INTRODUCTION This paper examines secular trends in violence among Ontario students between 1983 and 2001, and variation by sex. METHODS Using data from the Ontario Student Drug Use Survey, we examined self-reports of assault, weapon carrying, and gang fighting based on 10 cross-sectional surveys from 1983 to 2001. Respondents were derived from representative samples of Ontario students in gra...

Gang members carry guns and twitter accounts. Media outlets nationally have reported on a new phenomenon of gang affiliates using social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to trade insults or make violence threats that lead homicide or victimization. We term this interaction internet banging. Police departments in metropolitan areas have increased resources in their gang violence...

Scientific applications are becoming more I/O demanding than ever. For such applications, the system with dedicated I/O nodes does not provide enough scalability. Rather, a serverless approach is a viable alternative. However, with the serverless approach, a job’s execution time is decided by whether it is co-located with the file blocks it needs. Gang scheduling (GS), which is used in supercom...

In this Article, we seek to help guide law enforcement activities targeting gun acquisition by high-risk people by examining two potentially important sources of crime guns: licensed retail dealers and traffickers. Limited data availability is a key reason more is not currently known about how criminals obtain guns. This Article assembles a unique dataset that combines five years (2009–2013) of...

Discussed in this Brief: The results of a study to determine the level of street gang involvement in drug sales arrests in two Los Angeles suburban cities from 1989 to 1991. Results are compared with those from an earlier study of gang involvement in cocaine sales based on arrest incidents in south-central Los Angeles between 1983 and 1985. Police departments that participated in this study als...

Optical Protein-Chip System for Clinical Application, Hong-Gang Zhang, Cai Qi, Zhan-Hui Wang, Gang Jin, and Rui-Juan Xiu ( Institute of Microcirculation, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China; 2 Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; * address correspondence to this author at: Institute of Microcircula...

This article examines the ways that Danish gang exit programs engage police officers and defectors in a pervasive work on belonging between gangs, kinship networks state. In urban Denmark, majority of candidates are ethnic-minority background form part street-gang environment marginalized migrant neighborhoods. is an intimate social constituted by diasporic networks, where formations entangled ...

Purpose: Speech perception in participants with auditory neuropathy (AN) was systematically studied to answer the following 2 questions: Does noise present a particular problem for people with AN? Can clear speech and cochlear implants alleviate this problem? Method: The researchers evaluated the advantage in intelligibility of clear speech over conversational speech in 13 participants with AN....

A number of jurisdictions have been experimenting with new problem-oriented policing frameworks to understand and respond to gun violence among gang-involved offenders. These interventions are based on the “pulling levers” deterrence strategy that focuses criminal justice and social service attention on a small number of chronically offending gang members responsible for the bulk of urban gun v...