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Flick, Jeremy Joseph. "Modus Operandi." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9372.
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Art. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Tran, Bao Khang. "Statistical-Based Suspect RetrievalUsing Modus Operandi." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-19689.
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Introduction. The police and the investigation team has been manually doing behavioural analysis and connecting different crimes to an offender. With the help of computers technologies, databases, and automated system, the statistical analysis of the offender’s behaviour significantly improved. There we can transfer from a manual process to an automated one, and the investigator can allocate time and resources better by prioritising the offenders to investigate. In this study, we create and experiment with a proof of concept system that ranks and prioritise different offenders using the Random Choice method in combination with the state of the art Spatial-Temporal method. Objectives. In experimenting with the proof of concept system, we are aiming to understand the effect of different offender’s behaviour having on the offenders ranking and the effect of having multiple different numbers of reference crimes in the database. The objective is also to understand the role of consistency and distinctiveness in offenders ranking. Moreover, understanding the performances of our proof of concept system comparing to already existing methods such as Random Choice, Spatial-Temporal and a baseline method that based on pure randomness. Method. The method we chose for this study was an experimental study. With an experimental environment with independent and dependent variables, we presented and evaluated the system. We were using the experimenting approach because it has a stable presence and widely used in similar studies in this field. Results. After the experiments, we found that different Modus Operandi (MO)categories have a different effect on the ranking results and different distinctive combinations of MO categories also has different accuracy when ranking the offenders. Offenders that were consistent with more references crime in the database were often higher ranked and were linked more correctly. Our proof of concept system shows significant improvement over Random Choice method and the Spatial-Temporalmethod. Conclusion. From the results, we concluded that the proof of concept system displays a significant accuracy in ranking and prioritising offenders, there different MO categories and combinations of them has a different effect on the accuracy of the ranking. The ranking system was also affected by the number of reference cases that exist in the database. Future works can extend the study by trying to improve different aspects of the proof of concept systems, such as the Random Choice aspect or the Spatial-Temporal aspect.
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Gehring, Jake. "Modus operandi within landscapes wasted through attrition." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Porter, Anthony G. "China's modus operandi for the 21st Century." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2005. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA491923.
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Thesis (Master of Military Studies)-Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2005.<br>Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: Jan 6, 2010). "CSC 2005" "Subject Area Topical Issues" Includes bibliographical references.
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Cai, Simin. "Mining Modus-operandi Patterns of Swedish Serial Burglaries." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-265415.
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Around 22,000 burglaries are reported to the Swedish police in 2012. It is not only inefficient to analyze these records by human experts, lots of valuable information remains hidden due to weakness of human information processing. Data mining is a promising technique to uncover hidden, unknown and potentially valuable information from large amount of data. The goal of this project is to analyze burglary records and find crime patterns from a burglary dataset by using data mining and machine learning techniques. In this paper from the perspective of data mining I redefine the crime patterns by International Association of Crime Analysts. Then a series of correspondent algorithms and techniques are introduced to mine these patterns. A prototype is implemented to analyze the provided dataset. Crime patterns are identified and visualized in an understandable and user friendly fashion.
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Jannati, Farzad, and Mahdi Salimi. "Modern Sea piracy Modus operandi and economical and development state backgrounds." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16461.
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Purpose - The objective of this study is to enhance the understanding of modus operandi ofmodern sea piracy by data existed in the relevant sources. A simple framework ofunderstating the subject is brought as the authors’ contribution.Design/methodology/approach – Analysis was done through constructing a databaseaccording to sea piracy reports of International Maritime Organization (IMO) website. It hascontinued by investigating in some of the economical, social and other parameters of somecountries with coastlines. In the end, it has introduced a framework of understanding of themodern sea piracy.Findings – Piracy has a long history, as an easy way of achieving commodities. In the lastdecade, there was an outbreak trend in East Africa region emerging Somalia pirates. In thebeginning of 2000s, there were South China Sea and Malacca Straits regions that were theimportant arena of pirates. Besides a weak and powerless government, bad economicalsituation, the main issue in East Africa piracy was the volume of the commodities that was(and is) transported via coasts of Horn of Africa.Practical implications- In this study, two research questions were followed: how the piracyattacks have been done and observing how some related countries look like.Research limitations/implications – Being a literature review, this thesis project is notresponsible for the correctness of the sources and not by any means if a company or anorganization uses its results or recommendations.Originality/value –Using valid sources, it is a unique work of authors; not manipulatingothers’ work; that has investigated those reports and addressed supplementary points thatenhance the understanding of the modus operandi and some state backgrounds of sea piratesin 2000s.Paper type – Case study / literature review.<br>Program: Magisterutbildning i Industriell ekonomi - logistik
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Sawiak, Pawel. "" Be imitators of me": Paul's modus operandi in forming the Corinthians." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106926.
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Thesis advisor: Thomas D. Stegman<br>Thesis advisor: Christopher R. Matthews<br>Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016<br>Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry<br>Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Brabant, Gilles. "Profils de personnalité et modus operandi des agresseurs sexuels d'enfants intrafamiliaux." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 2007. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2759.
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La présente recherche concerne les troubles de la personnalité des agresseurs sexuels d'enfants intrafamiliaux. Les études cliniques font ressortir deux profils majeurs: le premier profil, que nous appelons"dramatique", inclut les troubles de la personnalité narcissique, antisociale et psychopathique et il est caractérisé par le pouvoir, la domination et la violence; le second profil, que nous appelons"anxieux", inclut les troubles de la personnalité dépendante et évitante, et il est caractérisé par la soumission, la passivité et l'isolement social. Nous avons employé le Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) auprès de 107 agresseurs sexuels d'enfants intrafamiliaux (pères biologiques, pères adoptifs et beaux-pères) évalués lors de leur séjour au Centre régional de réception (CRR) du Service correctionnel du Canada (SCC). Nous avons ensuite utilisé l'analyse taxinomique de groupement en deux étapes ( two-step cluster analysis ), puisque l'algorithme sélectionne automatiquement le nombre optimal de types à extraire. Nous avons procédé finalement à la comparaison des types obtenus dans ces analyses, et ce, quant au modus operandi adopté lors des agressions. Les résultats confirment l'hypothèse de départ: les agressions sexuelles sont plus violentes et plus intrusives et les comportements plus contrôlants lorsqu'ils sont le fait d'agresseurs appartenant au profil dramatique, alors que les agressions moins violentes et moins intrusives sont commises par les sujets du profil anxieux.
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Fresco, Joana Costa Pereira. "As burlas como crime económico: um olhar sobre o crime e características dos ofensores." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4769.
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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Criminologia<br>A Criminalidade Económica, também muitas vezes referenciada como Crimes de Colarinho Branco centra-se numa temática de importante relevância no contexto social atual. Cada vez mais, se verifica a evolução de uma sociedade consumista, onde lucros e o ganho financeiro e monetário dos indivíduos começa a demonstrar um papel central na sua vivência e experiência do dia-a-dia. Não tão notados encontram-se crimes económicos mais pequenos, como é o caso de burla a título individual e não a título organizacional. Sendo assim, este estudo pretende abordar a temática das burlas tendo como principal alvo os seus ofensores. Pretende-se aprofundar o conhecimento relativamente aos mesmos, procurando criar uma tipologia que os possa diferenciar e caraterizar. Este estudo revelou a existência de uma tipologia ao nível do “modus operandi” destes ofensores, dando origem aos ofensores designados por ofensores oportunistas e ofensores predadores, conforme as suas caraterísticas representativas. Tornou possível ainda uma comparação entre os diferentes estudos e informações empíricas já existentes relativamente à grande Criminalidade Económica, procedendo-se a conclusões que distanciam e aproximam os ofensores cujas vítimas são na maioria indivíduos e ofensores cujas vítimas são na sua maioria corporações e organizações. Este estudo procurou ainda tentar relacionar algumas caraterísticas pessoais relativamente ao seu meio social, com caraterísticas encontradas em ofensores de Crimes de Colarinho Branco.<br>The economic crimes, many times referred as White Collar Crimes, develop a major role in the actual social concept. A social evolution through consumerism has been noted leading individuals to embrace profit and personal wealth as a priority. Nevertheless few attention has been drawn to smaller types of economics crimes like low profile scams. This study intents to increase knowledge about the offenders responsible for this type of crime. It also thrives to feature the common main characteristics and differences between these types of offenders through the development of a typology. It has been shown in this paper that the offenders can be grouped according to their modus operandi which led to the upbringing of the concept related to two types of offenders: the opportunistic offender and the predator offender. This study also enabled a comparison between the information acquired from the literature and the data acquired from this investigation. Thus it was possible to relate some of the personal characteristics of the offenders responsible for scams with the characteristics of the White Collar Crime offenders.
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RUCCIO, ALESSIA MARIA. "SUICIDE BOMBER MODUS OPERANDI: AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY THROUGH A CRIME SCRIPT APPROACH." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/712.
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Obiettivo della tesi è capire se il Crime Script approach è adatto ad analizzare il modus operandi di un attentato terroristico suicida. Per farlo si analizzano 8 casi studio di attentati terroristici suicidi tra il 2001 e il 2008.<br>The dissertation herein applies Cornish's Crime Script approach to analyze the modus operandi of a suicide bomber step-by-step. The thesis has chosen to apply the Crime Script approach to 8 cases of suicide bombers occurred between 2001 to 2008.
