Policing & Firearms
New Perspectives and Insights
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Strategies for the delivery of sex-based equity in cardiovascular clinical trials
The under-representation of women in cardiovascular clinical trials persists across participant, clinician and research roles. This gap perpetuates health inequity and hampers the generation, translation and i...
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Open AccessAccurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
The introduction of AlphaFold 21 has spurred a revolution in modelling the structure of proteins and their interactions, enabling a huge range of applications in protein modelling and design2–6. Here we describe ...
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AI in Medical Education: Global situation, effects and challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare and shows considerable promise for the delivery of medical education. This systematic review provides a comprehensive analysis of the global situation, e...
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Open AccessIntentional news avoidance on short-form video platforms: a moderated mediation model of psychological reactance and relative entertainment motivation
Previous studies have identified a correlation between individuals’ perception of news quality and their intention to avoid political news. However, limited research exists that examines the mechanisms that me...
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Open AccessQuantification of putative ovarian cancer serum protein biomarkers using a multiplexed targeted mass spectrometry assay
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in women, and high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most common subtype. Currently, no clinical test has been approved by the FDA to screen th...
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Violence on the front line: a qualitative comparative analysis of the causes of patient violence towards medical staff in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19, reduced funding and a shortage of healthcare workers has led to growing international concern about patient violence towards medical staff in medical settings. As the number of reported physical and ...
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Scleractinian corals rely on heterotrophy in highly turbid environments
Coral communities can survive in stressful environments; however, the mechanisms corals employ to endure challenging conditions are poorly understood. This study assessed how the heterotrophy of three coral ge...
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Knowledge transfer between physicians from different geographical regions in China’s online health communities
Online Health Communities (OHCs) are a type of self-organizing platform that provide users with access to social support, information, and knowledge transfer opportunities. The medical expertise of registered ...
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Open AccessPredicting COVID-19 vaccination intentions: the roles of threat appraisal, co** appraisal, subjective norms, and negative affect
As a new disease, communities possess little natural immunity to COVID-19 and vaccines are considered critical to preventing and reducing the incidence of severe illness. This study, inspired by Protection Mot...
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Introduction
Genuinely international in its scope, this book features contributors from Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, and examines is...
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A Conceptual Framework for Applying Artificial Intelligence to Manufacturing Projects
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in manufacturing has received significant attention in recent years due to its potential to assist manufacturing teams in monitoring projects, identifying defects and potential ris...
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‘Facing Death Gave Him New Life’: On-Screen Police Gun Violence and Weapon Product Placement
This chapter examines Weapon Product Placement (WPP), the sponsored use of recognisable branded firearms in screen dramas, with a particular focus on depictions of police gun violence in mainstream police tele...
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Consumer Engagement in the Design of PLM Systems: A Review of Best Practices
Digitization has disrupted all aspects of Product Development (PD) from idea conceptualization through to the retirement or recycling of a product. With advancements in collaborative technologies, product deve...
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Open AccessPredicting lexical complexity in English texts: the Complex 2.0 dataset
Identifying words which may cause difficulty for a reader is an essential step in most lexical text simplification systems prior to lexical substitution and can also be used for assessing the readability of a ...
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A sequence labelling approach for automatic analysis of ello: tagging pronouns, antecedents, and connective phrases
Encapsulators are linguistic units which establish coherent referential connections to the preceding discourse in a text. In this paper, we address the challenge of automatically analysing the pronominal encap...
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Conclusion
On Thursday, 22 January 1948, W.J. MacKay went to work as usual. Part of his day was probably devoted to the police response to a wave—at least, a perceived wave—of serious assaults, robberies and sex offences...
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Introduction
For two decades, from the late 1920s in 1948, William John MacKay dominated policing in New South Wales to an extent unmatched before or since. Colourful, energetic, intelligent, ambitious, ruthless and reck...
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The Keogh Scandal: Unaccountable Power and Systemic Corruption, 1946–1947
In 1947, MacKay was accused of transferring an honest police officer, Sergeant A.J. Keogh, at the request of illegal bookmakers. This chapter examines this scandal. I argue that the Royal Commission which inqu...
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‘A Dangerous Power’: Independence, Accountability and the Police Commissioner, 1934–1935
Before MacKay took office as Commissioner, the Stevens government passed the Police Regulations (Amendment) Act, 1934. Intended to protect the Commissioner from political interference, the amendment had the ef...
