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The early criminology considered the criminal environment to be important as crime factor. Then came positivism discarding theoretical advances and postulating the criminal as the almost unique factor of crime. As a result, it took time to rebuild a criminology that analyzed the environment, now known as environmental criminology. Within it is geographic profiling and in particular the Kim Rossmo mathematical model that seeks to measure the probability that a site is the usual place of a serial homicide using the location of a kit of crimes of some perpetrator. Following the existing literature, that model has been successful for some cases and for a less number it's has not. However, there has not been enough case assessment for this type of model, perhaps because its high cost. In this work the model has been retrospectively applied, to the 36 homicides attributable to La Mataviejitas - one of the most productive homicidal in history - in order to determine whether the model would have been useful in police research. It was programmed in Python running under gvSIG. The model would have been successful if it had been applied to the case, due to the fact that it would have allowed to reduce the criminal search by 10%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized, among other cardiometabolic anomalies, by hyperglycemia and the development of micro and macrovascular outcomes in the long range. Treatment of Diabetes mellitus has to reduce fast and postprandial glycemia to near to normal values in order to diminish the frecuency and progression of micro and macrovascular complications. This paper reviews the mechanisms of carbohydrate intestinal absorption, and it is discussed the role of several hypoglucemic and antidiabetic drugs, mainly acarbose, an inhibitor of α-glucosidades, which has proved to reverse glucose intolerance and to delay the development of DM, reducing significatively both, fasting and postprandial glycemia, as well as improving insulin resistance, independently of age and gender. It is concluded that acarbose is among the first choice drugs used in the management of glucose intolerance and in the prevention of Diabetes mellitus, as well as one of the main drugs, used in monotherapy or in combination with other pharmacology agents, in the treatment of the established disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. Propose a pedestrian crosswalk safety rating (PCSR) for primary roads in Mexico City in order to rate crosswalk safety at intersections with a traffic light and then compare the PCSR with traffic accidents so as to empirically determine any association between the quality of the crosswalk and the traffic accident rate. Methods. Identify criteria for the rating system through a state-of-the art review; weight the criteria to create a rating system through multicriterion analysis; design a stratified random sample of crosswalks (n = 490); and evaluate the data set. Results. Through the PCSR, 91.3% of the crosswalks evaluated in Mexico City were found not to offer the conditions required to protect pedestrian safety; the "access" macro-criterion received the worst scores. The modelling shows that mixed land use and the length of the crosswalk are the most important variables in predicting traffic accidents. Conclusions. The analysis was relatively successful in showing the relationship between some variables (criteria) of the PCSR and traffic accidents. In many cases, this shows theoretical coherence; in others, research questions are raised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]