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Lazzarotti, Filho Ari. "O modus operandi do campo acadêmico-científico da educação física no Brasil." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95808.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Desportos. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-26T06:07:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
299713.pdf: 695446 bytes, checksum: 6ec230904c1a55279f67266ffdf7e36e (MD5)<br>O campo da Educação Física é novo no processo de incorporação da prática científica em seu cotidiano. Para entender como esse processo vem se dando no seu interior foi desenvolvida essa tese, que teve como objetivo compreender como o campo acadêmico-científico da Educação Física vem se desenvolvendo neste início do século XXI. Para a construção do objeto e sua análise, foi acionada a teoria de campo desenvolvida por Pierre Bourdieu. A tese foi desenvolvida no modelo alternativo e seus produtos foram veiculados na forma de três artigos, resultantes de três investigações distintas. O primeiro artigo, cujo título é "O termo práticas corporais na literatura científica brasileira e sua repercussão no campo da Educação Física", traz os resultados da investigação sobre as bases com que o termo práticas corporais vem sendo operado e apropriado pela literatura científica brasileira. O estudo identificou as discrepâncias e os consensos em torno dos significados atrelados ao termo, bem como seu potencial de construção como conceito pela Educação Física. Na sequência, o artigo que tem por título "O modus operandi da produção científica da Educação Física: o caso das revistas científicas e suas veiculações" apresenta o resultado de uma investigação realizada com oito revistas de Educação Física brasileiras. Foram identificados aspectos da produção e da veiculação do conhecimento, explorando as correlações estabelecidas por revistas, grupos e temas privilegiados, constatando-se dois modus operandi distintos que reproduzem parcialmente os campos de origem, demonstrando um fraco poder de tradução e retradução para a Educação Física. Já o terceiro artigo, intitulado "Saberes e práticas corporais na formação de professores de Educação Física na modalidade a distância", apresenta os resultados da investigação no curso de Educação Física, na modalidade a distância, da UFG. Tais resultados apontam que o mesmo vem se desenvolvendo com predominância dos saberes sobre as práticas corporais, colocando em xeque a tradição do campo, marcadamente formado no saber das práticas corporais. Como conclusão da tese é possível afirmar que o campo da Educação Física, na primeira década do século XXI, ao se expandir, diversificar-se e se dinamizar, vem incorporando o modus operandi acadêmico-científico com mais ênfase, forjando seus conceitos, demarcando seus objetos de pesquisa e ampliando sua autonomia.
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Ebberline, Jessica. "Child molesters and children as witnesses : spatial behaviour, modus operandi and memory recall." Doctoral thesis, Department of psychology, Lund University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5181.
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Offenders who target children are a negative phenomenon in our society. These offenders are often seen as the worst of the worst of criminals and are therefore a priority for investigators trying to solve these crimes as fast as possible. The purpose of this thesis is to see if there are common denominators among these offenders in their modus operandi (MO) and their spatial patterns. If similar patterns emerge amongst these offenders, that would be of investigative importance for those who work with crimes against children. In Study I, a group of child molesters and their MO were studied in order to see how they found their victims and where they committed their crimes. The results were consistent with previous studies on child molesters in that they all committed their crimes at home or close to their homes. In Study II, a geographical profiling tool was tested in order to see if such a program could be used to find an offender who made obscene phone calls (OPC) to children. The results showed that the geographical software based on spatial behaviour, was able to narrow down the search area in which the offender actually lived when he committed his crimes. In Study III, the focus was on the potential witnesses/victims and how much a child could remember correctly of a staged event simulating a potential child molester looking for new victims. The results showed that the children’s event memory were comparable with an adult control group. The combined results could be summarized as follows: offenders who target children usually commit their crimes at home or close to home (or base), they tend to lure children to go with them by using bribes or the recruitment of former victims. Girls seem to be the preferred sex over boys. Children could be used as accurate witnesses in these types of crimes.
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Khumalo, Lindiwe N. "Right to development : a collective African response to China's modus operandi in Africa?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16773.
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In the 1960‟s, following independence, the Pan-African vision for developing the continent was envisioned to be possible through the instrumentality of the developmental state. Development became the passion of African leaders and the expectation of the people. After independence, in the 1980‟s, the post-independence nation state bolstered its apparatus, both structurally and ideologically to enable it to deliver on this mandate. Hardly two decades after independence, the African developmental state was heavily burdened with debt, failing in its developmental objectives. Once again African states found themselves at the mercy of its former colonial powers begging for financial aid.<br>Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2010.<br>A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Girmachew Aneme of the Faculty of Law, University of Addis- Ababa, Ethiopia. 2010.<br>http://www.chr.up.ac.za/<br>Centre for Human Rights<br>LLM
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Zatkin, Judith Gayle. "Examining the Structure of the Modus Operandi Questionnaire for Adult & Juvenile Sex Offenders." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4073.
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Child sexual abuse is a pervasive crime that has numerous negative short and long-term impacts on its victims, as well as negative impacts for society. Modus Operandi (MO) is defined as a pattern of perpetration utilized by those who commit CSA to successfully abuse a child without detection. Understanding how CSA is perpetrated through MO is essential, as this construct influences both prevention of CSA, and treatment for victims and perpetrators. The Modus Operandi Questionnaire (Kaufman, 1991; MOQ) is the first and most comprehensive measurement tool for CSA MO, and is utilized by both researchers and clinicians. This study provides an up-to-date factor analysis of the MOQ, breaking the measure into five stage-based scales (i.e.; Accessing the victim, Gaining the victim's trust, Gaining the victim's cooperation, Sexual Abuse, and Silencing after the abuse). Each stage-based scale was analyzed through Exploratory Factor Analysis to determine structure followed by a Confirmatory Factor Analysis to examine model fit, as well as loadings of first-order factors onto their respective stage-based second order factors. Although model fit for all five scales can be improved, the results of this study determined reliable factors within all five scales, and show a structure that can be utilized to further inform research, treatment, and prevention of CSA.
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Miranda, Paula Cristina Galvão Mateus. "O jornalismo em Portugal. Elementos para a arqueologia de uma profissão (1865-1925)." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11854.
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"Sem resumo feito pelo autor" - Os itinerários propostos neste trabalho começaram a ser esboçados a partir dos resultados obtidos com a análise de um estudo que se afirmou como paradigmático na emergêmia da matriz jornalística. contemporânea em Portugal: o Diário de Notícias. A gramática da produção e da distribuição do referido jornal constituíram o mote para a dissertação de mestrado subordinada ao tema As Origens da Imprensa de Massas em Portugal.- o Diário de Notícias (1864-1889) apresentada e discutida publicamente na Universidade de Évora em 2002.
O trajecto percorrido permitiu situar cronologicamente as origens do jornalismo de informação em Portugal e reforçara convicção de que a nova tipologia jornalística esteve na base da individualização e da afirmação do grupo de actores directamente envolvidos na produção do corpo redactorial dos periódicos - os jornalistas.
As aquisições e os limites do processo de construção da identidade do grupo/profissionalização, num momento caracterizado pela inexistência de mecanismos de controlo formais, canalizaram a partir desse momento as atenções da investigação.
Procurámos obter resposta para as seguintes questões:
−qual o alcance das inovações introduzidas pelo jornalismo de informação em Portugal?
- sob que enquadramentos institucionais foi feita a modernização do jornalismo em Portugal ou melhora passagem para uma fase de organização industrial?
−de que modo as estruturas e as directrizes das empresas responsáveis pelos jornais de informação influenciaram a profissionalização dos jornalistas?
−quais as estratégias adoptadas, a nível interno e externo, pelo grupo para adquirirem visibilidade?
- qual a eficácia e quais os limites dos percursos traçados?
Em termos cronológicos a observação foi balizada por dois acontecimentos internos ao objecto de estudo seleccionado, a fundação do Diàrio de Notícias (1864), cujo aparecimento potenciou a criação de espaços de autonomia para os redactores dos jornais e a instituição da carteira de identidade dos jornalistas (1924/1925) que surgiu como um marco inaugural no processo de construção/aprovação de instrumentos legais legitimadores da identidade dos jornalistas. A partir deste momento iniciou-se uma nova etapa, na história do jornalismo português, que não cabe no âmbito deste trabalho.
As questões colocadas conduziram-nos, numa primeira fase, a uma incursão pela Sociologia das Profissões de modo a obtermos referentes sobre as teorias e sobre os modelos de investigação que nortearam o conjunto de trabalhos especificamente dedicados à profissão de jornalista. Concluímos esta primeira fase com as coordenadas que marcam a perspectiva sistémica, na qual esta abordagem se insere. Na senda dos trabalhos de Denis Ruellan defendemos que o conceito de profissionalização é susceptível de uma interpretação polissémica, condicionada pelas especificidades dos trajectos dos diferentes grupos, que se forjam na interacção existente entre os discursos de legitimação e o plano das práticas.
Um percurso pelas diferentes propostas de trabalho teóricas e empíricas, produzidas no âmbito da sociologia, das ciências da comunicação e da história sobre a estruturação dos jornalistas, enquanto grupo profissional visível, completa a primeira parte deste trabalho.
A parte H destina-se a fornecer indicadores sobre o processo de construção do grupo, ao longo do período analisado, através de uma combinação de dois instrumentos de observação distintos, por um lado o primeiro inquérito realizado pelo Instituto Internacional do Trabalho sobre as condições de trabalho e de vida dos jornalistas, que nos permite uma comparação entre as realidades existente em diferentes países, na data limite da nossa observação, por outro as disposições legislativas, produzidas em Portugal em matéria de imprensa, que nos facultam uma plataforma de observação das relações existentes como poder político e jurídico. O
aparelho conceptual. utilizado pelos legisladores e os pré-requísitos existentes para a publicação de jornais constituíram o principal alvo da nossa observação. O recuo temporal, até ao início dos actos legislativos, em matéria de imprensa, resultou da necessidade de apreenderas evoluções registadas.
A parte HI constitui um rebuscar das grandes linhas de investigação apresentadas publicamente em 2002 que permitem decifrar as coordenadas de orientação do jornalismo de informação e as novidades introduzidas nos sistemas de produção e de distribuição do panorama jornalístico português.
Na parte IV propomos uma observação do espaço profissional dos jornalistas portugueses através da análise dos enquadramentos legais e orgânicos que suportaram a publicação doDiário de Notícias, do Século e do Primeiro de Janeiro.
Defendemos que os quotidianos de trabalho são espaços privilegiados na concretização das estratégias profissionais que se desenrolam no confronto existente entre as formas de gestão das empresas e, neste caso específico, as formas de actuação dos redactores. À semelhança do percurso seguido por Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues procurámos apreender as dinâmicas existentes, nas três empresas jornalísticas, através sobretudo da sua estruturação e do seu modelo de administração, das suas necessidades em recursos humanos, das possibilidades de carreira oferecidas, das estratégias de recrutamento adoptadas e dos perfis de competências dos redactores.
Optámos por centrara nossa observação em três empresas que apresentavam à partida características e trajectórias distintas de modo a verificarmos até que ponto os projectos do jornalismo informativo estiveram na origem da criação de espaços de autonomia potenciadores da afirmação da identidade dos jornalistas. A selecção de dois jornais lisboetas e de um jornal portuense possibilitou-nos uma comparação entre as práticas, similitudes e divergências existentes nos dois maiores pólos urbanos do país.
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Nicolau, Fernando Jorge. "O impacto do mercado no modus operandi das instituições de ensino superior da grande Florianópolis." Florianópolis, SC, 2000. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/79125.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio-Econômico.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T23:31:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2014-09-25T18:24:25Z : No. of bitstreams: 1
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Tews, Hayley Lauren. "The Effects of Offender Age and Offender-Victim Relationship on Modus Operandi Strategies to Lure the Victim." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1040.
