Abstract Does pre-colonial history—and in particular the role of interstate warfare—help explain long-run development patterns across India? To address this question, we construct a new geocoded database historical conflicts on Indian subcontinent. We document robust positive relationship between conflict exposure and local economic today. Drawing archival secondary data, show that districts we...

Gang scheduling has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. Parallel threads of a single job are scheduled for simultaneous execution on a parallel computer even if the job does not fully utilize all available processors. Non allocated processors go idle for the duration of the time quantum assigned to the threads. In this paper we propose a clas...

Helping communities combat gang activity is a leading priority for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and our Gang Reduction Program has been a key initiative to that end. A comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated approach to prevent ing and reducing gang activity, the program emphasizes addressing the needs of youth and affecting change in families, organizat...

Eleven years of financial loss data from the CSI annual Computer Crime and Security surveys have been analysed to discover whether or not they obey some form of power law relationship. Evidence is adduced for the existence of both single and double power laws, and their characteristic exponents are determined, together with various statistical and probabilistic reliability measures. The finding...

The evolving nature of warfare has been changing with cybersecurity and the use advanced biotechnology in each aspect society is expanding overlapping cyberworld. This intersection, which described as “biocybersecurity” (BCS), can become a major front 21st-century conflicts. There are three lines BCS make it critical component overall cybersecurity: (1) cyber operations within area have life th...

BACKGROUND Many studies document a robust and consistent relationship between gang membership and elevated delinquency, with gang members disproportionately involved in crime compared to non-gang peers. Research also indicates that both delinquent youth and youth who join gangs often show a wide range of deficient or distorted social-cognitive processes compared to non-delinquent peers. Cogniti...

Technological advancement has forced the international community to deal with sixth generation of war, which is a conflict involving most advanced robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and satellite technology. This shows that warfare evolved beyond traditional tactics because parties are no longer required engage in face-to-face combat as they did during first conflicts. Although "classic" w...

A preemptive gang scheduler is developed and evaluated. The gang scheduler, called SCoreD , is implemented on top of a UNIX operating system and runs on workstation and PC clusters connected by Myrinet, a giga-bit class, high-performance network. To have high-performance communication at the user-level and a multiuser environment simultaneously, we propose network preemption to save and restore...