Ontologies to Support Call Control Policies

The aim of this study was to conduct a multivariate assessment of college student drinking motivations at a campus with conventional alcohol control policies and enforcement practices, including the establishment and dissemination of alcohol policies and the use of warnings to arouse fear of sanctions. Two explanatory models were compared: perceptions of risk and normative beliefs. An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 1,396 students at a large Midwestern university. Data analyses were conducted on the subsample of participants who had reported using alcohol within the past 12 months (n = 1,322). Overall, the results from a canonical correlation analysis indicated that alcohol involvement was best explained by normative beliefs about the drinking practices of ones closest friends. Perceptions of drinking risk were less important to the explanation of alcohol involvement, and some of these measures unexpectedly had positive associations with indicators of alcohol risk behavior. The findings call into question the conventional deterrence strategies used in many university communities (i.e., belief that students who perceive there to be a low risk of receiving sanctions are those most likely to engage in alcohol related misbehavior). Furthermore, the findings suggest that effective interventions will need to impact students' normative beliefs about the drinking practices of proximal peer groups.

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Performance comparison of thrashing control policies for concurrent Mergesorts with parallel prefetching

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ◽

10.1145/166962.167003 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 171-182

Author(s):

Kun-Lung Wu ◽

Philip S. Yu ◽

James Z. Teng

Keyword(s):

Performance Comparison ◽

Control Policies

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Creating and Maintaining Structural Hindrances to Criminal Justice Control – A Policy Analysis on the Normalisation of Parental Violence as a Crime in Finland

Social & Legal Studies ◽

10.1177/09646639211020820 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096466392110208

Author(s):

Riikka Kotanen

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Criminal Law ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

Legal Form ◽

Parental Violence ◽

Control Policies ◽

And Control

In the context of home, violence remains more accepted when committed against children than adults. Normalisation of parental violence has been documented in attitudinal surveys, professional practices, and legal regulation. For example, in many countries violent disciplining of children is the only legal form of interpersonal violence. This study explores the societal invisibility and normalisation of parental violence as a crime by analysing legislation and control policies regulating the division of labour and involvement between social welfare and criminal justice authorities. An empirical case study from Finland, where all forms of parental violence were legally prohibited in 1983, is used to elucidate the divergence between (criminal) law and control policies. The analysis demonstrates how normalisation operates at the policy-level where, within the same system of control that criminalised these acts, structural hindrances are built to prevent criminal justice interventions.

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Air quality and synergistic health effects of ozone and nitrogen oxides in response to China’s integrated air quality control policies during 2015–2019

Chemosphere ◽

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129385 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 268 ◽

pp. 129385

Author(s):

Xuguo Zhang ◽

Jimmy C.H. Fung ◽

Alexis K.H. Lau ◽

Md Shakhaoat Hossain ◽

Peter K.K. Louie ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Air Quality ◽

Nitrogen Oxides ◽

Health Effects ◽

Control Policies ◽

Air Quality Control

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