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Forces of Habit: Global SOF's Role in Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking

Journal of Strategic Security, 2014
Illicit drug trafficking is a prominent national security issue in a globalizing world. Drug trafficking intersects with major security issues such as rogue and narco-states, weak and failing states, insurgencies and terrorism, transnational organized ...
Paul Rexton Kan
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ILLEGAL TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA

International Studies Journal, 2023
The paper is mainly focused on the effects of illegal transnational migration on drug trafficking in Nigeria. This is anchored on the basis that the rate of illegal transnational migration along the Sahel and other borderlines has played a key role in ...
Aondowase Targba
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Promesas rotas: una mirada interseccional sobre la cocaína, las mujeres y la cárcel en el Perú

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2021
This paper aims to strengthen a link between the history of cocaine and female imprisonment in Lima, Peru. First, I review the history of the traditional use of coca leaf in Peru and the development, use, and prohibition of cocaine, in a global framework.
Chloé Constant
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L’audace de la culpabilité : les États-Unis et le rapport UNODC sur le crime organisé / The Audacity of Guilt: The U.S. and the UNODC’s Report on Organized Crime [PDF]

Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2010
Comme cela avait été prédit l’an dernier dans cette revue, le cancer des cartels de la drogue mexicains s’est métastasé et des discours impolitiques sur la « faillite de l'état » et sur son impact concernant la politique étrangère et intérieure ...
Dominick M. F.
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Legal aspects of the states fight against illegal drug trafficking

Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2021
This article discusses the problems of combating illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Nowadays, this problem has become as global as environmental pollution, the human immunodeficiency virus, which differentiates into ...
К. Т. Каbdullina, A. D. Dosymzhan, A. Akmamyk   +2 more
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A Qualitative Investigation in drug trafficking in the south of Kerman province [PDF]

مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2020
This study examines the drug trafficking in the south of Kerman province in terms of the people involved in it. Qualitative methodology of grounded theory was used in this study.
Sodeh Maghsodi, Omid Azizzadeh, Maryam Rezaei   +2 more
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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Phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinase as a target of pathogens—friend or foe?

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This graphical summary illustrates the roles of phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinases (PI4Ks). PI4Ks regulate key cellular processes and can be hijacked by pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, to support their intracellular replication. Their dual role as essential host enzymes and pathogen cofactors makes them promising drug targets.
Ana C. Mendes, Guilherme M. Azevedo, Amanda P. Barcellos, Diana Bahia   +3 more
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Organ‐specific redox imbalances in spinal muscular atrophy mice are partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotides

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
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A CONCEPTUAL MODEL TO ANALYZE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS IN COMBATING ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING ACROSS BORDERS

Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
Globalization has facilitated cross-border exchanges of goods and services, but it has also led to the growth of transnational criminal networks and illicit activities such as drug trafficking. To counter international crimes, various cooperative efforts
Ahmed NAAYIF
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