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medical clinics#and sound the alarm to stop violence from reaching certain levels of severity.#

an information service which enabled citizens to anonymously report incidents of violence via text, twitter, phone or email, during Kenya 2007-2008 post-election violence.

Distress alert During the Westgate siege, Hersman and I texted multiple times as he searched for his business partner wife and children,

which can mean anything from the poor street lighting to badly marked crosswalks to high crime.

Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.

Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,

they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.

which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.

Instead they are about finding local solutions to social problems, such as poor access to clean water, the high costs of joint replacement surgery and slow responses to natural disasters.

Most of these were designed to solve social problems especially those related to health and the environment.""Necessity is the mother of invention,

they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.

which can in turn can help solve social problems. Whether this happens depends how the spoils of economic progress are distributed.

#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.

Philip Ball explains how it could help fight crime. One of the big challenges in fighting organised crime is precisely that it is organised.

It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility, different specialised epartments recruitment initiatives and opportunities for collaboration and trade.

Their structures often make crime syndicates and gangs more able to evade attempts by law enforcers to disrupt their activities.

which unfolds in a complex netherworld of organised crime gangs, will also take an interest n

Apparently, the devastating ISIS linked suicide attacks and PKK-linked assassinations of Turkish policemen last week have changed Ankara attitude.

Over the near-term Turkey will face an expanded domestic threat from both ISIS and PKK militancy in the form of persistent violence against the Turkish state.

suicide bombers, and legitimacy as a global caliphate l

#The International Brigade to Be activated in Poland This Year Defence Ministers of of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have agreed to establish an international brigade manned with units from the three armies,

Meanwhile the proceeds of counterfeitinggo to feed organised crime possibly eventerrorism and result in huge costs in the formof lost tax revenues.

-safeguarding human health and finallyputting an end to a crime which in thepharmaceutical industry alone is estimatedby the World Health Organisation to cost theworld more than 12 billion a year e

If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.

##because it causes damaged out of control cells to commit suicide or apoptosis which reduces the likelihood that they will go on to form tumors.##

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism participated in the study.

The ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research, the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism, and the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at the University of Texas at Austin provided funding for the study.

Decreases in stroke incidence and mortality are partly due to more successful control of risk factors such as blood pressure or smoking and to the wide use of statin medications to control cholesterol.

And that taking out smoking, taking out exercise, all these behavioral factors that would explain it.

and chronic conditions, they still found an independent association among major depression and increased risk of non-suicide mortality among the age group.

162 have died from non-suicide or accident related deaths. To measure major depression, they used data derived from the World health organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form,

white men older than 65 represent a group with one of the highest suicide rates.

because there are highly publicized suicide rates among 20-year-olds, Saint Onge says. ut increasing rates of depression among the elderly pose continued health risks, beyond suicide.

He says people who suffer from major depression often turn to unhealthy habitsike smoking or binge drinkingn addition to social withdrawal

Although the study failed to find any association between sperm morphology and other common lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption,

including suicide. hese pilot study results give us preliminary proof of the concept that we can detect mood states in regular phone calls by analyzing broad features and properties of speech,

If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.

and social problems associated with hunger and malnutrition. Now with the completely sequenced African rice genome scientists

and local police will no longer be able to use a federal law that allowed the seizure of assets of people for only believing a crime was committed.

if they so much as believe that property was used in the commission of a crime not after a successful conviction.

And then the onus is on the owners of the property to prove in court that it wasn used for crime,

domestic violence campaigners have warned. Helplines and women refuge charities have reported a dramatic rise in the use of spyware apps to eavesdrop on the victims of domestic violence via their mobiles and other electronic devices,

enabling abusers clandestinely to read texts, record calls and view or listen in on victims in real time without their knowledge.

A survey by Women Aid, the domestic violence charity, found that 41 per cent of domestic violence victims it helped had been tracked

Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls and texts secretly read Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls

and texts secretly read (Rex) It adds: lexispy lets you conduct pycalls remotely activating the phone microphone to listen in on its surroundings.

The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting

and maps where crimes occur. The system is already at police headquarters, and will soon be in each precinct and command around the city.

may have been involved in a crime, or have outstanding infractions. The data is stored for an indefinite period,

Besides getting officers to crime scenes, Mr. del Pozo said, a police cruiser should give officers information that helps them make better decisions in the field.##

Although our level of crime is comparable to those of other stable, internally secure, industrialized nations,

Starting in the 1970s with the rise of tough-on-crime politicians and the War on Drugs, America s prison population jumped eightfold between 1970 and 2010.

The common retort is that people of color statistically commit more crimes, although criminologists and scholars like Michelle Alexander have#consistently found no correlation#between the incarceration rate and the crime rate.

