Romeo & Juliet Laws: Investigating UK Public Perceptions of Young Consensual Sex and the Effects of Age Gaps and Perpetrator and Respondent Gender.

Public perception of regulated sexual behavior is a crucial factor in considering policy, particularly when UK sexual consent laws could criminalize the many young people who are increasingly engaging in underage sex. In contrast, other countries have progressively implemented consent age-spans to respect sexual autonomy while simultaneously protecting young people from sexual exploitation. This study investigated UK perceptions of consensual underage sex between similar-aged adolescents, with predominant focus on age-spans, as an adaptive alternative to dropping consent age.

A beamline to control longitudinal phase space whilst transporting laser wakefield accelerated electrons to an undulator.

Laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) can produce high-energy electron bunches in short distances. Successfully coupling these sources with undulators has the potential to form an LWFA-driven free-electron laser (FEL), providing high-intensity short-wavelength radiation. Electron bunches produced from LWFAs have a correlated distribution in longitudinal phase space: a chirp.

Vacuum ultraviolet coherent undulator radiation from attosecond electron bunches.

Attosecond duration relativistic electron bunches travelling through an undulator can generate brilliant coherent radiation in the visible to vacuum ultraviolet spectral range. We present comprehensive numerical simulations to study the properties of coherent emission for a wide range of electron energies and bunch durations, including space-charge effects. These demonstrate that electron bunches with r.

Tests of the efficiency of an augmented distorted planewave basis in electronic structure calculations.

An augmented distorted planewave plus local orbital basis set has been developed and implemented in a simple fashion in order to test its efficiency for electronic structure calculations. It is based on the idea of using distorted planewaves (Gygi 1993 Phys. Rev.

Effective dose in Albanian direct chest fluoroscopy.

In the absence of reliable supplies of X-ray film, direct fluoroscopy is still extensively used in Albania, with chest radiology a particularly common application. This paper aims to quantify both patient skin dose and the risk-related quantity effective dose for direct fluoroscopy units based in seven different Albanian X-ray departments. A standard Quality Assurance (QA) protocol was used to assess tube potential accuracy, half value layer and X-ray tube output of these units.

The syndrome of Capgras.

Three new cases of the syndrome of Capgras are presented. An unusual variant of the syndrome is recorded. It is contended that the definition of the syndrome should be widened to include impersonators who exhibit slight differences from the prototype, and that ambivalence and projection cannot explain all cases.

A family with syndactyly type II (synpolydactyly).

Syndactyly Type II is reported in eight members of a family in four generations. Affected individuals show two distinctive patterns of variation in the expression of the gene. Distortion of dermatoglyphic patterns is associated with the severe but not the mild manifestation of the malformation.

Six generations of ill-used children in a Huntington's pedigree.

This Huntington's pedigree of six generations illustrates the interaction of environmental and genetic factors causing prolonged suffering to children reared in such families. This pedigree is representative of many others studied in depth involving at least 425 families. In general, children reared in these families later manifest subtle anti-social tendencies.