There is a need for instruments that can be used in correctional settings to measure changes in aggressive behaviors over a limited time period. This study aimed to validate an instrument (the Prison Adjusted Measure of Aggression, PAMA) that assesses specifically the past month's aggressive behaviors and is adapted for use in correctional facilities. The psychometric properties of the self-rat...

The number of satellites visible to a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is important for high accuracy surveys. To aid with this, there are software packages capable of predicting GNSS visibility at any location of the globe at any time of day. These prediction packages operate by using regularly updated almanacs containing positional data for all navigation satellites; however...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is important to hydrologists as well as regional planners. Methods for the calculation of ET require land use as well as weather and solar energy inputs. In this paper we present an ArcMap toolbar for the calculation of spatially distributed ET from ground based weather data. The toolbar provides functionality to interpolate weather data over the region of interest and c...

Flow maps are used in order to indicate movements by persons or objects in a given time period. The major problem concerning the production of flow maps is the appropriate placement of movement lines in the map. This paper presents a method of placing lines automatically, based on a modification of an exisiting algorithm. The algorithm has been implemented as an ArcMap extension and was subsequ...

Columnar display of linear referenced data portrays dozens of attributes of linear features simultaneously, visually, and interactively. In this genome-like display, each attribute is a layer of an ArcMap data frame. Location is in traditional geographic space and as distance along a measured route created with ArcINFO dynamic segmentation. The resulting display is familiar to investigators acc...

BACKGROUND Timely access to emergency care can substantially reduce mortality. International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to guide ambitions for universal health care by 2030. However, no Pan-African database of where hospitals are located exists; therefore, we aimed to complete a geocoded inventory of hospital services in Africa in relation to how popu...

In the southeast United States, a field of peanuts, Arachis hypogaea L., is often closely associated with a field of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. The objective of this 4-yr on-farm study was to examine and compare the spatiotemporal patterns and dispersal of the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula L., and the brown stink bug, Euschistus servus (Say), in six of these peanut-cotton farmsca...

Using recent results for nonperturbative contributions to the B and D meson inclusive semileptonic widths, a model independent extraction of |Vbc|, mc and mb is made from the experimentally measured B and D lifetimes and semileptonic branching ratios. Constraining the parameters of the HQET at O(1/mQ) by the D semileptonic width, |Vbc| is found to lie in the range .040 < |Vbc| < 0.057. The c an...