Any meaningful discourse on racism, poverty, immigration, the drug wars, gun violence, the mental-health crisis,

and hopefully decrease the incredibly high rate of military suicides). At a technological level, Ellie combines a video camera to track facial expressions,

Rates of violent crime are down, as well as burglaries, leading to an overall decrease in crime of 10.6 percent, according to the Denver Department of Public Safety.

The city measured the number of reported crimes from January 1st to April 30th of 2014 and compared them to the same period last year,

prior to the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana use. The number of murders, sexual assaults, violent robberies and other assaults fell by 5. 6 percent.

but all other forms of crime were down. The New york times quoted legalization proponent Brian Vicente as saying,

Every major institution said this would be horrible and lead to violence and blood in the streets.

a Washington-based advocacy group that combats online crime. CANN has made a lot of mistakes, and ICANN has not really been a good steward.

I know a crime against nature when I see one. While there is certainly much public

It s only a matter of time before a movie villain pulling off the crime of the century needs a cutting tool that is harder than anything else On earth.

#Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide Cancer researchers have pinned down a molecule that can kick-start the body s own tumour-destroying systems,

It was especially effective at triggering cell suicide in glioblastoma, a kind of brain tumour that is notoriously difficult to treat2.

when the movement of the wind's particles is perpendicular to the sun's magnetic field they resemble a fluid with sections that are smooth interrupted by bursts of violence.

and they would end up committing suicide Yaffe says. In the new study the researchers wanted to see

If enough of these blockages form the cell undergoes a type of programmed cell suicide called apoptosis

But solving this problem is complicated more than solving drug addiction, because it requires reducing the drive to eat unhealthy foods without affecting the desire to eat healthy foods when hungry.

Drug addiction is defined as compulsive drug-seeking despite adverse consequences at school work, or home. Addictive drugs ijackthe brain the natural reward-processing center, the ventral tegmental area (VTA.

We cannot continue to lie to drug users and expect them to take us seriously. They know better than anyone that all drugs are not bad and all pharmaceuticals are not safe either.

People are dying young from cirrhosis of the liver traditionally caused from alcoholism; yet they have consumed never alcohol.

or do they include suicides or murders? Does anyone remember the article that Popsci wrote about the flaws in the chemistry that goes on in these toxicollogy reports?

Suicides would fall under intentional self-harm which has grown a negligible amount but almost nothing compared to the unintentional category.

Obviously smoking it will produce some negative effects however those effects aren't nearly as serious as people try

It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.

Multiple times during the media call Klunder and Brizzolara mentioned Al qaeda s suicide bombing attack on the destroyer USS Cole in October 2000.

but it's possible that an unmanned robot boat could intercept a vessel full of suicide bombers.

We re creating a clone of the platform that enables election monitors to identify tweets related to intimidation bribery corruption or violence.

A breathalyzer is used to detect blood sugar levels that can be influenced by alcohol and smoking. According to the SEMEOTICONS project,

hail, shading, vandalism, and hookup delays, approximately 85%of all systems each year produced 90%or more of the electricity predicted,

increased damage has been associated with lifestyle choices such as smoking and obesity. Improving public awareness of lifestyle choices which may damage telomeres would

A'Smoking Gun'for Neurotransmitter Release In this latest research the scientists found that when the SNARES and synaptotagmin-1 join up,

There are even reports of suicide among these young men, "says Van der Merwe.""The heroes in all of this for me are the donor,

The provision, known as Section 66a of the 2008 Information technology Act, had made sending such messages a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.

N. N. Kaul, a spokesman for India's department of telecom, said Monday that the government was trying to control easy access to pornography following a directive from the country's top court.

That followed an order from the court last year that suggested the government needed to monitor access to pornography.

or other factors such as smoking could also impact the build up of these materials in the womb lining.

The discovery could be used by forensic scientists to place a suspect at a crime scene.

The technique, described in the journal Peerj, would have to be refined before it is suitable for crime scenes.

-and warned that gun crime should not be the'single issue'that decided votes.''Our leaders are nearly all ill prepared for this near certain, not-too-distant event.'

and form a tribunal accusing me of crimes against humanity, a saving thought flashed into my mind:

'But if it is then surely weighing the possible deaths of 90%of our citizens due to cyber warfare against gun violence

finding out how drug addicts used syringes and traveling to immunization camps in Africa and to Geneva to learn about public health policy.

#Connecticut Becomes 1st State To end Chronic Homelessness Among Vets Connecticut officials announced Thursday they had become the first state in the nation to provide housing for every one of its chronically homeless veterans.

