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Assessing the Preparedness of Law Enforcement Agents in Dealing with White-Collar Crimes: A Case of Nairobi City County, Kenya

Purpose: This study sought to assess the preparedness of Law Enforcement Officers in handling white-collar crimes within Nairobi City County. The research objectives were to establish the adequacy of current resources available to effectively manage white-collar crimes in Nairobi City County, to explore the competencies of the law enforcement agents in investigating white-collar crimes in Nairobi City County, to examine the challenges encountered  by Law enforcement agents face in thwarting  white-collar crimes within Nairobi City County and finally to establish the strategies for enhancing the capacity of law enforcement agents in handling white-collar crimes in Nairobi City County. Methodology: The target population was largely drawn from the Kenya police, Directorate of criminal investigations and the Kenya Anti-corruption commission with a sample size of 371 respondents drawn from the DCI and KPS. This study adopted quantitative and qualitative research methods. It used a descriptive survey design. Data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The study was guided by the Rational Choice Theory. Quantitative data was analysed through the SPSS tool version 23. The reports from qualitative data were presented using descriptive statistics. This included frequencies, modes, means, variances and standard deviations. Qualitative data was first coded, patterns established themes and finally reported narratively.  Results: The study revealed that there was a significant and strong relationship between the four variables and preparedness level to deal with white collar crime, however the enforcement agents in Nairobi County-Kenya were found to be generally ill prepared to fight white collar crime. The study revealed that corruption tendering and other acts of bribery; money laundering, embezzlement/misappropriation of public funds/resources as the most prevalent crimes. Cyber-hacking and other forms of internet fraud were also perceived to be problematic, yet security agents were inadequately prepared to deal with these kinds of crimes as they lacked resources and the relevant training to enable them to investigate, arrest, and prosecute the culprits. Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice : The study recommended that the government should allocate more funds and resources to enable law enforcement agents procure modern gadgets that track internet activities; the officers/forensic experts need to have proper training and be recruited from the smart people in society who are perceived to be supper intelligent for them to be smart in their investigations;  there is also need to strengthen the existing and establish relevant laws (legal and institutional frameworks) aimed at combating corruption related and other economic crimes.
The basic and fundamental concept of Cloud balancing architecture

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LibGuides: Info Literacy: Abstracts, Literature Reviews, and Annotated Bibliographies: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

This Libguide explains what abstracts, literature reviews, and annotated bibliographies are and offers insights into the form and construction of these types of writing.
Library: ENGL 2367 Remote Instruction Resources: Getting Started

This guide contains various instruction modules that teachers can use for remote library instruction .
LibGuides: Multimedia Instructional Design: Books

This guide is for the NCU certificate Multimedia Instructional Design. It contains resources available in the NCU Library.
Badoo cult violence in Ikorodu, Lagos state from 2015-2018: Costs and Response Assessment

This study assessed the social and economic costs of the activities of the “Badoo Cult” which constantly tormented parts of Ikorodu local government area of Lagos state, between 2015 and 2018, and appraised the responses of the Police and community members to the group. The study was guided by the broken window and frustration aggression theories. It utilized both quantitative and qualitative data respectively collected from 250 and 10 residents aged 18 years and above from five sampled communities. The study found that residents lived in fear and suffered social and economic loses because of the activities of the Badoo cult group. The paper underscores the importance of timely stakeholder intervention and collaboration in responding to future security challenges in the state and country.Keywords: Badoo cult, violence, insecurity, Lagos state, Nigeria
Modifikasi Enkripsi Dan Dekripsi AES Menggunakan Polybius Chiper Dalam Pengamanan Data

Data is a file that can be confidential so it requires a data security process to maintain confidentiality.  Kripotgrrafi is a data security process that can be used based on the use of algorithms, one of which is AES.  AES is a modern algorithm that can be modified to improve confusion and diffusion in cryptography.  AES combination can be done using Polybius which has cryptographic diffusion properties.  This study modified the AES using 6x6 and 10x10 polybius matrices that were performed on plaintext and plaintext and keys.  Analysis was carried out based on the highest bit change rate found in modification II in the plaintext and 6x6 matrix keys, which amounted to 51.8% using the avalanche effect test.  The results of the AE compared to the expected results using chi square with the modified AES results can increase the AE by 5% with the real level is 0,05 and the degree of freedom is 4 . Execution time was tested in this study with the results of the AES modification time longer than the standard AES because the complexity of the algorithm affects both encryption and decryption time. Abstract Data is a file that can be confidential so it requires a data security process to maintain confidentiality.  Kripotgrrafi is a data security process that can be used based on the use of algorithms, one of which is AES.  AES is a modern algorithm that can be modified to improve confusion and diffusion in cryptography.  AES combination can be done using Polybius which has cryptographic diffusion properties.  This study modified the AES using 6x6 and 10x10 polybius matrices that were performed on plaintext and plaintext and keys.  Analysis was carried out based on the highest bit change rate found in modification II in the plaintext and 6x6 matrix keys, which amounted to 51.8% using the avalanche effect test.  The results of the AE compared to the expected results using chi square with the modified AES results can increase the AE by 5% with the real level is 0,05 and the degree of freedom is 4 . Execution time was tested in this study with the results of the AES modification time longer than the standard AES because the complexity of the algorithm affects both encryption and decryption time.
Enhancing controllability of text generation

