Terrorism and terrorist organizations are becoming more vulnerable nowadays. Understanding the terrorism and the organizational structures of terrorist networks are most important to devise successful defensive strategies against the terrorist activities. Terrorist organizational network is a real world complex system which is the association of numerous entities and has significant structural ...

Over the past two decades, terrorism has exacted an enormous toll on the Republic of Turkey, a secular democracy with a 99.8% Muslim population. From 1984 to 2000, an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 Turkish citizens were killed by a nearly continuous stream of terrorism-related events. During this period, the Partiya Karekerren Kurdistan (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group (re-named KADEK in 2002), wa...

INTRODUCTION Terrorism is a global public health burden. South Americans have been victims of terrorism for many decades. While the causes vary, the results are the same: death, disability, and suffering. The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive, epidemiological, descriptive study of terrorist incidents in South America. METHODS This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study. ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the direction of causality among asthma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and onset of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms (GERS) after exposure to the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster. METHODS Using data from the WTC Health Registry, we investigated the effects of early diagnosed post-9/11 asthma and PTSD on the late onset and persistence of GERS...

Prediction of terrorist group using historical data of attacks has been less explored due to the lack of detailed terrorist data which contain terrorist group's attacks and activities. The reasons may be its confidentiality & sensitivity. In this paper we have shown a terrorist group prediction model (TGPM) to predict the terrorist group involved in a given attack. This model initially lea...

Nowadays different types of web crawlers are available to perform variety of tasks. As internet is expanding the need of specialized web crawlers is also increasing with each passing days. Numbers of visualization tools which can be used to dynamically generate visual images are available in market. The need for visual representation of data increases in the case of counter terrorism. Terror ac...

This article argues that the new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda is based on logics of anticipatory action. Three types action are central to development counter-terrorism identified: preparedness, precaution and preemption. We argue while original Strategy contained a mixture these three forms action, places renewed emphasis preemptive measures with preparedness given less prominence. The reinforc...

A method is presented for detecting changes to the distribution of a criminal or terrorist point process between two time periods using a non-model-based approach. By treating the criminal/terrorist point process as an intelligent site selection problem, changes to the process can signify changes in the behavior or activity level of the criminals/terrorists. The locations of past events and an ...

UNLABELLED In a 28-mo period 14 multiple-casualty terror events occurred in Jerusalem, challenging the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of the city's sole Level 1 trauma center. We performed a retrospective review of the response of the department to evaluate staff activities, resource use (emergency department, operating rooms, and intensive care unit [ICU]), and patient...