The achievement marks a major milestone for national and state officials who set a goal to end veteran homelessness by the end of 2015.

and the Connecticut Coalition To end Homelessness (CCEH) along with other nonprofits and volunteers who hit the streets to identify homeless vets. his means that all known chronically homeless veterans are housed

and any veteran who newly enters homelessness will be rapidly put on the path to permanent housing,

Through Connecticut efforts, nearly 300 veterans previously experiencing chronic homelessness have been housed permanently. Chronically homeless individuals are defined as those with a disabling condition who have been continuously homeless for a year

or have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. On the federal level, significant increases in funding for permanent housing vouchers and additional funding targeted to provide rapid rehousing to veterans,

Around 50%of people who suffer with the condition attempt suicide. There are currently relatively few treatments for the condition

while smoking is less of a problem in Finland, Israel and Singapore, for example. The same is true within the UK,

selfish business models, bullying or violence, poor education (awareness), depressive mood and even the changeable weather.

such as sharp memories, many years of education and robust physical endurance, have stronger neural connections between certain brain regions than people with egativetraits, such as smoking, aggressive behavior and a family

an intravenous drug user or a sex worker are permitted to donate blood only after waiting one year

There's no denying that smoking is horrible for you, yet the puffing continues. As any smoker will tell you,

And while smoking is bad for you, it doesn't do much good to give it up only to replace it with another destructive habit b

Next, Aplin and his colleagues hope to investigate how a mother's diet and other factors, such as smoking,

#Fewer Americans are smoking and theye quitting faster than ever, survey shows New figures released by the US Centres for Disease Control

Even more promisingly, the rate at which people are quitting smoking has accelerated, with the 1. 6 percent drop between the 2014 and 2015 levels of adult smokers representing the steepest quitting rate in CDC statistics going back as far as 1997,

which smoking is not acceptable and not enjoyable, said Norman Edelman of the American Lung Association,

#Your fingerprints are about to reveal so much more about you Using fingerprints to identify individuals is a technique that's been around for longer than you might think-it was used first in a crime-solving capacity in the middle of the 19th century.

"We've increased very significantly the amount of data that can be taken from a crime scene to help support law enforcement's hypothesis about how a crime occurred

These modifiable risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, unhealthy diets and smoking.

Studies have shown that perceived discrimination among minority adolescents leads to smoking, anger, alcohol use and abuse, depression or psychological distress,

Only about 15 to 30 percent of smokers who try them are able to stop smoking for longer than one year.

These risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, unhealthy diets and smoking.

Donors at the Papworth hospital have included victims of car accidents and failed suicide attempts by hanging.

Available treatments for quitting smoking fail in the vast majority of those who try them,

and hate speech, using the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks to tighten the law on hate crime

There will also be tougher penalties for crimes deemed to have been fuelled by racism and antisemitism.

and Canadian police are investigating links between the hack and two suicides. The company said that Biderman resignation was n the best interest of the company

with police tying multiple blackmail attempts and at least two suicides to the leak. e are actively adjusting to the attack on our business and membersprivacy by criminals,

She said as this type of crime-stealing sensitive information or trade secrets-is often profit-motivated,

and can be collected easily in places where public smoking is allowed it could be part of a low-cost solution for a serious public health issue they say.

Among those they found was disulfiram a drug approved by the FDA to treat alcoholism.

#Suicide and gender roles: Reporting distorts reality Men angry and rejected women sociable and mentally ill--a current study by the Meduni Vienna demonstrates that these gender stereotypes prevail when Austrian daily newspapers report on suicide.

This has far-reaching consequences. When it comes to suicidal behaviour there is a clear gender paradox:

the ratio of men to women who actually commit suicide is three to one but with attempted suicides it is exactly the opposite--three women for every one man.

A study by the Meduni Vienna which has recently been published in the highly journal Sex Roles demonstrates that the cultural script that bears partial responsibility for this is also found in the reports by Austrian daily newspapers.

These gender-specific differences are made visible by the formulation the nature and frequency of reported suicide motives.

Articles about suicide in women focus more on sociability relationships with other people and motives that are anchored in the family environment.

More complex language and cautious expressions are also the hallmarks of articles about female suicide.

In contrast the articles about male suicide use more words that relate to anger and rejection.

Suicide risk could be reduced by changing the style of reportingbut that's not all. A very specific problem arises from this

The suicide risk can be reduced as a result. Journalists should therefore take care to present as correct a view as possible of suicidal tendencies

Spotlight on eleven Austrian daily newspapers507 articles containing the word'suicide'from eleven Austrian daily newspapers from between 1997 and 2005 were investigated.

