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An investigation into the effect of respondent gender, victim age and perpetrator treatment on public attitudes towards sex offenders, sex offender treatment and sex offender rehabilitation
No full textIn this study the authors examine the effect respondent gender, victim age, and offender treatment programs have upon public attitudes towards sex offenders. A community sample of 235 participants were asked to read a hypothetical vignette involving the sexual assault of a 10-, 15-, or 20-year-old female by a 35-year-old male who subsequently completed either a sex offender treatment or carmaintenance program whilst in prison. Respondents then completed three psychometrically sound measures assessing general attitudes towards sex offenders, their treatment and their rehabilitation. No gender difference was found in respondents’ attitudes towards sex offenders. In contrast, and as predicted, respondents’ attitudes towards offenders becamemore negative as victimage decreased and if the depicted perpetrator had not completed relevant treatment. Overall, respondents’ attitudes were most negative when the depicted assault was perpetrated against a 10-year-old child and no offender treatment program ensued. Methodological limitations, implications for forensic practitioners, and suggestions for future research are discussed
Hi-tech textiles for interactive wound therapies
No full textThe chapter discusses the physiology of wounds and their management. The classification of wounds and appropriate dressing selection for a successful wound management are outlined. High-tech wound dressings and the current state of the art novel dressings such as odour adsorbent and antimicrobial dressings are critically reviewed. The role of compression therapy in the treatment and prevention of venous leg ulceration is discussed. The merits and limitations of the current compression therapy regime and the research into the development of novel orthopaedic padding and compression bandages are highlighted
Writing a built environment dissertation practical guidance and examples
No full textAs a built environment student you are likely to be required to research, write and submit a dissertation as a core component of your degree studies. As a vocational profession, students of the built environment often have strong practical aspirations. Writing a Built Environment Dissertation provides practical guidance and will help to steer you into a position where you can develop a good dissertation by mixing your practical strengths with more theoretical tools. The book is ordered around a common dissertation structure: that is, it starts with material that should be in the intr
Movement Direction-based Handover Scanning for Mobile WiMAX
No full textMobile WiMAX is a broadband technology that is capable of delivering triple play services (voice, data, and video). However, mobility in WiMAX system is still an issue when the mobile station (MS) moves and be handovered between base stations (BSs). This issue can cause unnecessary neighboring BS scanning and association, handover delay, and MAC overhead which may affect real-time applications. In this paper, the MS movement direction prediction (MMDP) based MS scanning to overcome the mobile WiMAX handover issues is presented. In this scheme, only potential BS candidates will be chosen for scanning purpose. Hence, the MS scanning process reputation will be reduced with these shortlisted BS candidates instead of scanning all neighbors BSs. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme reduces total scanning delay and scanning interval duration by 25% and 50% respectively
A climate of fear: considerations for designing a virtual acoustic ecology fear.
No full textThis paper proposes a framework that incorporates fear, acoustics, thought processing and digital game sound theory; with the potential to not only improve understanding of our relationship with fear, but also generate a foundation for reliable and significant manipulation of the fear experience. A brief literature review provides the context for a discussion of fear and sound in virtual worlds before the framework is described; concluding remarks point to future empirical work testing and refining the framework
Effect of emotion and articulation of speech on the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters
No full textThis paper presents a study of how exaggerated facial expression in the lower face region affects perception of emotion and the Uncanny Valley phenomenon in realistic, human-like, virtual characters. Characters communicated the six basic emotions, anger, disgust, fear, sadness and surprise with normal and exaggerated mouth movements. Measures were taken for perceived familiarity and human-likeness. The results showed that: an increased intensity of articulation significantly reduced the uncanny for anger; yet increased perception of the uncanny for characters expressing happiness with an exaggeration of mouth movement. The practical implications of these findings are considered when controlling the uncanny in virtual characters
Staff development across borders and time zones: an initiative in synchronous eLearning
No full textThis paper looks at an alternative to the conventional asynchronous based e-learning and explores its potential for meeting both the needs of the growing staff development needs across the African continent...and beyond and the need to satisfy the traditionalists desire for real-time communication. The paper focuses on a recent initiative launched by the University of Bolton (UK) in conjunction with The International College (THINC) Dubai to provide on-line staff development to professionals working across the Arabian Gulf states and North Africa using a synchronous virtual learning environment (VLE)
