Sebagai bagian dari arsitektur vernakular, kampung-kampung di Indonesia mulai ditonjolkan dan didukung pemerintah untuk saling berkompetisi dengan beragam aktivitas sosialnya yang mendukung perekonomian wilayah, baik kota maupun desa. Kampung Made, Maspatih, Peneleh wilayah urban Surabaya menjadi obyek amatan karena memiliki keunikan jenis kegiatan interaksi sosial serta potensi keberlanjutanny...

Title of Document: FEMALE GANG MEMBERS AND DESISTANCE: MOTHERHOOD AS A POSSIBLE EXIT STRATEGY? A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLEISHER AND KRIENERT (2004) Jennifer Anne Varriale, Master of Arts, 2006 Directed By: Professor Shawn Bushway, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice This study sought to evaluate differential gang processes as they vary by gender through a quantitative analysis of ...

Because youth gangs tend to cluster in disadvantaged neighborhoods, adolescents living in such neighborhoods are more likely to encounter opportunities to join youth gangs. However, in the face of these opportunities, not all adolescents respond in the same manner. Those with preexisting psychopathic tendencies might be especially likely to join. In this study, we tested whether a combination o...

In this paper we study the scheduling of parallel and real-time recurrent tasks. Firstly, we propose a new parallel task model which allows recurrent tasks to be composed of several threads, each thread requires a single processor for execution and can be scheduled simultaneously. Secondly, we define several kinds of real-time schedulers that can be applied to our parallel task model. We distin...

The U.S. has the highest rate of firearm-related deaths when compared to other industrialized countries. Violence particularly affects lowincome, urban neighborhoods in cities like Chicago, which saw a 40% increase in firearm violence from 2014 to 2015 to more than 3,000 shooting victims. While recent studies have found that urban, gang-involved individuals curate a unique and complex communica...

This paper analyses the resource allocation problem in parallel jobs scheduling, with emphasis given to gang service algorithms. Gang service has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. To provide a sound analysis of gang service performance, a novel methodology based on the traditional concept of competitive ratio is introduced. Dubbed dynamic c...

BACKGROUND On December 16, 2012 a 23 year old female was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi. We systematically reviewed professional online media sources used to inform the timing, breadth of coverage, opinions and consistency in the depiction of events surrounding the gang-rape. METHODS We searched two news databases (LexisNexis Academic and Factivia) and individual newspapers for English-language...