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Top Spin 3
(Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS)
Top Spin 3, developed for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS by Pam Interactive, lets players compete locally and online. Published by 2K Sports.
1UP Review
Top Spin 3 Review
Score: C+
Tennis for the hardcore.June 23, 2008
User Reviews> Write a Review of This Game
No defending
Score: A-
by Seymour Nip (. )( .)
This game is great! Best Tennis SIM to date. If your not willing to put in a little time and learn the controls... just stick to playing as Princess Peach in Mario Tennis...
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July 02, 2008 0 0
In his defense...
Score: B
by Seymour Nip (. )( .)
If 2K did to the Top Spin controls what they did with NHL 2K8 and Prizefighter... which to be short and sweet was... FUCK THEM UP... then his review might hold some water. ...
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June 24, 2008 0 0
How did this get published?
Score: F
by Alan G
Oh dear 1up. How this ever got published is beyond me. Can you seriously think this review is good enough for your website? if so then you have certainly lost me as a reader....
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June 24, 2008 0 0
horrible review
Score: C+
by George See
I'm disregarding the rules for writing a review here maybe your own reviewers should read them?
Seriously this was a bad review. All I learned from this review was Ryan...
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June 24, 2008 0 0
Bif Fat F
Score: F
by Clarence So
Ryan, get a new career. You suck at a game and so you give it a bad review? How pathetic.
I'm tempted to look at your other reviews to see what other ridiculous scores you...
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June 24, 2008 0 0
Top Spin 3
Score: B+
by John Summers
After reading ryans review my feelings of this website has fallen dramatically, its awful.
The review doesnt talk about anything other than ryans difficulty to get his head...
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June 24, 2008 0 0
Worst review I've ever read
Score: A
by HIPPO SMASH
That was quite possibly the worst review I've ever read from a major gaming website. It was literally four paragraphs about the difficulty and how he sucked at the game. ...
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- DO maintain good posture.
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- DON'T chew gum, litter, or clean your nails in public.
- DON'T point your index finger to your head. It's considered an insulting gesture.
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- DO shake hands upon meeting someone. Shake hands with all who are present, including children.
- DON'T address someone by their first name until invited to do so. Use surnames and titles instead.
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- DO recognize that Switzerland has four official languages: German, Italian, French, and Romansch. Romansch is the least commonly spoken language in Switzerland.
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- DON'T ask personal questions, such as questions about salary, age, or religion.
- DON'T speak loudly in public, especially on a cell phone.
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Ward has already cemented himself a better legacy and resume at 168 than Calzaghe did the entire time he was there.
While Calzaghe fought and slapped bum after bum and didnt face actual threats, Ward has fought the best after the best of the division and after he faces Bute he will have done something Calzaghe never did..........fight other top fighters in your division when it matters.
Im sorry but that is the truth! Calzaghe retired in 2009 as the best 168 pounder up until that point and just 2 years later in 2011 Ward has already surpassed him and now sits at the top of the divisions short history. He clearly and without any doubt already has a "real" resume at the weight because he is fighting the best of the best at the weight and beating them when it matters to beat them.
Hopkins arguably beat Calzaghe as well and that was an older still capable but clearly older and not prime version of Hopkins that he faced. Then he avoided a rematch like the plague and never wanted to face him again, and that was a fight that could have gone either way but he was always afraid of really testing himself and facing someone who might take his "0" so like the Reid fight he just flat out ducked the rematch and didnt care about having unfinished business. He just flat out didnt want to fight them again.
Those are the decisions that really really hurt Calzaghe's legacy, he fought nobody when it actually mattered and he avoided rematches when he had close fights that he arguably lost, plus waiting for truly great ATG'S in Hopkins and Jones to age and be out of their prime when he finally flew over to face them was just a coward move!
Ward is better right now than Calzaghe ever was and Wards resume already surpassed Calzaghe's weak resume and I am sorry to anybody who gets offended but that is the truth!
Ward beats him! He out thinks Calzaghe, adjusts to any and all of Calzaghe's adjustments and adapts round by round by keeping his composure like he always does and that coupled by the fact that Ward is a more technically sound fighter than Calzaghe ever was leads me to believe that he would clearly beat Calzaghe.
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Before Calzaghe fought Lacy, who would you guys say had the better resume..... Bute (now) or Calzaghe (pre-Lacy)?
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When you say all time great that is supposed to mean all time great. If you aren't in the top 25 you certainly aren't an all time great. I hardly see anyone putting Calzaghe in the top 100, a list that would consist of great fighters. Calzaghe was a good fighter but his resume lacks and he is very forgettable. Far from an "all time great". Use your words more wisely.
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Ward would make it an inside fight and get the W!!
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Never bet on the New York Jets to do something. You'll probably lose.
The Jets had nine draft picks on Saturday, but Manish Mehta from the New York Daily News was skeptical that the team would actually use all of them, tweeting out that he'd hitchhike home if they actually used all nine.
Jets are scheduled for a league-high 9 picks today. I'll hitchhike home if they actually draft 9 players. Look for trade(s) today. #nyj— Manish Mehta (@MMehtaNYDN) May 10, 2014
Unfortunately for Mehta, the Jets did in fact use all nine of their picks, and other fellow writers decided to give him a hard time.
@AlbertBreer @MMehtaNYDN And it's over. Thumb up, MM. pic.twitter.com/s1wOvErqtv— Kimberly Jones (@KimJonesSports) May 10, 2014
Jets select Utah OLB Trevor Reilly with their final pick. 12 draft choices. 12 drafted players. What were the odds? #nyj— Manish Mehta (@MMehtaNYDN) May 10, 2014
Update: Saturday, May 10, 8:45 p.m. ET
Mehta was handed a gift on his way out of the Draft for his long road home.
