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UV Photosensitive PMMA‐Based Nanocomposites Micropatterned by Laser for Product Traceability and Anticounterfeiting Applications

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
We introduce an anti‐counterfeiting solution using photoluminescent nanoparticles in PMMA polymer matrices. Through UV‐activated polymerization without photoinitiators, achieved via solvent modification, secure micromarkers are created within seconds using industrial laser systems.
Aïssatou Coumba Sow, Etienne Palleau, Isabelle Fabre‐Francke, Laurence Ressier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illicit Economies and Urban Peace: Introduction to the Special issue

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
The Special Issue proposes ‘urban peace’ as a way of thinking about policy responses to the dynamics of crime, violence, and exclusion that are associated with illicit economies.
Achim Wennmann, John Collins, Tuesday Reitano   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of f‐ELISA Sensors with Ultrahigh Sensitivity for On‐Site Colorimetric Detection of Fentanyl and Norfentanyl

Advanced Sensor Research, EarlyView.
A foam‐based ELISA (f‐ELISA) platform was developed using chemically modified melamine foam to enable rapid, ultrasensitive, and selective colorimetric detection of fentanyl and norfentanyl. Abstract Rapid and accurate detection of fentanyl in unknown products and aqueous samples can find the unexpected existence of the toxic chemical and assist law ...
Makela Norwood, Bofeng Pan, Gang Sun
wiley   +1 more source

“Show this thread”: policing, disruption and mobilisation through Twitter. An analysis of UK law enforcement tweeting practices during the Covid-19 pandemic

Crime Science, 2020
Crisis and disruption are often unpredictable and can create opportunities for crime. During such times, policing may also need to meet additional challenges to handle the disruption.
Manja Nikolovska, Shane D. Johnson, Paul Ekblom   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and ...
Oluwole Ojewale
doaj   +1 more source

Violence, Crime, and Violent Crime

International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2009
I propose a dual conceptualization of violent crime. Since violent crime is both violence and crime, theories of aggression and deviance are required to understand it. I argue that both harm-doing and rule breaking are instrumental behaviors and that a bounded rational choice approach can account for both behaviors. However, while some of the causes of
openaire   +4 more sources

Toward a Species Search Engine: KISSE Offers a Rigorous Statistical Framework for Bone Collagen Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Species Search Engine (KISSE) is a novel statistical approach for identifying species from collagen peptides, using a curated library of sequences and their relative abundances derived from shotgun proteomics. Abstract DNA and bone collagen are two key sources of resilient molecular markers used to identify species from their remains.
Hassan Gharibi, Amir Ata Saei, Alexey L. Chernobrovkin, Susanna L. Lundstrom, Hezheng Lyu, Zhaowei Meng, Akos Vegvari, Massimilliano Gaetani, Roman A. Zubarev   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime, Controversy and the Comments Section: Discussing archaeological looting, trafficking, and the illicit antiquities trade online

Internet Archaeology, 2015
In this article we will discuss the challenges involved in presenting the looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trade in cultural property to the interested public.
Meg Lambert, Donna Yates
doaj   +1 more source

Variations in Innate Immune Cell Subtypes Correlate with Epigenetic Clocks, Inflammaging and Health Outcomes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study uses a high‐resolution DNA methylation reference panel for 19 immune cell‐types, as well as transcriptomic, metabolomic, and large population cohort data to show that age‐related epigenetic heterogeneity within monocytes correlates with inflammaging, biological age, and all‐causemortality, and does so more strongly than existing monocyte ...
Xiaolong Guo, Josephine A. Robertson, Andrea Aparicio, Kirsten Seale, Qingwen Chen, Anne Richmond, Zhaozhen Du, Mahnoor Sulaiman, Shijie C Zheng, Esteban Ballestar, Charlotte AM Cecil, Bastiaan T Heijmans, Steve Horvath, Varun B. Dwaraka, Jessica Lasky‐Su, Ryan Smith, Riccardo E. Marioni, Andrew E Teschendorff   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source