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Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience

James M. Carter
2012 Peace and Change  
relief and reconstruction operation. to report alleged crimes.  ...  individuals to commit fraud and other crimes.  ...  As many as 300 companies provided security services to the U.S. reconstruction effort, increasing costs on some large reconstruction contracts by 24 to 53 percent. 7 The Samarra bombing in February 2006  ... 
doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2011.00748.x fatcat:arw3vfenurcxvpsojye6ewqudm

Global developments in forensic geology

Rosa Maggio, Laurance Donnelly, Khudooma Saeed AL Nuaimi, Pier Barone, Fabio Salvador, Lorna Dawson, Roger Dixon, Rob Fitzpatrick, Olga Gradusova, Ekaterina Nesterina, Marina Peleneva, Olga Ushacova (+11 others)
2017 Episodes  
In particular, the 'General Direction of Expert Services of Aguascalientes' is in charge at crime scenes and performs laboratory analysis of materials collected from the crime scenes.  ...  In the UAE, forensic geology is also applied in the investigation of various crimes such as the "box-of-rocks" online scam (Arabian Business, 2016) and fake gold cases.  ...  She carried out more than 80 criminal cases with reference to analysis of soil and inorganic materials.  ... 
doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2017/v40i2/017014 fatcat:jw3hes2xyfcsritrxmp7u3tuby

Automatic classification of social media reports on violent incidents in South Africa using machine learning

Eduan Kotzé, Burgert A. Senekal, Walter Daelemans
2020 South African Journal of Science  
One such application is the extraction of events from news sources for the purpose of a quantitative analysis that does not rely on someone needing to read through thousands of news articles.  ...  .: Project leadership, conceptualisation, methodology, data analysis, data curation, validation, writing -the initial draft, writing -revisions.  ...  Crime Other forms of crime that are not farm attacks, land grabs or illegal protests, e.g. robbery, theft and murder in cities or towns TUGELA TOLL PLAZA_ (16H30) Cash in Transit Robbery reported.  ... 
doi:10.17159/sajs.2020/6557 fatcat:y3ktahj4ofaalo3rzmlz7kr6lu

Thematic and Lexical Repetition in a Contemporary Screenplay

Starling Hunter, Susan Smith
2013 Open Journal of Modern Linguistics  
We further expect and find that the repetition of words linked to themes is extensive and found in the large majority of the scenes of the screenplay.  ...  To raise funds, she puts real estate classes on hold, opting instead for work as a biohazard removal and crime-scene cleaner.  ...  Scenes 132 and 151 are closely linked, as well. In the former, while preparing to attend Paula's baby-shower, Rose receives a call from a State Farm insurance agent offering her a rush job.  ... 
doi:10.4236/ojml.2013.31002 fatcat:cez3i25nynawxpedbvxle5kygq

The European Archaeologist [article]

Matthew Walsh, Samantha S. Reiter
2023 Zenodo  
A preliminary reconstruction of the burial (pre-analysis; some elements are conjectural). Reconstruction prepared by Hugh Gatt. Figure 33 . 33 Figure 33.  ...  A preliminary reconstruction drawing of the necklace (pre-analysis; some elements are conjectural). Reconstruction prepared by Hugh Gatt. Figure 34 . 34 Figure 34.  ...  Forensic Scientists conducting a metal detecting survey (left) and a ground penetrating radar survey (right) over a simulated crime scene.  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.10533913 fatcat:krxvgnvlqnd2danbavc5wwsd24

Topic Modeling with Wasserstein Autoencoders [article]

Feng Nan, Ran Ding, Ramesh Nallapati, Bing Xiang
2019 arXiv   pre-print
We discover that MMD performs much better than the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in matching high dimensional Dirichlet distribution.  ...  The encoder network consists of two hidden layers with 2 neurons in each layer and a 2D output layer with softmax. There is no decoder and no reconstruction loss.  ...  . , V ; then s log V is the reconstruction loss. By setting the scaling factor to 1/(s log V ), we can normalize the reconstruction loss to 1 with respect to this baseline case.  ... 
arXiv:1907.12374v2 fatcat:gorwfy4lgnfejk54ifu3v2jsoa

A Select Annotated Bibliography

Nina Belojevic, Alyssa Arbuckle, Matthew Hiebert, Ray Siemens, Shaun Wong, Alex Christie, Jon Saklofske, Jentery Sayers, Derek Siemens
2014 Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture  
Social knowledge creation in the digital realm, with the benefits of social networking models, crowdsourcing, folksonomic tagging systems, Vol. 5, n° 2 | Spring 2014 "Book and Videogame" 2 collaborative  ...  Gold farming as a labor practice, Nakamura indicates, also shows the reality of the exploitative digital economy and informationalized capitalism.  ...  Players take on characters who usually try to rise in the ranks of organized crime.  ... 
doi:10.7202/1024783ar fatcat:x7rjjyquqfbvlhtihilh3rqbdu

