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Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court?

open access: yesAnuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal, 2014
Drug trafficking is a criminal activity that has become an international problem of growing magnitude. In some regions it is an emerging source of instability that threatens to jeopardize international security.
Salvador Cuenca Curbelo
doaj  

Sex Trafficking of Minors in New York: Increasing Prevention and Collective Action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Foundation's funding in Anti-Violence and Safety has helped us to better understand the issues and challenges of poverty and gender-based violence that women and girls have had to overcome.
Elizabeth Hines, Joan Hochman
core  

Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Bionanotechnology: Current Advances and Future Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) enables the nanoscale mapping of electrostatic surface potentials. While widely applied in materials science, its use in biological systems remains emerging. This review presents recent advances in KPFM applied to biological samples and provides a critical perspective on current limitations and future directions for
Ehsan Rahimi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug trafficking, corruption and foreign direct investment: Theory and evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
We develop a microeconomic model to explain why sanction policies used by developed countries have had ambiguous effects to reduce drug trafficking in developing countries. In the model, a country receives FDI depending on its government effort to reduce
Espinosa Ramirez, Rafael   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Viral Infection‐Inspired Autonomous Detection of Fusion‐Competent Viruses for Screening and Environmental Surveillance

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by viral entry mechanisms, the FUSION assay enables autonomous detection of respiratory viruses via membrane fusion–triggered CRISPR‐Cas13a activation. VEACON selectively fuses with fusion‐competent viruses, triggering fluorescence within confined vesicles.
Jae Chul Park   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

La desaceleración económica colombiana: se cosecha lo que se siembra [PDF]

open access: yes
The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis.
Carlos Humberto Ortiz
core  

The Paradox of Policing as Protection: A Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Using Safe Injection Sites as a Guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Hälsofrågan har blivit betydelsefull över världen. Med en plattform som exempelvis smartphone kan begreppet gamification förstärka möjligheterna till beteendeförändringar och läkarbehandlingar.
Walks, Emani
core   +1 more source

Microfluidic Hydroporation Platform for Effective Allogeneic CAR‐T Cell Production and Subsequent Functional Cytotoxicity Analysis

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The hydroporator platform employs controlled hydrodynamic deformation for efficient mRNA and CRISPR/Cas9 delivery into primary human T cells, enabling allogeneic CAR‐T cell manufacturing. It preserves cell functionality and drives potent gene editing, CAR expression, and tumor cytotoxicity, while feature‐based analysis links these functional outcomes ...
Soohyun Jeon   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Global Crime Against Women: Sex Trafficking and Its Consequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Sex trafficking, a form of gender-based violence in which a specific gender is the target of violence due to the imbalance of power, is a common present-day global crime (Murturi 2006:83). Women are most often victims of this specific crime, (Muturi 2006:
Ferreira, Breezy
core   +1 more source

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