Lives that Matter: Criminology and Global Security Inequality

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Metrics That Matter: Quantifying Software Security Risk

Any endeavor worth pursuing is worth measuring, but software security presents new measurement challenges: there are no established formulas or procedures for quantifying the security risk present in a program. This document details the importance of measuring software security and discusses the less-thansatisfying approaches that are prevalent today. A new set of metrics is then proposed for e...

Black Lives Do Matter.

I n this issue of Circulation, Mehta and colleagues 1 provide additional information on the state of cardiovascular care for the black population in the United States and, once again, the results remain mixed in our ability to optimize care for all. Their data remain consistent with findings from Bridges et al 2 in 2000 in identifying race as an adverse factor for mortality for coronary artery ...

environmental security and global violence

for many years, the prevailing notion of security has been associated with the ‘realist’ militaryside of conflict management, understood as ‘national security’. for us the term does not just mean theinterplay of deterring, compelling, defensive and offensive force in the pursuit of a self-defined nationalinterest. above all, and at a fundamental level it includes the safety and quality of life ...

Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face

Global health networks, webs of individuals and organizations with a shared concern for a particular condition, have proliferated over the past quarter century. They differ in their effectiveness, a factor that may help explain why resource allocations vary across health conditions and do not correspond closely with disease burden. Drawing on findings from recently concluded studies of eight gl...