Jets GM John Idzik walked over and handed this to me after press conference. "Here's a souvenir for you." #nyj pic.twitter.com/BCQyd0yXjv— Manish Mehta (@MMehtaNYDN) May 10, 2014
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Most Cited Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
Link prediction in complex networks: A surveyL. L. Linyuan | Tao Zhou
Volume 390, Issue 6, March 2011, Pages 1150-1170
Link prediction in complex networks has attracted increasing attention from both physical and computer science communities. The algorithms can be used to extract missing information, identify spurious interactions, evaluate network evolving mechanisms, and so on. This article summaries recent progress about link prediction algorithms, emphasizing on the contributions from physical perspectives and approaches, such as the random-walk-based methods and the maximum likelihood methods. We also introduce three typical applications: reconstruction of networks, evaluation of network evolving mechanism and classification of partially labeled networks. Finally, we introduce some applications and outline future challenges of link prediction algorithms. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Identifying influential nodes in complex networksDuanbing Chen | Linyuan Lü | Ming Sheng Shang | Yi Cheng Zhang | Tao Zhou
Volume 391, Issue 4, February 2012, Pages 1777-1787
Identifying influential nodes that lead to faster and wider spreading in complex networks is of theoretical and practical significance. The degree centrality method is very simple but of little relevance. Global metrics such as betweenness centrality and closeness centrality can better identify influential nodes, but are incapable to be applied in large-scale networks due to the computational complexity. In order to design an effective ranking method, we proposed a semi-local centrality measure as a tradeoff between the low-relevant degree centrality and other time-consuming measures. We use the SusceptibleInfectedRecovered (SIR) model to evaluate the performance by using the spreading rate and the number of infected nodes. Simulations on four real networks show that our method can well identify influential nodes. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
DCCA cross-correlation coefficient: Quantifying level of cross-correlationG. F. Zebende
Volume 390, Issue 4, February 2011, Pages 614-618
In this paper, a new coefficient is proposed with the objective of quantifying the level of cross-correlation between nonstationary time series. This cross-correlation coefficient is defined in terms of the DFA method and the DCCA method. The implementation of this cross-correlation coefficient will be illustrated with selected time series. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Social structure of Facebook networksAmanda L. Traud | Peter J. Mucha | Mason A. Porter
Volume 391, Issue 16, August 2012, Pages 4165-4180
We study the social structure of Facebook "friendship" networks at one hundred American colleges and universities at a single point in time, and we examine the roles of user attributes-gender, class year, major, high school, and residence-at these institutions. We investigate the influence of common attributes at the dyad level in terms of assortativity coefficients and regression models. We then examine larger-scale groupings by detecting communities algorithmically and comparing them to network partitions based on user characteristics. We thereby examine the relative importance of different characteristics at different institutions, finding for example that common high school is more important to the social organization of large institutions and that the importance of common major varies significantly between institutions. Our calculations illustrate how microscopic and macroscopic perspectives give complementary insights on the social organization at universities and suggest future studies to investigate such phenomena further. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Identifying influential nodes in weighted networks based on evidence theoryDaijun Wei | Xinyang Deng | Xiaoge Zhang | Yong Deng | Sankaran Mahadevan
Volume 392, Issue 10, May 2013, Pages 2564-2575
The design of an effective ranking method to identify influential nodes is an important problem in the study of complex networks. In this paper, a new centrality measure is proposed based on the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory. The proposed measure trades off between the degree and strength of every node in a weighted network. The influences of both the degree and the strength of each node are represented by basic probability assignment (BPA). The proposed centrality measure is determined by the combination of these BPAs. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The Power Grid as a complex network: A surveyGiuliano Andrea Pagani | Marco Aiello
Volume 392, Issue 11, June 2013, Pages 2688-2700
The statistical tools of Complex Network Analysis are of useful to understand salient properties of complex systems, may these be natural or pertaining human engineered infrastructures. One of these that is receiving growing attention for its societal relevance is that of electricity distribution. In this paper, we present a survey of the most relevant scientific studies investigating the properties of different Power Grids infrastructures using Complex Network Analysis techniques and methodologies. We categorize and explore the most relevant literature works considering general topological properties, physical properties, and differences between the various graph-related indicators and reliability aspects. We also trace the evolution in such field of the approach of study during the years to see the improvement achieved in the analysis. © 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Ranking the spreading influence in complex networksJian Guo Liu | Zhuo Ming Ren | Qiang Guo
Volume 392, Issue 18, September 2013, Pages 4154-4159
Identifying the node spreading influence in networks is an important task to optimally use the network structure and ensure the more efficient spreading in information. In this paper, by taking into account the shortest distance between a target node and the node set with the highest k-core value, we present an improved method to generate the ranking list to evaluate the node spreading influence. Comparing with the epidemic process results for four real networks and the Barabási-Albert network, the parameterless method could identify the node spreading influence more accurately than the ones generated by the degree k, closeness centrality, k-shell and mixed degree decomposition methods. This work would be helpful for deeply understanding the node importance of a network. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
SIHR rumor spreading model in social networksLaijun Zhao | Jiajia Wang | Yucheng Chen | Qin Wang | Jingjing Cheng | Hongxin Cui
Volume 391, Issue 7, April 2012, Pages 2444-2453