Many models could generate text conditioned on some context, but those approaches don’t provide us with the ability to control various aspects of the generated text (e.g., sentiment). To address this problem, Variational Autoencoder is typically used because they give the ability to manipulate in latent space and, in this way,control text generation. However, it has been shown that VAE with strong autoregressive decoders,which are used for text modeling, faces posterior collapse problem. We think that one of the reasons why this problem occurs is a restrictive gaussian assumption we made about approximate posterior. In this work, we want to apply well-known approaches based on Normalizing Flows to improve approximate posterior for text modeling and check if it can help avoid posterior collapse.
LibGuides: Covid-19 Information : Free audio books for students and children

This guide provides resources and information on the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) from credible and reliable sources . Contents of this guide are regularly updated based on the World Health Organization information updates
Image Feature Matching Before Image Fusion

Image matching is the most important factors that restrict image fusion technology development. The quality of image matching is directly related to the quality of image fusion. The image with low matching degree will have serious distortion in fusion, and high-precision matching is a NP problem. The method of coarse matching + fine matching is adopted. In the coarse matching, the nearest neighbor and the next nearest neighbor Euclidean distance ratio are used as the similarity criteria of feature point matching to screen out the coarse matching point pairs; in the fine matching, the RANSAC algorithm is used to filter the coarse matching point pairs, and the outer points are removed to get the fine matching point pairs required by the transformation matrix. Through this matching method, the accuracy and speed of matching are improved, which lays a foundation for the realization of high-quality image fusion.
Mosaic philosophy: contours аnd new identification contexts

The idea of mosaic philosophy is based on the idea of a holistic system of thought and action. This allows the "coffers" of the philosophical system to develop on the basis of their own beginnings. Philosophy, as a love of wisdom, aspires to some kind of "mosaic whole," which is not related to the fragmentation of the elements of the system, but to the harmonic whole into which many systems of philosophy are united. Although people 's thoughts live together, things and phenomena interact in a rigid way in space and time. A person who aspires to love wants to produce a much smaller number of concepts and schools, and thus to raise the question of a possible meeting with the creative-hurt. The very theme of choosing the basic principle of the philosophical system is certainly mosaic and existential. Mosaic philosophy makes it possible to combine the basic question of philosophy with a lot of other questions related to the social existence of man. The mosaic itself of the philosophical system of the opposition is on a categorical warehouse of thinking. However, the contours of mosaic philosophy are determined by its specific manifestations. The new contexts of the identification of mosaic philosophy are defined by the setting of the question of the study of the essential forces of man. This grows into a philosophy of wanting to make the existing world better.
Scene Merging Technology with High Adaptability

The image mosaic algorithm is used to splice this group of overlapping images into seamless high-resolution images. By splicing the overlapped images acquired at different times in the real world into a scene image with a wide field of vision, people can meet the needs of viewing a wide perspective scene, and even generate panoramas. Image mosaic technology is an effective technology of using computer vision to express the real world. By using image mosaic technology, redundant information of image can be eliminated effectively, and the storage of image information can be compressed. Therefore, the real world can be represented more effectively, vividly and objectively. It has important applications in large area static scene observation, virtual reality, video retrieval, and high-resolution image acquisition. So it is very important to study the accurate, fast and robust image mosaic algorithm.
LibGuides: LSC 504: Children's Reference Resources by Kelly Kimball: Home

Are you or your child having trouble finding answers to questions? Here is a great guide to various resources to help students conquer their next big assignment or simply to find answers to pressing questions!
Kazakhstan: The “Virtual exhibition” pilot project is launched within KTZ – UIC Communications

The project is being implemented at the initiative of the Technical Centre of the Company. “Virtual Exhibition” enables employees of KTZ, its structural divisions and subsidiaries to use full-text…
LibGuides: De-Stress Fest: Relaxation

