A comparison of scores from the Slosson and McCarthy Scales with exceptional preschool children (both retarded and gifted) showed Slosson scores were significantly higher. Caution is recommended when using the Slosson as a screening instrument.

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Increases in both the number and amount of court fees, fines, and surcharges—regardless of offenders' ability to pay—have become standard practice in courthouses throughout the United States. A recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice, as well as several others, have shown that imposing criminal justice debt can interfere with reentry and rehabilitation. In response to this identified problem, the Vera Institute of Justice is exploring a potential demonstration project that would help jurisdictions generate revenue and hold offenders accountable for their crimes without the unintended negative justice outcomes. The Fines and Fees Initiative seeks to ameliorate the negative consequences that criminal justice debt may have on individuals, communities, and criminal justice systems.

The patterned interaction between synaptic inputs on the muscle fibers of crustacean claws has been found to be important in delineating claw behavior. When the excitatory and inhibitory neurons are fired at different frequencies in the opener muscle of the cutter claw of lobster 'Homarus Americanus', a complex pattern of postsynaptic potentials(PSP's) is observed. To analyze the nature of these varying patterns, an electrical equivalent circuit model of a single cell with two synapses, one excitatory and one inhibitory, was used. This model was implemented using a circuit simulation program. The PSP patterns generated by this model compare favorably with the patterns obtained from experiments. Thus the model can be used to formulate a theoretical basis for such pattern generation.