There are significant differences between rumor spreading and epidemic spreading in social networks, especially with consideration of the mutual effect of forgetting and remembering mechanisms. In this paper, a new rumor spreading model, Susceptible-Infected-Hibernator-Removed (SIHR) model, is developed. The model extends the classical Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) rumor spreading model by adding a direct link from ignorants to stiflers and a new kind of people-Hibernators. We derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the SIHR model in social networks. Then a steady-state analysis is conducted to investigate the final size of the rumor spreading under various spreading rate, stifling rate, forgetting rate, and average degree of the network. We discuss the spreading threshold and find the relationship between the final size of the rumor and two probabilities. Also RungeKutta method is used for numerical simulation which shows that the direct link from the ignorants to the stiflers advances the rumor terminal time and reduces the maximum rumor influence. Moreover, the forgetting and remembering mechanisms of hibernators postpone the rumor terminal time and reduce the maximum rumor influence. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The scaling of human mobility by taxis is exponentialXiao Liang | Xudong Zheng | Weifeng Lv | Tongyu Zhu | Ke Xu
Volume 391, Issue 5, March 2012, Pages 2135-2144
As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed from quite a few real-world human mobility datasets such as the movements of banking notes, trackings of cell phone users' locations and trajectories of vehicles. In this paper, we build models for 20 million trajectories with fine granularity collected from more than 10 thousand taxis in Beijing. In contrast to most models observed in human mobility data, the taxis' traveling displacements in urban areas tend to follow an exponential distribution instead of a power-law. Similarly, the elapsed time can also be well approximated by an exponential distribution. Worth mentioning, analysis of the interevent time indicates the bursty nature of human mobility, similar to many other human activities. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Consensus analysis and design for high-order linear swarm systems with time-varying delaysJianxiang Xi | Zongying Shi | Yisheng Zhong
Volume 390, Issues 23-24, November 2011, Pages 4114-4123
Consensus analysis and design problems for high-order linear time-invariant swarm systems with time-varying delays are dealt with. First, a consensus subspace and a complement consensus subspace are introduced. By the state projection onto the two subspaces, consensus problems are converted into simultaneous stabilization problems of multiple time-delayed subsystems with low dimensions, and a method to analyze and design the consensus function is given. Then, sufficient conditions for consensus and consensualization are presented, which include only four linear matrix inequality constraints. Finally, theoretical results are applied to deal with cooperative control problems of multi-agent supporting systems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Analyses of driver's anticipation effect in sensing relative flux in a new lattice model for two-lane traffic systemArvind Kumar Gupta | Poonam Redhu
Volume 392, Issue 22, November 2013, Pages 5622-5632
In this paper, a new lattice hydrodynamic traffic flow model is proposed by considering the driver's anticipation effect in sensing relative flux (DAESRF) for two-lane system. The effect of anticipation parameter on the stability of traffic flow is examined through linear stability analysis and shown that the anticipation term can significantly enlarge the stability region on the phase diagram. To describe the phase transition of traffic flow, mKdV equation near the critical point is derived through nonlinear analysis. The theoretical findings have been verified using numerical simulation which confirms that traffic jam can be suppressed efficiently by considering the anticipation effect in the new lattice model for two-lane traffic. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Correlation of financial markets in times of crisisLeonidas Sandoval | Italo De Paula Franca
Volume 391, Issues 1-2, January 2012, Pages 187-208
Using the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of correlations matrices of some of the main financial market indices in the world, we show that high volatility of markets is directly linked with strong correlations between them. This means that markets tend to behave as one during great crashes. In order to do so, we investigate financial market crises that occurred in the years 1987 (Black Monday), 1998 (Russian crisis), 2001 (Burst of the dot-com bubble and September 11), and 2008 (Subprime Mortgage Crisis), which mark some of the largest downturns of financial markets in the last three decades. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Negative emotions boost user activity at BBC forumAnna Chmiel | Pawel Sobkowicz | Julian Sienkiewicz | Georgios Paltoglou | Kevan Buckley | Mike Thelwall | Janusz A. Hoyst
Volume 390, Issue 16, August 2011, Pages 2936-2944
We present an empirical study of user activity in online BBC discussion forums, measured by the number of posts written by individual debaters and the average sentiment of these posts. Nearly 2.5 million posts from over 18 thousand users were investigated. Scale-free distributions were observed for activity in individual discussion threads as well as for overall activity. The number of unique users in a thread normalized by the thread length decays with thread length, suggesting that thread life is sustained by mutual discussions rather than by independent comments. Automatic sentiment analysis shows that most posts contain negative emotions and the most active users in individual threads express predominantly negative sentiments. It follows that the average emotion of longer threads is more negative and that threads can be sustained by negative comments. An agent-based computer simulation model has been used to reproduce several essential characteristics of the analyzed system. The model stresses the role of discussions between users, especially emotionally laden quarrels between supporters of opposite opinions, and represents many observed statistics of the forum. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Detrended fluctuation analysis on spot and futures markets of West Texas Intermediate crude oilYudong Wang | Yu Wei | Chongfeng Wu
Volume 390, Issue 5, March 2011, Pages 864-875
In this paper, we study the auto-correlations and cross-correlations of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil spot and futures return series employing detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and detrended cross-correlation analysis (DCCA). Scaling analysis shows that, for time scales smaller than a month, the auto-correlations and cross-correlations are persistent. For time scales larger than a month but smaller than a year, the correlations are anti-persistent, while, for time scales larger than a year, the series are neither auto-correlated nor cross-correlated, indicating the efficient operation of the crude oil markets. Moreover, for small time scales, the degree of short-term cross-correlations is higher than that of auto-correlations. Using the multifractal extension of DFA and DCCA, we find that, for small time scales, the correlations are strongly multifractal, while, for large time scales, the correlations are nearly monofractal. Analyzing the multifractality of shuffled and surrogated series, we find that both long-range correlations and fat-tail distributions make important contributions to the multifractality. Our results have important implications for market efficiency and asset pricing models. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Multifractal detrended cross-correlations between the Chinese exchange market and stock marketGuangxi Cao | Longbing Xu | Jie Cao
Volume 391, Issue 20, October 2012, Pages 4855-4866
