530 research outputs found
New Perspectives on Cybercrime
No full textThis exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoretical obstacles facing criminological theory: the stagnation of critical criminology and the nihilistic relativism of the postmodern and post-structuralist cultural turn.
Organised into three sections; ‘Law and Order in Cyberspace’, ‘Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace’, and ‘Identity and Cyberspace’, this cutting-edge volume explores some of the most crucial issues we face today on the internet: grooming, gendered violence, freedom of speech and intellectual property crime. Providing unique new theory on Cybercrime, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Criminology, Law, Sociology, Philosophy, Policing and Forensic Science, Information Technology and Journalism, in addition to professionals working within law and order agencies and the security services
2025 Sub-Librarians Meeting: The Adventure of Lomax the Sub-librarian Featuring Lyndsay Faye
No full textALA Best Historical Award-winning (and twice Edgar Award-nominated) Sherlockian author, Lyndsay Faye, will give a presentation on Lomax--the sub-librarian of the British Library and namesake of the Sherlock Holmes society, the Sub-librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars. Her comments will draw upon her own research and her experience in writing her short story “The Gospel of Sheba,” a bibliomystery centered around a lethal grimoire, narrated via Lomax\u27s private journals. The presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A
There is no me without you: one woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children
No full textThis is the archive of a lecture given by Melissa Faye Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out
The use of multilevel models to evaluate sources of variation in reproductive performance in dairy cattle in Reunion Island
No full textSources of variation in measures of reproductive performance in dairy cattle were evaluated using data collected from 3207 lactations in 1570 cows in 50 herds from five geographic regions of Reunion Island (located off the cast coast of Madagascar). Three continuously distributed reproductive parameters (intervals from calving-to-conception, calving-to-first-service and first-service-to-conception) were considered, along with one Binomial outcome (first-service-conception risk). Multilevel models which take into account the hierarchical nature of the data were used to fit all models. For the overall measure of calving-to-conception interval, 86% of the variation resided at the lactation level with only 7, 6 and 2% at the cow, herd and regional levels, respectively. The proportion of variance at the herd and cow levels were slightly higher for the calving-to-first-service interval (12 and 9%, respectively) - but for the other two parameters (first-service-conception risk and first-service-to-conception interval), >90% of the variation resided at the lactation level. For the three continuous dependent variables, comparison of results between models based on log-transformed data and Box-Cox-transformed data suggested that minor departures from the assumption of normality did not have a substantial effect on the variance estimates. For the Binomial dependent variable, five different estimation procedures (penalised quasi-likelihood, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo, parametric and non-parametric bootstrap estimates and maximum-likelihood) yielded substantially different results for the estimate of the cow-level variance
Examining the Experiences and Unmet Needs of Chassidic Mothers Raising a Child With Autism
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This qualitative study was conducted to understand the needs and priorities of mothers raising a child with autism in the Chassidic community. Five major themes emerged that reflect unique challenges. This research highlights the importance of routines and rituals that define insular communities.
Primary Author and Speaker: Faye Levy
Contributing Authors: M. J. Mulcahey</jats:p
Enantiopure Ibuprofen - Sample 3 NanED, Data ESR1 & ESR2
No full textGeneral Information
Project
NanED (www.naned.eu)
ESR Project
ESR1 & ESR2
Instrumental
Instrument
Zeiss Libra 120
Radiation source
LaB6
Accelerating voltage
120 kV
Wavelength
0.0335 Å
Probe Type
Nanodiffraction
Beam Diameter
600 nm
Beam Convergence
Parallel beam
Detector
Timepix Single Electron Detector
Number of pixels in the image
512 x 512
Physical pixel size
55 µm * 55 µm
Effective camera length
180 mm
Calibration constant
0.004815 Å-1/pixel
Sample description
Name
Ibuprofen
Chemical composition
C13H18O2
Sample source
Thermo Scientific (catalog. No: 333200050, lot: A0424385)
Sample preparation
Crushed between two glass slides
Experimental
Data type
3D Electron Diffraction (3D-ED)
Data collection method
Continuous Rotation Electron Diffraction (CRED)
Rotation Speed
1.125 º/s
Temperature
95.15 K
Number of crystals contributing to the dataset
1
Number of experimental frames
226
Tilt range, tilt step
-60º to +55, 0.5º
Exposure time per frame
450 ms
Software
Software used for data collection
WinTEM (Zeiss), Digistar (NanoMEGAS) and Sophy (Software for Physics)
Software used for processing
Pets2
Software used for solution
Shelxt
Software used for refinement
Jana, Olex2
Authorship and bibliography
Author(s) of the data
Moussa Diame FAYE (ESR1) & Vincentia Emerson Agbemeh (ESR2)
Related data
Publication(s)
Precession:
General Information
Project
NanED (www.naned.eu)
ESR Project
ESR1 & ESR2
Instrumental
Instrument
Zeiss Libra 120
Radiation source
LaB6
Accelerating voltage
120 kV
Wavelength
0.0335 Å
Probe Type
Nanodiffraction
Beam Diameter
150 nm
Beam Convergence
Parallel beam
Detector
Timepix Single Electron Detector
Number of pixels in the image
512 x 512
Physical pixel size
55 µm * 55 µm
Effective camera length
180 mm
Calibration constant
0.004815 Å-1/pixel
Sample description
Name
Ibuprofen
Chemical composition
C13H18O2
Sample source
Thermo Scientific (catalog. No: 333200050, lot: A0424385)
Sample preparation
Crushed between two glass slides
Experimental
Data type
