Parasomnias are a group of disorders characterized by abnormal behaviors, physical activities, and autonomic arousal symptoms while transition to sleep or continuation of sleep. Sleep terror (ST) is classified under parasomnias characterized by sudden fear attacks beginning with crying attacks or high-frequency screams and continuing with increased autonomic symptoms. ST occurs in the first few...

Algorithmic pricing may lead to more efficient and contestable markets, but high-impact, low-probability events such as terror attacks or heavy storms price gouging, which trigger injunctions get sellers banned from platforms Amazon eBay. This work addresses how impact prices when set by an algorithm different markets be affected. We analyze mitigate these high-impact paying attention external ...

This study sets out to assess responses international terrorism in Kenya. stems of the fact that menace has had been a major security challenge facing country. The draws comparison Dusit D2 and Westgate terror attacks. Data was collected from purposive sample academics as well serving retired diplomats, senior police officers military personnel. Primary data respondents using interviews. findin...

Recent international terror outbreaks notably involve long-term mental health risks to the exposed population, but whether physical health risks are also anticipated has remained unknown. Here, we report fear of terror-induced annual increases in resting heart rate (pulse), a notable risk factor of all-cause mortality. Partial least squares analysis based on 325 measured parameters successfully...

Acts of terror increase the demand for acute care. This article describes the pattern of injury of terror victims hospitalized at 9 acute-care hospitals in Israel during a 15-month period of terrorism. To characterize patients hospitalized as a result of terror injuries, we compared terror casualties with other injuries regarding severity, outcome, and service utilization. Using data from the N...

Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war terror, we examine incentives that retaliation may produce for endogenous formation an international counterterror coalition. We show there are quite reasonable circumstances under which any nation is a target terrorist attack finds it desirable to be member coalition, holding choices all other nations as given. The join coalition gro...

Governments build walls to curtail a range of illicit activities like immigration, crime, and terrorism. We argue that while physical barriers effectively prevent specific unwanted behavior, they induce actors respond strategically develop new tactics, changing the nature activity leading threats. test this argument in context Israel’s security barrier. Using an instrumental variable unrelated ...