We examined the relation between leisure activities and the risk of dementia in a prospective cohort of 469 subjects older than 75 years of age who resided in the community and did not have dementia at base line. We examined the frequency of participation in leisure activities at enrollment and derived cognitive-activity and physicalactivity scales in which the units of measure were activity-da...

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the endogeneity of victimisation and (ii) analysing the heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that both types of crimes r...

BACKGROUND People with mental illness are at increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimisation, but little is known about their risk for different forms of IPV, related health impact and help-seeking. AIMS To estimate the odds for past-year IPV, related impact and disclosure among people with and without pre-existing chronic mental illness (CMI). METHOD We analysed data from 2...

In my paper, I consider the holistic thought in Theodor W. Adorno’s Husserl-studies, and epistemological possibility to know “non-identical”. First, discuss phenomenological antinomy. This is not only starting point of but also has his it. Adorno pointed out Husserl’s assumptions that our consciousness directly related objects always mediately or indirectly objects. Second, solution He tried ca...

El presente artículo analiza la cuestión del materialismo y su relación con el arte en pensamiento de Walter Benjamin. Es una harto controvertida los debates sobre Benjamin, estudia minuciosamente sus dos textos fundamentales que abordan cuestión: autor como productor La obra era reproductibilidad técnica. Antes ello, se enmarca problema contexto época y, especial, Benjamin Brecht, fue tomado u...