The paper argues for the de-emphasis of the reduction of crime fear as a policy objective. The paper rehearses measurement and ethical issues which support such a view. It goes on to report the more nuanced and sophisticated views of community safety practitioners. The paper demonstrates that the abandonment of the reduction of crime fear as an objective would have little effect upon community ...

Firms that operate in the telecommunications industry often have to make large and risky investments in digital infrastructure. This paper examines how firm size affects the incentive to invest in infrastructure projects in industry environments that incur substantial network externalities. We suggest that, in the presence of network externalities, a firm's rate of growth first declines and the...

We conceptualize colleges and universities as embedded in quasi-markets, meaning competitive sites created by policy, that disfavor the humanities. We therefore posit that increased revenues from a quasi-market predict institutional de-emphasis of the humanities. Results indicate that private colleges and universities follow this pattern while public institutions do not. Manuscript

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) form a large functional family of small noncoding RNAs and play an important role as posttranscriptional regulators, by repressing the translation of mRNAs. Recently, the processing mechanism of miRNAs has been reported to involve Drosha/DGCR8 complex and Dicer, however, the exact mechanism and molecular principle are still unknown. We thus have tried to understand the relate...

This paper examines irreversible investment in a project with uncertain returns, when there is an advantage to being the first to invest and externalities to investing when others also do so. We show that the possibility of pre-emption can have significant qualitative and quantitative effects on the relationship between uncertainty and investment. In a single-agent real options model, the trigg...

This paper examines irreversible investment in a project with uncertain returns, when there is an advantage to being the first to invest, and externalities to investing when others also do so. Pre-emption decreases and may even eliminate the option values created by irreversibility and uncertainty. Externalities introduce inefficiencies in investment decisions. Pre-emption and externalities com...

The keys to good signal integrity in a Graphic DDR3 (GDDR3) SDRAM interface for a bandwidth up to 1.4Gbps/pin are the minimization of input/output pin capacitance and the accurate control of the output data skew. The proposed pre-emphasis output buffer control scheme provides output data skew minimization without an increase of input/output pin capacitance. Compared to the conventional scheme, ...

AUTOMATIC PHONEME RECOGNITION Beng T. Tan Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Eng., The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia. Phillip Dermody National Acoustic Laboratories, 126 Greville Street, NSW 2067, Australia. Minyue Fu, Andrew Spray Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Eng., The University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia. ABSTRACT This study investigates the e ect of di erent external and middle ea...

Recent scholarship has demonstrated that virtual communities can be traced in the online ‘tells’ retained by popular virtual settlements like Facebook and Twitter. In this article, the authors push this line of research toward an analysis of pre-requisites and constrains of virtual settlements that determine the understanding of community life across settlements. The approach followed is ground...

Purpose: Telecommunications comprises a vital component of information infrastructures and services, with an historically strong public interest dimension. For the best part of 30 years, the telecommunications sector in Europe has been the subject of a radical reorganisation in structural and operational terms along the lines of neo-liberalism. This article analyses the significance of the neo-...