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Child maltreatment has been linked consistently to the development of aggressive behavior. However, not all maltreated youth later demonstrate increased aggression. The present study examined two avenues of inquiry to explain this observed heterogeneity in a sample of 470 serious juvenile offenders enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study. Official reports of maltreatment history were obtained from the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Philadelphia providing information about the nature and incidence of abuse and neglect in childhood of the study participants. The first line of inquiry explored if particular maltreatment subtypes, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional maltreatment, as well as the severity and frequency of these maltreatment types, was related to increased aggression in adolescence. The second line of inquiry used structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the impact of three mediational factors, namely, emotion regulation, moral disengagement, and emotional callousness, on the maltreatment-aggression relation. I expected that not only would maltreatment in childhood be related to increased aggression in adolescence, but that this relation would be mediated by disruptions in emotional and cognitive development. In addition, I expected that these underlying mechanisms would be specific to particular subtypes of maltreatment. As expected, child maltreatment was related to increased aggression among youth. Physical abuse and emotional maltreatment emerged as the two maltreatment subtypes that best predicted aggression, whereas neglect and sexual abuse were not related to increased aggression. The study findings also suggested that higher severity and frequency of maltreatment contributes to increased aggression. Additionally, physical abuse and emotional maltreatment appeared to have a multiplicative effect, in that the combination of these two maltreatment subtypes resulted in the highest levels of aggression among youth in this study. Finally, as hypothesized, poor self-regulation mediated the relation between physical abuse and aggression, while heightened moral disengagement mediated the relation between emotional maltreatment and aggression. / Psychology

This research introduces parallel U-shaped assembly lines with crossover points. Crossover points are connecting points between two parallel U-shaped lines making the lines interdependent. The assembly lines can be employed to manufacture a variety of products belonging to the same product family. This is achieved by utilizing the concepts of crossover points, multi-line stations, and regular stations. The binary programming formulation presented in this research can be employed for any scenario (e.g. task times, cycle times, and the number of tasks) in the configuration that includes a crossover point. The comparison of numerical problem solutions based on the proposed heuristic approach with the traditional approach highlights the possible reduction in the quantity of workers required. The conclusion from this research is that a wider variety of products can be manufactured at the same capital expense using parallel U-shaped assembly lines with crossover points, leading to a reduction in the total number of workers. / M. S.

Cette thèse présente la conception et l'implémentation d'une nouvelle génération de puces à atomes, ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives expérimentales dans des micropièges magnétiques très anisotropes. Les propriétés thermiques des puces en nitrure d'aluminium sont étudiées en détail. Le dispositif a été optimisé pour piéger de plus grands nombres d'atomes et améliorer la qualité de l'imagerie, notamment en fabriquant un miroir de planéité sub-λ/10 à la surface de la puce.Nous étudions des gaz quasi-1D grâce à des images in situ de profils fluctuants et des méthodes précises de calibration et d'analyse statistique. Nous mesurons des fluctuations non-gaussiennes, ce qui permet de tester sensiblement la thermodynamique du gaz et donne une mesure de corrélations à trois corps. Nous étudions précisément la transition de quasicondensation et mesurons pour la première fois sa loi d'échelle. En régime 3D, c'est une condensation transverse qui déclenche la quasicondensation longitudinale, tandis qu'en régime 1D, la formation d'un quasicondensat est gouvernée par les interactions répulsives et non par la dégénérescence quantique.Obtenant des températures record pour des gaz 1D, nous observons des fluctuations subpoissoniennes lorsque les corrélations atomiques sont déterminées, au moins localement, par les fluctuations quantiques qui dominent les fluctuations thermiques. Nous discutons également la thermalisation étonnamment rapide mesurée en régime 1D profond qui suggère que des collisions effectives à 3 corps brisent l'intégrabilité du système. / This thesis presents the design and implementation of a new generation of atom chips, that open novel experimental possibilities with very anisotropic magnetic microtraps. The thermal properties of aluminum nitride atom chips are studied in detail. We have optimized the set-up in order to trap more atoms and image the clouds as precisely as possible. In particular we have fabricated a miror of sub-λ/10 planeity on top of the chip surface.We study quasi-1D gases using in situ pictures of the fluctuating density pro_les and precise methods for their calibration and statistical analysis. We measure non-gaussian fluctuations, which provides a sensitive test of the thermodynamics of the system and gives a measure of three-body correlations. We study precisely the quasicondensation transition, measuring its scaling for the first time. In the 3D regime, a transverse condensation triggers the longitudinal quasicondensation. In the 1D regime, on the contrary, the appearance of a quasicondensate is governed by repulsive interactions only, and not by quantum degeneracy.Reaching record temperatures for 1D gases, we observe subpoissonian fluctuations which indicate that atomic correlations are determined at least locally by quantum rather than thermal fluctuations. We also discuss our observation of surprizingly e_fficient thermalization deep in the 1D regime, suggesting that e_ffective 3-body collisions break the integrability of the system.

