we are pleased to submit the Fiscal Year 2009 budget for the State of Iowa pursuant to Iowa Code Section 8.21 and our constitutional authority. This budget recognizes the progress that we began last year with improvements in education, economic development, energy independence, and health care; provides funding for new policy initiatives in these areas; and is based on fiscally sound budget practices. Building on last years accomplishments, our Fiscal Year 2009 General Fund budget proposes an additional $75 million for increasing teachers salaries as part of our goal to move Iowa closer to the national average. We lay the foundation for student achievement by recommending $32.1 million for pre-school education, and we also propose $177.5 million in total for community colleges and $726.2 million in total for Regents universities. To make our State more energy independent, our General Fund budget appropriates the second-year funding of $25 million for the new Iowa Power Fund. The newly established Office of Energy Independence will soon start making awards from the Power Fund. Apart from the budget, we will be making several proposals to implement the new State energy plan. We have pledged to expand the number of Iowans who have health-care coverage. As a result, we are recommending additional funding for enrollment growth in the State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). These additional funds will help the State provide coverage for another 25 percent of children who are eligible but not yet enrolled in hawk-i and the Iowa Medicaid Program. To protect the safety of Iowans, we are recommending issuance of revenue bonds for approximately $260 million in net proceeds to build a new state penitentiary in Ft. Madison, renovate and expand the Womens Correctional Institution at Mitchellville, upgrade kitchen facilities at the Rockwell City and Mt. Pleasant Correctional Institutions, and expand Community-Based Correctional Facilities in Ottumwa, Sioux City, Waterloo, and Des Moines. Additionally, we are including funding for developing a prototype program for providing parolees and low-risk offenders with mental health and drug abuse treatment and educational services to help them make a crime-free re-entry into our communities. As part of this Capitals Budget, we also propose using $20 million for the States matching share for building new facilities at the Iowa Veterans Home. Iowa Budget Report iv Fiscal Year 2009 Importantly, our budget continues to fully fund our States Reserve Funds to help buffer Iowa from any future economic downturn. We recommend reimbursing $78.2 million to the Property Tax Credit Fund as part of our multi-year proposal to correct bad budgeting practices and eventually restore $160.0 million to this Fund. To provide more transparency, we are transferring operational expenditures in the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund to the General Fund and expenditures from the Endowment for Healthy Iowans and Healthy Iowans Tobacco Trust Funds to the General Fund. We believe that Iowa has charted a new course of becoming energy independent, providing quality pre-school education, recognizing the importance of our teachers, and providing greater health coverage for children. Our Fiscal Year 2009 budget and policy priorities reflect our continuing faith in Iowas ability to be the best state in the nation. We look forward to working with you in a bi-partisan and all-inclusive manner to build on our progress and protect our priorities. Sincerely, Chester J. Culver Governor Patty Judge Lt. Governor
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This Executive Order expects the State government to help more than 5,800 offenders released to Iowa communities each year, affecting public safety, public health, economic and community well-being and family relationships. Offenders re-entry initiatives involve collaborative partnerships amongst corrections, other agencies and the community.
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The planning effort for ISP began in 2006 when the IDOC retained the Durrant/PBA team of architects and planners to review the Iowa correctional system. The team conducted two studies in the following two years, the first being the April 2007 Iowa Department of Corrections Systemic Master Plan. Both studies addressed myriad aspects of the correctional system including treatment and re-entry needs and programs, security and training, and staffing.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: To determine, in a region of Switzerland, the duration of retention in opioid substitution treatments with methadone (OSTM), duration of treatment interruptions, probability of re-entry to treatment after a treatment interruption, and associated factors. METHODS: A secondary analysis of registry-based data was performed with patients (n = 2880) registered in the methadone treatment register database of the Public Health Service of the canton of Vaud between January 1, 2001 and June 30, 2008. Survival analysis and multivariate analysis was conducted. RESULTS: The probability of remaining on treatment was 69% at 1 year and 45% at 3 years (n =1666). One-third of patients remained on treatment beyond 5 years. The estimated hazard of leaving treatment was increased by a ratio of 1.31 in the case of a first treatment (P = 0.001), 1.83 for those without a fixed home (P < 0.001), and 1.29 for those younger than 30 years old (P < 0.001). The probability of having begun a new treatment after a first interruption was 21% at one year, 38% at 3 years, and 43% at 5 years (n = 1581). Factors at the interruption of treatment associated with a higher probability of re-entering were: interruption not due to methadone withdrawal, bad physical health, and higher methadone dose. CONCLUSIONS: OSTM are long-term (maintenance) treatments in Switzerland. Younger age, bad living conditions at entry, and first treatment are predictors of lower retention. Approximately one-half of patients who interrupt treatment will re-enter treatment within 5 years.
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Monet henkilkohtaiset mobiililaitteet tarjoavat mahdollisuuden tallentaa henkiltietoja ja mahdollisuuden lyhyen kantaman radiotekniikoiden hydyntmiseen. Vastaavasti henkiltietoja kyttvien tai vaativien verkkopalveluiden mr on kasvussa. Mobiililaitteisiin tallennetut henkiltiedot tarjoavat potentiaalisen keinon vltt samojen henkiltietojen toistuva ksinsytt erilaisiin verkkopalveluihin ja keskitettyyn ajantasallapitoon. Tss tyss kydn lpi ratkaisumalli henkilkohtaisen mobiililaitteen ja verkkopalveluiden vlill tapahtuvaan henkiltietojen siirtoon ja synkronointiin. Malli pohjautuu selainlaajennukseen, joka voi pyyt sek selaimessa auki olevalta verkkopalvelun sivulta ett mobiililta ptelaitteelta senhetkiset henkiltiedot ja synkronoida ne. Jo olemassaolevia henkiltietojen hallintaa helpottavia ratkaisuja kydn lpi arvioiden kyttkelpoisuutta tmnkaltaisiin tarpeisiin. Ratkaisumallin kannalta olennaiset tekniikat ja standardit, erityisesti Bluetooth ja SyncML, esitelln. Ratkaisumallin arkkitehtuuri kydn korkealla tasolla lpi ja esitelln toteutuksen yksityiskohtia. Tuloksena on periaatteeltaan kelvollinen henkilkohtaisten tietojen synkronointijrjestelm, jonka toteutusta nykyisten mobiilien ptelaitteiden toiminnallisuus jossain mrin hankaloittaa.
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Early in female mammalian embryonic development, cells randomly inactivate one of the two X chromosomes to achieve overall equal inactivation of parental X-linked alleles. Hcfc1 is a highly conserved X-linked mouse gene that encodes HCF-1 - a transcriptional co-regulator implicated in cell proliferation in tissue culture cells. By generating a Cre-recombinase inducible Hcfc1 knock-out (Hcfc1(lox)) allele in mice, we have probed the role of HCF-1 in actively proliferating embryonic cells and in cell-cycle re-entry of resting differentiated adult cells using a liver regeneration model. HCF-1 function is required for both extraembryonic and embryonic development. In heterozygous Hcfc1(lox/+) female embryos, however, embryonic epiblast-specific Cre-induced Hcfc1 deletion (creating an Hcfc1(epiKO) allele) around E5.5 is well tolerated; it leads to a mixture of HCF-1-positive and -negative epiblast cells owing to random X-chromosome inactivation of the wild-type or Hcfc1(epiKO) mutant allele. At E6.5 and E7.5, both HCF-1-positive and -negative epiblast cells proliferate, but gradually by E8.5, HCF-1-negative cells disappear owing to cell-cycle exit and apoptosis. Although generating a temporary developmental retardation, the loss of HCF-1-negative cells is tolerated, leading to viable heterozygous offspring with 100% skewed inactivation of the X-linked Hcfc1(epiKO) allele. In resting adult liver cells, the requirement for HCF-1 in cell proliferation was more evident as hepatocytes lacking HCF-1 fail to re-enter the cell cycle and thus to proliferate during liver regeneration. The survival of the heterozygous Hcfc1(epiKO/+) female embryos, even with half the cells genetically compromised, illustrates the developmental plasticity of the post-implantation mouse embryo - in this instance, permitting survival of females heterozygous for an X-linked embryonic lethal allele.
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To manage foreign operations, companies must often send their employees on international assignments. Repatriating these expatriates can be difficult because they have been forgotten during their posting, and their new experiences are not utilised. In addition to the possible difficulties in organisational repatriation, the returnee can suffer from readjustment problems after a lengthy stay abroad has changed their habits and even identity. This thesis examines the repatriation experience of Finnish assignees returning from Russia. The purpose of the study is to understand how the repatriation experience influences their readjustment to work in Finland. This experience is influenced by many factors including personal and situational changes, the repatriation process, job and organisational factors, and individuals motives. The theoretical background of the study is founded on two models of repatriation adjustment. A refined, holistic theoretical framework for the study is created. It describes the formation of the repatriation experience and its importance for readjustment to work and retention. The qualitative research approach is suitable for the thesis which examines the returnees personal experiences and feelings: a qualitative case study aims to explain the phenomenon in-depth and comprehensively. The data was collected in summer 2013 through semi-standardised interviews with eight Finnish repatriates. They had returned from Russia within the last two years. The data was analysed by structuring the interview transcripts using template analysis. The results supported earlier literature and suggest that the re-entry remains a challenging phase for both the individual and the company. For some, adjusting to a new job was difficult for various reasons. The repatriates underwent personal change and development and felt it was for the better. Many repatriates criticised the companys repatriation process upon return. Finding a suitable return job was not clear. Instead, the returnees had to be active in finding a new position. Many assignees had only modest career-related motives regarding the assignment and they had realistic expectations about the return. Therefore they were not extremely surprised or dissatisfied when they were not actively offered positions or support by the company. The significance of motives stood out even more than the theory predicted. As predicted, they are linked to the expectations of employees. Moreover, if the employees are motivated to remain in the company, they can tolerate partly a negative repatriation experience. Despite the complexity of the return and readjustment, the assignment as a whole was seen as a rewarding experience by all participants.