Based on the daily price data of the Chinese Yuan (RMB)/US dollar exchange rate and the Shanghai Stock Composite Index, we conducted an empirical analysis of the cross-correlations between the Chinese exchange market and stock market using the multifractal cross-correlation analysis method. The results demonstrate the overall significance of the cross-correlation based on the analysis of a statistic. Multifractality exists in cross-correlations, and the cross-correlated behavior of small fluctuations is more persistent than that of large fluctuations. Moreover, using the rolling windows method, we find that the cross-correlations between the Chinese exchange market and stock market vary with time and are especially sensitive to the reform of the RMB exchange rate regime. The previous reduction in the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in July 2008 strengthened the persistence of cross-correlations and decreased the degree of multifractality, whereas the enhancement of the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in June 2010 weakened the persistence of cross-correlations and increased the multifractality. Finally, several relevant discussions are provided to verify the robustness of our empirical analysis. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Improved visibility graph fractality with application for the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum DisorderMehran Ahmadlou | Hojjat Adeli | Amir Adeli
Volume 391, Issue 20, October 2012, Pages 4720-4726
Recently, the visibility graph (VG) algorithm was proposed for mapping a time series to a graph to study complexity and fractality of the time series through investigation of the complexity of its graph. The visibility graph algorithm converts a fractal time series to a scale-free graph. VG has been used for the investigation of fractality in the dynamic behavior of both artificial and natural complex systems. However, robustness and performance of the power of scale-freeness of VG (PSVG) as an effective method for measuring fractality has not been investigated. Since noise is unavoidable in real life time series, the robustness of a fractality measure is of paramount importance. To improve the accuracy and robustness of PSVG to noise for measurement of fractality of time series in biological time-series, an improved PSVG is presented in this paper. The proposed method is evaluated using two examples: a synthetic benchmark time series and a complicated real life Electroencephalograms (EEG)-based diagnostic problem, that is distinguishing autistic children from non-autistic children. It is shown that the proposed improved PSVG is less sensitive to noise and therefore more robust compared with PSVG. Further, it is shown that using improved PSVG in the wavelet-chaos neural network model of Adeli and c-workers in place of the Katz fractality dimension results in a more accurate diagnosis of autism, a complicated neurological and psychiatric disorder. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Multifractal Fourier detrended cross-correlation analysis of traffic signalsXiaojun Zhao | Pengjian Shang | Aijing Lin | Gang Chen
Volume 390, Issues 21-22, October 2011, Pages 3670-3678
Multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis (MF-DXA) has been developed to detect the long-range power-law cross-correlation of considered signals in the presence of non-stationarity. However, crossovers arising from extrinsic periodic trends make the scaling behavior difficult to analyze. We introduce a Fourier filtering method to eliminate the trend effects and systematically investigate the multifractal cross-correlation of simulated and real traffic signals. The crossover locations are found approximately corresponding to the periods of underlying trend. Traffic velocity on one road and flows on adjacent roads show strong cross-correlation. They also present weak multifractality after periodic trends are removed. The traffic velocity and flow are cross-correlated in opposite directions which is accordant to their actual evolution. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A new car-following model with the consideration of anticipation optimal velocityGuang Han Peng | Rong Jun Cheng
Volume 392, Issue 17, September 2013, Pages 3563-3569
In this paper, a new anticipation optimal velocity model (AOVM) is proposed by considering anticipation effect on the basis of the full velocity difference model (FVDM) for car-following theory on single lane. The linear stability condition is derived from linear stability analysis. Starting and braking process is investigated for the car motion under a traffic signal, which shows that the results accord with empirical traffic values. Especially AOVM can avoid the disadvantage of the unrealistically high deceleration appearing in FVDM. Furthermore, numerical simulation shows that AOVM might avoid the disadvantage of negative velocity and headway that occur at small sensitivity coefficients in the FVDM since the anticipation effect is taken into account in AOVM, which means that collision disappears with the consideration of an appropriate anticipation parameter. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Rumor spreading model with consideration of forgetting mechanism: A case of online blogging LiveJournalLaijun Zhao | Qin Wang | Jingjing Cheng | Yucheng Chen | Jiajia Wang | Wei Huang
Volume 390, Issue 13, July 2011, Pages 2619-2625
Rumor is an important form of social interaction, and its spreading has a significant impact on people's lives. In the age of Web, people are using electronic media more frequently than ever before, and blog has become one of the main online social interactions. Therefore, it is essential to learn the evolution mechanism of rumor spreading on homogeneous network in consideration of the forgetting mechanism of spreaders. Here we study a rumor spreading model on an online social blogging platform called LiveJournal. In comparison with the SusceptibleInfectedRemoved (SIR) model, we provide a more detailed and realistic description of rumor spreading process with combination of forgetting mechanism and the SIR model of epidemics. A mathematical model has been presented and numerical solutions of the model were used to analyze the impact factors of rumor spreading, such as the average degree, forgetting rate and stifling rate. Our results show that there exist a threshold of the average degree of LiveJournal and above which the influence of rumor reaches saturation. Forgetting mechanism and stifling rate exert great influence on rumor spreading on online social network. The analysis results can guide people's behaviors in view of the theoretical and practical aspects. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Integrating neighborhoods in the evaluation of fitness promotes cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma gameZhen Wang | Wen Bo Du | Xian Bin Cao | Lian Zhong Zhang
Volume 390, Issue 7, April 2011, Pages 1234-1239
A fundamental question of human society is the evolution of cooperation. Many previous studies explored this question via setting spatial background, where players obtain their payoffs by playing game with their nearest neighbors. Another undoubted fact is that the environment plays an important role in the individual development. Inspired by these phenomena, we reconsider the definition of individual fitness which integrates the environment, denoted by the average payoff of all individual neighbors, with the traditional individual payoffs by introducing a selection parameter u. Tuning u equal to zero returns the traditional version, while increasing u bears the influence of environment. We find that considering the environment, i.e., integrating neighborhoods in the evaluation of fitness, promotes cooperation. If we enhance the value of u, the invasion of defection could be resisted better. We also provide quantitative explanations and complete phase diagrams presenting the influence of the environment on the evolution of cooperation. Finally, the universality of this mechanism is testified for different neighborhood sizes, different topology structures and different game models. Our work may shed light on the emergence and persistence of cooperation in our life. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Compensation temperature in a cylindrical Ising nanowire (or nanotube)T. Kaneyoshi
