From intimate partners to serial killers: Nearly 40 years of female homicides in King County, Washington (1978-2016).

An extreme, known potential outcome of intimate partner violence (IPV) is death, with national data revealing females are more likely to be killed by intimate partners than by others. In a novel pairing, the King County Medical Examiner's Office data management system and the Washington State Attorney General's Office's Homicide Information Tracking System were retrospectively analyzed (1978-2016) with information gathered pertaining to female homicide victims. Analyses show that female victims commonly knew their assailant(s) (79.3%) who were overwhelmingly male (92.8%) and commonly intimate partners (31.4%). Disproportionately represented were Black (20.17%) and Native American (4.25%) females; Asian/Pacific Islander (2.5 times that of Whites) and elderly (24%) females among homicide-suicide deaths; and Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic females in cases of IPV. "Domestic violence" was the most cited motive (34.3%) and most assaults occurred in a residence (58.73%). Females under 10 years of age were most commonly killed by a parent or caregiver (42.86%), while those over 70 were most likely to be killed by a child (23.08%) or spouse (21.80%). Serial murders, most commonly by the Green River Killer (80%) but including others, accounted for at least 7% of deaths, with victims notably young and commonly sex workers (68%). As compared to males, females were more likely to be killed by multiple modalities, asphyxia, and sharp force, though IPV-related deaths were more likely to be associated with firearms. This study reinforces the vulnerability of females to IPV, sexual assault, and serial murders as well as to caretakers at the extremities of age.

E se o scanCOVID-19 tivesse nascido em 2022? / And if the scanCOVID-19 had been born in 2002? / Y si el scanCOVID-19 hubiese nacido en 2022?

Acompanhar a velocidade das mudanças, qualitativas e quantitativas, na produção de conhecimento em tempos de pandemia de covid-19 impulsionou o desenvolvimento de inúmeras iniciativas de monitoramento da informação científica. O scanCOVID-19 foi uma delas. Essa nota de conjuntura procura situar a importância do investimento em projetos dessa natureza, que possam ter reflexos nas relações entre ciência, Estado e sociedade.

Keeping up with the speed of qualitative and quantitative changes in the production of knowledge in times of the covid-19 pandemic was a stimulus to the development of numerous initiatives to track scientific information. The scanCOVID-19 was one of them. This note seeks to situate the importance of investing in projects of the same nature, which may have effects on the relations between science, state, and society.

Acompañar la velocidad de los cambios, cualitativos y cuantitativos, en la producción de conocimiento en tiempos de la pandemia de covid-19 ha impulsado el desarrollo de numerosas iniciativas de seguimiento de la información científica. El scanCOVID-19 fue uno de ellos. Esta nota de coyuntura busca situar la importancia de invertir en proyectos de esta naturaleza, que puedan tener efectos sobre las relaciones entre ciencia, Estado y sociedad.

Design and implementation of an Internet information dynamic tracking system for infectious disease surveillance / 军事医学

Objective To analyze the requirements of the Chinese PLA biosecurity and disease prevention and to develop an Internet information tracking system for infectious disease surveillance .Methods A focused crawler was used to automatically collect Internet information about infectious diseases before the information could be released , automatically correlated and analyzed .Results This system could claw the Internet information of infectious disease surveillance and build an infectious disease surveillance information knowledge database .Conclusion The use of this system can not only improve the efficiency of information studies , but also meet the information requirements of infectious disease prevention in Chinese PLA.