What happens when subjects are deprived of intersubjective contact? This paper looks closely at the phenomenology and psychology of one example of that deprivation: solitary confinement. It also puts the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement to use in the legal context. Not only is there no consensus on whether solitary confinement is a "cruel and unusual punishment," there is no...

We compute the free energy of confinement for a flexible self-avoiding polymer inside a spherical cavity. Accurate numerical results allow us to arbitrate between three competing scaling predictions. For moderate confinement, the free energy exhibits a power-law dependence on cavity size that is different from what is observed for planar and cylindrical confinement. At high monomer concentratio...

Unstable fluctuations develop in the initially quiescent plasma in the improved confinement mode of the H-1 heliac when the radial electric field (Er) shear exceeds some critical value. These unstable Er shear-driven modes are shown to generate zonal-flow-like poloidally symmetric potential structures, similar to those generated in the low confinement mode (Shats M G and Solomon W M 2002 Phys. ...

We investigate the surface depletion induced quantum confinement in CdS nanobelts beyond the quantum confinement regime, where the thickness is much larger than the bulk exciton Bohr radius. From room temperature to 77 K, the emission energy of free exciton A scales linearly versus 1/L(2) when the thickness L is less than 100 nm, while a deviation occurs for those belts thicker than 100 nm due ...

We consider the free energy of confinement for a flexible self-avoiding polymer inside a spherical cavity. Accurate numerical calculations allow us to arbitrate between competing scaling predictions. We find that, for moderate confinement, the free energy exhibits a power-law dependence on cavity size that is different from what is observed for planar and cylindrical confinement. At high monome...

PREFACE .......................................................................................327 I. OVERVIEW .......................................................................................327 II. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CAN CAUSE SEVERE PSYCHIATRIC HARM .......................................................................................333 A. Solitary Confinement Can Cause a Specific ...

OBJECTIVE To audit the outcome of pregnancies booked for confinement in a general practitioner maternity unit in a district general hospital. DESIGN Retrospective review of case records. SETTING General practitioner maternity unit in a district general hospital. PATIENTS 685 Women referred to a general practitioner unit in 1987. RESULTS 315 Nulliparous women and 330 multiparous women we...