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Research on the modus operandi (“method of operation”) of child sexual abuse (CSA) offenders has been useful in informing successful prevention programs (LeClerc, 2009). However, a gap in the literature regarding the strategies offenders use to lure potential CSA victims still remains. The present study seeks to examine the effects of offender-victim relationship and offender age on the use of strategies to lure victims for the purpose of committing CSA. Data for this study is taken from a larger investigation which included 854 identified adolescent and adult CSA offenders from nine different states. A 2 X 2 MANCOVA analysis revealed significant group differences for the each of the subgroups of interest in their use of threats and coercion to lure victims for the purpose of committing CSA. More specifically, it was found that adolescent CSA offenders utilize threats and coercion with a greater frequency than adult CSA offenders and intra-familial CSA offenders utilize threats and coercion with a greater frequency than extra-familial CSA offenders. Follow up analyses at the item level indicated group differences on multiple items (i.e., specific strategies) comprising the subscales used. The implications of these findings for treatment and prevention work in this area are discussed, as are policy impacts. Finally, suggestions for future research are provided.
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Salgadinho, Vânia. "Tráfico de seres humanos: o perfil dos traficantes em Portugal." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/5211.
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Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de licenciada em Criminologia<br>Na última década a luta contra o tráfico de seres humanos tem vindo a receber
uma crescente atenção por parte de diferentes entidades no mundo inteiro. No
entanto, e não obstante a multiplicidade de esforços que têm vindo a ser colocados
em prática nos últimos anos para combater este fenómeno, a realidade é que,
surpreendentemente, muito pouco ainda se sabe acerca daqueles que o praticam.
Assim, tendo como objetivos globais dar resposta a esta necessidade de
investigação e possibilitar uma melhor compreensão desta realidade em Portugal,
este projeto visa apresentar uma proposta de investigação empírica para a
identificação das características e padrões sociodemográficos, psicológicos,
motivacionais e comportamentais dos traficantes de seres humanos condenados
pela prática deste crime em Portugal.
Este seria, portanto, um estudo exploratório, de natureza essencialmente
qualitativa, conduzido quer através da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas
a uma amostra de indivíduos que se encontrem a cumprir pena de prisão pela
prática de todas, e quaisquer formas de tráfico abrangidas pela legislação
portuguesa, quer por intermédio da aplicação da técnica de análise documental a
processos judiciais sobre os casos de tráfico condenados a nível nacional.
Independentemente dos desafios ou obstáculos que possam surgir face a uma
futura implementação desta proposta, espera-se um dia poder avançar com uma
pesquisa desta natureza em Portugal, acreditando-se que a criação de dados
empíricos nesta área poderá constituir uma ferramenta imprescindível na luta
contra, aquele que poderá ser considerado, um dos piores crimes que a
humanidade é capaz de cometer contra si própria.<br>Over the last decade the fight against trafficking in human beings has been
receiving increased attention from different entities worldwide. Nonetheless, and
regardless the multiplicity of efforts that have been put in place during the past
years to combat this phenomenon, the reality is that, surprisingly, still very little is
known about those who practice it.
Thus, with the overall goals of addressing this research gap and enable a better
understanding of this reality in Portugal, this project aims to present an empirical
research proposal for the identification of the socio-demographic, psychological,
motivational and behavioural characteristics and patterns of the human traffickers
convicted of the practice of this crime in Portugal.
This would be, therefore, an exploratory study, of an essentially qualitative
nature, conducted through either the use of semi structured interviews to a sample
of individuals serving prison sentences for all, and any forms of trafficking covered
by the Portuguese law, as well as through the application of the document analysis
technique to the court records of trafficking cases convicted at the national level.
Despiste the challenges or barriers that may arise in a future implementation of
this proposal, it is hoped one day to move forward with a study of this nature in
Portugal, believing that the creation of empirical data in this field may constitute a
vital tool in the fight against, one of those that may be considered, the worst crimes
that humanity is able to commit against itself.
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Aleksandr, Polescuk. "Linking Residential Burglaries using the Series Finder Algorithm in a Swedish Context." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14033.
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Context. A minority of criminals performs a majority of the crimes today. It is known that every criminal or group of offenders to some extent have a particular pattern (modus operandi) how crime is performed. Therefore, computers' computational power can be employed to discover crimes that have the same model and possibly are carried out by the same criminal. The goal of this thesis was to apply the existing Series Finder algorithm to a feature-rich dataset containing data about Swedish residential burglaries. Objectives. The following objectives were achieved to complete this thesis: Modifications performed on an existing Series Finder implementation to fit the Swedish police forces dataset and MatLab code converted to Python. Furthermore, experiment setup designed with appropriate metrics and statistical tests. Finally, modified Series Finder implementation's evaluation performed against both Spatial-Temporal and Random models. Methods. The experimental methodology was chosen in order to achieve the objectives. An initial experiment was performed to find right parameters to use for main experiments. Afterward, a proper investigation with dependent and independent variables was conducted. Results. After the metrics calculations and the statistical tests applications, the accurate picture revealed how each model performed. Series Finder showed better performance than a Random model. However, it had lower performance than the Spatial-Temporal model. The possible causes of one model performing better than another are discussed in analysis and discussion section. Conclusions. After completing objectives and answering research questions, it could be clearly seen how the Series Finder implementation performed against other models. Despite its low performance, Series Finder still showed potential, as presented in future work.
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Davis, Linda. "'N Kriminologiese ondersoek na motorvoertuigkaping met spesifieke verwysing na slagoffervatbaarheid, slagofferaandadigheid en die modus operandi van die oortreder." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 1999. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03242004-103416/.
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Jiang, Ruotian. "Molecular modus operandi of ligand-gated ion channels : Studies of trimeric P2X receptors and pentameric GABA A receptors." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA6086.
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Le principal objectif de cette thèse a été d’utiliser divers outils chimiques et biologiques afin de mieux décortiquer le mécanisme d’action au niveau moléculaire de deux membres des récepteurs appartenant à deux superfamilles différentes des récepteur canaux activés par les ligands: les récepteurs P2XRs et GABAARs. Le récepteur P2XR est un canal ionique sélectif aux cations activé par fixation de l'ATP extracellulaire. Mon objectif a été d’étudier les mécanismes moléculaires pour la liaison de l’ATP et l'ouverture rapide d’un canal ionique suite à la fixation de l’ATP. En utilisant l’approche d’ingénierie de marquage d’affinité combinés à patch-clamp eletrophysiologie, nous avons défini un site interfacial très large et dynamique. Dans une autre étude, nous avons identifié un pont salin dans une région inexplorée du récepteur impliqué dans la régulation du mouvement d’ouverture du canal. Les récepteurs GABAARs sont impliqués dans la transmission synaptique inhibitrice au niveau du système nerveux central. En utilisant l’électrophysiologie patch-clamp, nous avons décrit sur ces récepteurs la modulation allostérique d’une série de composés synthétiques qui sont les trans-retrochalcones et qui appartiennent à la famille des flavonoïdes. Nous avons mis en évidence que le site d'action de ces nouveaux composés est distinct non seulement du site de liaison des benzodiazépines classiques, mais aussi d'autres sites de modulation connus. Nos données révèlent un mode d'action original et fournissent une base rationnelle pour la découverte de nouveaux médicaments afin de traiter les désordres physiologiques liés aux dysfonctionnements des récepteurs GABAA<br>This thesis, by using various chemical and biological tools, focuses on the molecular modus operandi of two different superfamilies of ligand-gated ion channels: P2XRs and GABAARs. P2XR is a cation-selective ion channel gated by extracellular ATP (and is implicated in diverse physiological processes, from synaptic transmission to inflammation to the sensing of taste and pain. Here I studied the molecular mechanism underlying ATP binding and channel opening of the P2X receptors. In the ATP-binding site study, we definitely localized the ATP-binding sites in P2X2 receptor through affnity labeling. Our results thus define a large and dynamic inter-subunit ATP-binding pocket. In the “gating”†part, an inter-subunit salt bridge located at the “body” domain that regulates channel gating movement was identified by using charge reversal and charge swapping combined with double mutant cycle analysisPentameric GABAARs form chloride permeable ion channels and mediate inhibitory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. The modulation of their action is critical for brain normal function and for various pathophysiological conditions. In the GABAARs part, using patch-clamp electrophysiology, we described the allosteric modulation of GABAARs by a series of synthetic compounds that are trans-retrochalcones belonging to the flavonoids family. We characterized their subunit-dependent positive modulations at both synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAARs. Our data reveal an original mode of action and provide a rational basis for hypothesis-driven drug discovery efforts with emphasis on the retrochalcone scaffold for treating GABAA-related central nervous system disorders
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Merege, Fernando. "Identificação de padrões de criminosos seriais usando inteligência artificial associada a neurônios espelhos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3142/tde-21052015-164058/.
