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The Italic people of ancient Apulia : new evidence from pottery for workshops, markets, and customs
\"The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship--from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions--available to English-speaking audiences. In it thirteen scholars from Italy, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Australia present targeted essays on aspects of the cultures of the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC and the surrounding decades\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Integration of full divertor detachment with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas
Divertor detachment offers a promising solution to the challenge of plasma-wall interactions for steady-state operation of fusion reactors. Here, we demonstrate the excellent compatibility of actively controlled full divertor detachment with a high-performance (
β
N
~ 3,
H
98
~ 1.5) core plasma, using high-β
p
(poloidal beta,
β
p
> 2) scenario characterized by a sustained core internal transport barrier (ITB) and a modest edge transport barrier (ETB) in DIII-D tokamak. The high-
β
p
high-confinement scenario facilitates divertor detachment which, in turn, promotes the development of an even stronger ITB at large radius with a weaker ETB. This self-organized synergy between ITB and ETB, leads to a net gain in energy confinement, in contrast to the net confinement loss caused by divertor detachment in standard H-modes. These results show the potential of integrating excellent core plasma performance with an efficient divertor solution, an essential step towards steady-state operation of reactor-grade plasmas.
Plasma fusion devices like tokamaks are important for energy generation but there are many challenges for their steady state operation. Here, the authors show that full divertor detachment is compatible with high-confinement high-poloidal-beta core plasmas and this prevents the damage to the divertor target plates and the first wall.
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Estimating the risk of crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a data-linkage study
Purpose
People with intellectual disability (PWID) appear more likely to be victims and perpetrators of crime. However, extant evidence pertaining to these risks is limited by methodological weaknesses and the absence of consistent operational definitions. This research aimed to estimate the prevalence of criminal histories and victimisation using a large, well-defined sample of PWID.
Methods
A case-linkage study was conducted comprising 2220 PWID registered with disability services in Victoria, Australia, whose personal details were linked with a state-wide police database. Criminal charges and reports of victimisation were compared to a non-disabled community comparison sample (
n
= 2085).
Results
PWID were at increased risk of having a history of criminal charges, particularly for violent and sexual offences. Although the non-disabled comparison group had a greater risk of criminal victimisation overall, PWID had a greatly increased risk of sexual and violent crime victimisation.
Conclusions
PWID are at increased risk of victimisation and perpetration of violent and sexual crimes. Risk of sex offending and victimisation is particularly elevated, and signalling the need for specialised interventions to prevent offending and to ensure victims is assisted with access to justice, support, and treatment.
Journal Article
The risks, needs and stages of recovery of a complete forensic patient cohort in an Australian state
Background
Routine outcome measures are increasingly being mandated across mental health services in Australia and overseas. This requirement includes forensic mental health services, but their utility in such specialist services and the inter-relationships between the measures remain unclear. This study sought to characterise the risks, needs and stages of recovery of an entire cohort of forensic patients in one jurisdiction in Australia.
Methods
Local expert groups, comprising of members of the forensic patient treating teams, were formed to gather information about the status and needs of all forensic patients in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The expert groups provided demographic information and completed three assessment tools concerning the risks, needs and stages of recovery of each forensic patient.
Results
The cohort of 327 forensic patients in NSW appears to be typical of forensic mental health service populations internationally when considering factors such as gender, diagnosis, and index offence. A number of important differences across the three structured tools for forensic patients in different levels of secure service provision are presented. The DUNDRUM Quartet demonstrated interesting findings, particularly in terms of the therapeutic security needs, the treatment completion, and the stages of recovery for the forensic patients in the community. The CANFOR highlighted the level of needs across the forensic patient population, whilst the HCR-20 data showed there was no significant difference in the mean clinical and risk management scores between male forensic patients across levels of security.
Conclusions
To the authors’ knowledge this is the first study of its kind in New South Wales, Australia. We have demonstrated the utility of using a suite of measures to evaluate the risks, needs, and stages of recovery for an entire cohort of forensic patients. The data set helps inform service planning and development, together with providing various avenues for future research.
