Mining has its benefits and effects especially on the people living in communities where minerals are found. This paper tries to identify and assess the impacts and effects of illegal mining (galamsey). The main impacts identified are on economic activities, health, social life and...
Money laundering means to disguise the illegal origin of criminal proceeds.Footnote1When criminals are so successful that their criminal revenue exceeds their ordinary daily living and operating expenses plus re-investment into new crime, they have to recycle the surplus of criminal money and inject i...
If the genophage cure was sabotaged and Wrex led the krogan: "The krogan reiterated their support, but after the unexpected death of Urdnot Wrex, their forces have fragmented." If Wrex survived the Virmire assault, the genophage was cured, butTuchanka: Bombwas not completed in time:"Urdnot...
Because China’s Police Online is public security government media, most of the blog posts are about some cases of illegal crimes, and the frequency of releasing blog posts is very high, which makes its negative comments a relatively high proportion, while Central Committee of the Communist ...
Cannabidiol induces expression of metallothioneins that bind CuET, the active copper-containing anticancer metabolite of disulfiram, thereby undermining the antitumoral effect of disulfiram.36 However, since the use of cannabis is illegal in Sweden and Norway, we do not believe that such interference ...
Illegal timber cutting, logging, mining, and many developmental projects deprive the land quality, soil health, and many other ecosystem services. Forest-mediated ecosystem services maintain environmental health and sustainability. A well-managed forest maximizes biodiversity and strengthens ecosystem services...
China has made Bitcoin mining illegal and is sending notices to Bitcoin mining farms. The notice says Sichuan Electric power company will soon stop supplying power to the Bitcoin mining farms. In the notice, they say that a lot of power is consumed by the mining machines. The report comes ...
We provide novel evidence on the effect of smartphone use on road accidents. We exploit variation in phone usage fees in the Netherlands following a change in European Union (EU) roaming regulations implemented in 2017. The growth rate of mobile data roaming increased substantially after the change...
Mining 289 5.5% Public administration 8 0.2% Retail trade 354 6.8% Services 602 11.5% Transportation 628 12.0% Wholesale trade 216 4.1% Other 538 10.3% Total 5231 100% Table 2 presents the descriptive statistics for the variables in the regression models. The mean (median) value for the nega...