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Os criminosos seriais que atuam no cometimento do crime de furto possuem modos de operação (Modus operandi) distintos e, que podem ser identificados através da análise dos exames periciais utilizando-se redes neurais. No sistema proposto, identificado um determinado modo de operação, um analista forense utilizando as informações adicionais coletadas e as hipóteses geradas pelos peritos de campo tem a competência de definir conjuntos de ações periciais complementares, que serão adicionados aos registros do modo identificado. Durante um novo exame pericial, em tempo real, a sub-rotina auxiliar analisa os blocos de dados enviados pelos peritos criminais de campo e, em caso de similaridade com um modo de operação anteriormente identificado, envia a eles um conjunto de ações complementares que, a critério do responsável em campo, pode ou não ser usado para alterar o procedimento de campo escolhido. Neste trabalho definimos Neurônios Espelho como sendo a associação das redes neurais para a identificação de padrões com a planilha de trabalho, utilizada pelo analista forense para a definição de ações complementares, com a sub-rotina auxiliar que verifica os blocos de informação recebidos e, que pode identificar partes de um modo de operação, remetendo para os peritos de campo um conjunto de ações complementares. Esta definição deve-se a descoberta pela neurobiologia de um tipo especifico de neurônio que tem a capacidade de disparar ao receber um input sensorial ativando uma área de memória que, em consequência, pode ativar outras áreas de memória ou enviar um comando motor. Neste trabalho foram desenvolvidos os programas de rede neural utilizados para a identificação dos modos de operação parcial e o final, além, das planilhas de trabalho para a elaboração das ações complementares e a sub-rotina auxiliar para identificação em tempo real dos modos de operação parciais. O treinamento da rede foi efetuado com 98 ocorrências e na verificação de validade foram utilizados 10 ocorrências.<br>The serial criminals who operate in the commission of the crime of theft have different modes of operation (modus operandi) and which may be identified through the analysis of forensic examinations using neural networks. In the proposed system, identified a particular mode of operation, a forensic analyst using the information collected and the hypotheses generated by field experts have the competence to define sets of complementary expert shares, which will be added to the records so identified. During a new forensic examination, in real time, the auxiliary subroutine examines data blocks sent by forensic experts in the field and, in the case of similarity to previously identified a mode of operation, sends them a complementary set of actions that the discretion of the responsible in the field, or can not be used to change the procedure chosen field. In this paper we define Mirror Neurons as the association of neural networks to identify patterns with the worksheet, used by forensic analyst for the definition of complementary actions, with the auxiliary subroutine that checks the blocks of information received and that can identify parts of a mode of operation, referring to field experts a set of complementary actions. This definition should be discovered by the neurobiology of a specific type of neuron that has the ability to shoot while receiving a sensory \"input\" activating an area of memory that, in consequence, can activate other areas of memory or send a motor command. This work programs of neural network used for identifying the modes of operation and the final part were developed, in addition, the worksheets for the elaboration of complementary actions and the auxiliary subroutine for real-time identification of the modes of partial operation. Network training was performed with 98 occurrences and validity check 10 events were used.
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Moura, Nayanna Sabiá de. "Condução da política externa brasileira na UNASUL: o modus operandi do Brasil nas reuniões extraordinárias entre 2008 e 2014." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/2569.
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Previous issue date: 2016-02-25<br>CAPES<br>South America has become an important geo-strategic axis for Brazil’s Foreign Policy, during the twenty-first century. With the creation of Unasur, in 2008, regional cooperation initiatives were potentiated, conducted by the auspices of the Brazilian presidential diplomacy. Unasur is an institution with multi-dimensional character, but has great accomplishment in managing regional political crisis, by convening an extraordinary meeting. Thus, the aim of this work is to analyze how Brazil has conducted its foreign policy in resolving regional disputes, which accounted for destabilization of the democratic order. Four political crisis were chosen: disputes over resources of hydrocarbons, Bolivia (2008); insurrection of the National Police, Ecuador (2010); impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, Paraguay (2012); far-right politics demonstrations in Venezuela (2014). The time frame analysis covers the period between 2008 and 2014, which corresponds to the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. The methodological approach adopted is qualitative and inductive, with exploratory, bibliographical and documentary basis, covering two major areas of International Relations: Foreign Policy Analysis and Regional Integration. The Hermann’s Model (1990) of Foreign Policy Change is adopted as a theoretical approach, aimed at understanding the decision-making process of Brazilian Foreign Policy in the analyzed cases. These reflections on the action lines in Brazil are relevant to identify their standard of performance in the regional political crisis, managed by Unasur.<br>A América do Sul tornou-se um eixo geoestratégico importante para a Política Externa Brasileira, durante do século XXI. Com a criação da Unasul, em 2008, as iniciativas de cooperação regional foram potencializadas, aos auspícios da diplomacia presidencial brasileira. A Unasul é uma instituição com caráter pluridimensional, mas tem se destacado na gestão de crises políticas regionais, através da convocação de reuniões extraordinárias. Dessa forma, o objetivo desta dissertação é analisar como o Brasil tem conduzido sua política externa, nos processos resolutivos de contenciosos regionais, que representaram desestabilização da ordem democrática. Foram escolhidas quatro crises políticas: disputas pelos recursos dos hidrocarbonetos, na Bolívia (2008); insurreição da Polícia Nacional, no Equador (2010); destituição do presidente Fernando Lugo, no Paraguai (2012); manifestações de extrema direita, na Venezuela (2014). O recorte temporal analisado compreende o período entre 2008 e 2014, que corresponde aos governos de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e de Dilma Rousseff. O procedimento metodológico adotado é qualitativo e indutivo, com pesquisa exploratória, de fundamentação bibliográfica e documental, abrangendo duas grandes áreas das Relações Internacionais: Análise de Política Externa e Integração Regional. O Modelo de Hermann (1990) é adotado como abordagem teórica, visando à compreensão do processo de tomada de decisão da política externa brasileira nos casos analisados. Essas reflexões sobre as linhas de ação do Brasil são relevantes para identificar seu padrão de atuação, nas crises políticas regionais, geridas pela Unasul.
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Stewart, Kelly E. "Investigating the Relationship Between Supervisor Status and the Modus Operandi of Juvenile Sexual Offenders: a Routine Activity Theory Perspective." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3469.
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A significant proportion of child sexual abuse perpetration is committed by juvenile sexual offenders (JSOs), a subgroup of offenders whose patterns of offending, or "modus operandi," have been found to be markedly different compared to their adult counterparts (Kaufman et al., 1996; Kaufman et al., 1998). Many of these JSOs commit sexual abuse perpetration while acting as a babysitter, or a temporary supervisor to their victim. The present study investigates the routine activities of JSOs and their victims’ caregivers that are associated with the JSO being placed into a supervisory role. The study also investigates subgroup differences in the use of modus operandi strategies between JSO supervisors and non-supervisors. Data from this study included 370 JSO participants from four states. Results indicated that parents needs for childcare assistance predicts JSO supervisor status over perpetrators efforts to get the child alone and disruptions to parents lives. Furthermore, JSO acting as a supervisor was associated with more frequent use of modus operandi strategies overall and more frequent use of bribes and enticements to gain their victim’s compliance. There were no differences between JSO supervisors and non-supervisors on the threats and coercion subscale. Finally, no victim characteristics, JSO characteristics, or disruptions to parents lives, significantly moderated the relationship between JSO supervisor status and strategic grooming. Findings have important implications for research and policy related to child sexual abuse prevention and intervention.
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Rogerson, Michelle. "The utility of applying textual analysis to descriptions of offender modus operandi for the prevention of high volume crime." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2016. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28709/.
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Police crime information systems contain modus operandi (MO) fields which provide brief text descriptions of the circumstances surrounding crime events and the actions taken by offenders to commit them. This Thesis aims to assess the feasibility of undertaking systematic analysis of these descriptions for high volume crimes. In particular, it seeks to ask the following three questions: 1) Are police recorded MO data a potential source of actionable intelligence to inform crime prevention? 2) Can techniques drawn from computer-aided text analysis be used to identify meaningful patterns in MO data for high volume crimes? 3) Do conceptual frameworks add value to the analysis and interpretation of patterns in MOs? The study focuses on a sample of theft from the person and robbery of personal property offences (n~30,000). Although existing studies have utilised similar data, they have tended to focus on crime detection and have been beset with problems of data quality. To explore these aims, it was first necessary to conduct a thorough review of MO fields to identify the challenges they present for analysis. Problems identified include various types of error but a more prominent challenge is the inherent flexibility found within natural language, i.e. human language as opposed to languages that are artificially constructed. Based on the data review, it was possible to select, and develop, appropriate techniques of computer-aided content analysis to process the data ready for further statistical investigation. In particular, a cluster analysis successfully identified and classified groups of offences based on similarities in their MO fields. The findings from the analysis were interpreted using two conceptual frameworks, the conjunction of criminal opportunity and crime scripts, both of which are informed by situational crime theories. The thesis identified that the benefits of these frameworks were twofold. As methods of analysis the frameworks ensure that the interpretation of results is systematic. As theoretical frameworks they provide an explicit link between patterns in the data, findings from previous literature, theories of crime causation and methods of prevention. Importantly, using the two frameworks together helps to build an improved understanding of offender's ability both to cope with and to exploit crime situations. The thesis successfully demonstrates that MO fields contain a potential source of intelligence relevant to both practical crime prevention and research, and that it is possible to extract this information using innovative computer-aided textual analysis techniques. The research undertaken served as a pathfinding exercise developing what amounts to a replicable technique applicable to datasets from other localities and other crime types. However, the analysis process is neither fully objective nor automated. The thesis concluded that criminological frameworks are a pre-requisite to the interpretation of this intelligence although the research questioned the strict categories and hierarchies imposed by the frameworks which do not entirely reflect the flexibilities of real-life crime commission.
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Sundberg, Jacob. "Linking crime through modus operandi. On linking Series of Crime into Single Offenders through Sructured Collection of Crime Scene Information." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25526.
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The current paper is aimed at providing an overview of the current state of research regarding the potential of linking series of crimes to single offenders through repeated modus operandi behaviors. A systematic literature review was conducted to document findings from previous evaluation research as to the predictive accuracy of crime linkage specific to residential burglary. The findings indicate that predictions of linked burglaries can be made with moderate to high predictive accuracy. In order to get an understanding of the extent to which residential burglary offenders repeat their crime scene behaviors, the findings are discussed in relation to the criminological theories Routine activities theory and the Rational Choice perspective. Future research is suggested.
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McCrady, Fara Elaine. "Empathy and the adolescent sexual offender an examination of the specificity of empathy deficits and the relationship between empathy and distorted thought /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116814427.
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Bezzon, José Carlos Faim. "O planejamento para o desenvolvimento local em cidades \"glocais\" brasileiras: em direção ao novo modus operandi de gestão e produção da cidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-04122008-174855/.