3D Electron Diffraction (3D-ED)
Data collection method
Precession
Precession Semiangle
1º
Temperature
95.15 K
Number of crystals contributing to the dataset
1
Number of experimental frames
104
Tilt range, tilt step
-60 to +55, 1º
Exposure time per frame
1000 ms
Software
Software used for data collection
WinTEM (Zeiss), Digistar (NanoMEGAS) and Sophy (Software for Physics)
Software used for processing
PETS2
Software used for solution
Shelxt
Software used for refinement
Jana
Authorship and bibliography
Author(s) of the data
Moussa Diame FAYE (ESR1) & Vincentia Emerson Agbemeh (ESR2)
Related data
Publication(s
The Challenges Posed by Scammers to Online Support Groups: The ‘Deserving’ and the ‘Undeserving’ Victims of Scams
No full textA number of groups have developed on Facebook that address the issue of online scamming. Their aim is to share the online profiles developed by scammers and to provide up-to-date information on how people can protect themselves from scams. These groups are available for anyone to locate on Facebook by typing in a key word search. There are sites that
focus on scammers more generally and sites that focus on more niche or specific types of scams. There are sites that are ‘public’ (accessible to anyone), ‘closed’ (you have to be accepted by the moderators to join the site) or private (only accessible to members and not available to view without an invitation). General sites aimed at providing information on how to avoid scamming and information on scammers profiles include ‘imposters’, ‘scammers busted’, we fighting scammers and imposters’
and ‘scammers and hoaxes’. Action Fraud is a national reporting centre where people can report fraud and cybercrime. The centre provides up to-date information regarding cybercrime and is run by the City of London Police who work alongside the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau
PETIT PAYS DE GAEL FAYE : POÉTIQUE DU TRAGIQUE ET FLOTTABILITÉ IDENTITAIRE
No full textPetit pays permet à Gael Faye d’évoquer le génocide rwandais dont les tribulations alimentent encore la mémoire tragique de l’Afrique post-indépendante. À travers le regard d’un personnage enfant qui rompt rapidement avec le narratif idyllique propre au pays des merveilles, l’auteur présente un imaginaire romanesque spécifique. La nostalgie du pays natal, espace des origines, laisse progressivement place à l’impermanence identitaire. L’identité originelle devient évanescente sous le poids de l’exil. Les nouvelles étiquettes acquises quant à elles, restent insaisissables. La démarche sociocritique de Claude Duchet permettra alors d’explorer l’imaginaire social du roman de Gael Faye qui s’écroule sous le poids des violences ethno-politiques. Ainsi, la poétique du tragique permet à l’auteur de mettre en scène le bouleversement de l’ordre social ayant conduit inexorablement à la déconstruction de soi, et d’exprimer une identité inconstante.Petit pays allows Gael Faye to raise the Rwandan genocide, whose tribulations still feed the tragic memory of post-independent Africa. Through the eyes of a child character who becomes distinct from the idyllic narrative typical of Wonderland, the author presents a specific imaginary novel. Nostalgia for home, the place of origins, gradually gives way to the identity inconstancy. The original identity becomes evanescent due to exile. Newly acquired labels remain elusive. Claude Duchet's sociocritical method allows us to explore the social imaginary of Gael Faye's novel, which is crumbling under the impact of ethno-political violence. In this manner, the poetics of tragedy enable the author to stage the upheaval of the social order leading to stainless stell self dismaintly, and to express an uncertain identity. Article visualizations
Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse
No full textAs the twenty-first century continues its steady march, the Internet has become an important part of daily life for much of the globe. Many of us shop, organise our finances, conduct our working lives, meet our intimate partners and maintain our relationships online. Technology has become increasingly affordable: tablets, smartphones and laptops are enabling more and more people in ever-remote areas to become ‘switched on’. This has brought us to an interesting moment, where the issue of sexualised threats in online public spaces is a concern facing more and more women, yet it is drastically under-theorised. This chapter offers some ways to think through the issue
The sorcerer's pharmacy
No full textHow do traditions of magic, both practical and literary, interact with texts about plant- and substance-based remedies in ancient Greece and Rome, and what role does genre play in the manifestation and transmission of these traditions? This is the question that my research seeks to answer, through the methods of lexicography, close reading, and comparison of magical texts with pharmaceutical literature from four significant authors. Each chapter represents a case study of one of these authors: Theophrastus and Nicander of Colophon, who wrote in Greek; and Pliny the Elder and Scribonius Largus, who wrote in Latin.
My analysis of the interplay of magic, remedy, genre, and botany in each author has revealed the development, through time, of what I term a pharmaceutical-didactic subgenre, created through the editorial decisions and selective curatorship of writers who sought to educate others in botanical and pharmaceutical topics, and, often, to display their breadth of knowledge in these subjects.
At the heart of this subgenre lies the problem of dangerous or othered information: to what extent is recording it reasonable or unreasonable, ethical or immoral, traditional or subversive? How is it justified or erased, spoken or unspoken? Under what circumstances does an author preserve the sorcerer’s pharmacy? It is my hope that this approach will, beyond the limits of this thesis, prove useful for the examination of other authors of this genre in the classical period, and for their reception in the medieval era.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesElla Faye Wallac
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