Anti-plagiarism tools are currently used in a large number of institutions to perform an initial assessment of students’ essays, enabling an automated approach to the identification of plagiarised work. This paper presents evidence that students are moving from “copy and paste” plagiarism, which can be detected by anti-plagiarism software, to more complex forms of plagiarism using a variety of ...

In the cases of corporate crime, US prosecutors can lodge charges against the corporation, its managers, or both. However, the emergence of systemically important firms, most notably in the financial sector, constrains prosecutors. This paper develops a new model of corporate criminal liability and shows how the Too Big To Jail problem reduces the deterrence effect of a crime control policy rel...

Indigenous juveniles (those aged 10 to 16 years in Queensland and 10 to 17 years in all other jurisdictions) are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system, and their over-representation becomes more pronounced at the most severe end of the system (ie in detention). Recent figures show that Indigenous juveniles are 24 times as likely to be detained in a juvenile correctional ...

Specific tools help to increase the effectiveness of a shortened innovation cycle. The paper presents a web based tool for the creation of a scenario of what an innovation environment looks like, by enabling enriched queries and by allowing the identification of specific innovation gurus and key role institutions. The tool relies on an ontology-based knowledge representation that has been built...

In this paper we present a new computational framework of affective-cognitive learning and decision making for affective agents, inspired by human learning and recent neuroscience and psychology. In the proposed framework ‘internal reward from cognition and emotion’ and ‘external reward from the external world’ serve as motivation in learning and decision making. We construct this model, integr...

OBJECT Medical and surgical management of low-grade gliomas (LGGs) is complicated by a highly variable clinical course. The authors recently developed a preoperative scoring system to prognosticate outcomes of progression and survival in a cohort of patients treated at a single institution (University of California, San Francisco [UCSF]). The objective of this study was to validate the scoring ...

Many Sub-Saharan African countries have liberalized their economies and developed poverty reduction strategies aimed at opening up new market-led opportunities for economic recovery and accelerated growth. The outcomes of these policy reforms have, however, been quite mixed (Winter-Nelson and Temu 2002; Dorward and Kydd 2004; Fafchamps 2004). Many smallholder farmers continue to engage in subsi...

Abstract The literature lacks consensus on the role of currency regimes in explaining external competitiveness. Countries not only differ terms regimes, but can also have different institutional arrangements, namely trade agreements and inflation targeting (IT) frameworks addition to overall quality governance. Hence, using real effective exchange rate by covering 35 developing countries over p...

background: smoking and its related diseases account for annual death of 4 million people around the world. beliefs, attitude, subjective norms, enabling factors (basnef) model is considered as one of the comprehensive models of behavior study. the aim of the current study was to explain smoking among students living in dormitories of golestan university of medical sciences based on basnef mode...

Enabling a Semantic Wiki to Drive Business Interactions Sven Graupner, Sharad Singhal, Sujoy Basu, Hamid Motahari HP Laboratories HPL-2009-193 business interactions, business process, best practice framework, outsourcing, cloud, services, knowledge repository This paper describes a Semantic Wiki which enables business interactions among people who are collaborating in the context of business ac...