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The paradox of progress: How ‘disruptive,’ ‘dual-use,’ ‘democratized,’ and ‘diffused’ technologies shape terrorist innovation

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
Building upon the existing literature on terror innovation, this research article introduces a new analytical framework that highlights four key elements of emerging technologies which facilitate their adoption by terrorist groups.
Don Rassler, Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
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Familial genetic risk for posttraumatic stress disorder: Associations with clinical features

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract In the present study, the novel family genetic risk score (FGRS) method, a reliable quantification of latent genetic risk, was applied to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to examine associations between genetic liability and clinical features of PTSD among 3,097,180 individuals in the Swedish national registries.
Ananda B. Amstadter, Linda Abrahamsson, James E. Hart, Jan Sundquist, Kenneth S. Kendler, Kristina Sundquist   +5 more
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On the Determinants of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe [PDF]

We investigate whether differences in terrorism risk are mirrored on terrorism risk concern across European countries for the period 2003-2007. We find that the average propensity for terrorism risk concern is indeed affected by actual risk levels ...
Cathérine Müller, Konstantinos Drakos
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Global Physics: From Percolation to Terrorism, Guerilla Warfare and Clandestine Activities

, 2004
The September 11 attack on the US has revealed an unprecedented terrorism with worldwide range of destruction. It is argued to result from the first worldwide percolation of passive supporters.
Deffuant, Galam, Galam, Galam, Galam, Galam, Galam, Hegselmann, Helbing, Moss de Oliveira, Sandler, Schweitzer, Serge Galam, Solomon, Stauffer   +14 more
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The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira, Luisa F. Velásquez Vallejo, Antonio Euzebios Filho   +2 more
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Research Note on Immigrant Youth Radicalization and Terrorism: Pre- and Post-Migration Considerations

Journal for Deradicalization, 2018
This theoretical paper is based on working experience with newcomer refugee youth in Canada. It calls for an understanding of the refugee pre- and post-migration experience in an attempt to answer why some youth are drawn to radicalization and engagement
Haval Ahmad, Mambo Tabu Masinda
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Early life abuse and neglect in breast cancer survivors: Associations with physical and psychological health throughout diagnosis and survivorship

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract Childhood abuse and neglect worsen physical and mental health through adulthood. This study examined how childhood adversity affected physical and psychological symptoms associated with breast cancer treatment and survivorship at three points within the cancer trajectory. Breast cancer survivors (N = 209) were recruited following diagnosis and
Sonal K. Johal, M. Rosie Shrout, Annelise A. Madison, Stephanie J. Wilson, Stephen P. Povoski, William E. Carson III, Janice K. Kiecolt‐Glaser, Megan E. Renna   +7 more
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Poverty, political freedom, and the roots of terrorism in developing countries: An empirical assessment [PDF]

This paper finds that political freedom has a significant and non-linear effect on domestic terrorism, but this effect is not significant in the case of transnational terrorism.
Javed Younas, Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
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Intersectional discrimination, identity conflict, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among bisexual+ people of color

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract Bisexual and other multigender‐attracted (e.g., pansexual, queer) people (bi+) report disproportionately high posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) linked to a high frequency of discrimination and general trauma exposure. Bi+ people of color (POC) may be particularly vulnerable to PTSS given exposure to intersectional discrimination (e.g ...
Roberto Rentería, Jacquie Mitzner, Diana Kaziyev, Nicholas A. Livingston, Emily Bettin, Brian A. Feinstein   +5 more
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Appeasing Nihilists? Some Economic Thoughts on Reducing Terrorist Activity [PDF]

Recent contributions to the economics of terrorism have given contradicting recommendations for campaigning against terrorism, from the proposal to deprive terrorists of their resources to the proposal of raising the opportunity costs of terrorism by ...
Jan Schnellenbach
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