Conceptualisation of the characteristics of advanced practitioners in the...
Professions grapple with defining advanced practice and the characteristics of advanced practitioners. In nursing and allied health, advanced practice has been defined as 'a state of professional...
View ArticleUse of nonfatal force on and by persons with apparent mental disorder in...
Although a number of factors have been examined in relation to their effect on the prevalence and characteristics of police use of force, studies examining whether the person appeared to be mentally...
View ArticlePolice officers' views of absconding from mental health units in Victoria,...
Patients regularly abscond from mental health units and at times the consequences for patients and for others can be serious. The police are involved with absconding events, but are rarely considered...
View ArticleYouth gang affiliation, violence, and criminal activities: A review of...
Youth gangs are a universal phenomenon attracting increasing attention; the criminal and antisocial behavior perpetuated by youth gangs has an adverse impact on local communities across the globe....
View ArticleCriminal attitudes and psychopathic personality attributes of youth gang...
Gang-affiliated youth are responsible for a disproportionate amount of serious and violent offenses. However, there is scant focus on the psychological variables that could be important for treatment...
View ArticleProcedural justice in victim-police interactions and victims' recovery from...
The vast majority of studies to date have documented a negative impact associated with contacts between the police and victims of crime. In contrast, this qualitative study examined how victim-police...
View ArticleThe frequency and nature of resolution of potential police provoked shooting...
Helping people in acute psychiatric crisis has become an increasingly common part of modern community policing. In certain extreme cases, police may be faced with a suicidal individual who intends to...
View ArticleA case-linkage study of crime victimisation in schizophrenia-spectrum...
Abstract Background: Despite high rates of self-reported crime victimisation, no study to date has compared official victimisation records of people with severe mental illness with a random community...
View ArticlePolicing services with mentally ill people: Developing greater understanding...
Although it is now well known that there is a disproportionate number of people with mental illnesses in the criminal justice system, surprising little attention has been paid to the challenges faced...
View ArticleBromo-nitro substitution on a tertiary α carbon - A previously...
Sodium nitrite in dimethylformamide substitutes nitro for bromine alpha to an amide carbonyl in high yield at a tertiary site. Hammett plots show a strongly positive ρ value (+0.67), indicating a...
View ArticleA GIS methodology for modelling hiking experiences in the Grampians National...
This paper has applied two commonly used multivariate techniques, principal component and discriminant function analyses to create 'constructs' that model and visualise the characteristics of hiking...
View ArticleAn experimental review on coupling of solar pond with membrane distillation
The interest of using solar powered membrane distillation systems for desalination is growing worldwide due to the membrane distillation (MD) attractive features. This study experimentally investigates...
View ArticleThe role of temperature in the strengthening of Cu-Al alloys processed by...
In the present work, Cu-Al alloys were processed by surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) under both room and liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) conditions. In contrast to room temperature (RT)...
View ArticleSurface nanobubbles and nanodroplets
Surface nanobubbles are nanoscopic gaseous domains on immersed substrates which can survive for days. They were first speculated to exist about 20 years ago, based on stepwise features in force curves...
View ArticleMicrostructural and tribological characterisation of a nitriding/TiAlN PVD...
We describe a duplex nitriding and TiAlN coating process performed with no break in vacuum in an industrial scale deposition chamber. Plasma nitriding at 480. °C resulted in a fracture tough diffusion...
View ArticleAligning multilayer graphene flakes with an external electric field to...
© 2015 The Authors. The increasing demand for multifunctional polymer nanocomposites calls for new technologies to simultaneously enhance mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. This paper...
View ArticleMapping forest canopy height across large areas by upscaling ALS estimates...
Operational assessment of forest structure is an on-going challenge for land managers, particularly over large, remote or inaccessible areas. Here, we present an easily adopted method for generating a...
View ArticleA neural approach to product demand forecasting
This paper develops an artificial neural network (ANN) model to forecast the optimum demand as a function of time of the year, festival period, promotional programmes, holidays, number of...
View ArticleOptimisation of a production inventory model with reliability considerations
In this paper, a production inventory model with reliability of production process is developed to minimise total inventory cost. Production, setup, holding, inspection, depreciation, rejection and...
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