Restrictive state laws aimed at immigrants: Effects on enrollment in the food stamp program by U.S. citizen children in immigrant families.

This paper examines whether a chilling effect of restrictive state laws aimed at immigrants creates a barrier to enrollment in the food stamp program (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP) for U.S.citizen children in low-income immigrant families.This analysis looks at 20 states in the continental United States from 2000

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Assignment of Focus Position with Convolutional Neural Networks in Adaptive Lens Based Axial Scanning for Confocal Microscopy

Adaptive lenses offer axial scanning without mechanical translation and thus are promising to replace mechanical-movement-based axial scanning in microscopy.The scan is accomplished by sweeping the applied voltage.However, the relation between the applied voltage and the resulting axial focus position is not unambiguous.Adaptive lenses suffer from

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Prevalence and psychosocial factors of aggression among youth

Background: Youth indulgence themselves in various aggressive behaviors leading to significant psychosocial dysfunctions.The present study assesses the prevalence of aggression among youth and to assess the risk factors of aggression among youth.Materials Circular Board and Methods: Anger Data sheet, Resilience Scale and Buss-Perry Aggression Scale

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