Procedural justice in contacts with the police: The perspective of victims of...
This study examined perceptions of procedural justice (the fairness of methods used to achieve outcomes) in contacts with the police among victims of crime. In-depth interviews were conducted with 110...
View ArticleUsing knowledge management to improve learning experience of first-trimester...
To address the lack of insights into the engagement of tertiary students to manage knowledge at a course level, a knowledge management approach is proposed to allow students to interact with lecturers...
View ArticleWhen is transformation a viable policy alternative?
The most common response to change by societies is either to take incremental steps and maintain the current system or accept gradual partial change. Yet, given the current and future complex...
View ArticleFabrication of gas-sensing semiconductor oxide thin films by using a...
Semiconducting metal oxides are widely used in chemical, electronic devices and in gas sensing applications. Among the many different deposition techniques, ablating the target materials with a high...
View ArticleContinuous discovery of co-location contexts from Bluetooth data
The discovery of contexts is important for context-aware applications in pervasive computing. This is a challenging problem because of the stream nature of data, the complexity and changing nature of...
View ArticleA study of psychotic disorders among female homicide offenders
Although a considerable body of evidence has now accumulated about the link between psychotic illness and violent behaviour, fewer studies address this association in women. This data linkage study...
View ArticleElucidating the treatment needs of gang-affiliated youth offenders
Purpose: Gang affiliation is strongly associated with youth crime. Although gang prevention, intervention and suppression programmes have been used to reduce affiliation and manage youth gang-related...
View ArticleRelease and antimicrobial activity of levofloxacin from composite mats of...
Nanofibrous materials have often been reported as carriers for clinical drugs but face the limitation of releasing the drugs in a burst fashion during use. The aim of this study is to produce composite...
View ArticleComprehensive nonlinear electromechanical analysis of nanobeams under DC/AC...
The paper analyzes the nonlinear electromechanical behavior of nanobeams under electrostatic actuation based on the recently developed consistent couple stress theory. The effects of interatomic forces...
View ArticleEvolutionary topology optimization for natural frequency maximization...
This paper aims to extend the evolutionary methods of topology optimization to free vibration problems of acoustic-structure systems. The interacting fluid and structure fields are governed by the...
View ArticleThe simplification of computer simulated persons (CSPs) in CFD models of...
This study presented an iterative approach to simplify computer simulated persons (CSPs) based on the mesh decimating algorithm [1]. The approach could largely simplify 3D-scanned manikins while...
View ArticleRheological and microstructural properties of the chia seed polysaccharide
Chia seed polysaccharide (CSP) was extracted from chia (Salvia hispanica) seeds, and its rheological and microstructural properties in aqueous solutions were studied. CSP solution exhibited Newtonian...
View ArticleAn efficient healing agent for high temperature epoxy composites based upon...
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Poly(ethylene-co-methacrylic acid) (EMAA) as a thermally activated healing agent in a high performance, high temperature tetra-glycidyl methylene dianiline...
View ArticlePost-fire mechanical properties of sandwich composite structures
A thermal-mechanical model for calculating the residual stiffness and strength of fire-exposed sandwich composite structures is presented. The model computes the unsteady-state heat flow and...
View ArticleTailoring solar energy spectrum for efficient organic/inorganic hybrid solar...
Solar light harvesting ability is one of the key properties in organic/inorganic solar cells. One of the most popular organic materials used is poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), which can make use of...
View ArticleSelf-assembled V2O5 interconnected microspheres produced in a fish-water...
Interconnected microspheres of V<inf>2</inf>O<inf>5</inf> composed of ultra-long nanobelts are synthesized in an environmental friendly way by adopting a conventional...
View ArticleAn analysis of dangerous sexual offender assessment reports: Recommendations...
The operation of Australia's preventive detention legislation depends upon forensic clinician assessments of risk for future sexual offending. However, to date, no information is available regarding...
View ArticleModulation of medial geniculate nucleus neuronal activity by electrical...
Dysfunctional sensory gating has been proposed to result in the generation of phantom perceptions. In agreement, it has been recently suggested that tinnitus, a phantom perception of sound commonly...
View ArticleInvestigation of agar as a soil analogue for corrosion studies
Solid agar based gels have been investigated as an electrolyte system for the electrochemical study of soil corrosion, specifically microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) in soil. Traditional...
View ArticleViolence risk and gang affiliation in youth offenders: A recidivism study
Youth gangs are ubiquitous around the world and have been problematic for the social and criminal justice agencies. Despite widespread public concern, there has been relatively scarce empirical...
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