Online romance scam: Expensive e-living for romantic happiness
- Authors: Kopp, Christian , Sillitoe, James , Gondal, Iqbal , Layton, Robert
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: Proceedings of the 29th Bled eConference: Digital Economy (BLED 2016), Slovenia, pp.175-189 p. 15
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- Description: The Online Romance Scam is a very successful scam which causes considerable financial and emotional damage to its victims. It is based on building a relationship which establishes a deep trust that causes victims to voluntarily transfer funds to the scammer. The aim of this research is to explore online dating scams as a type of e-Living which initially creates happiness for the victim in a virtual romantic relationship, but tragically then causes the victim to be separated from his or her savings. Using narrative research methodology, this research will establish a model of the romance scam structure and its variations regarding human romantic attitudes, and will develop a theory which explains how the victim is moved through the phases of the scam. Findings of this research will contribute to the knowledge of the Online Romance Scam as e-Crime and provide information about the structure and the development of the modus operandi which can be used to identify an online relationship as a scam at an early phase in order to prevent significant harm to the victim.
Abrupt onset of carbonate deposition in Lake Kivu during the 1960s: Response to recent environmental changes
- Authors: Pasche, Natacha , Alunga, Georges , Mills, Keely , Muvundja, Fabrice , Ryves, David , Schurter, Michael , Wehrli, Bernard , Schmid, Martin
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Paleolimnology Vol. 44, no. 4 (2010), p. 931-946
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- Description: This study interprets the recent history of Lake Kivu, a tropical lake in the East African Rift Valley. The current gross sedimentation was characterized from a moored sediment trap array deployed over 2 years. The past net sedimentation was investigated with three short cores from two different basins. Diatom assemblages from cores were interpreted as reflecting changes in mixing depth, surface salinity and nutrient availability. The contemporary sediment trap data indicate seasonal variability, governed by diatom blooms during the annual mixing in the dry season, similar to Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. The ratio of settling fluxes to net sediment accumulation rates implies mineralization rates of 80-90% at the sediment-water interface. The sediment cores revealed an abrupt change ~40 years ago, when carbonate precipitation started. Since the 1960s, deep-water methane concentrations, nutrient fluxes and soil mineral inputs have increased considerably and diatom assemblages have altered. These modifications probably resulted from a combination of three factors, commonly altering lake systems: the introduction of a non-native fish species, eutrophication, and hydrological changes inducing greater upwelling. Both the fish introduction and increased rainfall occurred at the time when the onset of carbonate precipitation was observed, whereas catchment population growth accompanied by intensified land use increased the flux of soil minerals already since the early twentieth century due to more intense erosion. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Beyond the workplace : An investigation into older men's learning and wellbeing in Northern Ireland
- Authors: Mark, Rob , Montgomery, Vanessa , Graham, Harry
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Report
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- Description: Report for the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) by the Institute of Governance, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. To be presented at Men’s learning & wellbeing: A One Day Forum, hosted by University of Ballarat at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute, Friday 26 February 2010.
Techniques for efficient and effective transformed image identification:
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation [P] Academic Press
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Looking Deeper
- Authors: Groothuis, Marijke
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Traversing the great divide! : preparing social work and welfare students for rural practice in Australia
- Authors: Green, Rosemary
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
- Description: "This professional doctorate portfolio presents the results of my investigations into how to better prepare social work and welfare students for rural practice in Australia."--p. 2.
Indigenous children and institutions
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Many voices:reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation Chapter 9 p. 165-177
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- Description: 2003004028
The competing discourses of workplace health
- Authors: Allender, Steven
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "This study provides a postcritical analysis of the discourses on workplace health, using data gathered with information technology company Labyrinth Computing."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy