This Trends and Issues on fear of crime, and its reduction in Australia, represents an outstanding illustration of the contribution which criminological research can make to public policy. Various surveys in recent years have identified a number of factors consistently associated with fear of crime. These are gender (females tend to be more fearful than males) and the presence of disorder and i...

All correctional services face the challenge of ‘doing more with less’. Doing more means that they are expected not only to ‘house’ prisoners in a safe and secure environment but also to deliver rehabilitative programmes and to prepare prisoners for release. Importantly, they must also meet the growing expectations of external accountability agencies including human rights organizations. Doing ...

We present work on the task of reducing noise in nominal terminology extraction. Based on a comparative evaluation of statistical measures aimed at capturing domain specificity, we propose strategies to increase the typically quite low accuracy of classical hybrid nominal multi-word term extraction. Our experiments on a set of German do-it-yourself instruction texts show that using linguistic f...

Risks permeate the development and operation of many complex software systems. Nearly all risk reduction activities incur cost, and the sum total cost of all potentially applicable activities typically far exceeds the resources available. Hence there is the need to judiciously pick from among those activities to arrive at a costeffective selection. We call the approach to make this selection a ...

Reduction strategies in rewriting and programming have attracted increasing attention within the last few years. New types of reduction strategy have been invented and investigated, and new results on rewriting/computation under particular strategies have been obtained. Research in this field ranges from primarily theoretical questions about reduction strategies to very practical application an...

In this thesis we deal with the problem of reducing the memory necessary for implementing winning strategies in infinite games. We present an algorithm that is based on the notion of game reduction. Its key idea is to reduce the problem of computing a solution to a given game to computing a solution to a new game. This new game has an extended game graph which contains the memory to solve the o...

This research is representative of a two semester project focusing on noise reduction strategies for cable systems. Several specific areas of EM noise reduction are evaluated including shield termination techniques, and double shield techniques. In obtaining empirical results for all test cases, noise injection through bulk current injection (BCI) and transverse electromagnetic (TEM) cell expos...

We study the effect of three new reduction strategies for conventional reachability analysis, as used in automated protocol validation algorithms. The first two strategies are implementations of partial order semantics rules that attempt to minimize the number of execution sequences that need to be explored for a full state space exploration. The third strategy is the implementation of a state ...

It is conventional wisdom both that during the past two decades, Africa was ‘marginalised’ by globalisation and that the Bretton Woods Institutions’ strategies for stabilisation and recovery often produced neither. As recent solutions, three African presidents have proposed a ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (Nepad, launched in 2001), and the World Bank and IMF are promoting ‘Poverty ...