Endangered species around the world are in danger of extinction from poaching. From the start of the 20th century, the African rhino population has dropped over 98% [4] and the global tiger population has dropped over 95% [5], resulting in multiple species extinctions in both groups. Species extinctions have negative consequences on local ecosystems, economies, and communities. To protect these...

In urban transportation networks, crime diffuses as criminals travel through the networks and look for illicit opportunities. It is important to first model this diffusion in order to recommend actions or patrol policies to control the diffusion of such crime. Previously, game theory has been used for such patrol policy recommendations, but these applications of game theory for security have no...

in order to examine the invasion of iraq from the perspective of international law, this paper will review the legal reasons for the occupation of iraq, and also, the question of research is that whether the occupation of iraq from the perspective of right to use force is justifiable or not? by analyzing the prohibition of the use force principle in international relations and its exceptions, i...

Although the number of incarcerated females is rapidly increasing, few of us will have actual contact with women in a correctional setting. For the most part, our ideas about female inmates and the prisons they are housed in come from filmic images – images that, though highly accessible to the public, depict inaccurate accounts of prison life. From the use of unlikely characters and their corr...

Real software systems are messy. They are too ill-specified and complex to reason about formally, yet they face, and must defend against, security threats that were never contemplated in their original design. To address these computer security challenges, we have turned to empirical methods. Computer security has evolved from a prescriptive engineering discipline into a experimental science th...