Editorial: Stay safe during this coronavirus crisis

Editorial: Lakes in Crisis

As Scott Fields points out in his Focus article (Fields 2005), the Great Lakes are one of the most important water resources on Earth. Together the five lakes contain around 20% of the surface freshwater on the planet. The Great Lakes basin is home to close to 40 million people in the United States and Canada, and it is no accident that some of the largest and most heavily industrialized cities...

Editorial in This Issue

Editorial in This Issue

In this issue of International Brazilian Journal of Urology , in the Difference of Oppinion, there is a highly controversy subject: The managing of bulbar stenosis Dr. Santucci, from Detroit, favors the buccal urethoplasty against the complications of substitution uretroplaty and the bad results of internal urethtrotomy; on the other hand, Drs. Siegel and Morey justify why the excision and prim...

EDITORIAL Articles in this issue

Information Visualization (2003) 2, 81. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500046 This issue presents four research articles. The first article is entitled ‘Network Intrusion Visualization with NIVA, an Intrusion Detection Visual and Haptic Analyzer,’ written by Craig Scott, Kofi Nyarko, Tanya Capers, and Jumoke Ladeji-Osias of Morgan State University. There is an urgent need for efficient intrusion det...

Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery

Data aggregation across time and space, and endogeneity of crime policies have rendered identification of Becker’s model of criminal behavior quite arduous. This paper uses unique data on the benefits of individual crimes, in particular, 5,000 Italian bank robberies, to identify deterrence. Bank robbers behave according to an instantaneous version of Becker’s model of crime: during bank robberi...