Understanding the influence of race/ethnicity, gender, and class on inequalities in academic and non-academic outcomes among eighth-grade students: findings from an intersectionality approach
Author/editor: Becares L & Priest N
Year published: 2015
Socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities in academic achievement have been widely reported in the US, but how these three axes of inequality intersect to determine academic and non-academic outcomes among school-aged children is not well understood. Using data from the US Early…
A hybrid wrapper-filter approach for malware detection
Author/editor: Mamoun, A, Shamsu, lH, Jemal, A et al.
Year published: 2014
This paper presents an efficient and novel approach for malware detection. The proposed approach uses a hybrid wrapper-filter model for malware feature selection, which combines Maximum Relevance (MR) filter heuristics and Artificial Neural Net Input Gain Measurement Approximation (ANNIGMA) wrapper…
An analysis of the nature of groups engaged in cyber crime
Author/editor: Broadhurst, R, Grabosky, P, Alazab, M et al.
Year published: 2014
This paper explores the nature of groups engaged in cybercrime. It briefly outlines the definition and scope of cybercrime, theoretical and empirical challenges in addressing what is known about cyber offenders, and the likely role of organized crime groups. The paper gives examples of known cases…
Are women really that happy at work? Australian evidence on the ‘contented female’
Author/editor: Kifle T, Kler, P, & Shankar, S
Year published: 2014
This article investigates the apparent paradox of females possessing higher levels of job satisfaction compared to their male counterparts despite possessing worse employment outcomes. Postulating that the female workforce is heterogeneous by age, education and the presence of children, we create…
Foreign policy
Year published: 2014
A new ANUpoll evaluates what the public thinks about foreign affairs and what it sees as the main priorities for Australia’s foreign policy. It covers the following topics:Relations with IndonesiaRelations with the United States of America and ChinaSupport for foreign aidInternational…
Governance and democracy
Author/editor: McAllister, I
Year published: 2014
A new poll, released to mark a major boost to social research capacity at The Australian National University (ANU), has found Australians are growing more pessimistic about the future and that satisfaction with democracy has fallen gradually since 2007. The poll also found overall confidence in…
Identifying covariates of population health using extreme bound analysis
Author/editor: Carmignani F, Shankar, S, Tan, E, & Tang, K
Year published: 2014
Background: The literature is full of lively discussion on the determinants of population health outcomes. However, different papers focus on small and different sets of variables according to their research agenda. Because many of these variables are measures of different aspects of development…