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Disorders of male reproductive health are becoming increasingly prevalent globally. These defects, ranging from decreasing sperm counts to an increasing rate of infertility and testicular cancer, have a common origin in the early phases of testicular development, but the exact mechanisms that cause them remain unknown. Testicular development and adult spermatogenesis are complex processes in which different cell types undergo mitosis, meiosis, differentiation and apoptosis. The retinoblastoma protein family and its associated E2F transcription factors are key regulators of these cellular events. In the present study, the functions of these factors in postnatal testicular development and adult spermatogenesis were explored using different animal models. In addition, a new application of flow cytometry to study testicular cell dynamics was developed. An ablation of retinoblastoma protein in mouse Sertoli cells resulted in their cell cycle re-entry in adult testes, dedifferentiation and a severe spermatogenic defect. We showed that deregulated E2F3 contributed to these changes. Our results indicated that the E2F1 transcription factor is critical for the control of apoptosis in the developing postnatal testis. In the adult testis, E2F1 controls the maintenance of the spermatogonial stem cell pool, in addition to inhibiting apoptosis of spermatocytes. In summary, this study elucidated the complex interdependencies of the RB and E2F transcription factor families in the control of postnatal testicular development and adult spermatogenesis. Furthermore, this study provided a new methodology for the analysis of testicular cells.
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Laugmentation rapide de linterdpendance mondiale, provoque par le dveloppement de la mondialisation, exige une redfinition de la notion traditionnelle de lducation suprieure. Au Canada, comme dans le reste du monde, plusieurs universitaires, fonctionnaires du gouvernement et tudiants insistent maintenant sur lintgration de linternationalisation dans lducation suprieure travers des changes interculturels et des tudes ltranger, dans lespoir que les gnrations canadiennes venir dveloppent une perspective globale et deviennent des citoyens du monde (Comit consultatif sur la stratgie du Canada en matire dducation internationale, 2012). Pourtant, pour garantir que ltudiant qui participe un change profite le plus de son exprience internationale, nous devrons comprendre comment une telle exprience linfluence tant court terme qu long terme. Bien que dautres tudes se soient concentres sur le court terme (le sjour ltranger et ses impacts immdiats), peu ont examin le retour de ltudiant, sa rintgration dans sa socit dorigine et les effets subsquents long terme, tels que les dveloppements personnels qui pourraient suivre le rapatriement. Cette tude qualitative examine les tmoignages de huit tudiants au premier cycle de lUniversit de Montral sur la faon dont ils ont vcu leur rapatriement Montral aprs un change pdagogique ltranger. Quoique certains chercheurs prsentent la notion de rapatriement comme une srie dvnements dconnects, notre analyse fait ressortir une tendance similaire dans tous nos tmoignages qui nous permet dornavant de considrer ce rapatriement comme un processus en trois tapes interconnectes. En empruntant la thorie Intercultural Personhood de Kim (2008), nous sommes dsormais en mesure de qualifier ces trois tapes comme tant le stress, ladaptation et lvolution. Non seulement cette interprtation nous aide mieux comprendre les difficults rencontres par ltudiant loccasion de son retour, mais elle facilite galement lidentification des transformations identitaires qui apparaissent ce moment-l et la manire dont ces transformations influencent le processus de rapatriement.
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Corteo is a program that implements Monte Carlo (MC) method to simulate ion beam analysis (IBA) spectra of several techniques by following the ions trajectory until a sufficiently large fraction of them reach the detector to generate a spectrum. Hence, it fully accounts for effects such as multiple scattering (MS). Here, a version of Corteo is presented where the target can be a 2D or 3D image. This image can be derived from micrographs where the different compounds are identified, therefore bringing extra information into the solution of an IBA spectrum, and potentially significantly constraining the solution. The image intrinsically includes many details such as the actual surface or interfacial roughness, or actual nanostructures shape and distribution. This can for example lead to the unambiguous identification of structures stoichiometry in a layer, or at least to better constraints on their composition. Because MC computes in details the trajectory of the ions, it simulates accurately many of its aspects such as ions coming back into the target after leaving it (re-entry), as well as going through a variety of nanostructures shapes and orientations. We show how, for example, as the ions angle of incidence becomes shallower than the inclination distribution of a rough surface, this process tends to make the effective roughness smaller in a comparable 1D simulation (i.e. narrower thickness distribution in a comparable slab simulation). Also, in ordered nanostructures, target re-entry can lead to replications of a peak in a spectrum. In addition, bitmap description of the target can be used to simulate depth profiles such as those resulting from ion implantation, diffusion, and intermixing. Other improvements to Corteo include the possibility to interpolate the cross-section in angle-energy tables, and the generation of energy-depth maps.