Volume 390, Issues 21-22, October 2011, Pages 3697-3703
The critical temperature and the compensation temperature in a cylindrical Ising nanowire (or nanotube) with a negative interlayer coupling at the surface are investigated by the use of both the effective-field theory with correlations and the shell-core concept. Particular emphasis is given to the effects of the surface and its dilution on them. We have found that, for appropriate values of the system parameters, a compensation point may be obtained in the present systems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
DCCA cross-correlation coefficient apply in time series of air temperature and air relative humidityR. T. Vassoler | G. F. Zebende
Volume 391, Issue 7, April 2012, Pages 2438-2443
In this paper we propose, analyze and also quantify cross-correlations between climatological data. For this purpose we adopt the DCCA cross-correlation coefficient ρDCCA. In order to accomplish this goal, we calculate the cross-correlation between time series of air temperature and relative humidity. This analysis was performed taking into account several stations (cities) around the world. The results found here, depending on the station location, may exhibit one of the following behaviors, i.e., negative, positive, or null cross-correlations. It is noteworthy that, the level of cross-correlation between air temperature and relative humidity is quantified in these cases. Finally, DCCA cross-correlation coefficients show that, in general, the data are influenced by seasonal components. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Stationary open systems: A brief review on contemporary theories on irreversibilityUmberto Lucia
Volume 392, Issue 5, March 2013, Pages 1051-1062
Open systems are very important in science and engineering for their applications and the analysis of the real word. At their steady state, two apparently opposed principles for their rate of entropy production have been proposed: the minimum entropy production rate and the maximum entropy production, useful in the analysis of dissipation and irreversibility of different processes in physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. Both principles involve an extremum of the rate of the entropy production at the steady state under non-equilibrium conditions. On the other hand, in engineering thermodynamics, dissipation and irreversibility are analyzed using the entropy generation, for which there exist two principle of extrema too, the minimum and the maximum principle. Finally, oppositions to the extrema principle have been developed too. In this paper, all these extrema principles will be analyzed in order to point out the relations among them and a synthesis useful in engineering applications, in physical and chemical process analysis and in biology and biotechnology will be proposed. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A new approach to quantify power-law cross-correlation and its application to commodity marketsLing Yun He | Shu Peng Chen
Volume 390, Issues 21-22, October 2011, Pages 3806-3814
We proposed a new method: Detrended Moving-average Cross-correlation Analysis (DMCA) to detect the power-law cross-correlation between two correlated non-stationary time series by combining Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis (DCCA) and Detrended Moving Average (DMA). In order to compare the performance of DMCA and DCCA in the detection of cross-correlation, and to estimate the influence of periodic trend, we generate two cross-correlated time series x(i) and y(i) by a periodic two-component fractionally autoregressive integrated moving average (ARFIMA) process. Then we apply both methods to quantify the cross-correlations of the generated series, whose theoretical values are already known to us. By comparing the results we obtained, we find that the performance of this new approach is comparable to DCCA with less calculating amounts; our method can also reduce the impact of trends; furthermore, DMCA (for background and forward moving average case) outperforms DCCA in more accurate estimation when the analyzed times series are short in length. To provide an example, we also apply this new method to the time series of the real-world data from Brent and WTI crude oil spot markets, to investigate the complex cross-market correlation between these commodity markets. In all, our method is another practical choice to detect the cross-correlation between two short period non-stationary time series, and has potential application to real world problems. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory: A brief reviewBoris S. Kerner
Volume 392, Issue 21, November 2013, Pages 5261-5282
It is explained why the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown (a transition from free flow to congested traffic) should be the empirical basis for any traffic and transportation theory that can be reliably used for control and optimization in traffic networks. It is shown that the generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of the traffic and transportation theory are not consistent with the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown at a highway bottleneck. To these fundamentals and methodologies of the traffic and transportation theory belong (i) Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) theory, (ii) the General Motors (GM) model class (for example, Herman, Gazis et al. GM model, Gipps's model, Payne's model, Newell's optimal velocity (OV) model, Wiedemann's model, Bando et al. OV model, Treiber's IDM, Krauß's model), (iii) the understanding of highway capacity as a particular (fixed or stochastic) value, and (iv) principles for traffic and transportation network optimization and control (for example, Wardrop's user equilibrium (UE) and system optimum (SO) principles). Alternatively to these generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of the traffic and transportation theory, we discuss the three-phase traffic theory as the basis for traffic flow modeling as well as briefly consider the network breakdown minimization (BM) principle for the optimization of traffic and transportation networks with road bottlenecks. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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Well looking at the success of clan noob I was thinking of starting a similar clan, as clan noob has quite a few members. Its a free clan and anyone can join.
On the likely event that many people don't join the clan (touch wood some do join) ill close the clan with in the next 7 days
this would also be a great rival for clan noob as both clans have similar types of members.
Keep posted and tell me if you interested!
For the clan to be created we will need 8 members including my self.
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*pops head in*
I made a curry :D
Mr_Inconspicous wrote:
*pops head in*
thats what i did :D
I meant slightly opening the door and looking in :(
Didn't stop as ratty was on the couch, couldn't quite see what he was doing but there was a lombax game on the TV and seemed to be fixated on it :|
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the plug and the socket I heard.