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Esta pesquisa aborda como temática a produção da cidade contemporânea, vista a partir das novas ações de planejamento e gestão para o desenvolvimento urbano, no cenário econômico de produção globalizada e informatizada. O recorte histórico é o período pós-constituinte de 1988, marco da mudança do regime político do Brasil contemporâneo, momento de abertura política do país e de intensas transformações frente à revolução digital que o mundo vem incorporando. O planejamento como instrumento para pensar o município visando seu desenvolvimento sócio-econômico é retomado como ferramenta de ação para a construção de futuro associado a novas formas de administração pública, mais transparentes e participativas utilizando de meios e recursos que ampliem em consonância com a legislação federal o acesso de vários setores da sociedade civil às decisões de governo. Neste sentido iniciamos a abordagem a partir da institucionalização do planejamento na década de 1970 com a criação dos órgãos públicos competentes, visando incorporar os procedimentos de planejamento para os municípios e regiões na tentativa de ordenamento espacial, e de reverter o processo desenfreado de urbanização no país. Processo agravado com a crise econômica da década de 1980 e o conseqüente e necessário afastamento do Estado em função da reestruturação econômica mundial. Culminando assim na década de 1990 com a reforma administrativa do Estado brasileiro, e a adoção pelos governos municipais de estratégias de ação e mecanismos empresariais, conformando um novo modus operandi que resulta num novo modelo de planejamento contemporâneo. Este modelo é verificado nas cidades de Ribeirão Preto, Uberlândia e Londrina, três exemplos de cidades pólos regionais de desenvolvimento, aqui reconhecidas como cidades de inserção econômica nas escalas local e global.<br>This research addresses issues such as the production of the contemporary city, seen from the actions of new management and planning for urban development in the economic scenario of global production and computerized. The cut is the historic post-constituent 1988, March of the change of political regime in contemporary Brazil, timing of opening the country\'s political and intense transformations front of the digital revolution that the world has been incorporating. The planning as a tool for thinking the council seeking its socio-economic development is taken as a tool of action for the construction of future associated with new forms of public administration more transparent and participatory using the means and resources to expand in line with federal law the access of various sectors of civil society to the decisions of government. In this sense the approach started from the institutionalization of planning in the 1970 with the creation of the public authorities, seeking to incorporate the procedures of planning for municipalities and regions in an attempt to spatial planning, and reverse the process of unbridled urbanization in the country. Case exacerbated by the economic crisis of the 1980 and the consequent removal of the State and necessary in light of global economic restructuring. Culminating well in the 1990\'s with the administrative reform of the Brazilian state, municipal governments and the adoption of strategies and mechanisms of action business, conforming a new modus operandi which results in a new \"model\" of contemporary planning. This model is found in the cities of Ribeirao Preto, Uberlândia and Londrina, three examples of cities regional centers of development, here recognized as cities of economic integration in the local and global scales.
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Steinberg, David. "Laser Raman à fibra operando na banda O em regime de acoplamento passivo de modos utilizando nanotubos de carbono como absorvedores saturáveis." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2015. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/1531.
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Previous issue date: 2015-08-27<br>Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa<br>In this thesis, for the first time we present results of passively-mode-locking O-band Raman fiber laser operating at 1310 nm by using carbon nanotubes as saturable absorber. The first results were obtained for an experimental setup based on single mode fiber (SMF) with laser operating near zero fiber dispersion at 1310 nm at anomalous regime. In this same configuration, a study of pulse duration shortening in terms of intracavity dispersion management with dispersion shifted fiber lengths (DSF) was performed. Replacing the SMF by a highly doped germanium fiber as gain medium of Raman fiber laser, operation was shifted to normal dispersion regime and passive mode-locking was also generated. In this laser, a study of pulse duration shortening in terms of gain medium length reduction was performed and the picosecond pulse regime of the laser could be estimated. We also present a brief comparison between the two dispersion regimes of the Raman fiber laser and passive mode-locking results obtained with different diameters of carbon nanotubes as saturable absorbers.<br>Nesta tese, apresentamos pela primeira vez resultados do acoplamento passivo de modos em um laser Raman à fibra operando em 1310 nm na banda O, utilizando nanotubos de carbono como absorvedor saturável. Os primeiros resultados foram obtidos de uma configuração experimental baseada totalmente em fibra monomodo padrão (SMF) com o laser operando próximo ao zero de dispersão da fibra em 1310 nm, porém em regime anômalo. Nesta mesma configuração, um estudo do encurtamento da duração do pulso em função do gerenciamento da dispersão intracavidade com comprimentos de fibra de dispersão deslocada (DSF) foi realizado. Substituindo a SMF por uma fibra altamente dopada com germânio como meio do ganho do laser Raman, a operação do laser foi deslocada para o regime de dispersão normal e o regime de acoplamento passivo de modos também foi gerado. Neste laser, um estudo do encurtamento da duração do pulso em função da redução do comprimento do meio de ganho foi realizado e a operação do acoplamento passivo de modos do laser em regime de picossegundos pôde ser estimada. Também apresentamos uma breve comparação entre os dois regimes de dispersão do laser Raman à fibra e resultados do acoplamento passivo de modos obtidos com diferentes diâmetros de nanotubos de carbono como absorvedores saturáveis.
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Silva, Cleverson Esteves da. "Emprego da engenharia reversa para caracterização do modus operandi das máquinas caça-níqueis quanto à prática de jogo de azar e outras fraudes." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2012. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/11804.
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2012_CleversonEstevesdaSilva.pdf: 5289230 bytes, checksum: 95a028ce8e72937320d9ec2f49b8abbe (MD5)<br>Apesar de a prática de jogo de azar ser proibida no Brasil desde 1941, a popularização dos equipamentos de informática permitiu a criação de máquinas caça-níquel que, ao invés de se utilizarem de um conjunto de hardware específico, têm seu ambiente simulado por um programa de computador e são construídas com itens comuns de hardware já tidos como obsoletos. Com o objetivo de combater a utilização desses equipamentos, apreensões têm sido constantes em todo o território brasileiro, gerando um crescimento da demanda de exames periciais por parte dos órgãos oficiais de perícia criminal. Porém, nesses equipamentos, os detalhes do seu comportamento interno foram codificados pelo processo de compilação a que os programas foram submetidos, dificultando ao Perito Criminal o acesso às evidências da prática delituosa sem que seja empregada uma grande quantidade de horas de análise em cada equipamento apreendido. Diante da incerteza do comportamento interno dos programas que gerenciam tais equipamentos, os trabalhos periciais não têm sido conclusivos a ponto de esclarecer se estes oferecem ou não propriedades que possibilitem ao apostador influenciar no resultado final. Utilizando-se de técnicas de Engenharia Reversa, o presente trabalho objetiva apresentar um conjunto de elementos materiais que evidencie a prática de jogo de azar ou de fraudes diversas nos aplicativos das máquinas tipo “Halloween” analisados. Em um segundo momento, são demonstradas as similaridades existentes entre jogos aparentemente distintos, permitindo que versões do aplicativo não abrangidas pelo estudo sejam inferidas quanto à semelhança de comportamento. Ainda, objetivando instruir futuras análises de aplicativos que não pertençam à família “Halloween”, é exibida a metodologia empregada para facilitar a obtenção das informações necessárias à atividade pericial e que poderá ser adaptada a outras situações que envolvam aplicativos da mesma natureza. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT<br>Despite gambling be forbidden in Brazil since 1941, the growing access to computer equipment brings a new kind of slot machines that, instead of using a specific hardware group, has its environment simulated by a computer program and is built with common and obsolete hardware items. In order to combat the use of such equipment, seizures have been constant throughout the Brazilian territory, bringing a growing of forensic examination demand for the criminal institutes. However, the details of its internal behavior are hidden by the compilation process, making it difficult to access to the crime evidences, demanding lots of hours in the analysis on such equipments. Due to the uncertainty about internal behavior of the management programs that controls these equipments, the forensic exams has not been as conclusive whether they offer properties to allow player influence on final result. Using reverse engineering techniques, this study presents a set of evidences about gambling and frauds in the "Halloween" machines applications. In a second step, are shown the similarities between apparently different games, allowing inferring conclusions on about applications not covered by this study. Furthermore, in order to instruct future analyses on machines of different class, here is shown the methodology used to obtaining the necessary information by forensic exam, that could be adapted to other situations involving same kind of applications not covered in this study.
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Valente, Rafael Vinha. "(Re)contextualizando o homicídio: a perspetiva da criminologia ambiental." Bachelor's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4953.
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Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciado em Criminologia<br>A maioria das teorias criminológicas tendem a centrar-se nos intervenientes do processo
criminal (ofensor e vítima), procurando identificar e estudar as suas características
biopsicossociais que os conduzem ou predispõe ao crime e vitimização. Contudo, temse
ignorado o estudo das variáveis situacionais, espaciais e geográficas, o que por sua
vez tem impossibilitado a compreensão holística do processo de comissão do crime. Na
parte teórica, este projeto propõe olhar o crime de homicídio através do paradigma da
criminologia ambiental, partindo de perspetivas teóricas como a teoria dos padrões
criminais, da escolha racional, das atividades rotineiras, assim como o comportamento
predatório. Na parte prática, propõe-se identificar diferentes padrões no que concerne ao
processo de comissão criminal no seio de uma amostra de homicidas portugueses,
nomeadamente ao nível do modus operandi, do comportamento predatório, e da tomada
de decisão geográfica. Estudos deste género têm o potencial de melhorar a compreensão
do processo criminal, bem como auxiliar a que técnicas de investigação criminal como o
profiling (psicológico e geográfico) sejam refinadas.<br>The great majority of criminological theories aim at studying the actors of the criminal
process (offender and victim), seeking to identify their biological, psychological, and
sociological characteristics that drive or predispose them to crime and victimization.
However, the situational, spatial, and geographical variables have been systematically
neglected, thus tainting our understanding of the crime commission process in a
comprehensive manner. In the theoretical part of this project, we propose the study of
the crime of homicide under the environmental criminology paradigm. To do so, several
perspectives are listed, such as the crime pattern theory, the rational choice approach,
the routine activities theory, as well as the concept of hunting behavior and Rossmo’s
typology. In the empiric part of this project, we propose to identify different patterns on
the crime commission process within a sample of convicted portuguese murderers,
namely at the level of the modus operandi, hunting behavior, and geographic decisionmaking.
Studies like this have the potential to improve our understanding of the crime
commission process, as well as enhance criminal investigation techniques like
psychological and geographical profiling.
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Kamolnick, Paul. "The Al-Qaeda Organization and the Islamic State Organization: History, Doctrine, Modus, Operandi, and U.S Policy to Degrade and Defeat Terrorism Conducted in the Name of Sunni Islam." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/121.
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The al-Qaeda Organization (AQO) and the Islamic State Organization (ISO) are transnational adversaries that conduct terrorism in the name of Sunni Islam. It is declared U.S. Government (USG) policy to degrade, defeat, and destroy them. The present book has been written to assist policymakers, military planners, strategists, and professional military educators whose mission demands a deep understanding of strategically-relevant differences between these two transnational terrorist entities. In it, one shall find a careful comparative analysis across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and specific implications and recommendations for current USG policy and strategy. Key questions that are addressed include: How is each terrorist entity related historically and doctrinally to the broader phenomenon of transnational Sunni “jihadism”? What is the exact nature of the ISO? How, if at all, does ISO differ in strategically relevant ways from AQO? What doctrinal differences essentially define these entities? How does each understand and operationalize strategy? What critical requirements and vulnerabilities characterize each entity? Finally, what implications, recommendations, and proposals are advanced that are of particular interest to USG strategists and professional military educators?<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1127/thumbnail.jpg
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Pérez, Page María. "ESTUDIO DEL COMPORTAMIENTO ESTACIONARIO Y DINÁMICO DE UNA PILA DE COMBUSTIBLE TIPO PEM DE 300 W OPERANDO EN LOS MODOS DE OPERACIÓN DE ÁNODO CERRADO O DEAD-END Y ÁNODO ABIERTO." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/16960.
