SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Four white Los Angeles police officers w ere acq u itted of all b u t one a s s a u l t c h a rg e W ednesday in the v ideo taped beating of black m otorist Rod­ ney King. A m is tria l w as d e ­ clared on one count. The verd icts, in the seventh day of deliberations, came after a y e a r o f p o lit ic a l u p ro a r sparked by the graphic video­ ta p e of a b lack ...

The present study aims to develop an integrative model that links neighborhood behavioral opportunities and social resources (neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood friendship and neighborhood attachment) to prosocial (sharing, helping, empathic) behavior in early adolescence, taking into account the potential mediating role of perceived support of friends. Path analysis was used to test the propo...

Research on women and depression has neglected to explore how the factors that put women at risk for depression apply to lesbians. The present study examined four of the risk factors consistently cited in the women and depression literature (relationship status, relationship satisfaction, social support from friends, and social support from family), and two unique factors (outness and relations...

LCROSS hints of increasing volatile concentration at increasing depths, to 3 meters or more into the Moon, as indicated by amount of water seen as the event developed. [1] In comparison new epithermal neutron results indicate that within the first two meters depth of regolith resides a desiccated layer in the top 0.4 meters. LRO’s LEND (Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector) found 4% water-equival...

Sexual dysfunction is present the most important problem among menopausal women and thus counseling may have a major role for improving menopausal sexual state in this population. We aimed to assess effects of counseling on sexual function of menopause women and their spouses. An interventional trial study was performed on 120 consecutive Iranian couples (menopause women and their spouses) who ...

Introduction: With NASA’s return to the Moon, the determination of safe landing sites for future robotic and human missions is crucial, and rock abundance will be important criteria for landing site selection. Thermal inertias derived from remote sensing in the thermal infrared is a powerful technique for assessing rock abundance for the purpose of landing site selection on Mars [1,2]. Rocks a ...

This paper describes an extension to the MPI Standard that offers the potential to increase performance for receiving messages. This extension, the ready-mode receive, is the receive-side equivalent of the ready-mode send. This paper describes the semantics of this new receive function and discusses the potential for performance improvement that it offers. In particular, we discuss how the curr...