This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

BACKGROUND Though commercial production of polychlorinated biphenyls was banned in the United States in 1977, exposure continues due to their environmental persistence. Several studies have examined the association between environmental polychlorinated biphenyl exposure and modulations of the secondary sex ratio, with conflicting results. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to evaluate the associatio...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effect birth type on parenting behaviors, infant perception maternal attachment.
 Materials Methods: This descriptive comparative conducted with 77 primipara mothers (vaginal birth: 48, cesarean section: 29). data were collected in three follow-ups using Individual Presentation Form, Postpartum Parenting Behavior Scale (PPBS...

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

Kabool Sheikh, Muhamadan, aged 20, was admitted into the Gay a Pilgrim Hospital on the 21st February at 10 a.m , and examined by me at 11 a.m. She was a primipara whose last menstruation was eight months ago, and who had been suffering from continuous pain in the abdomen for the last ten days. Previous history.? She is said to have been quite well w hen suddenly a severe continuous pain of a pi...

is accurately known as those bearing upon the nervous complications of pregnancy and parturition. On these grounds I have deemed it of sufficient importance to place on record the following case, although, obstetrically considered in the strictest sense of that word, it presented no special attraction:? J. B., primipara, the subject of this note, was a patient in the Royal Maternity Hospital du...

On tli3 1st of April last year at about 11 P.M., I was called to attend a case of protracted labor in a village about a mile off from Soouy. The patient was a healthy woman of about 22 years of age aud a primipara. The labor pains had commenced at the full term, ou the previous day and progressed in the usual way till the middle of the night, when the membranes ruptured and the pain began to fl...