The ACA effect: Examining how current affairs programs shape victim understandings and responses to online fraud

In recent years, numerous current affairs stories on online fraud victimisation have been broadcast on Australian television. These stories typically feature highly organised, international ‘sting’ operations, in which alleged offenders are arrested and investigated by law enforcement. These portrayals of police responses influence the expectations that some online fraud victims have about how their individual cases will be handled by law enforcement. Based on interviews with 80 online fraud victims, this article argues that a narrow media portrayal of online fraud by television current affairs programs — termed the ‘ACA effect’ — informs victims’ understandings of online fraud and their responses to it. In particular, current affairs programs influence what victims of online fraud expect from police. The article further demonstrates that current affairs programs present themselves as de facto law enforcement agencies, to which victims who receive an unsatisfactory response from police might turn. Overall, the article highlights the importance of current affairs programs portraying a more realistic image of official responses to online fraud.

Efectos de la frustraci??n y-o el hostigamiento en la modulaci??n emocional de la Respuesta Card??aca de Defensa

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C??mo afrontar positivamente la enfermedad cel??aca

Se aportan consejos pr??cticos frente a distintas situaciones, que afrontan los menores diagnosticados de enfermedad cel??aca. Se describe, cu??l debe ser la actitud de los padres con el ni??o enfermo y c??mo se ha de involucrar a los hermanos. Se habla de las alteraciones que puede sufrir la vida social, de la relaci??n con los amigos o de la relaci??n m??dico-paciente. Tambi??n se abordan aspectos como las desavenencias que pueden surgir en la pareja como consecuencia de la enfermedad del hijo. Este manual puede ser ??til, al profesional de la salud, para planificar sus objetivos terap??uticos con sus pacientes cel??acos, ya que contiene orientaciones relativas al manejo de situaciones espec??ficas que no se dan en otro tipo de enfermos cr??nicos.

Aprender a aprender una segunda lengua en la tercera edad : aproximación hacia el aprendizaje centrado en el alumno (ACA) de estadounidenses y canadienses jubilados en México.

Memoria de máster (Universidad de Jaén - FUNIBER, 2010). Incluye apéndices. Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Libre comercio, medio ambiente y ecotributación. Reflexiones sobre el ACA/TLCAN, TLCUEM y ALCA (Tema Central)

Este trabajo tiene por objeto estudiar los aspectos ambientales y ecotributarios de los dos principales acuerdos en materia de libre comercio que ha suscrito México (TLCAN y TLCUEM). La consideración que se hace en estos acuerdos del desarrollo sostenible y de los instrumentos económicos con fines de protección ambiental ha impactado en la política y legislación ambiental mexicana. Este impacto ha alcanzado incluso al ordenamiento tributario que ha comenzado a incorporar la finalidad de protección ambiental en sus instituciones. Se reflexiona también sobre el ALCA, cuyo acuerdo está en proceso de negociación.

Medidas experimentales de la complejidad computacional de un código autoadaptativo HP para problemas abiertos acelerado mediante ACA

The aim of the novel experimental measures presented in this paper is to show the improvement achieved in the computation time for a 2D self-adaptive hp finite element method (FEM) software accelerated through the Adaptive Cross Approximation (ACA) method. This algebraic method (ACA) was presented in an previous paper in the hp context for the analysis of open region problems, where the robust behaviour, good accuracy and high compression levels of ACA were demonstrated. The truncation of the infinite domain is settled through an iterative computation of the Integral Equation (IE) over a ficticious boundary, which, regardless its accuracy and efficiency, turns out to be the bottelneck of the code. It will be shown that in this context ACA reduces drastically the computational effort of the problem.

Box H and Box ACA Are Nucleolar Localization Elements of U17 Small Nucleolar RNA

The nucleolar localization elements (NoLEs) of U17 small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), which is essential for rRNA processing and belongs to the box H/ACA snoRNA family, were analyzed by fluorescence microscopy. Injection of mutant U17 transcripts into Xenopus laevis oocyte nuclei revealed that deletion of stems 1, 2, and 4 of U17 snoRNA reduced but did not prevent nucleolar localization. The deletion of stem 3 had no adverse effect. Therefore, the hairpins of the hairpin–hinge–hairpin–tail structure formed by these stems are not absolutely critical for nucleolar localization of U17, nor are sequences within stems 1, 3, and 4, which may tether U17 to the rRNA precursor by base pairing. In contrast, box H and box ACA are major NoLEs; their combined substitution or deletion abolished nucleolar localization of U17 snoRNA. Mutation of just box H or just the box ACA region alone did not fully abolish the nucleolar localization of U17. This indicates that the NoLEs of the box H/ACA snoRNA family function differently from the bipartite NoLEs (conserved boxes C and D) of box C/D snoRNAs, where mutation of either box alone prevents nucleolar localization.