Looking for a break in your studies? Need some stress relief? Need study tips and de-stress resources? This guide can help! Listen and watch these soothing, relaxing sounds and images.
Twelve-Tone Serialism and Its Effect on Modern Audiences

Twelve-tone music and serial composition are controversial topics for musicians and composers. This paper catalogs the early emergence of this practice, the opinions of composers on the craft itself, and their opinions on audience attitudes toward twelve-tone music. The conclusion is reached that serialism is generally too academic, written with professional musicians in mind, alienating the listener. The more successful modern composers have tempered their writing with more conventional harmony and tonality.
Tren Topik Pemberitaan PASCA Pemilihan Presiden pada Portal Berita Online

The purpose of this research is to find out, explain, and analyze the trends of the Post Presidential Election news topics on the online news portal Detik.com and Tribunnews.com 2019. This research method uses quantitative descriptive methods. The results of research from 2 online news portals during the post-presidential election, 17 April to 22 May namely the detik.com portal issued the most number of Prabowo-Sandi news as many as 652 news, while the Jokowi-Amin pair 586 news. Tribunnews.com portal issued the most topics on the Jokowi-Amin couple as many as 537, while the Prabowo-Sandi couple had 536 news. Indicators of topic trends are the direction of the portal detik.com Jokowi-Amin news portal with positive news direction 63 or (10.75%), negative news direction 16 or (2.73%), and neutral news direction 507 or (86.52% ). In the Prabowo-Sandi pair who share positive news 67 or (10.28%), then the direction of negative news 47 or (7.21%), while the neutral news direction is 538 or (82.52%). Meanwhile, the online news portal Tribunnews.com released the news of the Jokowi-Amin pair in the direction of positive news 54 or (10.06%), negative news direction 27 or (5.03%), and neutral news direction 537 or (84.92%). Tribunnews.com released the Prabowo-Sandi pair with 57 or (10.6%) positive direction, 45 or (8.40%) negative direction, while the neutral news direction was 434 or (80.97%).
LibGuides: Science: Earth's systems/spheres: Home

An explanation of the different spheres of the Earth, what they are made of and how they interact.
Info Guides: Teen Summer Reading: What's Happening

Expand your horizons, get creative and try something new this summer by taking part in our teen summer reading challenge! Grades 7-12.
An investigation of the Mechanisms Behind the Pharmaceutical Removal in Ekeby Wetland WWTP

Pharmaceutical residues are being released into the aquatic environment through domestic wastewater effluents all around the world. Ekeby wetland located in Eskilstuna has been shown to degrade pha ...
Generation of sport news articles from match text commentary

Nowadays, thousands of sporting events take place every day. Most of the sports news (results of sports competitions) is written by hand, despite their pattern structure. In this work, we want to check possible or not to generate news based on the broadcast - a set of comments that describe the game in real-time. This problem solves for the Russian language and considered as a summarization problem, using extractive and abstract approaches. Among extractive models, we do not get signiﬁcant results. However, we build an Oracle model that showed the best possible result equal to 0.21 F1 for ROUGE-1. For the abstraction approach, we get 0.26 F1 for the ROUGE-1 score using the NMT framework, the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), as an encoder and text augmentation based on a thesaurus. Other types of encoders do not show signiﬁcant improvements.
Flexible Cross-Subspace Alignment Codes for Variable Coded Distributed Batch Matrix Multiplication

Author(s): Tauz, Lev | Advisor(s): Dolecek, Lara | Abstract: Modern distributed systems suffer from a phenomenon known as stragglers where computation nodes either break-down or are sufficiently slow, resulting in a large tail latency. Inspired by error correcting codes, researchers within the field of coded computation combat stragglers by cleverly encoding the data within the computations. One major endeavor is in the study of coded matrix-matrix multiplication where the task is to multiply two large matrices in a distributed manner. Most coded matrix computation work focuses on highly structured tasks which allows for easier code construction and analysis but limits the applicability for more general problems. For the first time, we consider the novel problem of multiplying many different matrices whose products may share matrices with no guaranteed regularity. Specifically, we consider the Variable Coded Distributed Batch Matrix Multiplication (VCDBMM) problem where the system is given two sets of matrices $\mathcal{A}=\{A_1,A_2,\dots,A_{|\mathcal{A}|}\}$ and $\mathcal{B}=\{B_1,B_2,\dots,B_{|\mathcal{B}|}\}$ and a set of computation goals $\mathcal{S} = \{(i_1,j_1),(i_2,j_2), \dots (i_{|\mathcal{S}|},j_{|\mathcal{S}|})\}$ and the objective is to calculate the matrix multiplication $A_iB_j$ for every $(i,j) \in \mathcal{S}$ in the presence of stragglers. Therefore, a good coding solution minimizes the recovery threshold (i.e., the number of workers that we need to wait for in order to compute the final output). Inspired by Cross-Subspace Alignment Codes, we construct Flexible Cross-Subspace Alignment Codes (FCSA) to solve the general VCDBMM problem. We provide two variants of FCSA codes that allow for a trade-off between the encoding/decoding complexity and the recovery threshold. We demonstrate that both variants are within a factor of two optimal under certain system constraints. We also generalize FCSA codes into Grouped FCSA codes where we group computations together to provide further flexibility between the computational complexity at the workers and the recovery threshold. We provide simulations on random instances of the VCDBMM problem and demonstrate the average improvement offered by our codes.
An exploration of musician/musical instrument relationships

