O social networks greatly facilitate social exchange among friends. At times, for amusement, individuals may be targeted by friends’ playful teases, which often involve exposing individuals’ private embarrassing information, such as information that reveals their past indecent behavior, mischief, or clumsiness. Although individuals sometimes do enjoy the humor, they might also be offended by th...

Abstract Employment can reduce reoffending, yet many employers refrain from hiring candidates with prior convictions, particularly for sexual offences. This study explored employability ratings before and after a disclosure barring service (DBS) check public facing job. The DBS revealed either (i) rape, (ii) activity child, (iii) possession of indecent photographs children, or (iv) no criminal ...

Owing to its dual correlation with homosexuality and eroticism, danmei (Boys Love) in China is subject state censorship, so a hit online serial The Untamed adapted from popular novel, the male-male relationship between protagonists has been expurgated. Obsessed romance original narrative yet dissatisfied officially sanctioned adaptation, fangirls create fanfiction, including real person slash (...

Abstract Benbaji and Statman’s contractarian ethics of war offers a powerful new philosophical defence orthodox conclusions against revisionist criticism. I present two-pronged argument in reply. First, contractarianism yields what call ‘decent theory,’ theory which between decent states is paradigmatic. argue, by contrast, that should treat wars indecent as paradigmatic, resulting Rawlsian alt...

in thirty-three wild cherry (prunus avium l.) accessions from central serbia, tree, leaf, fruit, and stone morphological characters were evaluated during three consecutive years. the goal was to detect relationships between the genotypes and to identify the most useful traits for discrimination among them. the study revealed a high variability in the set of the evaluated wild cherry accessions ...

On May 15, 1967, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of In re Gerald Gault, [FN1] a case seemingly destined to change forever and for better the way children accused of crimes are treated in state juvenile courts. In its opinion, the Court held that children were “persons” under the United States Constitution, and as such, had to be treated fairly when the state sought to deprive t...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent and nature of spontaneous attributional activity elicited by a newspaper report of child sexual abuse. METHOD One hundred and seventy-six respondents, who were recruited through appeals placed in the letters column of a local newspaper, were presented with a newspaper report that described either a stereotype-congruent (rape by ...

A decent linear space (DLS) is a linear space (or PBD of index 1) without lines of size 1 or 2; see Beth, Jungnickel, and Lenz [l] for background and definitions. We denote the maximal line size of a DLS by k and write DLS(k), then; if we also want to specify the number u of points, we use the notation DLS(k; v). We always assume all linear spaces to be non-trivial, i.e., u # k. We shall be con...