OBJECTIVES To examine changes in maternal-child health surrounding the April 2015 civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, following Freddie Gray's death while in police custody. METHODS We conducted cross-sectional Children's HealthWatch surveys January 2014 through December 2015 in pediatric emergency departments and primary care clinics on maternal-child health and June 2015 through October 20...

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected and inferred from publicly available and overt sources of information. Open-Source social media intelligence is a sub-field within OSINT with a focus on extracting insights from publicly available data in Web 2.0 platforms like Twitter (micro-blogging website), YouTube (video-sharing website) and Facebook (social-networking website). In...

Many sub-Saharan African countries are confronted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article reviews academic literature in the social sciences and health to discover why HIV/AIDS has become an epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and not in other parts of the world. This was studied by examining the social determinants of diminishment of tradition and social cohesion in terms of political, social and ec...

‘Infrastructural Unrest’ characterizes a growing nexus of knowledge, awareness, participative and activist practices that indicate how people are waking up from the contemporary logistical nightmare infrastructure global logistics. It is wake-up newly resonates with theories by provoking systems-level, decentralised field awareness action, revealing interconnect...

-The ship of progress of any country floats on the hard work and dedication of its young generation and its innovative thought. But now wide spread frustration has been found in the youths of society which is decreasing their work efficiency. So the present study has been conducted to study the unrest among graduate students in relation to their gender, intelligence, adjustment and educational ...

Abstract Social unrest is a powerful mode of expression and organized form behavior involving civil disorders acts mass disobedience, among other behaviors. Nowadays, signs most social start from the media websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. In recent times, Nigeria has faced different forms unrest, including popular #EndSARS, which began on Twitter with demand that government disband Spe...

Social media have provided plentiful evidence of their capacity for information diffusion. Fads and rumors but also social unrest and riots travel fast and affect large fractions of the population participating in online social networks (OSNs). This has spurred much research regarding the mechanisms that underlie social contagion, and also who (if any) can unleash system-wide information dissem...