Criminal Discovery: Dilemma Real or Apparent?

Transnational crime in the Pacific Islands : real or apparent danger?

Transnational crime constitutes a challenge for even the most advanced industrial nations. The Pacific Islands are culturally, educationally and socially diverse, geographically isolated and sparsely populated. There is a degree of heterogeneity in their respective levels of governance, corruption and law enforcement capacity. Economic weaknesses and their impact upon infrastructure, poverty an...

Real or apparent ethnic differences in cellular adhesion molecule activity?

HLA, autoimmunity, and rheumatic heart disease. Apparent or real associations?

T he report of Ozkan et all in this issue of Circulation identifies HLA allelic associations with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in a Turkish population, a population previously untested for HLA associations with RHD. Of interest, they report a significantly increased expression of B16, DR3, and DR7 in their patient sample. The increased expression of DR3 and DR7 alleles observed in their patien...

Solving the apparent diversity-accuracy dilemma of recommender systems.

Recommender systems use data on past user preferences to predict possible future likes and interests. A key challenge is that while the most useful individual recommendations are to be found among diverse niche objects, the most reliably accurate results are obtained by methods that recommend objects based on user or object similarity. In this paper we introduce a new algorithm specifically to ...

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...