Editorial: Building a Human Relations Community

Building Police/Community Relations Through Virtual Communities

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

Editorial: Collaboration as a critical success factor in using ICT for capacity building and community development

Regional economies and communities are facing increasing economic, social and cultural hardship in many parts of the world as economies adjust to the demands of the new orders of commerce and governance. A part of this is the paradox that regional economies and communities can be either enhanced or disadvantaged by information and communication technologies (ICT) products and services. The pote...

Editorial: Building on a Firm Foundation

Health Perspectives (EHP). In doing so, I follow in the footsteps of the many editors who came before me—James Burkhart, Thomas Goehl, George Lucier, and Gary Hook. Since the start of the journal in 1972, these individuals have guided the development of EHP to be one of the world’s premier environmental health science publications. In 2007, EHP published 12 issues containing more than 300 peer-...

Feasibility Study of Building a Human Powered Hydrofoil Vessel

In this paper, a feasibility study of building a Human Powered Hydrofoil (HPH) vessel is reported. Hydrofoil vessels are a well-known class of high-speed crafts. In addition to high-speed operation, the hydrofoils have a reliable maneuvering capability, good stability and proper operation in waves. Also, a human powered vehicle, nowadays is an advancing idea. Different aspects of the design and...

Building a Philanthropy Community