Queensland businesses could be losing over $12 billion per annum as a result of company fraud according to a recent study by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) – and small businesses are most at risk. ”Fraud is not just a problem for big business,” said Professor Keitha Dunstan who heads the School of [...]
Burglars are opportunistic, generally choose their targets at random and know all the tricks householders try to use as deterrents, according to a new study from ECU. In conjunction with the Australian Institute of Criminology, researchers from ECU’s School of Law and Justice conducted the study with 69 participants who admitted to having committed a [...]
A hypersonic flight experiment at eight times the speed of sound, led by a University of Queensland PhD student, has safely launched in Norway. PhD student Dillon Hunt, a senior mission systems engineer with Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), was scientific and technical lead for the trial. It involved scientists from four nations [...]
The increasingly common practice of drinking at home before hitting the nightclubs is the major predictor of people experiencing harm or violence, Australia’s largest study into alcohol-related nightlife crime has found. The ‘Dealing with alcohol-related harm and the night-time economy (DANTE)’ study compared the effectiveness of alcohol-related crime prevention measures put in place between 2005 [...]
Despite ABBA’s insistence that women long for “money, money, money”, research has found that The Beatles were on the right path when they sang “money can’t buy me love.” Dr Peter Jonason from the University of Western Sydney is an expert in personality psychology and individual differences. With colleagues from Singapore Management University and New [...]
Research conducted by the UTS Centre for Corporate Governance underpinning the 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership reveals a decade of negligible change for women in executive ranks. The Census was launched this week by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia on behalf of the Equal Opportunity for Women in [...]
Queensland businesses could be losing over $12 billion per annum as a result of company fraud according to a recent study … [more]
Burglars are opportunistic, generally choose their targets at random and know all the tricks householders try to use as deterrents, … [more]
A hypersonic flight experiment at eight times the speed of sound, led by a University of Queensland PhD student, has … [more]
The increasingly common practice of drinking at home before hitting the nightclubs is the major predictor of people experiencing harm … [more]
Despite ABBA’s insistence that women long for “money, money, money”, research has found that The Beatles were on the … [more]
Research conducted by the UTS Centre for Corporate Governance underpinning the 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership reveals a decade … [more]
Biologists have shown how an advanced set of teeth give Antarctic leopard seals the biological tools to feast on prey … [more]
New research published today seeks to push the discovery that light can be tied in knots to the next level. … [more]
