Since the end of the Cold War, the world and international relations have changed, with traditional inter-state conflict becoming the exception rather than the norm. National and transnational tensions currently dominate the agendas of transnationally active terrorist and criminal networks, while conflicts between domestic ethnic and religious groups represent a major security concern for natio...

BACKGROUND The alignment method, a novel psychometric approach, represents a more flexible procedure for establishing measurement invariance in geographically, ethnically, or linguistically diverse samples, especially in large epidemiological surveys. Although the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist (HSCL-25) has been used extensively in the field to assess anxiety and depressive symptoms, questions rem...

Women from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds have higher chronic disease mortality rates when compared to White non-Hispanic women. Community-based programs, such as beauty salons, have been used to reach diverse ethnic/racial women, yet little is known about diverse ethnic/racial women cosmetologists' involvement in health promotion and their health behaviors, which is the purpose of this revi...

Conflict in Lampung, is a conflict that triggered by various things, including agrarian/land issues and differences social class. The occurred Mesuji Lampung has historical background originating from the right to manage land specifically for customary called "Register 45". From cases occurred, it can be seen there was change Mesuji, especially In detail, causes of are forced or secret acquisit...

The recent literature on path-dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article ies this paper suggests that it is indeed possible to identify path-dependent patternsIt ortance , the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change, these. It shows how and why factors such as power, percept...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether direct nursing care providers have decisional conflict about receiving influenza vaccinations and characteristics associated with decisional conflict. The researchers used a self-administered questionnaire mailed to direct nursing care providers in two long-term-care organizations. Most direct nursing care providers in both organizations (80% a...

Three lessons can be learned from this: first, there is a need for a less invasive and preferably reversible technique for lung volume reduction. Secondly, there is a need for prospective, randomized and (preferably sham) control of these techniques, and thirdly, there is a need for an a priori selection of patients, to predict the future. So, are there less invasive techniques out there? Inter...

BACKGROUND Chronically escalated parent-child conflict has been observed to elicit maladaptive behavior and reduced psychological well-being in children and youth. In this epidemiological study, we sought to estimate the occurrence of escalated parent-child conflict for United States (US) adolescent subgroups defined by (a) ethnic self-identification, and (b) nativity (US-born versus foreign-bo...

Research shows that ethnic minority and immigrant youth hold stronger attitudes about helping their families compared with native-born European American peers. Though often portrayed as burdensome, there has been limited empirical research on how family assistance attitudes affect the mental health among diverse emerging adults. We examined the influence of various attitudes toward family assis...