Evaluation of New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program

New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) has an active caseload of approximately 400 nonviolent offenders. ISP requires employment and provides a high frequency of field contacts with participants, including random tests to detect drug use. Because ISP requires that participants first serve a few months in prison, perform community service, and obey curfews, it provides a level of punishment intermediate between probation and ordinary terms of imprisonment. Evaluation research showed that, in comparison to ordinary imprisonment and parole, ISP achieved slight reductions in recidivism, modest saving of prison space, and was substantially more cost-effective.

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Assessment of the Extent and Causes of Fuelwood Collection in the Surrounding Communities of Kasewe Reserved Forest, Sierra Leone

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management ◽

10.4314/jasem.v25i7.24 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (7) ◽

pp. 1271-1276

Author(s):

A.H. Koroma ◽

A. Mansaray ◽

A. Sesay

Keyword(s):

Sierra Leone ◽

High Frequency ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Forest Degradation ◽

Sustainable Utilization ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Cooking Process ◽

Domestic Use ◽

Preferred Species ◽

Significant Factors

Seven (7) communities living in and around the Kasewe forest reserved were sampled to assess the extent and causes of fuelwood collection from the reserved forest involving 50 individuals in stratified random technique with a view to evaluate the degree and reasons for fuelwood collection from the Kasewe reserved forest. Data obtained indicate a high frequency of fuelwood harvest in the forest throughout the year. The significant factors affecting such decisions were availability and accessibility, ensure fast cooking process, and cost-effective. In addition, fuelwood activities were intensive throughout the year but peaks late dry season. Hence 48 (96%) of respondents stated forest degradation as one of the significant threats posed by fuelwood collectors to the forest. The study indicates that 100% of the collector are unemployed this was mainly the reason why residents of those communities collect fuelwood from the reserved forest. However, this study concluded that fuelwood collectors were selective over the kind of species they harvest, but the preferred species were not replanted. Fuelwood in the study area is not restricted to domestic use as it is also sold to augment local income. The sale of fuelwood is probably the biggest threat to sustainable utilization of fuelwood and the forest. Therefore, this study recommends that alternatives sources of livelihood and energy be created, among other recommendations for resident communities that will reduce the frequency of harvest from the forest.

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Cost effective edge-resonant PWM high frequency inverter for induction heating appliances and its performance evaluations

Proceedings of the Power Conversion Conference-Osaka 2002 (Cat. No.02TH8579) ◽

10.1109/pcc.2002.998197 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Y. Deguchi ◽

S. Moisseev ◽

E. Hiraki ◽

M. Nakaoka

Keyword(s):

Induction Heating ◽

High Frequency ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Performance Evaluations ◽

Frequency Inverter

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Penyuluhan, Cek Kesehatan Dan Pengobatan Gratis Di Klinik Kartika Husada

Jurnal Pengabdian Magister Pendidikan IPA ◽

10.29303/jpmpi.v4i2.734 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Happy Elda Murdiana ◽

Istri Bartini ◽

Nisa Isneni Hanifa

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Community Service ◽

Service System ◽

Microvascular Complications ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Community Services ◽

Proactive Approach ◽

Optimal Quality ◽

Health Service System

Diabetes Mellitus is a silent killer disease that can cause both macro and microvascular complications. The prevalence of DM in Indonesia is 1.5% of interviews diagnosed with doctors, and in DIY 12.2% of DM patients are not treated and show taking medication or using insulin from all ages in the Yogyakarta area 89.94%. Prolanis is a health service system and a proactive approach that is implemented in an integrated manner that involves participants, health facilities, and BPJS Kesehatan in the framework of health care for BPJS Kesehatan participants who suffer from chronic diseases to achieve optimal quality of life with cost-effective and efficient health services. Community service is carried out at the Kartika Husada Clinic in DM prolanic patients with counseling methods about DM disease and its prognosis and appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Followed by supporting health tests as a basis for drug administration. The administration of drugs to prolanis patients is carried out by the interactive Information and Education Communication (IEC) method for both the patient and accompanying family. A series of community services carried out to support the BPJS prolanis program which aims to improve the quality of life of patients by controlling blood sugar and regulating lifestyle.

