The Five Worst (and Five Best) American Criminal Codes

PEN, Big Five, juvenile delinquency and criminal recidivism

The aim of this study was to examine which of the two personality models, PEN or Big Five, differentiates best between Dutch juvenile offenders (n = 96) and college students (n = 204), between Dutch selfreported recidivists (n = 43) and non-recidivists (n = 14), and between officially recorded recidivists (n = 37) and non-recidivists (n = 24). Students (mean age = 17.23 years) and offenders (me...

Five types of African-American marriages.

This study developed a marital typology based on a nonrandom, national sample of 415 African-American couples who took the Enriching Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness (ENRICH) marital assessment inventory. Five types of African-American marriages were identified through cluster analysis using the positive couple agreement (PCA) scores in 10 relationship domains. Relationships bet...

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Decoding of the Five-Error-Correcting Binary Quadratic Residue Codes

In this paper, a new efficient syndrome-weight decoding algorithm (NESWDA) is presented to decode up to five possible errors in a binary systematic (47, 24, 11) quadratic residue (QR) code. The main idea of NESWDA is based on the property cyclic codes together with the weight of syndrome difference. The advantage of the NESWDA decoding algorithm over the previous table look-up methods is that i...

Optimal ternary cyclic codes with minimum distance four and five

Cyclic codes are an important subclass of linear codes and have wide applications in data storage systems, communication systems and consumer electronics. In this paper, two families of optimal ternary cyclic codes are presented. The first family of cyclic codes has parameters [3m−1,3m−1−2m,4] and contains a class of conjectured cyclic codes and several new classes of optimal cyclic codes. The ...