StuR328 wrote:
awww man, its soooo busy in here
Maybe you should vita post more :P
Morning boonies "I'm a citizen, of the stars" us*
Indeed so ... my work place is still standing after two DM + Clipboard shifts, we are all groovy :D
Going to try and finish of borderlands today (dlc wise) as I have a free day.
Eurogamer is awesome sauce, got to meet the majority of the DK and SEEDHOUSE WOOOOO. We played games together, in real life. The funniest bit for me was, when we were playing Battlefield 4 we all had headsets on, so I heard when dude got killed, but in the corner of my eye I could see dude displaying his displeasure at getting killed ... so funny :Lol:
I said to mutt ... I got to find Seedhouse, other I will never see him. So I tweeted seedy, "where are you?", he replied "at the pokemon booth". Now you would assume the Pokemon booth would be a big deal ... wrong, smallest booth EVAR :P Found him though.
Didn't actually play much though, alot of queuing and such (camo would be a awesome queuer). But I got to see the main stuff, didn't see Dying Light (which I wanted to see). Oh well.
Other than that, my normal service should be resuming, been rather busy these last week or two with DM stuff, first aid stuff, work stuff and eurogamer stuff ... and GTA in the mix too :D
@steph *waves* STAR CITIZEN WOOOOO :P
*I don't expect anyone to get that reference
stephenc87 wrote:
What is Star Citizen?
Was BF4 good?
It's a game we can't play yet lol
Space Sim ... a tad like EVE, but First Person.
Yeah, Battlefield 4 was good. The Xbones we played on wasn't lol. It was just a more polished version of Battlefield 3 (in a good way, it just worked). Felt a tad like Bad Company 2 (gameplay wise)*
*Have to consider that everyone hasn't played the game when we played it, everyone was on stock equipment and we were on a lan (so no lag)
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Tim Harper notes the eerie silence around the nation's legislatures.
Anecdotally, it appears Canadians don't much care about this and that's why leaders feel they can get away with it.
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In December, Elizabeth May apparently wrote a letter to New Democrats, Liberals and independent MP Bruce Hyer to discuss ways that opposition MPs might cooperate for the purposes of electoral
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If elected, my proposal would be to reform Canada's electoral system by changing our voting process
Conservative backbencher Brent Rathgeber goes off message, suggests free votes for all MPs
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In the longer term, however, there is a simple and bloody obvious solution to all of this, which is to
Michael Ignatieff worries.
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Kady O'Malley suggests the time allotted for statements by members be moved (in my opinion, if members' statements are to be reformed they'll either have to be moved or eliminated
Stephane Dion's speech on electoral reform to the Green party convention this past weekend.
The text is here. Mr. Dion previously explained his idea here.
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Bruce Hyer is resurrecting his October 2010 proposal to randomize seating in the House of Commons.
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text: Home > Training & Events > Conferences > ABA Government Relations Summit Print Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google Email Add to Favorites ABA Government Relations Summit Page ContentMarch 20 – 22, 2017 • Washington Marriott Marquis • Washington DC*Open to Bankers, Bank Directors & Trustees and State Association Executives only. Summit Overview | Registration | Program | Forums | Venue 2017 Schedule The 2017 schedule will be available soon. 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National Petroleum Services Company (NAPESCO)
based in Ahmadi, KUWAIT
National Petroleum Services Company (NAPESCO) was established in 1993 to provide a broad range of services to the Middle East Oil and Gas industry. Our mission is to understand clients needs and develop effective solution, which satisfy their requirements and serve to meet their challenges. NAPESCO is committed to delivering reliable creative solutions and superior ...
Al Dhafra Trading Enterprises Est.
Office in KUWAIT
Al Dhafra Trading Enterprises Est. (ATECO) was established in 1987. Specialized in Engineering Services and suppliers of Special Vehicles. ATECO is a multi-franchise company providing highest quality products from Europe and USA. We deal in Solid and Liquid waste management Equipment, Road sweeping machines, waste compaction & collection trucks and waste containers.
Metal Recycling Company
based in Safat, KUWAIT
Metal & Recycling Company (MRC) was established in 1987. It is an ISO 14001 certified and a publicly traded company in Kuwait Stock Exchange Market since 1996. MRC has transformed from being the largest scrap trading company, into a leading environmental and waste management company with projects and operations spanning across a number of countries within the Middle East ...
National Cleaning Company KSC.
based in Safat, KUWAIT
National Cleaning Company was incorporated in the year 1978 and is a major contractor for the Municipality of Kuwait for City Cleaning, Waste Management and Indoor Cleaning. It also has contracts with various other government and private institutions. Our work force currently consists of 6000 employees working in different fields and operating around 1500 different type ...
SOLUTIONS FOR Environmental Consultancy (SEC)
based in Kuwiat, KUWAIT
SOLUTIONS FOR Environmental Consultancy (SEC) is an environmental consultancy, established in 2004 in State of Kuwait. We provide a comprehensive range of environmental services, primarily to small-medium businesses and local authorities. OUR SERVICES1. Environmental impact assessments (EIA's)2. Waste Management Consulting3. Environmental legal compliance ...
EnviroTech Limited
Office in South Surra, , KUWAIT
EnviroTech (ETL) based in the UK and the United Arab Emirates is an environmental product company with distributors in UK, USA, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and South America specialise in Award Winning Water Treatment / Recycling, Energy Saving Systems, Air Conditioning Energy Saving Systems and Waste Water Treatment ...
SETCO (Safwan)
based in Safat, KUWAIT
Setco Environmental Services (SES), a division of Safwan EC Technologies, is a leading provider of environmental technology, products and services for handling Water, Wastewater and Solid Waste. We supply solutions and systems that are used for the production and quality control of Potable Water, Process water and Hydro Carbon water. We are also involved with ...
