Explaining why crime is spatially concentrated has been a central theme of much criminological research. Although various theories focus on neighborhood social processes, environmental criminology asserts that the physical environment plays a central role by shaping people’s activity patterns and the opportunities for crime. Here, we test theoretical expectations regarding the role of the road ...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine, in an all female sample, possible mechanisms for the relationship between a history of childhood sexual abuse and the likelihood of perpetrating sexual abuse as an adult. It was hypothesized that Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorder tendencies would mediate the relationship between these two forms of abuse. METHOD One hundred forty two female parti...

Almost all of the clinical and empirical literature on female parricide victims focuses on mothers killed, with only little information available on stepmothers murdered. This study is the first to compare the victim, offender, and case correlates in incidents when mothers and stepmothers were killed. Supplementary Homicide Report Data for 1976-2007 were used to investigate similarities and dif...

Coronavirus Pandemic attracts the attention of most, if not all researchers, each from his perspective. Trump's press conferences about coronavirus are fertile land to study strategic maneuvering. This study, therefore, aims at identifying pragmatic structure maneuvering in a conference. In accordance with its aim, hypothesizes that conference is pragmatically constructed by three stages, namel...

An algorithm by combining sensor scheduling with energy efficient for tracking the maneuvering targets with mobile sensor deployed in WSNs (wireless sensor networks) is proposed and investigated in the article. In order to minimize the estimated error, the sensor sequence and the optimal sensor movement are scheduled previously and determined first. Moreover, due to the targets is varying with ...

Ground maneuvering target tracking is a class of nonlinear and/or no-Gaussian filtering problem. A new interacting multiple model unscented particle filter (IMMUPF) is presented to deal with the problem. A bank of unscented particle filters is used in the interacting multiple model (IMM) framework for updating the state of moving target. To validate the algorithm, two groups of multiple model f...

Tracking of maneuvering multiple point-targets in the presence of clutter, in IR image sequences is indeed a challenging task. In real world applications, no apriori knowledge about the movement of the target is available. We propose a method to track maneuvering and nonmaneuvering targets with large motion (±20 pixels) using multiple filter bank in an IR image sequence with occlusion due to cl...