Journal Article
Fundamental financial accounting concepts
\"Technology has changed accounting practice. Gone are the days where accountants used pens, paper, and calculators to maintain records and prepare statements. Indeed, most companies use computer software that simplifies data entry, recordkeeping, and statement preparation. Today's accountants spend less time preparing financial information and more time consulting and advising clients. To remain relevant, accounting education must move beyond the traditional preparer approach. The first step in learning how to advise clients is to understand how business professionals incorporate accounting in the decision-making process. Business professionals tend to think about bottom-line consequences. If I do this or that, how will it affect my company's net income, total assets, cash flow, and so on. To promote bottomline thinking, we take the student one step beyond the recording process. Specifically, we employ a financial statements model to show them how the journal entries affect financial statements. The model arranges the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows horizontally across a single line of text\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Can a weight loss of one pound a week be achieved with a 3500-kcal deficit? Commentary on a commonly accepted rule
Despite theoretical evidence that the model commonly referred to as the 3500-kcal rule grossly overestimates actual weight loss, widespread application of the 3500-kcal formula continues to appear in textbooks, on respected government- and health-related websites, and scientific research publications. Here we demonstrate the risk of applying the 3500-kcal rule even as a convenient estimate by comparing predicted against actual weight loss in seven weight loss experiments conducted in confinement under total supervision or objectively measured energy intake. We offer three newly developed, downloadable applications housed in Microsoft Excel and Java, which simulates a rigorously validated, dynamic model of weight change. The first two tools available at
http://www.pbrc.edu/sswcp
, provide a convenient alternative method for providing patients with projected weight loss/gain estimates in response to changes in dietary intake. The second tool, which can be downloaded from the URL
http://www.pbrc.edu/mswcp
, projects estimated weight loss simultaneously for multiple subjects. This tool was developed to inform weight change experimental design and analysis. While complex dynamic models may not be directly tractable, the newly developed tools offer the opportunity to deliver dynamic model predictions as a convenient and significantly more accurate alternative to the 3500-kcal rule.
Journal Article
Adaptive transcriptional remodeling of Streptococcus mutans under simulated microgravity and silver stress reveals evolutionary innovation in artificial environments
Understanding how microorganisms adapt to novel physical and chemical environments requires integrating evolutionary, regulatory, and phenotypic perspectives. Here, we examined
Streptococcus mutans
populations previously evolved for 100 days under simulated microgravity (sMG) or combined microgravity and silver nitrate (sMGAg), generating new transcriptomic and phenotypic datasets and integrating them with prior whole-genome sequencing. These environments model key pressures encountered in enclosed spaceflight habitats, including altered fluid shear, oxidative challenges, and exposure to disinfectants. Populations maintained under normal gravity (NG) largely preserved ancestral metabolic and redox characteristics. In contrast, sMG populations exhibited divergent physiological and transcriptional outcomes that were not predictable from genomic variants alone, including multiple ROS response patterns, broad reductions in carbohydrate metabolism, and consistent retention of trehalose utilization. Populations evolved under sMGAg showed more convergent patterns, characterized by broad activation of oxidoreductase and metal-handling pathways, elevated basal ROS relative to the ancestral strain with reduced inducibility, and a consistent gain in nitrate-reduction capability. These outcomes reflect condition-associated physiological states resolved only through combined genomic, transcriptomic, and phenotype-level data, as no single data type was sufficient to capture the full structure of adaptive responses. Together, these findings illustrate how distinct physical and chemical stress regimes reshape the landscape of accessible evolutionary responses, with microgravity alone permitting a wider range of adaptive trajectories and microgravity combined with silver favoring more uniform physiological states. More broadly, this work demonstrates that integrated multi-level datasets are essential for accurately characterizing adaptive outcomes in extreme or non-terrestrial environments.
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