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La presente Tesis Doctoral titulada "Estudio del comportamiento estacionario y dinámico de una pila de combustible de 300 W de potencia operando en modos ánodo cerrado y ánodo abierto" se estudia el efecto de las variables de operación de la pila de combustible como son los caudales de hidrógeno y de aire, la temperatura de operación, la temperatura de humidificación de los gases, los coeficientes estequiométricos de los gases y la presión de alimentación de los mismos sobre el comportamiento de una pila de combustible de 300W y de las celdas individuales que la componen, mediante las curvas potencial-densidad de corriente o curvas de polarización y mediante espectroscopía de impedancias electroquímicas. Para llevar a cabo el trabajo se ha desarrollado un sistema de monitorización y control de las variables mencionadas previamente.
Las curvas de polarización son características de cada pila de combustible, y permiten estudiar su comportamiento estacionario en diferentes condiciones de operación. En modo ánodo cerrado el potencial aumenta con el coeficiente estequiométrico del aire. En modo ánodo abierto, el potencial aumenta con los coeficientes estequiométricos del hidrógeno y del aire, con los caudales de ambos gases y con la presión. Con respecto a la temperatura, en ambos modos de operación, los mejores resultados se obtienen cuando la temperatura de operación y de humidificación tienen valores similares. Se ha desarrollado un modelo matemático que permite determinar los parámetros cinéticos de las celdas individuales mediante el ajuste de las curvas de polarización experimentales al modelo propuesto. Al estudiar el comportamiento dinámico se ha observado que cuando se produce un aumento de la densidad de corriente el potencial disminuye bruscamente, alcanza un valor mínimo o subimpulso y luego aumenta hasta alcanzar un nuevo estado estacionario. Por otro lado, cuando se produce un cambio negativo en la densidad de corriente el potencial aumenta hasta un valo<br>Pérez Page, M. (2012). ESTUDIO DEL COMPORTAMIENTO ESTACIONARIO Y DINÁMICO DE UNA PILA DE COMBUSTIBLE TIPO PEM DE 300 W OPERANDO EN LOS MODOS DE OPERACIÓN DE ÁNODO CERRADO O DEAD-END Y ÁNODO ABIERTO [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/16960<br>Palancia
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ZANELLA, MARCO. "Scripting Corruption in Public Procurement: The Italian Case." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1318.
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La corruzione negli appalti pubblici ha sempre destato particolare interesse. Nondimeno, un’attenta analisi della letteratura di settore dimostra come scarsa attenzione sia stata dedicata allo studio delle scelte strategiche adottate da corrotti e corruttori nel mentre decidono come pagare la tangente, come identificare il partner dell’accordo corruttivo, come contattarlo, come gestire le trattative, come raggiungere i propri obiettivi e come proteggersi da inadempimenti e tradimenti. Questa tesi si propone di studiare tali strategie, applicando per la prima volta in questo settore una particolare metodologia detta della script analysis, al fine di rispondere alle seguenti domande: come avvengono gli accordi corruttivi nel settore degli appalti pubblici? Quali sono le tattiche e i modi operandi adottati da corrotti e corruttori? Quali sono i “passaggi” necessari per la conclusione di accordi corruttivi? Come possono essere spiegati? Quali sono gli elementi che “facilitano” i protagonisti del pactum sceleris? Dopo aver passato in rassegna la letteratura (capitolo 1) ed illustrato la metodologia adottata (capitolo 2), la tesi risponde alle domande della ricerca, individuando i singoli passaggi dell’accordo corruttivo, soffermandosi sulle procedure adottate (capitolo 3) fino a circoscrivere e commentare gli elementi facilitatori (capitolo 4) nell’incontro tra domanda e offerta di utilitas.<br>Despite the growing concern over corruption in public procurement, there is little knowledge regarding the corruption-commission process. Scant attention has been paid to the event-decisions of corrupt agents in order to explore how an agent decides to pay, how he identifies his partner, how he contacts him, how he negotiates with him, how he manages to achieve his goal, and how he protects himself against “lemons”. The aim of this thesis is to understand the corruption-commission process by using crime script analysis to delve into the event-decisions of corrupt agents. Therefore, within the Italian context, this thesis seeks to answer the following research questions: how do corrupt deals in public procurement take place? What are the tactics, dynamics and the modi operandi of corrupt agents? What are the steps of corruption-commission in the specific area of public procurement? How can these steps be explained? What are the facilitators of corruption-commission? After the relevant literature has been reviewed (Chapter 1) and the methodology has been discussed (chapter 2), the results of the research are presented in chapters 3 and 4, where the procedural aspects and the procedural requirements of the crime are presented and discussed. Some concluding remarks close the thesis.
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Hornschuh, Veronica. "A victimological investigation of farm attacks with specific reference to farmers' perceptions of their susceptibility, the consequences of attacks for farmers and the coping strategies applied by them after victimisation." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282008-094048.
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Garnier, Anaïs. "Platine sur silice : exemples réussis de synthèse par voie organométallique pour la catalyse hétérogène : validation par l'adsorption et la réactivité du CO." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAF040/document.
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Chimie organométallique résonne avec catalyse homogène, et chimie des surfaces avec catalyse hétérogène. Mais la frontière établie entre ces deux domaines est en réalité très mince. Leur rapprochement aboutit dans les années 1990 au développement d’une nouvelle science : la chimie organométallique de surface, qui souligne leur complémentarité. L’objectif de cette science, dans laquelle s’inscrit ce travail de thèse, est de créer des catalyseurs hétérogènes à partir de composés organométalliques. Notre objectif est d’apporter une contribution à la compréhension de la formation de nanoparticules de platine - métal incontournable en catalyse hétérogène - sur des supports de silice amorphe, et ce grâce à la chimie organométallique. Au cours de ce travail, une palette de catalyseurs Pt/SiO2 a été préparée à partir de trois précurseurs de platine : le composé classique H2PtIVCl6.xH2O et deux composés organométalliques PtII(η 4-C8H12)Cl2 et Pt0(η 2-C7H10)3 , et de trois supports : une silice commerciale (Davison), une silice mésoporeuse SBA-15 synthétisée au laboratoire et unesilice naturelle, la diatomite. De plus, l’étude du catalyseur de référence au platine « EuroPt-1 » a permis de développer une méthodologie de suivi operando par Spectroscopie Infrarouge à Transformée de Fourier par Réflexion Diffuse (DRIFTS) de l’adsorption du monoxyde de carbone (CO) sur les différents sites d’une nanoparticule de platine. En conclusion, les catalyseurs préparés à partir de Pt0(η 2-C7H10)3 s’avèrent être plus actifs qu’EuroPt-1 pour la réaction d’oxydation du CO, ce qui démontre le potentiel d’utilisation des composés organométalliques dans le domaine de la catalyse hétérogène<br>Organometallic chemistry resonates with homogeneous catalysis, and surface chemistry with heterogeneous catalysis. But the frontier between these two fields is very thin. In the 90’s, these fields approached each other and led to the development of a new science: organometallic surface chemistry, which underlines their complementarity. The goal of this science, with which this work is associated, is to create heterogeneous catalysts from organometallic compounds. Our goal is to contribute to the understanding of platinum nanoparticle formation - platinum being an important metal in heterogeneous catalysis - onto amorphous silica supports, thanks to organometallic chemistry. During this work, various Pt/SiO2 catalysts were prepared fromthree platinum precursors: the classical one, H2PtIVCl6.xH2O and two organometallic compounds PtII(η 4-C8H12)Cl2 et Pt0(η2-C7H10)3, and involved three supports: a commercial silica (Davison), a mesoporous silica SBA-15 synthesized in the laboratory, and a natural silica, the diatomite. Moreover, the study of the standard platinum reference catalyst “EuroPt-1” lead to the development of a methodology of operando Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS) of carbon monoxide (CO) adsorption on the different sites of a platinum nanoparticle. Catalysts prepared from Pt0(η 2-C7H10)3 are more active than EuroPt-1 for the CO oxidation reaction, and this work shows the potential of organometallic precursors in the domain of heterogeneous catalysis
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Bila, Hlengani Phanuel. "An assessment of application of intelligence-driven investigation in the combating of organised vehicle theft in Thohoyandou Cluster." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1552.
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Thesis (Ph. D. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015<br>The research concerned with the aim of this study, was to assess the appli-cation of intelligence-driven investigation in combating organised motor vehicle theft.
The strategic intelligence plan, information sharing and understanding of or-ganised vehicle theft, are some of approaches which will assist in dealing with the challenge of the illegal sale of vehicles and vehicle parts. There is indeed a need to address police corruption, if the battle against vehicle theft is to be realised.
The objectives of this study were the following: to explain the strategic intelli-gence plan for investigating motor vehicle theft; to evaluate whether investiga-tions of organised motor vehicle theft in Thohoyandou cluster are intelligence-driven; to assess if the cluster uses intelligence offender profiling in investi-gations; to explore how intelligence-driven investigation assists in information sharing; and, to make recommendations for the improvement of intelligence-driven vehicle theft investigation.
The researcher wanted to apply new research knowledge, in order to develop good practice in the field. This has been done by recommending new proced-ures to enhance performance and to improve the ways and means of combating organised vehicle theft.
KEY TERMS
Intelligence-driven investigation; strategic intelligence; intelligence cycle; crime investigations; modus operandi; offender profiling; organised crime; systems theory; motor vehicle theft; information sharing.
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Donahoe, Kate C. "From self-praise to self-boasting : Paul's unmasking of the conflicting rhetorico-linguistic phenomena in 1 Corinthians." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/493.
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Silva, Filomeno. "A Pirataria no Golfo da Guiné numa Perspetiva Comportamental e Espacial." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/24109.
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O presente trabalho de investigação centra-se no estudo dos aspetos e relação comportamental-espacial dos fenómenos associados ao roubo e pirataria marítima no Golfo da Guiné (GoG). Não existem estudos concretos sobre esta temática que tem uma relevância atual significativa pelo impacto que este fenómeno produz no comércio marítimo e nos países da região.
