BACKGROUND The medical literature reports differential decision-making for children with suspected physical abuse based on race and socioeconomic status. Differential evaluation may be related to differences of risk indicators in these populations or differences in physicians' perceptions of abuse risk. Our objective was to understand the contribution of the child's social ecology to child abus...

experience of being a victim or even attacking someone in an interpersonal conflict is very adverse and tension associated with it could comply with developing mental illnesses. press reports related to violent crimes committed under methamphetamine abuse leaded to concerns among families. in early years of methamphetamine abuse widespread, abusers considered it as a non- hazardous and light dr...

Bank loans can convey information about the borrowing firms that have proper corporate governance systems. Using a sample of bank loan announcements in China, we find market reaction is positive after split share structure reform 2005, which aligns interests large shareholders and minority shareholders, government public investors, alleviates their tunneling incentives. We also this effect more...

In this paper, we consider a dynamic asset pricing model in cross-sectional economy with two firms where controlling shareholder cannot divert output one firm perfect investor protection for minority shareholders and he can fraction of the other imperfect protection. After obtaining parameters prices by solving shareholders' consumption-portfolio problems equilibrium, our features effect cross-...

Current theories can support conflicting accounts of the effects of childhood maltreatment on adult religiosity. However, in the relevant empirical research there are few examples of probability sampling or a focus on nonsexual forms of abuse. It is also uncommon to control for risk factors for abuse, which may themselves also affect adult religiosity. This study attempts to overcome some of th...