On November 28, 2010, the world started watching the whistle blower website WikiLeaks [1] to begin publishing part of the 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic cables. These confidential cables provide an insight on U.S. international affairs from 274 different embassies, covering topics such as analysis of host countries and leaders and even requests for spying out United Nations leaders [2]. The rele...

BACKGROUND The 1998 terrorist bombing of the US-Embassy in Nairobi resulted in the highest number of civilian deaths ever recorded from a single urban terrorist bombing in global history. OBJECTIVE To present forensic findings from the Nairobi terrorist bombing and discuss some contributory factors to the high-fatality witnessed. DESIGN Desriptive retrospective study. SETTING Office of th...

Osmanlı Devleti’nin son dönemine Batılılaşma politikası damgasını vurdu. Bâbıâli, Tanzimat Fermanı ile Batı’ya yöneldikten sonra kulüp, birahane, tiyatro, müzik toplulukları ve balo gibi Avrupa örneği zevk eğlenceler yaygınlaşmaya başladı. Galata, Pera Beyoğlu’nda yaşayan yabancılar, Türklerin bu eğlence kültürüne adapte sürecini hızlandırdı. Batılılaşmayı sağlama adına seçkini de Batı kültür f...

We give a simple explicit formula for turnover reduction when a large number of alphas are traded on the same execution platform and trades are crossed internally. We model turnover reduction via alpha correlations. Then, for a large number of alphas, turnover reduction is related to the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the alpha correlation matrix.

More police reduces crime but little is know about the mechanism. Does more police deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or is the reduction driven by an incapacitation of recurrent criminals? This paper exploits micro-level data on single robberies together with redeployments of two police forces within a city, providing first evidence of (negative) incapacitation that is driven by reduc...