city is the most complicated and tangible creature of man. there is a critical mutual communicationbetween human and city; and the effect of one’ living environment is beyond question. graffiti is a new urbanphenomenon, which has drawn attention in light of its connection with protestation culture and street art. thanks tosymbolism of graffiti, the artists have added mysterious aspects to their...

Nowadays many artificial intelligence systems rely on knowledge bases for enriching the information they process. Such Knowledge Bases are usually difficult to obtain and therefore they are crowdsourced: they are available for everyone on the internet to suggest edits and add new information. Unfortunately, they are sometimes targeted by vandals who put inaccurate or offensive information there...

This study was conducted in December 2010 to find out students perception and attitude toward vandalism in the library. To gather the required information, a questionnaire was distributed to 1400 randomly selected students of university libraries in the South-South zone of Nigeria out of which 718 responded. Results of their responses revealed that vandalism of library materials in the form of ...

The present study examined the moderating effect of the quality of the sibling relationship on the longitudinal association of parental treatment with theft, vandalism, and violence in adolescence. Participants were 416 sibling pairs which were studied over a one-year period. The younger siblings were aged 13 to 15, the older siblings 14 to 17 at Time 1. No significant effects were found for mi...

The results of two studies into the “Big Five” personality factors associated with interpersonal violence and vandalism/theft are reported. In the first, respondents were 216 high school students with a median age of 17 yr. It was found that Agreeableness and, to a lesser extent, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism were significant ‘domain’ correlates. Respondents in the second study were 90 univ...