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The nature of police involvement in mental health transfers

During the course of their duties, police regularly have contact with mentally ill persons who are experiencing psychiatric crisis and require some form of mental health transfer. This study examined...

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A 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...

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The statistical recommendations of the American Psychological Association...

Estimation based on effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis usually provides a more informative analysis of empirical results than does statistical significance testing, which has long...

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Clarifying the characteristics of youth who have engaged in appetitive violence

Appetitive violence is a form of proactive violence; its purpose is to generate or maintain a positive emotional state and, possibly, to strengthen social bonds. Portrayals of an increasing frequency...

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Nonlinear vibration characteristics of graphene/piezoelectric sandwich films...

This paper reports the result of an investigation into the nonlinear vibration frequencies of graphene/piezoelectric sandwich films under electrical loading based on nonlocal elastic theory by...

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Supplier selection for managing supply risks in a supply chain: A fuzzy approach

Supplier selection is one of the most important tasks for supply chain decision making, and there are many quantitative and qualitative factors that affect this process. This paper develops a simple...

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(In Press) How the Social Economy Produces Innovation

© 2015 The Association for Social Economics Social economics has long been concerned with the effects on human societies of market-coordinated processes of economic innovation. But the social economy...

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Development, inter-rater reliability and feasibility of a checklist to assess...

Several papers report deficiencies in the reporting of information about the implementation of interventions in clinical trials. Information about implementation is also required in systematic reviews...

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The effect of nutrients and environmental conditions on biomass and oil...

The green alga Botryococcus braunii is widely recognized as a source of non-fossil oil. However, limitations in Botryococcus biomass production hamper its commercial exploitation. This study examines...

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Multilayered graphene films prepared at moderate temperatures using energetic...

Carbon films were energetically deposited onto copper and nickel foil using a filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition system. Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron...

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Probability Analysis of Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Second-Order...

This paper explores the probability problems on terminal sliding mode control of second-order nonlinear continuous Markovian jump systems. An equivalent control based terminal sliding mode control...

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Police contact with people with an intellectual disability: The Independent...

Background A number of jurisdictions have instituted legislation requiring an independent person to be present during police interviews with vulnerable people. In Victoria, Australia, a group of...

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Psychopathology in police custody: The role of importation, deprivation and...

People experiencing mental illness are over-represented among police cell detainees, however limited work has sought to investigate the occurrence of psychopathology in police custody. The present...

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Police management of mental health crisis situations in the community: status...

This paper considers the application of principles widely used to conceptualise and address violent and aggressive behaviour in psychiatric settings and examines if and to what extent they may be...

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Correlates of criminal victimisation among police cell detainees in Victoria,...

People with mental illness are more likely to be crime victims than others; however, little is known about the relationship between offending and victimisation among mentally ill offenders. This study...

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A validation of the short-term international teaching assignments scale

Many researchers highlighted the need to develop organizational guidelines to enable the effective support and maintenance of critical human resources during expatriate sojourns. However, lack of...

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'Food is life': Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women's filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both...

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A critical review of nitrogen mineralization in biosolids-amended soil, the...

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Executive dysfunction in psychosis following traumatic brain injury (PFTBI)

Executive dysfunction is well established in patients with traumatic brain injury and in schizophrenia (SCZ). However, assessments of executive function in psychosis following traumatic brain injury...

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The 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...

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