Pretendeu-se perceber as relações comportamentais e espaciais do fenómeno de pirataria e roubo marítimo na região do Golfo da Guiné de modo a permitir aos Estados da região e a todos os atores que operam nesse espaço possam entender melhor os modos de ação praticados na região para poderem desenhar políticas e processos para os contrariar.
O presente trabalho de investigação foi desenvolvido com base na metodologia preconizada por Raymond Quivy e Luc Van Compenhoudt centrada nos sete passos para a investigação na área das ciências sociais, que permitiram definir as questões derivadas, as hipóteses e concomitantemente o modelo de análise, após uma exaustiva revisão de literatura sobre o fenómeno em estudo.
Neste âmbito foram analisados os dados existentes, e confirmados, de ataques entre 8-1-2008 e 4-11-2014 pela International Maritime Agency das Nações Unidas. Estes dados foram tratados e processados com meta-classificadores numa base de dados do ISCIA – Observatório de Segurança Marítima, que serviu de suporte à análise efetuada.
Estabeleceu-se ainda, neste estudo, uma análise comparativa com fenómenos semelhantes ocorridos noutras regiões do globo tentando obter-se uma sequência de causa efeito na perspetiva comportamental e espacial.O Estudo chegou a conclusões sólidas sobre três tipologias de ataques na região relacionados com a ocorrência em domínios específicos do espaço do GoG: roubo de pertences do navio/tripulações; tomada de reféns para obtenção de resgate, ou proteção dos atacantes; e por último o roubo de combustíveis. Esta tipologia de fenómenos está associada aos portos e ancoradouros no primeiro caso e à Nigéria, enquanto epicentro, nas duas últimas situações. Também se encontraram possíveis relações com a atividade descrita em abundante literatura sobre a tomada de reféns para financiamento do grupo radical islâmico “Boko Haram”. Existem indícios de um outro modo de ação nas águas territoriais da Nigéria que é um crescente negócio de proteção feito por forças de segurança e armadas deste país.
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趙尚臻. "Rape investigation:the analysis of modus operandi." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q3uj4r.
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Vieira, Rafael Domingues. "Deteção do modus operandi de documentos contrafeitos." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/3808.
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A deteção defraude ou de contrafação em documentos oficiais desafia todos os dias os peritos
forenses digitais, na tentativa de correlacionar com casos antigos, por forma a permitir, por
parte dos investigadores criminais, a identificação da fonte ou dos autores.
Com o avanço da tecnologia, os criminosos recorrem cada vez mais a técnicas mais
sofisticadas para produzir documentos contrafeitos, tentando enganar as autoridades de
segurança, dificultando assim o seu trabalho.
A existência de um catálogo atualizado de imagens de documentos contrafeitos, permite aos
peritos digitais forenses determinar se uma técnica similar já foi usada em casos anteriores.
Por este motivo, o Laboratório da Polícia Científica da Polícia Judiciária Portuguesa
congregou um conjunto organizado de imagens digitais dos casos de contrafações
investigados ao longo do tempo, ajudando assim, na identificação do modus operandi de
novas contrafações, a fim de obter mais informações sobre a sua origem.
Neste trabalho é apresentada uma metodologia para automatizar a identificação desse modus
operandi, comparando uma determinada imagem da contrafação em causa, com a base de
dados das imagens de documentos previamente catalogados.
O método proposto – a que foi dada a designação de FraudScope – melhora a identificação de
padrões e suprime tarefas propícias a erros e tarefas que exigem demasiado esforço, atenção e
tempo dos peritos forenses.
O FraudScope, uma ferramenta de apoio à decisão, pesquisa uma determinada imagem numa
base de dados de imagens referentes a casos já resolvidos, identificando as que apresentam
um maior nível de similitude. As imagens obtidas são ordenadas pelo nível de semelhança,
permitindo assim que os peritos forenses foquem a sua atenção nesses casos. O FraudScope é
baseado em algoritmos escaláveis da framework OpenCV que comparam imagens, detetam
padrões e analisam cores e texturas.
Por fim, este relatório de projeto de mestrado apresenta um conjunto de testes, realizados
numa máquina virtual local, utilizando a base de dados da PJ e do LPC, com resultados
promissores. Recentemente, esta máquina virtual foi-lhes disponibilizada.
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董紀宏. "A research of modus operandi of serial robbery." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pgx6he.
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WANG, KAI-WEN, and 王凱文. "Life Course and Modus Operandi of Drug Sellers." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4j2t5v.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>犯罪學研究所<br>107<br>In the past few years, Taiwan’s efforts to fight drug crimes have been well received. Whether through cross-border smuggling or domestic self-production, the quantity of drugs seized is quite amazing. SinceTaiwan is an island surrounded by the sea, even if we work hard to prevent drug smuggling from the maritime, there are still drugs that have successfully landed and arrived in the hands of drug users in various ways. In order to prevent drugs from entering the community, the Executive Yuan has implemented a policy of “Safe living and Against Drug Crime” that vowing that drugs cannot survive in the community to achieve the goal of “upward sources and downward sweeping”. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to analyze the life course of drug dealers , process of drug trafficking, drug trafficking experiences at underclass, what causes them to contact and learn how to drug trafficking and while they entering and leaving the criminal justice system to minimize the risk.
The study found that drug traffickers have almost dysfunctional families and bad companies. They are dissatisfied with the family situation or raised by their grandparents, causing them to feel a serious alienation. Under the lure of material life and bad friends, they began to get in touch with drugs. However, such people usually have a small amount of drug trafficking, they have a fixed pipeline, and a small circle of drug-related friends. And use the income from drug trafficking to survive and provide their daily expenses. The research also found that the usual methods of drug trafficking: (1) Using telephone and the code words of trading drugs to communication; (2) Assess the type, quantity and delivery method of the drug; (3) the choice of trading time is related to the weather and police investigation; (4) the choice of trading location and drug delivery considerations; (5) the identification of the traffickers and the object of the transaction; (6) Assessing Where to hide drugs and where drugs are delivered.
The research suggests:
(1) Establish a counseling system: "Focus on family care system", "carefully choose friends, encourage participation in social activities" and "provide stable work".
(2) Legal system:" Legislation related to communication software specifications", "Building a Collaboration Platform with Communication Operators", and "Analysis of the Use of Drug Trafficking Techniques".
(3) Science and technology system: "Cultivate scientific and technological talents" and “gather and engage technology talents".
Keywords: drug traffickers, drug trafficking techniques, drug trafficking networks, drug trafficking at underclass, life Course
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Maree, Alice. "Modus operandi van die bankrower : 'n kriminologiese introspeksie." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18128.
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Text in Afrikaans<br>In die ondersoek na die modus operandi van die bankrower: 'n
kriminologiese introspeksie, kan die ondergemelde drie dimensies
onderskei word: Die eerste dimensie is 'n kriminologiese introspeksie
wat die betekenis wat bankrowers self aan die uitvoer van bankrooftogte
heg, behels. Hierdie leefwereld van die subjekte word deur die navorser
"betree" en mede-verken. Doelgerigtheid, morele oorwegings, teesin in
geweld, charisma, kognitiewe vermoens en 'n materialistiese ingesteldheid
is begrippe wat die bankrower as mens belig.
Die tweede dimensie word verteenwoordig deur die begrondingsteorie as
navorsingsmetode, gebaseer op die werk van Strauss en Corbin {1990), wat
toegepas word ten einde sodanige navorsingsdoelstelling te fasiliteer.
Tydens die aanvanklike fase van die ondersoek is daar met 28 bankrowers
in aanhoud i ng, gefokusde semi -gest ruktureerde ind i epte-onderhoude gevoer.
Opvolgonderhoude is met ses van die 28 subjekte gevoer, met die doel om
'n substantiewe begrondingsteorie te ontplooi, verskille op te klaar en
die geldigheid van die data te verhoog.
Die derde dimensie reflekteer vervolgens die ontplooiing van 'n
substantiewe begrondingsteorie wat weerspieel word in proposisies en wat
in vier fases van die modus operandi van die bankrower onderskei word,
naamlik die beplanning-; uitvoering-; afhandeling-; en heroorwegingsfase.
Elk van die ge'identifiseerde fases word gekenmerk deur progressiewe
beweging, natuurlike kontinu'iteit, emosionele belewenisse en 'n
individualistiese inslag. Twee kernelemente, naamlik besluitneming en
rasionaliteit staan prominent binne die kader van die modus operandi van
die bankrower.
Die substantiewe begrondingsteorie is daarop ingestel om die verskynsel
wat bestudeer word, te verklaar. Seide die oorweging van die ondersoek
asook ander doelstellings van die navorser word binne die teorie
geakkommodeer. Verdere vergelykende studies kan daartoe bydra om die
substantiewe begrondingsteorie te verfyn, te falsifiseer, 6f by gebrek
daaraan, tot 'n formele teorie uit te bou.
Derhalwe word die begrondingsteorie as navorsingsmetode nie slegs as
toepaslik beskou vir toekomstige navorsing oor onderwerpe waaroor daar
'n gebrek aan empiriese bevindinge bestaan en waaroor relatief min kennis
in kriminologiese literatuur voorkom nie, maar hou dit ook die voordeel
van 'n pluriforme navorsingstudie in.<br>In the investigation into the modus operandi of the bank robber: a
criminological introspection, three dimensions can be distinguished. The
first dimension is a criminological introspection comprising the meaning
attached by bank rob.bers to the execution of bank robberies. This world
of the subjects is entered and co-scouted. Sense of purpose, mora 1
considerations, aversion to violence, charisma, cognitive powers and a
materialistic disposition are conceptions that elucidate the bank robber
as a human.
The second dimension is represented by the grounded theory as research
method, based on the work of Strauss and Corbin (1990), which are applied
to facilitate such research aims. During the initial phase of the
investigation, focused, semi-structured, in-depth interviews were held
with 28 bank robbers in detention. Subsequent interviews were held with
six of the 28 subjects, aimed at expanding a substantive grounded theory,
to clear up differences and to increase the validity of the data.
The third dimension reflects the development of a substantive grounded
theory which is revealed in propositions and signalised in four phases
of the bank robber's modus operandi, namely the planning, execution,
disposal and reconsideration phases. Each of these identified phases is
characterised by progressive movement, natura 1 continuity, emot i ona 1
experiences and an individualistic infusion. The basic elements, namely
decision-making and rationalisation, are prominent in the cadre of the
bank robber's modus operandi.