Kadhema Scientific Consultancy and Services (KSCS)
based in Safat, KUWAIT
Kadhema Scientific Consultancy and Services (KSCS) is a Kuwaiti Company established with a view to provide professional consultancy in environmental impact assessment studies, environmental monitoring and management as well as introducing new and environmentally acceptable and cost effective technologies. The main areas of expertise include environmental monitoring, ...
EMCOR Facilities Services Group Ltd. (EFSG)
Office in Safat, KUWAIT
EMCOR Facilities Services Group (EFSG) is creating the basis for innovative and sustainable facilities management in the Middle East. EFSG provides total lifecycle care to the built environment including some of the most complex and advanced facilities. Our customers include a diverse range of businesses and organizations throughout the Middle East.
Presona AB
Distributor in KUWAIT
Presona manufacture high-end baling and waste compacting solutions that are high quality, reliable and economic. Take a look at our product range and choose the best baler for you and your business. Presona's general environmental objective is to provide equipment that will be part of the sustainable cycle. The purpose is to provide equipment that enables increased ...
BP Consultancy Co.
based in Shuaiba, KUWAIT
BP Consultancy Co. W.L.L (BPC) provides a comprehensive and a unique Environmental Consultancy Services through its complete Environment Health and Safety Management Information Systems, Predictive Emission Monitoring System, Smart Manufacturing Technology, Air Quality Control Services, and Professional Environmental Training that can deliver clarity and efficiency to ...
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Casella is an ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 14001 certified company with a focus on the development and manufacture of state-of-the-art environmental and workplace monitoring instrumentation. Products include personal air sampling, real-time dust and particulate measurement, personal noise dosimetry, environmental noise measurement and real-time frequency analysis, BOUNDARY ...
Myron L Company
Distributor in KUWAIT
Myron L Company manufactures cost-effective high performance tools for solution control and water quality analysis, as well as calibration solutions, accessories and kits that keep instrumentation operating at peak performance in diverse applications. Our current product line includes handheld instruments, inline monitor/controllers and field test kits that measure ...
Al - Thurya Radiation Service Company
based in Salmiya, KUWAIT
Al-Thurya is a Private Company founded in 1996 with limited liability having five offices spread all over Kuwait with the Head Office in Fahaheel, Workshop in Mina Abdallah, Radiation Division in Kheitan, Business Development Division in Mangaf and Fintas. Al-Thurya is one of the few Kuwati Leading Companies that has ventured into the Oil, Gas, Energy, Defense & Aviation ...
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Global leaders in gas analysis technology, Geotech's analysers are synonymous with quality, reliability and accuracy. Our ATEX certified portable and fixed gas analysers are used in biogas plants and landfill sites throughout the world. We also support the embryology industry with our well-know and respected G100 CO2 analyser for incubator gas monitoring. We are ...
ELM WATANIYA General Trading & Contracting Company
based in Kuwait City, KUWAIT
We design, install and commission our own wastewater treatment systems to treat sewage and industrial effluent. Water treatment & soil bioremediation. Working as a Trading company also to supply all types and brands of laboratory and commercial equipment and furniture required for water and wastewater testing laboratories. Involved in various environmental pollution ...
HORIBA Europe GmbH
Office in KUWAIT
The HORIBA Group of worldwide companies provides an extensive array of instruments and systems for applications ranging from automotive R&D, process and environmental monitoring, in-vitro medical diagnostics, semiconductor manufacturing and metrology, to a broad range of scientific R&D and QC measurements. Proven quality and trustworthy performance have established ...
Distributor in Kuwait, KUWAIT
Surcis is a company specialized in respirometry systems and wastewater biological treatment processes. The compact and fast BM multipurpose respirometers are unique in the market. Thanks to their three different working modes and the faculty to run under different conditions of temperature, pH, oxygen and sample volumes, they can cover an unlimited field of applications ...
Office in Safat, KUWAIT
Endress Hauser is leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. We offer comprehensive process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analysis, temperature, recording and digital communications across a wide range of industries, optimizing processes with regards to economic efficiency, safety and environmental ...
Cooper Environmental
Distributor in INDUSTRIAL SHUWAIKH, KUWAIT
Cooper Environmental has the unique capability to measure and interpret elements using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) in a fully-automated fashion. Using this core technology, Cooper was the first to commercially manufacture an XRF-based multi-metals continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) in the world. This automated XRF technology is also used to measure and interpret ...
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Serving as the governing body of the 500 Festival, the board of directors is comprised of community leaders. The board guides the strategic vision of the 500 Festival and its members act as trustees, representing the organization within the community. Committed to bettering the organization, members serve on various committees that support and enhance the 500 Festival and its more than 50 programs and events.
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Janine Snyman, a local Addo resident, was driving through the national park on a day visit with her husband when they noticed a young male lion lying in a grass patch close to the road.
Stopping to view the lion, they watched the young male get up and pick up an empty beer bottle that was lying in the grass in his mouth. The lion then sauntered over to a stone signpost, jumped on top of the signpost and lay down while watching another young male lion approach.
The lion later dropped the beer bottle and walked off in the company of the second lion.
"This is a powerful message to visitors to our national park to take care that they do not litter," said the Park's Conservation Manager, John Adendorff.
Adendorff said that the situation could have been much worse if the lion had broken the beer bottle and cut his mouth, depriving him of a means of feeding.
"The Park's rules and regulations, including speed limits and bans on disturbing wildlife are in place to protect our wildlife as well as ensure the safety of visitors," Adendorff added.
Adendorff also mentioned that some visitors disregarded Park rules by getting out of their vehicles inside the game area. People who wished to assist by reporting this bad behaviour could phone the manager on duty on 082 471 0267 or the Park's reception on 042 2338619. Park staff could then react to the report while those transgressing were still in the Park.