What is a musical instrument? A meaningful answer must go beyond the description of a physical object. Depending on the perspective from which the question is asked, it can be answered in many different ways. But one aspect of the answer probably remains – that the identity of a musical instrument shifts through time and across genres, and that it has different potentials depending on the musician holding it.Where does the musical instrument stop and the musician begin?Stepping away from a plainly physical answer and seeking an explanation that makes sense in musical terms, makes this question not only philosophical but also a question that highlights crucial aspects of music making. And maybe a distinct divide cannot be found? Then a more meaningful question would be: What is the nature of this merging existence of the musician and the musical instrument?During my practice as musician and teacher, I have noticed that students and co-musicians seem to relate to their instruments in rather different ways. This is perhaps most obvious regarding the various qualities that musicians seek for in an instrument, and what nuances they strive to bring out through their playing. At some occasions, I have noticed that the varieties of these musician/musical instrument relationships are even more profound than that. It has struck me that musicians seem to think and act differently together with their instruments during the act of playing. And since the musical instrument – intertwined with the musician – assumes different functions, this must have implication on the musical practice and the musical learning.These different modes of interacting with the instrument, paired with every musician’s unique personality, competence and artistic interests, makes for infinite routes of musical endeavor, inside and outside of music education. I play the Simple-system flute and this instrument is the locus point of the research project as well as the main research tool. (Less)
Blockchain in Supply Chain Management. An Empirical Study into the Key Factors Influencing the Intention to Adopt Blockchain by SMEs

Blockchain Technology has gained popularity in recent years and one of its most promising applications is in Supply Chain Management. The visibility enabled by distributed ledger technology can empower Real-Time Tracking of Products (also referred to as the ‘Holy Grail’ of logistics), a faster and leaner Global Trade, and automatic controls with Smart Contracts. However, to realize this potential, all of the members of a supply chain have to be on board, including small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which often have neither the resources nor the expertise to join a blockchain-based network. Hence, as part of the Spark! Living Lab, a consortium that comprises TNO and TU Delft among other partners, my research was aimed at providing recommendations on how to support SMEs in the adoption of blockchain. First, a set of twenty-three factors relevant to blockchain adoption intention have been identified through a systematic literature review. Then, an online questionnaire has been employed to collect the factors' preferences of twenty respondents from the target population. The collected data has subsequently been processed with the Bayesian BWM, a novel MCDM method, to establish a weight-wise ranking of the identified factors. Finally, the results obtained have been used to provide suggestions to the Spark! Living Lab on the factors they should put more emphasis on when supporting SMEs in their blockchain journeys.
역삼투압 해수담수화(SWRO) 플랜트에서 독립변수의 다중공선성을 고려한 예측모델에 관한 연구

Purpose: The purpose of this study is conducting of predictive models that considered multicollinearity of independent variables in order to carry out more efficient and reliable predictions about differential pressure in seawater reverse osmosis.Methods: The main variables of each RO system are extracted through factor analysis. Common variables are derived through comparison of RO system # 1 and RO system # 2. In order to carry out the prediction modeling about the differential pressure, which is the target variable, we constructed the prediction model reflecting the regression analysis, the artificial neural network, and the support vector machine in R package, and figured out the superiority of the model by comparing RMSE.Results: The number of factors extracted from factor analysis of RO system #1 and RO system #2 is same. And the value of variability(% Var) increased as step proceeds according to the analysis procedure. As a result of deriving the average RMSE of the models, the overall prediction of the SVM was superior to the other models.Conclusion: This study is meaningful in that it has been conducting a demonstration study of considering the multicollinearity of independent variables. Before establishing a predictive model for a target variable, it would be more accurate predictive model if the relevant variables are derived and reflected.