Forensic entomology (FE) is increasingly gaining international recognition. In Germany, however, the development of FE has been stagnating, mainly because of the lack of cooperation between police, forensic medicine and entomology. In 1997 a co-operative research project 'Forensic Entomology' was started in Frankfurt/Main at the Center of Legal Medicine and the Research Institute Senckenberg. T...

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit, exploitative form of migration – human trafficking – from that respective country. However, the network e...

handling. No easy, definitive, and affordable test can demonstrate effectiveness before each use. Wearers may find the mask uncomfortable. We encourage innovation to improve respiratory protection options. Future studies must be conducted to determine levels of protection achieved when naive users, following instructions, produce a similar mask from identical or similar raw materials. Research ...

In 2000, a reference center was created to systematically record leishmaniases in Germany. We analyzed 58 cases of leishmaniases imported during a 2-year period. These findings will serve as a baseline for the sandfly vector's anticipated northward move because of global warming and as an advisory for immunocompromised persons traveling to leishmaniasis-endemic areas.

Corporate governance is concerned with the institutions that influence how business corporations allocate resources and returns. A system of corporate governance shapes who makes investment decisions in corporations, what types of investments they make, and how returns from investments are distributed. Retained earnings—undistributed profits and capital consumption allowances—have always provid...

1. Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan. Statistics of Communicable Diseases and Surveillance Report, Republic of China, 2004 and 2005 [cited 2008 Mar 18]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov.tw/public/ Data/8324174197.pdf 2. Jou R, Chuang PC, Wu YS, Yan JJ, Luh KT. Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Taiwan. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:871–2. 3. World Health Organization. Anti-tuberculosis d...

The total number of police registered road accidents has stagnated for the last 10 years – between 2.2 and 2.5 million road accidents. There were slight increases in single years such as 2007, 2010 or 2015, but as well slight decreases in 2002 or 2011. On the long run, there is an increase since 2000 by 7 % in 2015. The forecast for 2016 also indicates an increase in accident figures by roundab...

CRASH2 is a multinational trial sponsored by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Great Britain, which aims to determine the effect of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid on death and transfusion requirement in adult trauma patients with ongoing significant haemorrhage, or who are considered to be at risk of significant haemorrhage. In addition, the effect on the r...

Mark Addison (Phillips Research, UK), Bernhard Bauer (TU Munich, Germany), Javier Contreras (UAM, Madrid), Martin Fischer (University of Bonn, Germany), Fernando Gamboa (INRIA, France), Frank Hofmann (University of Bochum, Germany), Volker Kruschinski (University of Bochum, Germany), Frank Lonczewski (TU Munich, Germany), Angel Puerta (University of Stanford, USA), Siegfried Schreiber (TU Munic...