* James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, MSN 1D3, Carow Hall, Fairfax, VA 22030; [email protected]. Cowen is a professor of economics and the general director of the Mercatus Center and the Buchanan Center. He is the author of In Praise of Commercial Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), What Price Fame? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ...

Alcohol-related violence remains to be a health concern, and the oral and maxillofacial surgeons are routinely exposed to its impact on the victims and the healthcare system. At a community level, various policing interventions have been implemented to address this violent crime in and around licensed premises. Current study sought to examine the effectiveness of these interventions in Australi...

Dr. Doug Abrahamson holds a Doctor of Public Policy degree from Charles Sturt UniversityAustralian Graduate School of Policing and Security (Manly, Australia) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Royal Roads University (Victoria, BC, Canada). His advanced education, training and experience in policing, business management and public policy allows him to critically reflect upon ...

To tackle the complexity of autonomic computing systems it is crucial to provide methods supporting their systematic and principled development. Using the PSCEL language, autonomic systems can be described in terms of the constituent components and their reciprocal interactions. The computational behaviour of components is defined in a procedural style, by the programming constructs, while the ...

Animals often exhibit particular 'personalities', i.e. their behaviour is correlated across different situations. Recent studies suggest that this limitation of behavioural plasticity may be adaptive, since continuous adjustment of one's behaviour may be time-consuming and costly. In social insects, particularly aggressive workers might efficiently take over fighting in the contexts of both nes...

This paper explores the developments which have precipitated the use and integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) within the South African Police Services (SAPS). The paper provides a historical overview of GIS within South Africa, supplemented with the legislative origins of the integration of GIS within policing in the country. Various geo-analytic operations that GIS technology ...

Policing of incoming packets can produce very high load in worst-case situations on a receiving computer. In realtime systems, resources must be allocated for such worstcase situations if guarantees are given to processes. This paper1 describes design and implementation of a policing function on an off-the-shelf network adapter board containing a relatively slow microprocessor. Performance meas...