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The Model Regime

Paying for the Past ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190254001.003.0012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 207-220

Author(s):

Richard S. Frase ◽

Julian V. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Racial Disparities ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Nonviolent Offenders ◽

Prior Record ◽

Counting Rules ◽

First Offenders

This chapter outlines a model regime of prior record enhancement (PRE), designed to promote more rational, parsimonious, and humane sentences. It provides general principles and specific rules reflecting what is known about PRE justifications, costs, benefits, and adverse consequences. The principles specify which punishment purposes justify PRE, while also recognizing the overarching importance of maintaining proportionality to conviction offense seriousness, ensuring that PREs are necessary and cost-effective, minimizing racial disparities and imprisonment of aging and nonviolent offenders, avoiding interference with offender efforts at desistance, and striking a reasonable balance between rule and discretion. The model’s PRE counting rules exclude juvenile and misdemeanor priors, convictions more than 10 years old, upweighting of felonies based on their severity or similarity, and custody status points. First offenders receive substantial sentence mitigation, after which PRE magnitude increases modestly and is capped. High-history offenders are punished no more than twice as severely as first offenders.

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Integration of a K-Band Receiver Front-End Using a Copper Core Printed Circuit Board

International Symposium on Microelectronics ◽

10.4071/2380-4505-2018.1.000384 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 (1) ◽

pp. 000384-000388

Author(s):

Brian Curran ◽

Jacob Reyes ◽

Christian Tschoban ◽

Ivan Ndip ◽

Klaus-Dieter Lang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Integrated Circuits ◽

Antenna Arrays ◽

High Frequency ◽

Printed Circuit Board ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Circuit Board ◽

Front End ◽

High Bandwidth ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

K Band

Abstract Increasing demand for high bandwidth wireless satellite connections and telecommunications has resulted in interest in steerable antenna arrays in the GHz frequency range. These applications require cost-effective integration technologies for high frequency and high power integrated circuits (ICs) using GaAs, for example. In this paper, an integration platform is proposed, that enables GaAs ICs to be directly placed on a copper core inside cavities of a high frequency laminate for optimal cooling purposes. The platform is used to integrate a K-Band receiver front-end, composed of four GaAs ICs, with linear IF output power for input powers above −40dBm and a temperature of 42°C during operation.

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Atomic Force High Frequency Phonons Non-volatile Dynamic Random-Access Memory Compatible with Sub-7nm ULSI CMOS Technology

MRS Advances ◽

10.1557/adv.2019.212 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (48) ◽

pp. 2577-2584

Author(s):

James N. Pan

Keyword(s):

Quantum Wells ◽

High Frequency ◽

Nonvolatile Memory ◽

High Speed ◽

Random Access ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Cmos Technology ◽

Access Time ◽

Cmos Process ◽

Atomic Force

ABSTRACTThis paper reports a novel low power, fast nonvolatile memory utilizing high frequency phonons, atomic force dual quantum wells, ferromagnetism, coupled magnetic dipoles and random accessed magnetic devices. Very high-speed memories, such as SRAM and DRAM, are mostly volatile (data are lost when power is off). Nonvolatile memories, including FLASH and MRAM, are typically not as fast has DRAM or SRAM, and the voltages for WRITE/ERASE operations are relatively high. This paper describes a silicon nonvolatile memory that is compatible with advanced sub-7nm CMOS process. It consists of only one transistor (MOSFET) – small size, and more cost effective, compared with a 6-Transistor SRAM. There is no need to refresh, as required by DRAM. The access time can be less than 1ns – close to the speed level of relaxation time - much faster than traditional FLASH memories and comparable to volatile DRAM. The operating voltages for all memory functions can be as low as high speed CMOS.

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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data *

The Quarterly Journal of Economics ◽

10.1093/qje/qjw005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 131 (2) ◽

pp. 891-941 ◽

Cited By ~ 85

Author(s):

Jérôme Adda

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Economic Activity ◽

High Frequency ◽

Transportation Networks ◽

Age Groups ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

High Frequency Data ◽

Viral Diseases ◽

Frequency Data

Abstract Viruses are a major threat to human health, and—given that they spread through social interactions—represent a costly externality. This article addresses three main questions: (i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections; (ii) how efficient are measures that limit interpersonal contacts; (iii) how do we allocate our scarce resources to limit the spread of infections? To answer these questions, we use novel high frequency data from France on the incidence of a number of viral diseases across space, for different age groups, over a quarter of a century. We use quasi-experimental variation to evaluate the importance of policies reducing interpersonal contacts such as school closures or the closure of public transportation networks. While these policies significantly reduce disease prevalence, we find that they are not cost-effective. We find that expansions of transportation networks have significant health costs in increasing the spread of viruses, and that propagation rates are pro-cyclically sensitive to economic conditions and increase with inter-regional trade.

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