Criminologists are becoming increasingly aware of the important role that “place” plays in crime occurrences [23]. However, the relationship between crime and the physical environment is complex [11]. It has been shown that the physical form of an area, including natural features and the design of the built environment, has a significant impact on local communities and on crime in those communi...

Risks generally lead to Protecting Behavior. However, it is still unknown which specific Protecting Behavior results from Perceived Privacy Risk in Social Network Sites (SNSs). In this article, we draw from the Protection Motivation Theory to postulate an influence of Perceived Privacy Risk (Threat Appraisal) on six Privacy Protecting Behaviors SNS members can use, which we identified in the li...

Monetary valuation of environmental change is useful if one aims to rank alternative projects according to some specific social welfare function. However, if the project analysis is intended as background information to a democratic debate, the advantages of monetary valuation are less obvious. This paper analyzes aggregation of information, taking normative disagreement explicitly into account...

As a developer of world-class products including server and network devices, Fujitsu recognizes the printed wiring board (PWB) as a core component among the various components of those products. One basic element supporting high-quality PWBs is through-hole interconnection reliability. Existing methods for evaluating interconnections typically involve temperature cycle tests that subject the PW...

A retrospective study of 260 industrial amputees was undertaken to determine the long-term functional results of partial foot amputations following trauma. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 68 years with a mean of 16 years. Of 113 partial foot amputees (118 amputations) who had retained their original amputation, the functional end-results were 43% good, 38% fair and 19% poor. Lisfranc and Chopart amp...

Complex networks are nowadays employed in several applications. Modeling urban street networks is one of them, and in particular to analyze criminal aspects of a city. Several research groups have focused on such application, but until now, there is a lack of a well-defined methodology for employing complex networks in a whole crime analysis process, i.e. from data preparation to a deep analysi...

While Truncated Back-Propagation through Time (BPTT) is the most popular approach to training Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), it suffers from being inherently sequential (making parallelization difficult) and from truncating gradient flow between distant time-steps. We investigate whether Target Propagation (TPROP) style approaches can address these shortcomings. Unfortunately, extensive expe...

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Using nanoimprint technology, we developed a rotary diffraction grating scale, which is used for microrotary encoding. The off-center error between the center of the throughhole for inserting a rotational axis and the center of the high-precision micropattern on the periphery of the scale is less than 3 μm because we are able to shape the through-hole and the grating pattern simultaneously. The...