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El inters del estudio de investigacin se bas en recolectar datos de exposicin ocupacional a plaguicidas ditiocarbamatos en el sector floricultor. Objetivo: Determinar los niveles de exposicin a fungicidas ditiocarbamatos y su relacin con las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores del sector floricultor en la Sabana de Bogot D.C. (Cundinamarca) y Rionegro (Antioquia), Colombia, durante el ao 2011. Materiales y Mtodos: Se realiz un estudio de corte transversal, en 358 trabajadores de un total de 3700 empleados de 27 empresas del sector floricultor, 12 ubicadas en la Sabana de Bogot (Cundinamarca) y 3 en Rionegro (Antioquia). Se recoleto informacin sobre condiciones de trabajo y antecedentes de exposicin de la poblacin y se determinaron los niveles de exposicin a fungicidas ditiocarbamatos en muestra en orina mediante mtodo Montesano. Conclusiones: Este estudio describe la forma como se utilizan y los niveles de exposicin a fungicidas ditiocarbamatos ETU, en el sector floricultor en Colombia. Se dan recomendaciones para mejorar los tiempos de re-ingreso al cultivo segn la categora toxicolgica de los productos.
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Aquatic sediments often remove hydrophobic contaminants from fresh waters. The subsequent distribution and concentration of contaminants in bed sediments determines their effect on benthic organisms and the risk of re-entry into the water and/or leaching to groundwater. This study examines the transport of simazine and lindane in aquatic bed sediments with the aim of understanding the processes that determine their depth distribution. Experiments in flume channels (water flow of 10 cm s(-1)) determined the persistence of the compounds in the absence of sediment with (a) de-ionised water and (b) a solution that had been in contact with river sediment. In further experiments with river bed sediments in light and dark conditions, measurements were made of the concentration of the compounds in the overlying water and the development of bacterial/algal biofilms and bioturbation activity. At the end of the experiments, concentrations in sediments and associated pore waters were determined in sections of the sediment at 1 mm resolution down to 5 mm and then at 10 mm resolution to 50 mm depth and these distributions analysed using a sorption-diffusion-degradation model. The fine resolution in the depth profile permitted the detection of a maximum in the concentration of the compounds in the pore water near the surface, whereas concentrations in the sediment increased to a maximum at the surface itself. Experimental distribution coefficients determined from the pore water and sediment concentrations indicated a gradient with depth that was partly explained by an increase in organic matter content and specific surface area of the solids near the interface. The modelling showed that degradation of lindane within the sediment was necessary to explain the concentration profiles, with the optimum agreement between the measured and theoretical profiles obtained with differential degradation in the oxic and anoxic zones. The compounds penetrated to a depth of 40-50 rum over a period of 42 days. (C) 2004 Society of Chemical Industry.
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Intresset fr kriminalitet och individerna bakom de kriminella handlingarna kar i samhllet och terges i media dagligen. Det r just individen bakom brottet, hen som fngslas och fr avtjna sitt straff som denna studie riktar sitt fokus p. Nr fngelsegrindarna ppnas och terintrdet till samhllet blir ett faktum; Hur tar d dessa individer sig tillbaka till samhllet fr att ter bli en del av det? Syftet med denna studie r att underska vilka teranpassningsstrategier som frigivna anvnder sig av samt hur samhllets bemtande pverkar strategierna. Studien baseras p sjlvbiografier skrivna av fyra frfattare som alla levt ett kriminellt liv och som sedermera avtjnat ett eller flera fngelsestraff. Resultatet visar att det finns flera anpassningsstrategier som tas i bruk. Dribland att ska hjlp och std hos familj, vnner eller andra sociala grupper. Vidare terfinns det i strvan efter en ny identitet vilket ofta sker med hjlp av tro. Att sysselstta sig, ge ngot tillbaka till samhllet, visa sin kreativitet i syfte att terf sin kredibilitet kan ses som strategier som leder fram till det slutliga mlet, kredibiliteten. Slutligen kunde ett samband mellan samhllets bemtande och teranpassningsstrategierna utrnas. Ju mer negativt bemtandet r desto fler teranpassningsstrategier behvs och arbetet fr att uppn dem blir mer krvande. Givet blir d att ett bemtande som fyllts av uppmuntran till individens frndring medfr att frre strategier behvs och risken fr terfall blir mindre.
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Fundao de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de So Paulo (FAPESP)
