Has the power of the Internet been a factor in crime reduction?
One of the most challenging questions for criminologists is explaining how and why crime rates have plummeted. While there are many factors that… Read more »
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Twitter’s tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media
Social networks are widely used as sources of data in computational social science studies, and so it is of particular importance to determine whether… Read more »
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Introducing BMC Materials
The latest new BMC Series journal, BMC Materials, opened for submissions on 22nd January 2019. This joins our other new journals,… Read more »
Cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps
A “pump-and-dump” scheme is a type of financial fraud that inflates the price of a commodity through the spreading of… Read more »
Tossing a word salad: Paraphrasing, language translation and plagiarism in a health sciences course
In an exploratory study recently published in the International Journal for Educational Integrity, authors analyse essays from… Read more »
New intelligent systems predict behavior to improve accessibility in persons with disabilities
Performing activities of daily life is something most people take for granted, but there are those who need assistance with those… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC series: December 2018
Celebrating Human Rights Day • Do opioid treatment policies prevent opioid-related hospital readmissions? • A new… Read more »
Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering
Being a woman in engineering is not straightforward. To shine some light on some of the hurdles women face whilst building a… Read more »
Hate is in the air! But where? Introducing an algorithm to detect hate speech in digital microenvironments
Crime science has consistently shown that crime is not randomly distributed in space and time. But how to detect criminal… Read more »
Bringing the lab into the field
New technologies are bringing laboratories to the point-of-collection, improving sensitivity of field investigations and reducing… Read more »