首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Calculating Crime When you think about maths, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding
Calculating Crime When you think about maths, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding
admin
2011-04-18
36
问题
Calculating Crime
When you think about maths, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals.
People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal (揭示) the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it’s easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
But Mike O’Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of a criminal’s home base by combining these patterns with a city’s layout (布局) and historical crime records.
The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets—that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O’Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal’s patterns change with age. It’s been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime.
Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O’Leary’s uses more maths. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country.
The program is just one way to use maths to fight crime. O’Leary says that criminology—the study of crime and criminals—contains a lot of good math problems. " I feel like I’m in a gold mine and I’m the only one who knows what gold looks like, " he says. "It’s a lot of fun. "
People tend to believe there is a relationship between______.
选项
A、mathematician and criminologist
B、the location of a crime and the residence of the criminal
C、computer program and profits
D、a census and criminal’s pattern
答案
B
解析
本题是细节考查题。题目是:人们倾向于相信______之间有联系。选B的依据是:第二段最后一句:“So,the farther away from the area a crime takes place,the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.”所以,离犯罪现场越远,同一罪犯犯罪的可能性就越低。选项B.犯罪地点和罪犯的住处,与原文意思相符,所以选B。选项A.数学和犯罪学;选项C.计算机程序和利益;选项D.人口普查和犯罪模式。三项都不符合题意,因此应选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/m5Ld777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语理工类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语理工类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
CaffeineCaffeineisprobablythemostwidelyuseddrugintheworld.Humanshavebeenconsumingcaffeineforhundredsofyea
JapaneseCarKeepsWatchforDrunkDriversAconceptcardevelopedbyJapanesecompanyNissanhasabreathalyzer-likedetect
Thousandsofpeopleperishedinthestorm.
MoreAboutAlzheimer’sDiseaseScientistshavedevelopedskinteststhatmaybeusedinthefuturetoidentifypeoplewith
MoreAboutAlzheimer’sDiseaseScientistshavedevelopedskinteststhatmaybeusedinthefuturetoidentifypeoplewith
TryingtoFindaPartnerOneofthemoststrikingfindingsofarecentpollintheUKisthatofthepeopleinterviewed,one
TryingtoFindaPartnerOneofthemoststrikingfindingsofarecentpollintheUKisthatofthepeopleinterviewed,one
ProlongingHumanLife1Prolonginghumanlifehasincreasedthesizeofthehumanpopulation.Manypeoplealivetodaywouldhave
Humanfacialexpressionsdifferfromthoseofanimalsinthedegreetowhichtheycanbedeliberatelycontrolledandmodified.
ManandComputerWhatmakespeopledifferentfromcomputerprograms?Whatisthemissingelementthatourtheoriesdon’tyet(51)
随机试题
8421BCD码00010100B表示的十进制数为()
A.阿莫西林B.卡托普利C.更昔洛韦D.枸橼酸钾E.辛伐他汀在动物的研究中证实对胎儿有不良反应(致畸或使胚胎致死或其他),但在孕妇中无对照组或在妇女和动物研究中无可以利用的资料,药物仅在权衡对胎儿的利大于弊时给药的是
一般墙体大模板在常温条件下,混凝土强度最少要达到()时即可拆模。
某批货物由列车载运进境,经海关批准,收货人内地某外贸公司在列车申报进境21天后委托专业报关公司向进境地海关办理转关运输手续,并于货物运抵指运地后第8天向该企业所在地海关正式申报。因下列哪种原因申报人必须缴付滞报金?()
下列不是物业服务费核算要点及方法的是()。
毛泽东曾说:“战略易于复制,执行不可复制。”谈谈你对这句话的看法。
俄语、汉语、日语三种语言所属的语法结构类型按次序是()
下列程序段的运行结果是______。intx=0,y=0;while(x<15)y++,x+=++y;printf("%d,%d",y,x);
在考生文件夹下KIU文件夹中新建一个名为“MING”的文件夹。
WhichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUEaccordingtothefirstparagraph?Fromthethirdparagraphwelearnthat______.
最新回复
(
0
)