The attitudinal and normative beliefs of 136 men and women American jurors following a week of service were examined in an effort to understand more fully individual perceptions of the public's role ...in this important aspect of the judicial process. The extended model of behavioral intention was used as a conceptual framework for assessing the significance of varying dimensions of jury service underlying individual attitudes and intentions. The results reveal that behavior regarding jury service may be largely governed by individual attitudes as opposed to normative influences and that the critical dimension of jury duty affecting juror attitudes reflects the belief that jury participation is a worthwhile service to the community.
NA44 uses a 512-channel Si pad array covering 1.5<eta<3.3 to study charged hadron production in 158A GeV Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS. We apply a multiresolution analysis, based on a discrete ...wavelet transformation, to probe the texture of particle distributions event by event, allowing a simultaneous localization of features in space and scale. Scanning a broad range of multiplicities, we search for signals of clustering and of critical behavior in the power spectra of local density fluctuations. The data are compared with detailed simulations of detector response, using heavy-ion event generators, and with a reference sample created via event mixing. An upper limit is set on the probability and magnitude of dynamical fluctuations.
An end-to-end integrated simulation of a space-based surveillance system, sponsored by the Air Force Brilliant Eyes (BE) System Program Office (SPO), was developed at the National Test Facility (NTF) ...and Nichols Research Corporation (NRC), Colorado Springs, Colorado. The simulation, called BESim, is sufficiently flexible and adaptable to be rapidly reconfigured to model various baseline architectural concepts and assess resulting system performance and resource allocation. The architecture independence is accomplished through "mappable" functions in an object-oriented framework. The feature, termed function-to-platform mapping (FPM) allows the user to distribute functions to various locations in the system. Subsequent impacts to system performance, communications and data-processing requirements, can be measured. FPM also allows functional component distribution through dynamic reconfiguration. This paper describes the FPM development philosophy and examples of FPM application to space-based surveillance system architectural design through analysis of communications load and message handling.< >
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