Higher Education Working Together to Help Catholic Schools: The Greater Milwaukee Catholic Education Consortium

This essay was developed from a panel presentation by Henk and Maney, as well as other key professional colleagues, delivered at the 2012 CHEC Conference. The essay describes the formation and initial work of a consortium of five institutions of higher education in the greater Milwaukee area, including Alverno College, Cardinal Stritch University, Marian University, Marquette University, and Mount Mary College

Mustering the Armies of Compassion in Philadelphia

The role of faith-based organizations in meeting the most pressing needs in America's poorest neighborhoods has been the subject of national debate over the past several years. However, few reports have carefully examined these organizations' performance. Mustering the Armies of Compassion in Philadelphia takes a detailed look at a group of faith-based organizations running a literacy program, Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET). Mustering examines the programs' start-up, relatively consistent classroom results, and their many reactions to partnership with a secular organization. Ultimately, the YET Center program shows that with a clear model and sufficient support and oversight, a large and diverse group of independent faith-based organizations can collectively provide a demonstrably effective service

STD Services Delivery Arrangements in Georgia County Health Departments

Background: Uniformity, standardization, and evidence-based public health practice are needed to improve the efficiency and quality of services in local health departments (LHDs). Among the highest priority and most common public health services delivered by LHDs are services related to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine potential variations in the delivery of sexually transmitted disease (STD) services among county health departments (CHD) in Georgia, to determine if potential variations were due to varied administrative practices, and to understand delivery arrangements so that future cost studies can be supported.Methods: Web-based surveys were collected from 134 county health departments in Georgia in 2015.Results: Screening for gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis occurred in all the surveyed CHDs. Sixty-eight percent of the CHDs had one or more staff who performed investigations for persons already screened positive for STDs. Partner notification services provided by the CHD staff occurred in only 35 percent of the surveyed CHDs.Conclusions: Variances regarding diagnostic methodologies, work time expenditures, and staff responsibilities likely had an influence on the delivery of STD services across Georgia's CHDs. There are opportunities for uniformity and standardization of administrative practices

Obituary: Alan Grahame Lloyd (1926-1999)

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Dynamical Screening and Superconducting State in Intercalated Layered Metallochloronitrides

An essential property of layered systems is the dynamical nature of the screened Coulomb interaction. Low energy collective modes appear as a consequence of the layering and provide for a superconducting-pairing channel in addition to the electron-phonon induced attractive interaction. We show that taking into account this feature allows to explain the high critical temperatures (Tc~26K) observed in recently discovered intercalated metallochloronitrides. The exchange of acoustic plasmons between carriers leads to a significant enhancement of the superconducting critical temperature that is in agreement with the experimental observations

Investigating the degeneracy between modified gravity and massive neutrinos with redshift-space distortions

There is a well known degeneracy between the enhancement of the growth of large-scale structure produced by modified gravity models and the suppression due to the free-streaming of massive neutrinos at late times. This makes the matter power-spectrum alone a poor probe to distinguish between modified gravity and the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model when neutrino masses are not strongly constrained. In this work, we investigate the potential of using redshift-space distortions (RSD) to break this degeneracy when the modification to gravity is scale-dependent in the form of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$. We find that if the linear growth rate can be recovered from the RSD signal, the degeneracy can be broken at the level of the dark matter field. However, this requires accurate modelling of the non-linearities in the RSD signal, and we here present an extension of the standard perturbation theory-based model for non-linear RSD that includes both Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ modified gravity and massive neutrinos.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figures, 1 table; corrected typo in prefactors of the '13'-type 1-loop SPT term

Thermal barrier coating system having improved adhesion

The adherence between a ceramic thermal barrier coating and a metal bond coating is improved by ion sputtering a ceramic film on the bond cost. A ceramic thermal barrier coating is then plasma-sprayed onto this primer film. This improves the integrity and strength of the interface between the plasma-sprayed ceramic layer and metallic bond coat which insures stronger adherence between the metal and the ceramic

Proses Peradilan dan Sanksi Pidana Bagi Anak

Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan maksud untuk mengetahui bagaimanakah proses peradilan terhadap pelanggaran anak dan bagaimanakah sanksi hukum bagi anak menurut Undang-undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif, maka dapat disimpulkan: 1. Proses peradilan terhadap anak adalah sebagai berikut: Sidang dilaksanakan dengan cara tertutup dan pembacaan putusan dilaksanakan terbuka untuk umum; Penyidik, penuntut umum, hakim dan penasihat hukum dalam melaksanakan fungsinya sebagai penegak hukum tidak menggunakan pakaian dinas atau bertoga; Sidang dipimpin oleh hakim tunggal, kecuali dalam hal ditentukan lain; Hakim yang mengadili anak adalah hakim khusus diutamakan hakim wanita yang memiliki pengetahuan masalah kejiwaan anak; Sidang diadakan pada hari khusus; Selama dalam persidangan, anak harus didampingi orang tua; Tidak boleh diliput oleh wartawan; Sebelum dibacakan tuntutan jaksa dan putusan hakim, harus terlebih dahulu dibacakan laporan petugas sosial yang ditugaskan oleh pengadilan untuk meneliti perilaku dan kondisi anak tersebut. 2. Bahwa sanksi yang dapat dijatuhkan terhadap pelanggaran anak adalah sesuai dengan apa yang diatur dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak yaitu berupa: sanksi pidana dan tindakan. Sanksi pidana terdiri dari : pidana pokok berupa; pidana peringatan, pidana dengan syarat seperti pembinaan di luar lembaga, pelayanan masyarakat atau pengawasan, kemudian pelatihan kerja, pembinaan dalam lembaga dan pidana penjara; serta pidana tambahan berupa: perampasan keuntungan yang diperoleh dari tindak pidana dan pemenuhan kewajiban adat. Sanksi tindakan berupa: pengembalian kepada orang tua/wali, penyerahan kepada seseorang, perawatan di rumah sakit jiwa, perawatan di LPKS, kewajiban mengikuti pendidikan formal dan/atau pelatihan yang diadakan oleh pemerintah atau badan swasta, pencabutan SIM dan atau perbaikan akibat tindak pidana