We analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent individuals in order to extort money from them, and the actual framing of innocent individuals. Bribery, extortion, and framing reduce deterrence and are thus worth discouraging. Optimal penalties for bribery and framing are maximal, but, surprisingly, extortion should not be sanctio...

A consistent way to measure the elements that go into computing software productivity is deÞned. Software productivity metrics terminology are given to ensure an understanding of measurement data for both source code and document production. Although this standard prescribes measurements to characterize the software process, it does not establish software productivity norms, nor does it recomme...

Sepeda motor dengan kapasitas 150 cc sering digunakan untuk balapan di Indonesia. Tekanan tinggi dan berulang yang diterima piston selama kompresi menimbulkan beban fatigue pada connecting rod. Pada beberapa kasus, rod dapat terjadi buckling (bengkok) atau fracture (patah) bagian kritisnya akibat tidak kuat menahan dari piston. Untuk mengantisipasi terjadinya maka diperlukan pemilihan material ...

If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html Citation for published version Howse, John and Molina, Fernando and Taylor, John and Kent, Stuart and Gil, Joseph (2001) Spider Diagrams: A Diagrammatic Reasoning System. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 12 (3). pp. 299-3...

1045 n FEATURED CLINICAL INVESTIGATION ARTICLE. Phase II Study of a Radiotherapy Total Dose Increase in Hypoxic Lesions Identified by F-Misonidazole PET/CT in Patients with Non–Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (RTEP5 Study) Pierre Vera, Sébastien Thureau, Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Romain Modzelewski, Pierre Bohn, Maximilien Vermandel, Sébastien Hapdey, Amandine Pallardy, Marc-André Mahé, Marie Lacombe...

background: the incidence of stroke is 2.1-5.2% in bypass surgery patients with a mortality of 0-38%. this study was designed to evaluate the incidence of significant carotid artery stenosis and its related risk factors in candidates for coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. methods: 1045 consecutive candidates for cabg underwent carotid artery doppler examination in a prospective study....

We present diffraction-limited (30 mas) bispectrum speckle interferometry observations of the Mira star R Cas with the Russian 6 m SAO telescope. The speckle interferograms were recorded through narrow-band interference filters with centre wavelength/bandwidth of 671 nm/6 nm and 714 nm/6 nm (strong TiO absorption band), 700 nm/6 nm (moderate TiO absorption), and 1045 nm/9 nm (continuum). The re...

BACKGROUND The role of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) as an adjunctive treatment for severe sepsis remains controversial. We hypothesized that IVIG could be effective for treating pneumonia patients who have septic shock. METHODS Mechanically ventilated pneumonia patients with septic shock were identified in the nationwide Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database from 1 ...

In this investigation of AISI 1045 steel are tested in two stages. the first stage samples, induction boriding and hardening heat treatment typically 800 °C, 900 1000 1100 1200 °C applied over course seconds. Internal strains maybe mitigated using a 30 min tempering at temperature ranges 300 500 °Cand 700 °C. After that samples subjected to hardening, microhardness tensile strength according AS...