Submitted by JACKELINE DEL CARMEN HUACCHA NEYRA null (jacky_157_93@hotmail.com) on 2017-03-24T15:38:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação jackeline.pdf: 1416143 bytes, checksum: 3865afc18803fe4e45d315a9ee3afaf9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-03-24T18:02:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 huacchaneyra_jc_me_sjrp.pdf: 1416143 bytes, checksum: 3865afc18803fe4e45d315a9ee3afaf9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-24T18:02:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 huacchaneyra_jc_me_sjrp.pdf: 1416143 bytes, checksum: 3865afc18803fe4e45d315a9ee3afaf9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-13 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Os problemas de dimensionamento de lotes consistem em determinar a quantidade de itens que devem ser produzidos em todos os períodos de um horizonte de planejamento. Em geral, são considerados custos de produção, preparação de máquina e de manutenção de estoque. Neste trabalho estuda-se uma extensão do problema de dimensionamento de lotes com restrição de capacidade que considera tempos de preparação, preparação carryover e crossover, em que se tem uma única máquina, único estágio, multi-itens e big-bucket (CLSP-SCC). Novas formulações para o CLSP-SCC são apresentadas e evitam a necessidade de definir novas variáveis binárias para modelar a preparação crossover. Também são propostas restrições de quebra de simetria para formulações propostas na literatura. São provadas as relações teóricas que existem entre cada uma destas formulações estudadas. Além disso, é proposta uma heurística híbrida que combina as heurísticas Relax-and-Fix e Fix-and-Optimize (RF-FO), em que a heurística Relax-and-Fix é usada para obter uma solução inicial e a heurística Fix-and-Optimize melhora essa solução. Por fim, apresentam-se os resultados computacionais e conclui-se que os resultados obtidos melhoram significativamente quando comparam-se a formulação clássica com as formulações sem preparação carryover. Compara-se também os resultados da heurística com os do pacote computacional CPLEX e, quando ambos são limitados ao mesmo tempo computacional, a heurística RF-FO obtém melhores resultados. / Lot-Sizing Problems consist of determining the quantity of items to be produced in each period of a planning horizon. In general, production, setup and inventory costs are considered. In this work an extension of the Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problem is studied, which considers setup times, Setup Carryover and Setup Crossover, single machine, single level, multi items, multi periods and big-bucket (CLSP-SCC). New formulations to the CLSP-SCC are presented and avoid the necessity of defining new extra binary variables to model the setup crossover. Furthermore, symmetry breaking constraints are proposed for formulations from the literature. The theoretical relations between the studied formulations are proved. A Relax-and-Fix and Fixand-Optimize (RF-FO) hybrid heuristic is proposed, in which the Relax-and-Fix helps to find an initial solution and the Fix-and-Optimize improves it. Computational results are presented and the obtained results improve significantly when comparing the classical formulation with the formulation without setup carryover. Finally, the results obtained by the RF-FO heuristic and the computational package CPLEX are compared and, when they both are limited to the same computational time, the RF-FO heuristic obtains better results.