Gang involvement and delinquency are prominent issues frequently examined in criminal justice scholarship. Research has revealed that gang increases the likelihood of delinquency/crime, youth participate gangs for a variety reasons including protection, status, sense belonging. Although research found various social familial factors increase probability involvement, it primarily focuses on male...

Development of CXCR4 antagonist for treatment of AIDS Wan-Gang Gu1* and Xuan Zhang2 1Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, 563000, China 2School of Pharmaceutical Science & Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yunnan 650500, China *Corresponding author: Dr. Wan-Gang Gu, Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medic...

Hospitals in low crime areas, believed to be far removed from gang activity, might suddenly be involved in a gang shooting situation for which their staffs are ill-prepared, as the author relates. He describes the need to have a policy in place in advance of a gang victim arriving at your ED to avoid situations where staff and patients are put in danger. The article presents the highlights of a...

Our great-ape relatives are some of the most endangered species on the planet and gorillas are no exception. Taxonomists are not quite agreed on the status of some gorilla populations in central Africa but one group, the Cross River gorilla in Nigeria, is thought to be one of the most critically endangered species worldwide with an estimate of only around 150 individuals remaining. Its neighbou...

In this paper we consider the scheduling of periodic and parallel rigid tasks. We provide (and prove correct) an exact schedulability test for Fixed Task Priority (FTP) Gang scheduler sub-classes: Parallelism Monotonic, Idling, Limited Gang, and Limited Slack Reclaiming. Additionally, we study the predictability of our schedulers: we show that Gang FJP schedulers are not predictable and we iden...

Youth Gangs: An Overview, the initial Bulletin in this series, brings together available knowledge on youth gangs by reviewing data and research. The author begins with a look at the history of youth gangs and their demographic characteristics. He then assesses the scope of the youth gang problem, including gang problems in juvenile detention and correctional facilities. A review of gang studie...

Street gangs pose serious threats to their members, to their victims, and to communities at large. The behavior problems associated with gangs are many and varied. Suggested causes for the emergence of gangs are complicated, and many of them are interdependent. Interventions planned to rehabilitate individuals and to weaken the power of the gang are numerous. Research shows that few of these in...

Efforts to maximize the impact of network centric warfare (NCW) rely upon the effective integration of human and technological agents. Combat and command and control models must represent the entirety of a network-centric organization, including both humans and non-human components which comprise any complex system. The Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition (DMSC) was introduced by Miller and Sha...

The proliferation of youth gangs since 1980 has fueled the public’s fear and magnified possible misconceptions about youth gangs. To address the mounting concern about youth gangs, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Youth Gang Series delves into many of the key issues related to youth gangs. The series considers issues such as gang migration, gang growth, fema...