In 1998, police in the southern Australian state of Victoria raided hotels property of a local bar owner, Gary Glazner, and seized his computer. What they found confirmed what a Thai woman had told them – Glazner was a trafficker. He was involved in bringingThai women to Australia on ‘contracts’. The women were compelled to pay off fabricated ‘debts’ of up to US$40,000 and were regularly prosti...

Isolates of Bipolaris maydis race T, mating types A and a, and Bipolaris maydis race O, mating types A and a, were compared for ammonium production at two or 10 g/l glucose on a L-asparagine-mineral salts medium in relation to mycelium dry weight, sporulation and pH of the culture medium at six, 10 and 14 d of incubation. Ammonium was detected in all media for all isolates at six days and level...

Strawberry packaging based on four different chitosan–poly(vinylalcohol) blend films with chitosan contents of 0 wt %, 20 wt %, 25 wt %, and 30 wt % was tested. The samples were stored at 18 ± 2 ◦C and 60% ± 5% relative humidity for six days. Strawberry quality was evaluated during and after storage. Strawberries packaged using these films showed significant differences in weight loss and firmn...

Since 2004 the virtual agent Max is living at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum – a computer science museum. He is welcoming and entertaining visitors ten hours a day, six days a week, for seven years. This article brings together the experiences made by the staff of the museum, the scientists who created and maintained the installation, the visitors and the agent himself. It provides insights abo...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitometric characteristics of Ultraspeed, Ektaspeed Plus and Insight dental radiographic films using manual and automatic processing systems. METHODS: In this experimental invitro study, an aluminum step-wedge was used to construct characteristic curves for D-, Eand F-speed radiographic films (Kodak Eastman, Rochester, USA). A...

The Catalyst participation in the manual at home Total Recall Track was both limited and quick, a TREC submission of practicality over research. The group’s decision to participate in TREC was made three weeks, and data was not loaded until six days, before the final submission deadline. As a result and to reasonably simulate an expedited document review process, a number of shortcuts were take...

Warfighter exposure to high terrestrial altitude continues to be a reality for the modern fighting force. Understanding the negative effects of altitude on cognitive performance is essential as the cognitive demands of many warfighting tasks are becoming increasingly complex. To date, little research has investigated the performance of multiple cognitive tasks in a high altitude environment. Th...

Footwear worn by U.S. military aircrew personnel provides inadequate levels of protection from a prolonged cold and wet exposure when compared with that wore by ground-based, combat troops. On June 2, 1995, a U.S. Air Force F-16 C aircraft was shot down by a mobile SA-6 surface-to-air missile over Bosnia-Herzegovina while conducting a routine NATO reconnaissance mission. The pilot survived the ...

Distortions are often seen in the angular distribution of echo-power from VHF wind-profiling radars, suggesting that thin stable layers, within the air flow, are distorted and tilted from horizontal. In vertical shear of the horizontal wind, the distribution of the layer tilt angles becomes skewed. A case study using six days of VHF radar data and synoptic charts above western Europe indicates ...

Using novel, high-frequency data on political strikes in Bangladesh, we examine the impact of political violence on firm-level export activity. Our data cover the universe of political strikes and export transactions in Bangladesh during 2010 to 2013. Using an event-study approach, we find that there is a 16.26 percent reduction in the baseline probability of exporting on the day of a strike. M...