Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico during the past five years, claiming over 40,000 lives. This study examines how drug traffickers’ economic objectives influence the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. By exploiting variation from close mayoral elections and a network model of drug trafficking, the study develops three sets of re...

afghanistan as the largest producer of drug in the world, after the events of september 11, 2001, and attack of international forces following the resolution of the un, has been increasingly important in international politics. the range of effects from illigal drug trade in afghanistan and the countries on the way of transition and trafficking target market, has caused special attention paid t...

Human trafficking is one of the transnational crimes that a threat to global security which type crime coupled with illicit drug trafficking, maritime piracy, arms smuggling, money laundering, terrorism, international banking and cybercrimes. The forms in persons are divided based on purpose delivery, victim, form exploitation. Because massiveness this crime, United Nations formulated protocol ...

membrane/ protein trafficking in the secretory/ biosynthetic and endocytic pathways is mediated by vesicles. vesicle trafficking in eukaryotes is regulated by a class of small monomeric gtpases the rab protein family. rab proteins represent the largest branch of the ras superfamily gtpases, and have been concerned in a variety of intracellular vesicle trafficking and different intracellular sig...

Nanoparticle-Drug Conjugates To combat pancreatic cancer with a dismal prognosis, self-assembled nanoparticle-drug conjugate is synthesized in article 2203011 by Peng Huang, Shijun Wen, Jiang Yang, and co-workers. Based on chemically-modified sulfated glycosaminoglycan derivatives, (NDC) efficiently encapsulates cyclodiaryliodonium NOX inhibitor from pooled screening, enabling hyaluronidase-act...

Recent development cooperation with Guinea‐Bissau, focusing on good governance, state‐ building and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabili‐ zation of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea‐ Bissau as a failed “narco‐state”, as well as Western aid meant to stabilize this state, are both based on dubious...

North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility (SIF) recently opened in Vancouver, Canada. One of the concerns prior to the SIF's opening was that the facility might lead to a migration of drug activity and an increase in drug-related crime. Therefore, we examined crime rates in the neighborhood where the SIF is located in the year before versus the year after the SIF opene...

Random gunfire problems are distinguishable from other types of shooting incidents such as urban sniper attacks, gang shootouts, domestic homicides, and revenge shootings because (1) random gunfire is strictly an outdoor activity; (2) it is not usually part of other criminal activity such as drug dealing, assaults, or robberies; and (3) random gunfire shooters do not fire their weapons to inten...