Sustainability assessment is being increasingly viewed as an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. However, this is a new and evolving concept and there remain very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented anywhere in the world. Sustainability assessment is often described as a process by which the implications of an initiative on sustainabi...

This paper examines the hypothesis that in a country where disclosure of higher than average achievement can be considered an appropriate justification for bullying, students are more likely to do badly in exams and collude more in assessed course work to ensure that their grades do not stand out. We examine this hypothesis by measuring how students perform when their position in a class is rep...

Simple, almost obvious as this may be, the idea that crime is partly caused by physical environment has been a controversial one among criminologists. In my presentation I will argue that the controversy is based on a misunderstanding about causes and will review what is now a large body of evidence that the physical environment plays an important part in crime. I will then review current appro...

Existing thermal-aware 3D placement methods assume that the temperature of 3D ICs can be optimized by properly distributing the power dissipations, and ignoring the heat conductivity of though-silicon-vias (TSVs). However, our study indicates that this is not exactly correct. While considering the thermal effect of TSVs during placement appears to be quite complicated, we are able to prove that...

Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry by Stephen P. Ryan Department of Economics Duke University

Hair-to-hair interaction is often ignored in human hair modeling, due to its computational and algorithmic complexity. In this paper, we present our experimental approach to simulate the complex behavior of long human hair, taking into account hairto-hair interactions. We describe a thin shell volume (TSV) model for enhancing hair realism by simulating complex hair-hair interaction. The TSV is ...

Most extant research in the economics of crime literature has focused on explaining variations in crime rates. Public action to prevent crime, however, is often dependent on the level of concern about public security that is expressed in public perceptions surveys. The economics of crime literature has largely overlooked responses to such surveys as data sources and therefore it has not account...

In this paper, closed-form expression for the parasitic capacitance of tapered TSV (T-TSV) considering metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) effect is proposed by solving two-dimensional (2D) Poisson's equation. ANSYS Q3D Extractor is employed to verify the proposed model for the slope wall angle of 751, 801, 851 and 901. It is shown that error is less than 5%. The capacitance characterization of cop...

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Jess Neely has brought his long-shot ball club from obscurity in nine short weeks, and tomorrow afternoon the Clemson Wizard pits one of the nation's finest running attacks against the precision and aerial dynamite of the Southern Methodist Mustangs, Captain Kenneth Whitlow, ace of conference centers, leads the Owls into a bout that headlines the national gridiron card for the afternoon, with a...