Deborah Daro and Kenneth Dodge observe that efforts to prevent child abuse have historically focused on directly improving the skills of parents who are at risk for or engaged in maltreatment. But, as experts increasingly recognize that negative forces within a community can overwhelm even well-intentioned parents, attention is shifting toward creating environments that facilitate a parent's ab...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the impact of an intervention promoting sun protection behavior among children 2 to 11 years of age through schools and day care centers, primary care practices, and recreation areas. METHODS Ten towns in New Hampshire were paired, then assigned randomly to intervention or control status. The multicomponent SunSafe intervention was provided to children and caregivers th...

When surfing the web today people want to be secure and their data to remain private. Internet users however do not see the protection of their privacy or security as the primary goal of their activity. They do not care for their online security and privacy actively [3]. Frequently appearing unnecessary warning messages constantly lower the users’ trust in those warnings. In this work, we prese...

This paper provides some reflection and comment on the protection and promotion of local practice and associated biodiversity-related traditional knowledge, starting with the need to recognise the rights of local and indigenous communities. Given the current forum clutter on genetic resources (GRs) and traditional knowledge (TK), and the protracted delay and political sensitivities on indigenou...

Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society, and over the past decade, lawmakers have passed a variety of social policies designed to protect the public from sexual victimization. The purpose of this study was to examine public perceptions about sex offenders and community protection policies. Data were obtained from a sample of 193 residents in Melbourne, Florid...

Community-based public health interventions are designed on the premise that the community is an asset in transforming the health system for health protection. One such intervention is Diabetes Today, a training program for health professionals and lay community leaders that has been successful in building awareness of diabetes as a public health problem. We advocate the use of this program to ...

This study focuses on the decisions made by firms with regard to the protection of their innovative activities. The prior literature has tended to pursue two points of view which have seldom been brought together, emphasising either the separation of the various methods of protection or the benefits of combining multiple techniques. We strive to marry these two perspectives with a view to expla...