What individual differences impact eyewitness identification performance?

The eyewitness’ memory of a crime is used to identify the perpetrator from a lineup. A lineup contains the police suspect (who is innocent or guilty) and fillers (people who are known to be innocent). Two kinds of performance accuracy are considered: discriminability and reliability. Discriminability is the ability to distinguish the guilty suspect from the innocent suspect. Reliability is the likelihood that the identified suspect is the perpetrator. Until now, there have been no investigations of individual factors, such as age, sex, and race, on discriminability and reliability. In this study, women vs men, young vs middle-aged vs. older adults, and different races are compared. Data from 17 published articles were analysed. In terms of discriminability, middle-aged adults outperform younger adults who outperform older adults. There were no differences between men and women. Participants who were of the same race as the suspect outperformed those whose race differed. In terms of reliability, there was a relationship between confidence and accuracy. That is, high confidence identifications were higher in accuracy than lower confidence identifications. Older adults perform worse than other two groups within medium and high confidence levels. There were no differences in reliability between men and women or across races. These results offer insights into individual differences and eyewitness identification performance to inform researchers, the police, judges, and jurors

On a conjecture of transposed Poisson nn-Lie algebras

In this paper, we obtain a rich family of identities for transposed Poisson $n$-Lie algebras, and then prove the conjecture of Bai, Bai, Guo and Wu in \cite{BBGW} under certain strong condition.Comment: 25 page

A Piece of Raanujärvi : creating aesthetic experience through applied visual arts

As included in the part of AAD program’s project, A Piece of Raanujärvi is an exploration of applied visual arts with the place-specific development of localness resulting in creating the practice of environmental aesthetic experience. The research runs a cooperation with local home-stay tourism business, Kassun Koti, in Raanujärvi. A village locates at Lapland, where has typical Finnish nature and lifestyle in the north area. The aim of the research is to be beneficial for attracting international tourists, expressing the unique charm arising in daily life and nature among silence, space, bodily sensory and the experience in the action of everyday life aesthetic through artistic interventions. The research theory is focusing on the values of silence and its relations to space, place and time, creating the aesthetic experience with the aesthetic engagement perception which means including the body and its senses into the experience. It emphasizes the integration and continuity, the activeness of human being’s engaging, giving back aesthetics into the environment and everyday life. This paper essentially focuses on two research questions: (1) To what extent can applied art be used to create an aesthetic experience about a place? (2) Thus, to what extent can applied art be useful to promote place-based tourism? Art-based action research method is unfolded by the foundation of qualitative research. Place-mapping, questionnaires, interviews, and meetings have gathered data for deep insights into the social-cultural circumstance along with uncovering and facilitating the needs of the place-specific business. Filming and graphic design are utilized for the intervention into the process, visual representation by the means of art, reflecting senses as well as conveying the tangible communication. A piece of Raanujärvi is not only a research about the place in particular, but also a wide sphere in the human experience with artistic approaches and how it can be beneficial and practical in the social, cultural interrelations

Knowledge Management (KM) and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) of government to government partnerships in sport management: A BRICS case of the PRC - South Africa relations in the Shandong - Western Cape partnership

Masters in Public Administration - MPAGovernment to Government (G2G) partnerships between countries in the BRICS partnerships have significantly increased and with it, the need for more effective strategic management and operational coordination but also for evidence-based decision-making. In this process, improved KM, as well as M&E of outcomes and impacts has become prominent and essential requirements for evidence-based decision-making. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) emphasise the need for a global partnership for development with a focus on a new development paradigm that emphasise results, partnership, coordination, and accountability (Picciotto, 2002:3). Subsequently, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development further strengthened the importance of the global partnership in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), recognises that the implementation of the SDGs is a challenge for governments and therefore seeks to strengthen the global partnership by calling upon all stakeholders to take part in implementing the SDGs. In this context, the study investigated the need for knowledge management (KM) as well as Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems in G2G partnerships such as the partnership of Shandong China (PRC) and the Western Cape Government (WCG) in South Africa. This study focused on the sport management aspects of such a partnership, although such systems may also be relevant to economic, tourism and other partnerships programmes. The research investigation focused on the relevance of KM and M&E systems in sport management on G2G partnerships, as well as the possible benefits of such systems. Readiness Assessments for the establishment of KM and M&E systems were conducted with respect to the Shandong -Western Cape Government (WCG) in PRC and South Africa. The research methodology consisted of a qualitative approach and a case study was developed of the Sport Exchange Programme (SEP) as a component of the partnership between Shandong PRC and Western Cape Government (WCG) South Africa. The research included a desktop study of primary documentation including the formal agreements, Memorandum of understanding (MoU), regulations and programme annual reports, semi-structured interviews with officials and public sector managers of both governments in PRC and South Africa, as well as focus group discussion, interviews with specialists and experts were also conducted