Human interactions with wildlife are a defining experience of human existence. These can be positive or negative. People compete for food and resources, have eradicated dangerous species; co-opted domesticated valuable ...Read More

Using unique and unpublished panel data from selected US cities, the paper investigates the consequences of ignoring unobserved heterogeneity in the unit of observationwhenestimating the economicmodel of crime. Results con® rmthat neglecting to control for unobserved heterogeneity overstates the ability of sanctions to deter criminal activity. Further, thisupwardbias is found tovary signi® cant...

Procedural generation of games has become an active research field. We present a system that automatically generates an interactive fiction (IF) by learning from crowdsourced corpora of example stories. We ask crowd workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk to write short stories about a given situation with simple language, from which a plot graph is learned, containing plot events, temporal precede...

Application Action recognition can be profitably used in several application fields, ranging from surveillance systems and ambient assisted living, with the possibility of identifying some events of interest occurring into a video (an aggression, a robbery, a tumble of an elder person, etc), to video retrieval, by allowing a human operator to easily retrieve specific types of actions performed ...

(a) (Among) 213 Purpose.?The great majority of poisons were selfadministered. Only two cases of dhatura poisoning were administered by others for the purpose of robbery. (I.) Accident.?(a) Opium, alcohol, cocaine, ganja, bhang, and dhatura were in many cases taken in overdose by people addicted to them, causing symptoms of poisoning. (t) Mistake.?Liniments of camphor, belladonna, aconite, and i...

The effects of crime are diverse and complex, ranging from psychological and physical trauma faced by victims to the negative impacts on the economy and external image of a country. From a criminological perspective, the commission of a crime is caused by a combination of factors such as situational circumstances, social and individual-level factors. In this paper, a new 3D real-time simulation...

Conventional crimes, namely: conventional/national crimes are against life, property and honor that cause both physical psychological harm, whether committed in ordinary ways or a new dimension, which occur within the country. The effect of Covid-19 Pandemic Period on Increasing Crime Legal Area ​​the West Sumatra Regional Police is reduction their moral values ​​and social economic conditions ...