Most extant research in the economics of crime literature has focused on explaining variations in crime rates. Public action to prevent crime, however, is often dependent on the level of concern about public security that is expressed in public perceptions surveys. The economics of crime literature has largely overlooked responses to such surveys as data sources and therefore it has not account...

In this paper, closed-form expression for the parasitic capacitance of tapered TSV (T-TSV) considering metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) effect is proposed by solving two-dimensional (2D) Poisson's equation. ANSYS Q3D Extractor is employed to verify the proposed model for the slope wall angle of 751, 801, 851 and 901. It is shown that error is less than 5%. The capacitance characterization of cop...

was, by common consent, the recognised leader in this country. Nor can lapse of time efface his claims to remembrance: he has left too many behind him who have been indebted to his wise counsel for health, to his luminous teaching for knowledge, to his upright example for conduct. This is not the place to sketch, even in outline, the history of his life; that has been amply done elsewhere. Suff...

Jess Neely has brought his long-shot ball club from obscurity in nine short weeks, and tomorrow afternoon the Clemson Wizard pits one of the nation's finest running attacks against the precision and aerial dynamite of the Southern Methodist Mustangs, Captain Kenneth Whitlow, ace of conference centers, leads the Owls into a bout that headlines the national gridiron card for the afternoon, with a...

I examine the counterintuitive claim from Davis et.al. [1] that a stationary or receding galaxy in an expanding universe may exhibit blueshift, even when the universe contains no gravitating matter. I show that with more precise calculations the effect disappears for the empty universe. I also discuss how this is related to the currently popular idea of ‘expanding space’, looking at how this id...

Crime and migration has been a subject of debate over many decades. The present review of the literature attempts to synthesize the available evidence from statistics, crime victimization surveys, self-report surveys and other sources regarding offending and victimization rates among migrants and native populations, discriminatory decision-making by victims, police and criminal justice official...

The instructions to Authors for Ecology and Ecological Monographs include the statement: “Write with precision, clarity, and economy.” This wonderfully self-illustrative sentence contains some of the most important instructions given to prospective authors, yet it is probably the most overlooked. Based on my experience as a subject editor for the past three years, I contend that verbiage, obscu...

Hedging foreign currency risk is a central task for treasuries of multinational corporations. Traditionally, it has strongly relied on voice-based broking. With the advent of Internet technology, online platforms for foreign exchange trading emerged offering corporations a single point of access to the liquidity of a global market. However, online marketplaces only become truly valuable if seam...

Despite Taiwan financial institutions’ huge investments in online financial services systems, Taiwan consumers’ adoption of online financial services has been slower than anticipated. So far, online financial services research in Taiwan is still in its infancy, hence receiving little academic attention. This suggests a need to understand Taiwan Internet users’ adoption behavior of online financ...