What and Where Are the Risks of International Terrorist Attacks

Strang, Kenneth David; Alamieyeseigha, Serafina

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“…Detailed big data on people can be used by policymakers to reduce crime or terrorism, improve health delivery, and better manage cities. 2,26 Organizations and nations can benefit from big data because research indicates that data-driven businesses were 5 percent more productive and 6 percent more profitable than their competitors. 4,18 The macroeconomic impact is that the gross domestic product of a country could increase due to big data analytics.…”

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“…8,27 The American military has tapped into big data to uncover and mitigate terrorist plots. 28 For example, geo-location smartphone big data was helpful for investigating the Boston bomber and his accomplices 29 and many other terrorist plots have been foiled. 30…”

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“…Another constraint associated with MAC addresses is that they are useful to investigate criminal activity as well as domestic and global terrorism. 26,28 More research into this problem and these proposed solutions will be needed.…”

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Hidden big data analytics issues in the healthcare industry

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2019

Health Informatics J

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The goal of the study was to identify big data analysis issues that can impact empirical research in the healthcare industry. To accomplish that the author analyzed big data related keywords from a literature review of peer reviewed journal articles published since 2011. Topics, methods and techniques were summarized along with strengths and weaknesses. A panel of subject matter experts was interviewed to validate the intermediate results and synthesize the key problems that would likely impact researchers conducting quantitative big data analysis in healthcare studies. The systems thinking action research method was applied to identify and describe the hidden issues. The findings were similar to the extant literature but three hidden fatal issues were detected. Methodical and statistical control solutions were proposed to overcome the three fatal healthcare big data analysis issues.

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“…The American military has tapped into big data to uncover and mitigate terrorist plots [26]. For example, geo-location smart phone big data was helpful for investigating the Boston bomber and his accomplices [27], and many other terrorist plots have been foiled [28].…”

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Problems with research methods in medical device big data analytics

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2019

Int J Data Sci Anal

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This paper reviews the literature as well as subject matter expert opinions and examines how research methods are being applied in medical device big data analytics. The focus of the study is to identify benefits and illustrate problems when applying certain research methods with healthcare big data. The intended audience is high-level healthcare decision makers, data science researchers, and healthcare big data practitioners. The key results address unintended access to healthcare data, statistical sampling violations with the use of healthcare big data, and the challenges associated with statistical false positives in big data. Solutions for these problems are proposed along with recommendations for further research.

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“…On the other hand, constant deprivation can render violence a more appealing way of earning a living (Kivel, 2017), while peaceful options offer few prospects. However, there is very little empirical evidence on socioeconomic profiles of conflict-affected populations (Strang & Alamieyeseigha, 2017). An expanding body of literature has acknowledged many features connected with the likelihood of a person or family being or becoming poor (Nelson, 2017), including very few financial assets such as land, salary, livestock, housing and lack of education and illiteracy, poor nutrition and, usually, bad health and lack of established sources of social capital, networks and political voice.…”

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Living in protracted communal conflict: Socioeconomic trends and household poverty in Ghana's Yendi area

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Adonteng-Kissi

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Development Policy Review

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Motivation The conflict in Yendi, which dates to the colonial period, was one of the major sources of conflict in northern Ghana. The conflict was partly attributed to the contention on whether it is a convention that succession to the Yendi throne must essentially rotate between the two warring royal factions or revert to the primogenital tradition of unilateral royal family succession to the Ya Na Skin. Purpose This article provides a critical synthesis of the impact of communal conflict on household poverty and economic empowerment of the poor to achieve decent standards of living in Ghana's Yendi area. It is therefore necessary to answer the research question, what is the impact of the Yendi communal conflict on socioeconomic trends and household poverty? Methods We aimed to ascertain the impact of the Yendi conflict on 20 local government officials, NGO representatives, traders, parents, teachers, students, farmers, nurses, members of the traditional authority and security personnel. The average age of participants was 35. Unstructured interviews were conducted with key informants using in‐depth interview techniques to gather the necessary data and purposively sampled across Ghana's Yendi. Interviews were recorded, transcribed using a framework approach Results The article finds that families that were rich in landed assets and had sufficient income but were most impacted by the conflict have seen their economic conditions deteriorate. This study further reveals that conflict impacts negatively on the welfare of families in different ways. Families endowed with more assets and higher education are identified as having better capacity to withstand economic shocks. Conclusion There is a need for agricultural industrialization to offer spin‐offs and the generation of backward and forward linkages. To create strong linkages within the agriculture industry, it must become a resourceful business environment that offers a steady supply of quality raw materials at low costs. Government must help transform the rural environment from its subsistence structure to a commercially appealing, feasible and active sector, one which is critical for the accomplishment of sustained equitable growth.

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What and Where Are the Risks of International Terrorist Attacks

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Hidden big data analytics issues in the healthcare industry

Hidden big data analytics issues in the healthcare industry

Problems with research methods in medical device big data analytics

Living in protracted communal conflict: Socioeconomic trends and household poverty in Ghana's Yendi area

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