IDENTIFYING RISK FACTORS FOR JIHADIST TERRORIST OFFENDERS COMMITTING HOMICIDE: AN EXPLORATIVE ANALYSIS USING THE EUROPEAN DATABASE OF TERRORIST OFFENDERS

Identifying risk factors for Jihadist terrorist offenders committing homicide: An explorative analysis using the European Database of Terrorist offenders

Although many studies have examined various aspects of terrorism, relatively little is known about risk indicators associated with specific types of terrorist offences.To partly fill this void, this study explores differences on risk indicators of the Violent Extremism Risk Assessment tool (VERA-2R) between 21 Jihadist offenders who were convicted

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Automated Machine Learning Approaches for Emergency Response and Coordination via Social Media in the Aftermath of a Disaster: A Review

Social media communication serves as an integral part of the crisis response following a mass emergency (disaster) event.Regardless of the kind of disaster event, whether it is a hurricane, a flood, an earthquake or a man-made disaster event like a riot or a terrorist attack, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc.have proven to be a pow

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Exploring Supervisor-Related Job Resources as Mediators between Supervisor Conflict and Job Attitudes in Hospital Employees

Background: Conservation of resources theory assumes loss of resources as a cause of job strain.In hospital work, conflicts with supervisors are tested to predict lower resources, that is, supervisory social support, participation possibilities, and appreciation.All three resources are expected to predict, in turn, experienced stress (job strain) a

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