(2008). Keeping families Together? Exploring placement of children with severe emotional disturbances in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Abstract Introduction

BACKGROUND Understanding the responses of ecological communities to human-induced perturbations is crucial for establishing conservation goals. Ecological communities are dynamic entities undergoing fluctuations due to their intrinsic characteristics as well as anthropogenic pressures varying over time. In this respect, long-term studies, based on large spatial and temporal datasets, may provid...

detection & classification of power quality (pq) disturbances are the most important problems in distribution systems. in this paper, a new approach for the detection and classification of single and combined pq disturbances is proposed which utilizes fuzzy logic and particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithms. in this approach, first suitable features of the waveform of pq disturbances ar...

Trichotillomania is an irresistible urge to pull out one's hair and this indulgence into actual pulling leading to baldness frequently. It is not yet established as a disease entity separately and usually considered as a manifestation of emotional disturbance (Monroe and Abse 1963) and disturbed interpersonal relationships (Tiling 1975). Some investigators have also observed that this morbid ur...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) are widely used as a tool for summarizing ecological communities but may have different shapes, depending on the currency used to measure species importance. We develop a simple plotting method that links SADs in the alternative currencies of numerical abundance and biomass and is underpinned by testable predictions about how organisms occupy physical spac...

Climate change is increasing the risk of drought to forested ecosystems. Although drought impacts are often anecdotally noted to occur in discrete patches of high canopy mortality, the landscape effects of drought disturbances have received virtually no study. This study characterized the landscape configuration of drought impact patches and investigated the relationships between patch characte...

This paper aims to investigate the uncertainty factors that impact the collection strategy of a remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain. The basis of this type of supply chain is the collection of used products, without which the remanufacturing of new products would be out of the question. In this paper, we considered the effect of stochastic disturbance on the collection process in a closed-...