When Podcast Met True Crime

Line Seistrup Clausen, Stine Ausum Sikjær
2021 Leviathan Interdisciplinary Journal in English  
The true crime genre helped popularize the podcasting medium, and today, true crime podcasts hold a significant place within popular culture.  ...  This MA thesis examines the connection between the rise of the podcasting medium and the rise of the true crime genre.  ...  about gory crime -in this case, the random murder of a farm family in Holcomb, .  ... 
doi:10.7146/lev.v0i7.125213 fatcat:aw4gaw73fffz7pzwkser3q53rq

Topic Modeling with Wasserstein Autoencoders

Feng Nan, Ran Ding, Ramesh Nallapati, Bing Xiang
2019 Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics  
We discover that MMD performs much better than the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in matching high dimensional Dirichlet distribution.  ...  The encoder network consists of two hidden layers with 2 neurons in each layer and a 2D output layer with softmax. There is no decoder and no reconstruction loss.  ...  . , V ; then s log V is the reconstruction loss. By setting the scaling factor to 1/(s log V ), we can normalize the reconstruction loss to 1 with respect to this baseline case.  ... 
doi:10.18653/v1/p19-1640 dblp:conf/acl/NanDNX19 fatcat:hqanr3yzmfbdvj32jrc5vbr6mu

Spatiotemporal enabled Content-based Image Retrieval

Mariana Belgiu, Martin Sudmanns, Tiede Dirk, Andrea Baraldi, Stefan Lang
2016 International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings  
The efficiency of the coverage of a sensor network depends on optimal position of each sensor node within the network.  ...  Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used for monitoring and observation of dynamic phenomena.  ...  Government for the development of a fine-resolution model of urban-energy systems' water footprint in river networks; Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)  ... 
doi:10.21433/b311729295dw fatcat:fulw4pw3kfh5nmfzcsy3pkisvm

Long-term poverty, discrimination, drugs, civil war, fraud, kidnapping organ harvesting, and massacre in Myanmar: peaceful solutions [article]

Li Liu
2023 Zenodo  
Photos and crimes of the fraudster, the legal representative, and the main shareholders of the online platform must be permanently displayed on the antifraud network.  ...  In such cases, the photos of the fraudster and the legal representative and major shareholders of the online platform, together with their crimes, must be permanently displayed on the anti-fraud network  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.10884584 fatcat:6ovirn2fyzaqjnk4phy3xm6x6y

Africa Research Bulletin, Economic, Financial and Technical Series, June 16th-July 15th 2002 Published August 8th 2002

2002 Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical Series  
in the continuation of that crime."  ...  (AFP 11/6) Kenya: On June 30th, Africa Online announced the introduction of the Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN), which will enable a single telephone land line connected to a digital tele  ... 
doi:10.1111/1467-6346.00157 fatcat:agvt57b7bjf3bfkgv7shtxoapy

Initial survey of the experiences and technology state of the art

Daniele Cortis Lisa Castelli, Nicola Amico, Ginevra Niccolucci, Danila Longo Giulia Favaretto, Kate Fernie
2022 Zenodo  
It is an architectural complex which holds the evidence of Nazi crimes.  ...  The navigation through the virtual world is limited to a path (which is indicated as a white line in the 3D scene) to improve the efficiency of the exploration of the vast reconstructed area.  ...  The new protective casing for the archaeological finds (Roman buildings and artefacts) was conceived as a kind of abstract reconstruction of the Roman volumes: a lightweight framework of walls, made of  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6698706 fatcat:jtgj74yqprct3l2tbprd2rzrdq

Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work During Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870

Donna Dodenhoff
2016
Three of the male adults were farm workers and four of the adult females were domestic servants. 67 In contrast, on rural Frederick County's largely middleclass, family operatedThomas Gold v.  ...  hard labor for the crime of stealing a pair of shoes. 397 When Capt.  ... 
doi:10.21220/s25p41 fatcat:u7eujyvvnfcfzcgyadgxdcbszy

Scoping Yeotopia: Tom Brooking and the making of rural New Zealand

Graeme Wynn
2020 International Review of Environmental History  
Then pairs of chapters would tell the stories of high country sheep farming, downland subsistence and crop farming, and the triumph of the family farm between 1846 and 1990.  ...  Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century, ed.  ... 
doi:10.22459/ireh.06.02.2020.01 fatcat:cmuu76wsundk3cwg5agbh3dzyu
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