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Parallel integer relation detection: techniques and applications
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Breaking the theft-chain-cycle: Property marking as a defensive tool
Any viable method of protecting property, dissuading the theft of property or ensuring the swift recovery of stolen property could be considered essential to general society. A number of crime preventive measures have been used in an attempt to achieve this objective. One such measure is property marking, employing various techniques to make property more readily identifiable. The study assesses technology to investigate effectiveness, both for dissuasion and for tracing once stolen. Mechanism for the disposal of stolen property forms an important part of this study, commencing with the mapping of the theftâsupplyâchain. Using a mixed methods approach, the research project has set out to identify if security technology could be used to break what is termed the âtheftâchainâcycleâ, whereby articles are stolen, stolen to order or for barter. The theftâsupplyâchain is not a single linear model; rather property passes through a number of formal and informal chains prior to reaching its ânewâ illegal owner. A significant factor is the ease of disposal linked to ease of detection using property marking to aid conviction. Based upon the findings, potential strategies and changes in legislation that better direct limited resources can be developed to assist in curbing the growing level of burglaries
Breaking the Theft-Chain-Cycle: Property Marking as a Defensive Tool
Any viable method of protecting property, dissuading the theft of property or ensuring the swift recovery of stolen property could be considered essential to general society. A number of crime preventive measures have been used in an attempt to achieve this objective. One such measure is property marking, employing various techniques to make property more readily identifiable. The study assesses technology to investigate effectiveness, both for dissuasion and for tracing once stolen. Mechanism for the disposal of stolen property forms an important part of this study, commencing with the mapping of the theftâsupplyâchain. Using a mixed methods approach, the research project has set out to identify if security technology could be used to break what is termed the âtheftâchainâcycleâ, whereby articles are stolen, stolen to order or for barter. The theftâsupplyâchain is not a single linear model; rather property passes through a number of formal and informal chains prior to reaching its ânewâ illegal owner. A significant factor is the ease of disposal linked to ease of detection using property marking to aid conviction. Based upon the findings, potential strategies and changes in legislation that better direct limited resources can be developed to assist in curbing the growing level of burglaries
Introduction
The role of the European Union in global politics has been of growing interest over the past decade. The EU is a key player in global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and NATO. It continues to construct an emerging identity and project its values and interests throughout contemporary international relations. The capacity of the EU to both formulate and realise its goals, however, remains contested. Some scholars claim the EUâs `soft powerâ attitude rivals that of the USAâs `hard powerâ approach to international relations. Others view the EU as insufficiently able to produce a co-ordinated position to project upon global politics. Regardless of the position taken within this debate, the EUâs relationship with its external partners has an increasingly important impact upon economic, political and security concerns on an international level. Trade negotiations, military interventions, democracy promotion, international development and responses to the global economic crisis have all witnessed the EU playing a central role. This has seen the EU become both a major force in contemporary institutions of global governance and a template for supranational governance that might influence other attempts to construct regional and global institutions
Perceptually smooth timbral guides by state-space analysis of phase-vocoder parameters
Sculptor is a phase-vocoder-based package of programs
that allows users to explore timbral manipulation
of sound in real time. It is the product
of a research program seeking ultimately to perform
gestural capture by analysis of the sound a
performer makes using a conventional instrument.
Since the phase-vocoder output is of high dimensionality â
typically more than 1,000 channels per
analysis frameâmapping phase-vocoder output to
appropriate input parameters for a synthesizer is
only feasible in theory
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