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Dog attacks on wild desert tortoises: A risk model

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Domestic dogs attack and severely injure wild desert tortoises at the urban and ex‐urban interface with deserts. Severe trauma to tortoises increased 4 times to shell and limbs and 16.5 times to the gular horn over the decades between the 1970s and 2000s. Tortoises were at exponential risk of severe trauma when living within 12 km of settlements, towns,
Andrea S. Carlson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Confidence Accuracy, Observation Skills, and the Dunning Kruger Effect

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education
Using a quantitative approach, this study examines the confidence accuracy relationship of eyewitness memory and observation skills and explores the relationship between self-perception and accuracy (The Dunning Kruger Effect).
Megan Sheridan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Первинна професійна підготовка як необхідна правова вимога до підготовки поліцейських [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Швець, Д. В. Первинна професійна підготовка як необхідна правова вимога до підготовки поліцейських / Д. В. Швець // Право і безпека. – 2017. – № 3 (66). – С. 103–112.Shvets, D.V.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1999-9956   +3 more
core  

Multi‐Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Police patrol units need to split their time between performing preventive patrol and being dispatched to serve emergency incidents. In the existing literature, patrol and dispatch decisions are often studied separately. We consider joint optimization of these two decisions to improve police operations efficiency and reduce response time to ...
Matthew Repasky, He Wang, Yao Xie
wiley   +1 more source

Snap Judgment: Recognizing the Propriety and Pitfalls of Direct Judicial Review of Audiovisual Evidence at Summary Judgment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Conflicting results in two recent police excessive force decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court—Tolan v. Cotton and Plumhoff v. Rickard—have sown confusion about the standards for summary judgment.
Barry, Denise K.
core   +1 more source

Contrasting the perceptions of child testimony experts, prosecutors and police officers regarding individual child abuse interviews

open access: yes, 2011
The aim of this study was to compare and contrast the perceptions of various stakeholders regarding a series of interviews about child abuse. Eight focus groups were conducted, each involving a police officer (child abuse investigator), a prosecutor who ...
Hughes-Scholes, Carolyn H   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Why Active Representation Varies: Cultural Stereotypes and Differential Treatment by Street‐Level Bureaucrats

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do cultural stereotypes influence the likelihood that minority street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) will actively represent marginalized subgroups within their ethnocultural community? While existing scholarship on representative bureaucracy has focused on the conditions under which minority SLBs engage in active representation, this study ...
Sohad Amaria, Einat Lavee, Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Privilege in a Police Car: The Story of my Unresolved Ride-Along [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper focuses on the events of a Friday evening in the winter of 2012 wherein I went on a police “ride-along” and accompanied a police officer as he went through the normal duties of his shift in a medium-sized city in the Pacific Northwest.
Bright, Anita L.
core   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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