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Showing 1 to 20 of 313 for “"theft"”.
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Theft
<p>This novel examines philosophical issues of personhood and embodiment as well as cultural and social issues relating to copyright, sexism, and racism. It tells the story of Will, a college student who finds himself tangled up in the business and personal affairs of Markus, a charismatic drug …
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The Phenomenon of Identity Theft
… descriptive study of the prevalence of Identity Theft in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 2004 to 2009 and the procedures used by the Kentucky State Police to deal with this crime. The data for this study is a combination of violation code use retrieved from Kentucky's Open Portal Solution …
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Motor vehicle theft: a comparative study
… investigation entails a study of motor vehicle theft and hijacking in KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape for the period of 1 January till 31 December 1995. The present study is empirically founded and for this purpose an information schedule has been implemented to capture data from police case …
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Analysis of digital evidence in identity theft investigations
Identity Theft could be currently considered as a significant problem in the modern internet driven era. This type of computer crime can be achieved in a number of different ways; various statistical figures suggest it is on the increase. It intimidates individual privacy and self assurance, while …
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A HONEYPOT FOR SPIES: UNDERSTANDING INTERNET-BASED DATA THEFT
Creating ruses and planting false documents to deceive our adversaries is a tactic that has been used for a long time. Honeypots allow us to easily plant false data on information systems while we monitor what attackers access and download. This enables us to learn of a potential spy’s interests …
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Investigation towards the prevention of cable theft from Eskom
Cable theft could be currently considered as a significant problem, globally. The Eskom statistical figures indicate that cable theft creates a massive problem for service delivery and places a vast amount of pressure on its financial resources. Cable theft is highlighted on various different …
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Imitation, not theft: a mixed-methods study of plagiarism
This mixed-methods study examines how student writers’ use of others’ work that is labeled plagiaristic may actually represent productive attempts to engage in scholarly discourse through imitation, which has a long history of use in pedagogy. The study’s two research questions were: do points of …
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Identity Theft: HOAs and the Cultivation of Exceptional Whiteness
<p>The basketball court had been locked and chained with a no trespassing sign posted on the gate. In the distance was a police officer who I later discovered was a private security guard. According to my development’s newsletter, the shutdown was due to supposed gang activity seen at and around …
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Credential Theft Powered Unauthorized Login Detection through Spatial Augmentation
Credential theft is a network intrusion vector that subverts traditional defenses of a campus network, with a malicious login being the act of an attacker using those stolen credentials to access the target network. Historically, this approach is simple for an attacker to conduct and hard for a …
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Understanding petrified wood theft from a moral reasoning perspective
… was to estimate the extent of petrified wood theft at two popular petrified wood sites at Petrified Forest National Park and to describe the nature of the thieves in terms of their level of moral reasoning. A model of noncompliant behavior was developed that incorporated the theory of reasoned …
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Guardians at the Gates of Hell : estimating the risk of nuclear theft and terrorism -- and identifying the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft
… presented to assess the global risk of nuclear theft and nuclear terrorism, to identify the nuclear facilities and transport legs that pose the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft, and to evaluate policy approaches to strengthening security and accounting for nuclear stockpiles worldwide. …
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Pathology and Motivation in Players of Grand Theft Auto IV
… crimes they committed while playing Grand Theft Auto IV to determine if game players with naturally high levels of psychopathy performed differently than their non-psychopathic counterparts, and subsequently to determine if the crimes committed during game play were modified and/or …
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Trust Broker: A Defense Against Identity Theft From Online Transactions
The proliferation of online services over the years has encouraged more and more people to participate in Internet activities. Many web sites request personal and sensitive information needed to deliver the desired service. Unfortunately, it is difficult to distinguish the sites that can be trusted …
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The Role of Self-Concept in the Observer's Perception of Theft
… observers' perceptions and labeling of co-worker theft, observers' reporting of co-worker theft, and observers' own theft behavior in a laboratory and field context. Three factors were hypothesized to influence these variables. The first factor is whether the observer is schematic with respect to …
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