http://www.aic.gov.au Corruption, defined here as the exploitation of public office for personal gain, is a universal phenomenon. The practice, in one manifestation or another, is as old as government itself. Today, it thrives in the world’s wealthiest nations, and in its poorest. It exists on every continent, across people of all nationalities and religions. Corruption can take many forms, inc...

The so-called linear reversal mode is demonstrated in spin model simulations of the high anisotropy material Llo FePt. Reversal of the magnetization is found to readily occur in the linear regime despite an energy barrier (KV / kB T) that would conventionally ensure stability on this timescale. The timescale for the reversal is also established with a comparison to the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equ...

Results are presented oj @ight tests made to determine the <feet oj jlap de$ection on the lateral control characteristics of a modi$ed Brewster F2A-2 airplane equipped with partial-spa-n narrow-chord ailerons on the trailing edge oj a full-span NACA slotted -flap. The inrestiga~ion included determination of the rolling and yawing characteristics oj the airplane in abrupt aileron rolls with the ...

Face recognition is important in human identification. The biological recognition technique acts as a good method and broad applications in security areas. This work presents a method to improve the face recognition accuracy using a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Wavelet Transform. Wavelet Transform is used to decompose the input image with different levels and rearrange...

[1] We estimated electrical parameters of 48 located compact intracloud discharges (CIDs) using their measured electric fields and vertical Hertzian dipole approximation. This approximation is consistent with the more general bouncing‐wave CID model for a reasonably large subset of allowed combinations of propagation speed and channel length. For nine events, we estimated channel lengths from o...

AIM To compare 5-year survival of patients with a single hepatocellular carcinoma≤3 cm randomly assigned to receive percutaneous ethanol injection or radiofrequency ablation. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 285 patients (192 males, mean age 70 years), with a single hepatocellular carcinoma (mean diameter 2.2 cm) were randomly assigned to receive percutaneous ethanol injection (n=143) or radio...