The study is one of the first investigations to look comprehensively at the subject of gender-specific patterns in the reporting of suicide.

The study also highlighted the role of smoking in the development of lung cancer. Many of the early genetic faults are caused by smoking.

#Community justice court associated with lower rearrest rates The opening of a community court in a high-crime area of San francisco was associated with a lower chance that offenders would be arrested for another crime within a year, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

all sharing traditional court goals of reducing crime, ensuring safety and protecting due process rights. The programs seek to address problems often linked to criminal behavior

Kilmer and co-author Jesse Sussell examined one-year rearrest rates among those arrested for eligible offenses--such as theft, vandalism, drug offenses, assault and disorderly conduct--inside and outside the catchment area both before and after the Community Justice Center opened.

The tread may show individual wear marks from a bicycle pedal for example a type of detail that could link a specific shoe to a crime scene.

#A day without serious crime? Cities reap real benefits from predictive policing Can you imagine a day without serious crime?

Or a double-digit decline in crime rates without a double-digit increase in the size of your police force?

officers are increasingly able to stop them before they commit crimes. How it works Microsoft Domain Awareness System gets most of the attention for its work in preventing crimes.

Police departments can use it to analyze trends and other data so that they know where crimes are most likely to occur

and assign officers accordingly. But it also goes beyond that. It impossible to prevent every crime

so the system also helps officers be more effective when theye responding to calls. While officers are on the way,

they can receive information about other incidents in the area, the crime history there, and the criminal record of any suspects.

Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,

A day without serious crime New york, which has been working for decades to reduce crime, continued to make dramatic progress after deploying the Domain Awareness System in 2012.

There were 35%fewer murders last year than in 2011. Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.

%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,

On an annual basis, the amount of serious crime was cut by nearly a quarter.

And they already collect crime data. It the analytics that truly make all that useful,

#Utah nearly eliminates homelessness with solution that sounds too simple to work It sounds like a solution a child might offer:

How do you end homelessness? Give them homes. Most people would dismiss that answer as a crazy idea,

Utah cut homelessness by so much that it now tracks the remaining homeless by name--not number.

"A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,

and was on track to essentially end homelessness by next year. Instead, the city support stalled after a few years.

which supports companies that solve social problems. Furthermore, the South korean government recently announced that it plans to reduce regulations on industries such as financial technology

Utah leads the nation in depression and suicide. Doctors prescribe antidepressants in the Beehive state at nearly twice the average rate in the U s. Speculation as to

and when people do have snooped their data on it only used in a very serious process of tracking down organised crime and terrorism?

A sequencer this small might one day let police read off a genome from a spot of blood at a crime scene or permit doctors to pinpoint viruses in the midst of an epidemic.

#Mathematicians Explain Why Social Epidemics Spread Faster in Some Countries Than Others Psychologists have puzzled always over why people in Sweden were slower to start smoking and slower to stop.

In January 1964, the U s. Surgeon general Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health published a landmark report warning of the serious health effects of tobacco.

because it kick-started a global campaign to reduce the levels of smoking and the deaths it causes.

the patterns of smoking all over the world have changed dramatically. In the U s.,the numbers of smokers peaked in 1965

While the general pattern of smoking has been similarn increase in numbers followed by a decreasehe rate of change has been dramatically different from one country to another.

In other words, some countries adopted smoking more quickly and stopped smoking more quickly than others. That raises an important question.

These guys have gathered the largest historical data set on smoking ever compiled and study how its prevalence is correlated with the types of societies involved.

Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.

And they say the crucial difference is the level of individualism in each society. Perhaps the most extreme difference in smoking patterns come from the U s

So the Swedes adopted smoking more slowly, peaked later, and then stopped smoking at a slower rate than people in America.

And yet the Swedes had access to the same data about the dangers of smoking at more or less the same time.

Sweden was much slower to adopt smoking and much slower to stop. Now Lang and co think they know why.

The model reveals why Sweden stopped smoking more slowly. ur model suggests that social inertia will inhibit decisions to stop smoking more strongly in collectivistic societies than in individualistic societies,

the social freedoms in individualistic societies allow anybody to make a decision to stop smoking more easily.

That will be crucial for the way that governments design strategies to help people stop smoking. nterventions designed to discourage smoking should be tailored diferently in societies or social groups

including suicide rates three or four times that of the general public. But drugs and talk therapy are limited of use

Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.

Tzekwan chairman Gu Zikun, an anti-counterfeit technology expert, believes the technology will curb ATM-related crimes.

#Exposed to passive smoking? Here's a solution A new air-cleaning filter can get rid of all the harmful smoke substances in a room-where ten people are simultaneously smoking-in less than an hour,

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