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Basics of Virtual Machine And Process
Operating system is large, but modularity is important thus a computer system is made up of layers. The hardware is the lowest level. The kernel running at the next level uses the hardware instructions to create a set of system calls. Virtual machine creates an efficient, dynamic, secure and portable object-oriented facility. Virtual machine provides an interface. The resources of the physical computer are shared to create the virtual machines.
For example if the physical machine has three disk drives to support seven virtual machines, it can not allocate a disk drive to each virtual machine, but it will provide virtual disks. Virtual machine concept is difficult to implement because underlying machine has two modes user-mode and monitor-mode. Virtual machine software can run in monitor mode and execute in user mode.
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Design of the system will affect the choice of hardware and type of system i.e., batch, time-shared, single-user, multi-user, distributed, real-time or general purpose.
Requirements can be divided into two basic groups.
Mechanisms determine how to do something. For example mechanism for ensuring CPU protection is the timer construct. That is the decision of how long the timer is set for a particular user is a policy decision.
Policies decide what will be done. Policies are likely to change from place to place or time to time. Each change in policy require a change in the underlying mechanism. Policy decisions are important for all resource allocation and scheduling problems.
Traditionally operating systems have been written in assembly language. But now operating systems can even be written in higher-level languages.
Process is nothing but a program in execution, or the instance of a program (or job) in execution. The terms job and process are used interchangebly. The term process has superseded. Major requirements of the operating system are to maximize processor use, minimize response time, avoiding deadlocks, and support inter process communication.
The principal function of a processor is to execute machine instructions residing in main memory. The execution of an individual program is referred to as a process or task. The life of a process is bounded by its creation and termination.
Creation of a Process
When a new process is to be added, operating system immediately allocates the address space.
Reasons for Process Creation
Reasons for termination of a process
The main responsibility of the operating system is to control the execution of processes. The figure below shows at any time a process is either running or not-running state. When operating system creates a new process, first it enters in the not-running state and is waiting for a chance to execute.
From time to time currently running process will be interrupted and the operating system will select a new process for running. The earlier process moves from the Running State to the not-running state. All these processes which are not running are kept in some sort of queue, waiting their chance to execute. This is Shown in the figure above..
Five-state Process Model
In round-robin fashion, on the available processes each process in the queue is given a certain amount of time to execute and then returned to the queue unless waiting (i.e., blocked).
The figure below shows some processes in the not-running state are ready to execute, where as others are blocked, i.e., waiting for an Input/Output operation to complete. Dispatcher is to scan for process that is not blocked (waiting) for dispatch. To handle this situation split the not-running state into two states ready and waiting (blocked).
Process State Transitions
Suspended Processes
For processing more processes quickly, accommodate more process in main memory, for this expand the main memory. There are two problems in expansion of main memory. These are as follows:
In the above Figure dashed line indicates possible transitions but it is not necessary. When the operating system has performed a swapping out operation, it has two choices for selecting a process to bring into main memory. That is it can admit a newly created process or it can admit a previously suspended process. But preference is for a previously suspended process instead of new process to reduce the load on the system.
Ready : Process is in main memory and also available for execution.Waiting : Process is in main memory and awaiting for an event.Waiting, Suspend : Process is in secondary memory and awaiting for an event.Ready, Suspend : Process is in secondary memory and is available for execution when it is to be loaded into main memory.
State Transitions
The collection of attributes related to a process hold in a block called process control block or task control block or process descriptor or task descriptor. This collection of program, data, stack and attributes is the process image. This is shown in the figure below:
Elements of a Process Image
The process image is maintained as a contiguous block of memory. This block is maintained in secondary memory. For execution of a process, the entire process image should be loaded into main memory. In modern operating systems, these image blocks need not be stored contiguously. Basing on the technique used, these blocks may be of variable length (called segments) or fixed length (called pages) or a combination.
Process Attributes
Different systems will organize the process control block information in different ways:
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This is the fourth consecutive year that Interactive will be demonstrating its award-winning contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation solutions at MECOM.
"IP technology has been gaining popularity in the Middle East in the last few years as companies are making the transition from traditional PBX/ PABX systems to IP telephony. This trend encouraged Interactive Intelligence to establish our regional office in Dubai in 2008. Since then, we have recruited 12 partners across the region and have recently set up operations in Saudi Arabia as well. We have had a significant number of prestigious customer wins in the government and private sector. Trade shows like MECOM offer us a good platform to further spread awareness about our brand and solutions and grow our regional business", said Mr. Shaheen Haque, Interactive Intelligence territory manager for Turkey and Middle East.
At MECOM, Interactive Intelligence will be demonstrating its Customer Interaction Center® (CIC) solution, built on standards-based, single-platform architecture with inherent multichannel processing to deliver comprehensive applications minus the cost and complexity introduced by multipoint products.
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While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations -- top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead, they insist that helping to enforce federal immigration laws diverts resources from fighting serious crime and dissuades people from coming forward to help victims or identify criminals.
"It's often difficult to successfully accomplish our mission of preventing and reducing crime with the current resources and funding to our department," Arlington Deputy Chief of Police Kim Lemaux said moments ago, during a national conference call organized by Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative, during which police leaders across the country called for federal immigration reform. (Originally, organizers said that Dr. Theron Bowman, Arlington's chief of police, would be participating in the call. No reason was given for the cop swap. Nonetheless, Bowman was among the police chiefs involved in a massive study, The Role of Local Police: Striking a Balance Between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties, released earlier this year.)
"'We don't have the ability to take on unfunded mandates such as immigration enforcement," Lemaux said. "Our department operates under a community policing strategy, and if a group of residents fears the police then they won't turn to officers for help, making them viable victims. We need everyone in our community to be willing to be involved and to not be afraid to report crimes. Tasking local law enforcement with immigration enforcement really sets us on a path that directly conflicts with community policing."
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