The substantive grounded theory is aimed at explaining the study
phenomenon. Consideration of the investigation as well as other aims of
the researcher are accommodated in the theory. Further comparative
studies can assist in refining or falsifying the substantive grounded
theory or, failing, to expand it to a formal theory.
The grounded theory is therefore regarded as appropriate for future
research on subjects about which there is a lack of empirical findings
and relatively little knowledge in criminological literature. The theory
offers, in addition, the advantage of a pluriform research study.<br>Sociology<br>D. Litt et Phil. (Kriminologie)
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Pérez, Serpa de Trujillo Iris Natividad. "Modus operandi en el lavado de dinero." Tesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10915/33630.
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Esta obra trata sobre el "Modus Operandi" en el lavado de dinero y los delitos subyacentes; tratamiento del tema en las Unidades de Información Financiera de los siguientes países: EEUU, Canada, Islas Cayman, Mejico, Uruguay y Chile; legislación internacional, regional y nacional y análisis de casos reales.
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Colaço, Sara Helena Raposo. "Caraterização psicopatológica de violadores em função do modus operandi." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/7468.
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Orientação: Joana Patrícia Pereira Carvalho<br>A violação é um ato violento, obtido através da força, de ameaças físicas e/ou psicológicas que provoca o medo e vergonha à vítima. Nos termos jurídicos é um crime sexual resultante da penetração vaginal, anal ou oral, não sendo uma situação consensual.
Existem inúmeros estudos que caraterizam os agressores sexuais: a sua personalidade, os fatores de vulnerabilidade psicossocial, as vítimas escolhidas, entre outros aspetos; contudo torna-se também importante diferenciar estes agressores de acordo com as suas diferentes tipologias, já que cada tipologia terá características e motivações distintas.
A dissertação apresentada tem por finalidade verificar se existem fatores de predisposição para a prática do crime de violação de acordo com o modus operandi do sujeito, ou seja, se houve ou não a inflação de dano severo ou morte da vítima.
Pretendeu-se averiguar de que forma a impulsividade, afeto, personalidade, psicopatologia geral intervêm nestas tipologias de violadores.
Para esse efeito, foi feita uma observação a 53 reclusos em estabelecimentos prisionais Portuguese, com idades compreendidas entre os 20 anos e os 58 anos (M= 34.11). Posteriormente foram elaborados vários testes psicológicos, dados estes recolhidos anteriormente por parte de uma linha de investigação em Sexologia Forense.
Os resultados demonstraram que os violadores que infligiram dano severo ou morte da vítima apresentaram significativamente menos afeto positivo e mais psicoticismo e sintomatologia do foro obsessivo-compulsivo relativamente aos violadores que não infligiram dano severo ou morte. Estes dados permitem refletir sobre os factores de perigosidade para crimes de violação, bem como orientar os alvos terapêuticos em indivíduos que causam dano severo na vítima.<br>Rape is a violent act, obtained by force, physical and / or psychological threats causing fear and shame to the victim. In legal terms is a sex crime resulting from vaginal, anal or oral penetration, not being a consensual situation.
There are numerous studies that characterize sexual offenders: their personality, psychosocial vulnerability factors, the chosen victims, among others; but also it becomes important to differentiate these offenders according to their different types, since each type have different characteristics and motivations.
The thesis presented is to ascertain whether there are predisposing factors for crime practice of rape according to the modus operandi of the subject, that is, whether or not the infliction of severe damage or death of the victim. It was intended to find out how impulsivity, affect, personality, general psychopathology involved in these types of rapists..
To this end, an observation was made 53 inmates in Portuguese prisons, aged between 20 years and 58 years (M = 34.11). various psychological tests, these data previously collected by a line of research in Forensic Sexology later were developed.
The results showed that violators who inflicted severe damage or victim's death had significantly less positive affect and more psychoticism and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorders in relation to violators not inflicted severe injury or death. These data allow us to reflect on the factors of danger for violation of crimes and guide the therapeutic targets in subjects that cause severe damage to the victim.
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Wei, Yu-Hsuan, and 魏渝鍹. "An Analysis on the Modus Operandi of Sexual Crime." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50862238388627429414.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>犯罪學研究所<br>102<br>Many papers talked about rape. Most of the studies emphasize the factors of criminal motivation and the personal backgrounds of the offenders. However, serious quantitative researches are quite limited. In particular, there is a lack of studies on topics related to the criminal modus operandi. This research is to fill in this literature vacuums. We intend to explore the modus operandi of the sexual crime, including the criminal situations, the methods of the crime and the criminal motivation. Simultaneously, we intend to analysis the relationships between the criminal modus operandi and the criminal motivations. We also would explore the relationships between criminal modus operandi and the personal factors of the offenders, such as age, and the previous offenses.
Data are collected from the court records in a northern city in Taiwan for three years, beginning 2011 and 2013. A total of 225 rape cases were located for analysis. The research conclude that: (1) there is a relationship between personal factors of the offenders and criminal modus operandi. For example, insane rape offenders seem to take criminal actions without careful planning. Moreover, they use weapons more often than regular rape offenders. The married offenders have negative attitude after their offenses. Often they denied their criminal motives. (2) The difference between the criminal motivations of offenders has much related to the criminal modus operandi, including the offenders with affective motivation have more diverse and violent modus operandi than other types. (3) The relationship between offenders and victims has much to do with the crime events, including the time of the offenses, the use of the weapons, and the methods of the crime. For example, the stranger relationship between the offender and the victims often take advantages of the situation when the victims are drunk. Similar relationship also found on cases where the offenders and the victims are acquaint with each other.
The research also proposes a strategy of crime prevention for rape based on the above findings.
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Lukášová, Tereza. "Kriminalistický význam způsobu spáchání trestného činu." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-349174.
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This thesis deals with the issue of modus operandi and it is primarily focused on the forensic importance of this phenomenon. The aim of the thesis is to provide a complex view including all the important aspects of this phenomenon. The object of the thesis is filled within particular chapters. The definition of the concept modus operandi is solved at the beginning followed by the analysis of the components of modus operandi. The most comprehensive passage is focused on the determination of the modus operandi including its objective and subjective determinants. Than follows the description of the mechanisms forming the modus operandi. Eventually is given the analyses of the importance of findings about the modus operandi for various spheres of criminology. The main benefit of this thesis is to provide the summary of the facts regarding the modus operandi, which allows us to describe this phenomenon in details and then use these findings in forensic practise.
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Berning, J. M. S. P. "Modus operandi as technique in suspect identification in burglary cases." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2408.
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The research attempts to establish how modus operandi can be used to identify
suspects in burglary cases. To conduct effective investigation, it is important
for investigators to be familiar with the concept modus operandi, its elements,
its influence and its values.
To achieve the goals and objectives of the practice of modus operandi,
investigators must know how to apply modus operandi, what the situational
factors are during a criminal act, and how to use it as technique to identify
suspects in burglary cases.
The direction by implication and clarification of the crime situation is hardly
possible without the determination of the identity of the perpetrator or suspect
of a criminal act. The recognition of the modus operandi system as any form of
evidence gathering is of outmost importance.<br>Criminology<br>M.Tech. (Forensic investigation)
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Marques, Cristina Isabel Silveira. "Modus operandi dos abusadores sexuais: características identificadas nas crianças abusadas." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9142.
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Classificação da American Psychological Association (APA): [4200] Psicologia Forense e Questões Jurídicas, [4270] Prevenção Criminal<br>O abuso sexual de crianças tornou-se, a partir dos anos 70/80 do Século XX, uma preocupação
social mundial. Dada a elevada prevalência desta problemática, demonstra-se necessário
desenvolver programas de prevenção primária, tendo esta investigação o objetivo de contribuir com
conhecimento empírico que permita desenhar esses programas. Neste sentido, procura-se
compreender o ajustamento do modus operandi implementado pelo perpetrador às características
das crianças abusadas.
Para tal, realizaram-se entrevistas com 31 reclusos, condenados por crimes contra a
autodeterminação sexual, que assumiam a sua autoria. As entrevistas foram submetidas a um
processo de codificação baseado nos princípios da metodologia da Grounded Theory e esse
processo foi validado por um segundo codificador.
Os resultados obtidos permitem identificar fatores de risco associados às vítimas e perceções
distorcidas dos perpetradores acerca dos comportamentos destas, que influenciam o ajustamento de
estratégias de sedução pelos abusadores, visando iniciar e manter o abuso, prevenindo,
concomitantemente, que meio envolvente e vítimas denunciem o crime. A maioria dos crimes é
revelada pela vítima.
Sugerem, também, estratégias de prevenção primária: dever de denúncia do abuso sexual; educação
das crianças (em contexto familiar e escolar) no sentido de dizerem não ao potencial abuso e
afastarem-se de pessoas que lhe transmitam sentimentos de ansiedade/aflição; promoção da
comunicação funcional entre família e crianças.
Conclui-se que os programas de prevenção primária deverão potenciar a capacidade das vítimas
para se afastarem da situação abusiva e promover as suas competências comunicacionais, de
assertividade e resolução de problemas, bem como fornecer instrumentos às comunidades para detetarem o abuso.<br>Child sexual abuse has become, since 1970/1980, a social concern worldwide. Given the high
prevalence of this problem, it is necessary to develop sexual abuse primary prevention programs,
being the objective of this research to contribute to empirical knowledge that allows designing these
programs. Therefore, this research seeks to understand the adjustment of the modus operandi
implemented by perpetrators to the characteristics of the abused children.
To this end, interviews were conducted with 31 prisoners convicted of crimes against sexual selfdetermination,
which admitted their crime. The interviews were subjected to a coding process based
on the principles of Grounded Theory methodology and this process has been validated by a second
encoder.
The results obtained allow us to identify risk factors associated to victims, as well as distorted
perceptions of perpetrators about their behaviors, that influence the adjustment of seduction strategies
by abusers, aiming to initiate and maintain the abuse, preventing, concomitantly, the victims or
environment around them to report the crime. Victims reveal most of the crimes.
Suggest also strategies for primary prevention: duty to report sexual abuse; education of the children
(in the familial and school context) to say no to a potential abuse and move away from persons that
transmit them feelings of anxiety/distress; promoting funcional communication between family and
children.
It is concluded that primary prevention programs should enhance the ability of victims to move away
from the abusive situation and promote their communication, assertiveness and problem resolution
skills and provide communities with tools to detect sexual abuse.