Social control between shifting violence thresholds and changing ideas of privacy'. Spierenburg describes the historical background to violence and…
According to professor Henk van de Bunt, this is not because control fails, but because perpetrators are able to keep their forbidden activities effectively…
Now only 95 000 km² of this natural habitat survives, just 8% of its initial extent. It is still a large biodiversity reservoir in Brazil, second only to the…
This defensive view of international themes in criminology ignores the fact that the Netherlands is an active player on the world stage and that time, place…
In fact the best conserved areas harbour over 700 species of coral, 600 species of mollusc and nearly 4000 species of fish. These fish have been well studied…
Global climate change has for several years been contributing greatly to the spread of cholera through associated increase in the frequency of torrential rain,…
This has led to an increasing demand from law-enforcement agencies for digital forensic tools to provide evidence that will trap the criminals involved and…
An estimated 200 million children and youth around the world are being abused by their peers. Bullying is a violation of the right to be respected and to feel…
The £365,326 three-year project – led by Professor Jim Conroy, Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Glasgow and jointly funded by the Arts and…
This mechanism, which is described in the latest number of Cell Metabolism, explains how the human body can keep the blood glucose concentration within the…
The annual event is organised in Europe every three years and this year’s edition – organised in Brussels from 5 to 8 September 2007 – focuses on computational…
Scientists demonstrated that incidents of electromagnetic interference (EMI) from second and third generation mobile phones occurred at a mere three-centimetre…
As outlined in a series of articles in the online open access publication, Malaria Journal, the World Antimalarial Resistance Network (WARN) aims to provide a…
RFID is considered to become a key technology in future IT systems. However, many potential users are facing basic questions: Are there any guidelines for the…
Bioethanol is produced by a variety of micro-organisms under anaerobic conditions, i.e. in the absence of oxygen. For biotechnical methods of fuel production…
BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of peer-reviewed, open access research journals, is pleased to announce that Microsoft Research has agreed to be…
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