Domestic violence against women (DVAW) has received much attention from scholars across disciplines, leading to a circumvention of studies on domestic violence against men (DVAM). This paper, therefore, engages in a qualitative dialogic analysis of readers’ comments on cases of DVAM reported in select blogs in order to elicit opposing gendered stances on DVAM in the selected readers’ comments; ...

PURPOSE Team-based learning (TBL) is increasingly employed in medical education because of its potential to promote active group learning. In TBL, learners are usually asked to assess the contributions of peers within their group to ensure accountability. The purpose of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of a peer evaluation instrument that was used in TBL classes in a single ...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to analyse content posts on Instagram about cervical cancer.Methods: It conducted a qualitative analysis using 50 most popular publicly available Portuguese-language posts, containing hashtags #cervicalcancer, #papsmear, #hpv, #papillomavirus, and #hpvvac-cine, during Brazilian national cancer prevention campaign in March 2018. Results: Posts recruite...

BACKGROUND Although the sale of non-prescription health products is ubiquitous, the views of health professionals, such as chiropractors, regarding the sale of such products are not well known. Practitioner opinion is important to understand and inform professional practice. The purpose of this study was to describe chiropractors' perspectives and practices on the sale of health care products f...

SUMMARY: NMFS received an application from ConocoPhillips Company (COP) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to offshore exploration drilling on Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an IHA to COP to ta...

To my family iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Mostafa H. Ammar. During my doctoral studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, he has provided me with insightful vision, thoughtful guidance, and valuable comments. It has been a great pleasure to have him as an advisor. Without his guidance, this dissertation would not be successf...

this study tries to provide a virtual image of the structure and design of facenama, cloob, facebook and google+ social networks. the main question in this study is which variable or variables are differ in the structure and design of social networks of iranian and non-iranian. content analysis has been used in this study. content analysis is a research method to describe the objective, systema...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest by chiropractors in North America regarding integration into mainstream healthcare; however, there is limited information about attitudes towards the profession among conventional healthcare providers, including orthopaedic surgeons. METHODS We administered a 43-item cross-sectional survey to 1000 Canadian and American orthopaedic surgeons that inquired...

SUMMARY: NMFS received an application from ION Geophysical (ION) for an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take marine mammals, by harassment only, incidental to a proposed marine seismic survey in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska, between October and December 2012. Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to issue an IHA to...