an analysis on terrorism: meaning, history, and approach on the balance, it be con said that terrorism, as a political phenomenon and a determining factor in political, social, and economic developments, has replaced the political phenomena which alread was common such as revolutions, riots, rebellions, and conflicts (total wars between two political entities or more characterised as certain id...

This commentary on Potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. Presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. In spite of...

Protection against harmful chemical materials is compulsory in many aspects of everyday life. Proper and adequate protective clothing is desirable during household chores and in industrial, agricultural, and medical work, during military operations; and in response to incidents of terrorism. Different types of materials and garment designs are used in these clothing items, and protection levels...

io-port 05647651 Yamashita, Tomohisa; Soeda, Shunsuke; Noda, Itsuki Evacuation planning assist system with network model-based pedestrian simulator. Yang, Jung-Jin (ed.) et al., Principles of practice in multi-agent systems. 12th international conference, PRIMA 2009, Nagoya, Japan, December 14–16, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-64211160-0/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science...

In her paper "The Global Phenomenon of 'Humanizing' Terrorism in Literature and Cinema" Elaine Martin presents -following a discussion of two early examples, Schiller's The Robbers and Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (1810) -an analysis of several contemporary works that model different ways of representing terrorism: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) and its 1976 f...

A systematic view of terrorism research to reveal the intellectual structure of the field and empirically discern the distinct set of core researchers, institutional affiliations, publications, and conceptual areas can help us gain a deeper understanding of approaches to terrorism. This paper responds to this need by using an integrated knowledge-mapping framework that we developed to identify ...

Over the past decade, terrorism risk has become a prominent consideration in protecting the well-being of individuals and organizations. More recently, there has been interest in not only quantifying terrorism risk, but also placing it in the context of an all-hazards environment in which consideration is given to accidents and natural hazards, as well as intentional acts. This article discusse...

With the threat posed by terrorism involving radioactive materials now high on the nation's agenda, local, state, and federal agencies are moving to enhance preparedness and response capabilities. Crucial to these efforts is the development of effective risk communication strategies. This article reports findings from an ongoing study of risk communication issues in nuclear/radiological terrori...