Urban Terror: London's Turn

AR Turn-by-turn Navigation in Small Urban Areas and Information Browsing

Navigation systems allow to discover cities and their urban areas easily and quickly, finding the shortest path to reach them and giving directions to users saving their time and energy. At present time, these systems are based over streets maps offered by the major mapping services like Tele Atlas, Navteq or OpenStreetMap. In recent years, thanks to the Google StreetView service it has been po...

Terror firmer

stopped immediately. " Even the broadsheet newspapers purveyed elements of sensationalism, while demolishing it in the same article. The Daily Telegraph, for example, highlighted " designer babies " in a report and headline on the Newcastle work, based on the idea of preventing the transmission of defective mitochondrial genes. Yet the article then used helpful comparisons to repudiate the nigh...

Terror Queues

This article presents the first models developed specifically for understanding the infiltration and interdiction of ongoing terror plots by undercover intelligence agents, and does so via novel application of ideas from queueing theory and Markov population processes. The resulting “terror queue” models predict the number of undetected terror threats in an area from agent activity/utilization ...

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Veto players and terror

Democratic regimes have been linked to terrorism for contending reasons, with some scholars claiming democracy increases terrorism and others claiming it decreases terror. Corroborating evidence has been used for both relationships leading to the following puzzle: why do some democratic regimes seem to foster terrorism while others do not? We offer an explanation based on Tsbelis’s veto players...