Book review: Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert, 5th edition

Book review: Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert, 5th edition

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S imple indicators of crime by time of day * Marcus Felson , Erika Poulsen

Crime varies greatly by hour of day—more than by any other variable. Yet numbers of cases declines greatly when fragmented into hourly counts. Summary indicators are needed to conserve degrees of freedom, while making hourly information available for description and analysis. This paper describes some new indicators that summarize hour-of-day variations. A basic decision is to pick the first ho...

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Book Review: Pharmacology by Rang HP, Dale MM, Ritter JM and Moore PK. Fifth edition Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2003

Neuroscience. 5th Edition

demonstrates how the fields of ge-nomics and epigenomics have grown in the years since the Human Genome Project (2003), and the results produced by the consortium has brought the study of gene regulation to the front pages of Nature, Genome Research, and Genome Biology. In recent years, the once underrated field of epige-nomics has assumed a major role in early detection and treatment of cancer...