Stable expression in yeast of the mature form of human telomerase RNA depends on its association with the box H/ACA small nucleolar RNP proteins Cbf5p, Nhp2p and Nop10p

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particle required for the replication of telomeres. The RNA component, termed hTR, of human telomerase contains a domain structurally and functionally related to box H/ACA small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). Furthermore, hTR is known to be associated with two core components of H/ACA snoRNPs, hGar1p and Dyskerin (the human counterpart of yeast Cbf5p). To assess the functional importance of the association of hTR with H/ACA snoRNP core proteins, we have attempted to express hTR in a genetically tractable system, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Both mature non-polyadenylated and polyadenylated forms of hTR accumulate in yeast. The former is associated with all yeast H/ACA snoRNP core proteins, unlike TLC1 RNA, the endogenous RNA component of yeast telomerase. We show that the presence of the H/ACA snoRNP proteins Cbf5p, Nhp2p and Nop10p, but not Gar1p, is required for the accumulation of mature non-polyadenylated hTR in yeast, while accumulation of TLC1 RNA is not affected by the absence of any of these proteins. Our results demonstrate that yeast telomerase is unrelated to H/ACA snoRNPs. In addition, they show that the accumulation in yeast of the mature RNA component of human telomerase depends on its association with three of the four core H/ACA snoRNP proteins. It is likely that this is the case in human cells as well.

Sermaõ de acçaõ de graças pelo feliz regresso a este reino, e exaltaçaõ ao throno de sua magestade el rei D. Miguel I. nosso senhor, prégado na Real Basilica de Mafra, no dia 6 de julho de 1828, estando presente o mesmo augusto senhor, e suas altezas as serenissimas senhoras infantas.

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Provas da votiva acçaõ do primeiro monarca de Portugal, que na marcha para escalar santarem prometteo a Deos a fundaçaõ, e dote de hum mosteiro cisterciense, se pelas intercessões de S. Bernardo ficasse senhor da Fortaleza, que hia atacar.

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Oraçaõ gratulatoria recitada na solemne acçaõ de graças que, pela feliz restituição dos inauferiveis direitos magestaticos d'el rei Nosso Senhor, fez celebrar a illustrissima camara da cidade do Porto na sé cathedral da mesma cidade em 8 de junho de 1823.

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Reserva extrativista Acaú-Goiana: tragédia comum ou decisão coletiva?

In recent years we have observed, in Brazil, the expansion of democratic spaces, providing the use of participatory management strategies in common-pool areas. However, the existence of a co-management model does not guarantee its practice, neither that it will prevent the depletion of common features characterizing the tragedy proposed by Hardin. In this work we analysed the management of Acaú-Goiana RESEX which is located in the cities of Acaú (PB) and Goiana (PE), eight years after its legal creation. We evaluated how much the users of RESEX possess information (even if non formalized) regarding the common use of area and whether they exhibit collectivist values. We used as an interpretative tool the facilitators principles of common resource management (PGRC) identified by Elinor Ostrom and the questionnaire of human values proposed by Schwartz. The human values questionnaire was applied to 240 individuals, half beneficiary and the other half non-beneficiary, only the beneficiaries were submitted to the questionnaire of PGRC. Interviews were conducted in the period of May to September 2014. We tested three hypotheses: 1) The degree of dependence from RESEX resources will play an important role on indirect knowledge of the PGRC; 2) the inclusion of individuals in a communal area (RESEX) increases collectivists values; 3) higher collectivist value rates increases knowledge of PGRC. To this end, we defined levels of socio-economic dependence of RESEX resources, knowledge of PGRC and individual values. GLM statistic analysis of mean comparison and correlation were employed. Our results showed that the knowledge on six of the seven items analyzed in the basic principles (PGRC) is still low. The extended land area and the high number of users may be exerting a detrimental effect on the development of a co-management. Contrary to expected, it was not the dependency who influenced knowledge on the PGRC, but the time spent in contact with the RESEX. This indicates that direct contact with the environment, not the dependence of it, that raises awareness about PGRC. According to our hypothesis, individuals with collectivist values showed greater knowledge of PGRC and reduced hours of work within the RESEX, indicating a greater tendency of individuals refrain their use of the common resource. Individualistic values correlated with less knowledge of a PGRC. Among the beneficiaries, individuals with higher individualistic values had higher monthly income, while among non-beneficiaries there was no such correlation, demonstrating the economic advantages of individualism (free-riding) in situations of non-private use of resources. Our data emphasize the importance of guiding the main actors in the development of a co-participatory management in the direction of the basic principles, and to develop collectivist values among users of a common good can raise awareness of these principles.