The current study explores the roles offenders see themselves playing during an offence and their relationship to different crime types. One hundred and twenty incarcerated offenders indicated the narrative roles they acted out whilst committing a specific crime they remembered well. The data were subjected to Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and four themes were identified: Hero, Professional, Re...

Fix integers b ≥ 2 and k ≥ 1. Define the sequence {zn} recursively by taking z0 to be any integer, and for n ≥ 1, take zn to be the least nonnegative residue of bzn−1 modulo (n + k). Since the modulus increases by 1 when stepping from one term to the next, such a definition will be called a running modulus recursion or rumor for short. While the terms of such sequences appear to bounce around i...

The aim of the experiment was to determine the influence of concurrent gestation and lactation in rabbit does on the post-natal growth and muscular characteristics of the progeny. Myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform proportion, myofibrillar protein content and size of the myofibres were determined on day 29 or day 70 in the semitendinosus muscle of young rabbits born from either simultaneously pre...

A new concept of stability, closely related to that of structural stability, is introduced and applied to the study of Cr endomorphisms with singularities. A map that is stable in this sense will be conjugated to each perturbation that is equivalent to it in a geometric sense. It will be shown that this kind of stability implies Axiom A, Omega-stability and that every critical point is wanderin...

Let φ be a modulus function, i.e., continuous strictly increasing function on [0,∞), such that φ(0) = 0, φ(1) = 1, and φ(x + y) ≤ φ(x) + φ(y) for all x, y in [0,∞). It is the object of this paper to characterize, for any Banach space X, extreme points, exposed points, and smooth points of the unit ball of the metric linear space `(X), the space of all sequences (xn), xn ∈ X, n = 1, 2, . . . , f...

In this paper, we explain the mechanical properties of single-crystalline silicon with respect to deflectional and torsional motions. Young's modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and shear modulus are isotropic on silicon (111), whereas the variations on silicon (100) and (110) are quite significant. We newly derive formulae for bulk shear modulus of silicon (100), (110) and (111) and show that bulk shear...