The duty of therapists to warn or protect third parties when a patient expresses a threat was established by the court in the Tarasoff decision. Confidentiality, disclosure, and prediction of violence are clinical, ethical, and legal issues that the therapist must address in the context of a therapeutic relationship. Clinical case material from the literature, as well as cases from the authors'...

Continuous increase of operating frequencies and reduction of process geometries and thereby, increase of device density in DSM chips give rise to Signal Integrity problems. Owing to higher aspect ratios of interconnects, nowadays, the coupling noise between adjacent interconnects has become major SI issue giving rise to crosstalk failures. Due to process variations and manufacturing defects, i...

Weight-based cyberbullying is prevalent among youth and adolescents and can have lasting negative psychological effects on the victims. One way to combat these negative effects is through modeling dissenting behavior. When a bystander challenges the bully or supports the victim, this models dissenting behavior. In this study, 181 participants were exposed to message manipulations posted on a Fa...

OBJECTIVE To examine how involvement in aggressor-victim interactions is linked to somatic complaints, illnesses, and physical injuries among elementary school-aged children. STUDY DESIGN This study was composed of a school-based sample of 590 children in grades 3 through 5. Independent sources were used to assess victimization (self-report) and aggression (peer report) in the fall semester. ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess: (1) medical trainee and practicing physician awareness about domestic sex trafficking of minors; and (2) whether respondents believe that awareness of trafficking is important to their practice. DESIGN AND SETTING We designed an anonymous electronic survey, and a convenience sample was collected from June through October 2013. PARTICIPANTS Voluntary pa...

What are the technologies that will transform business and drive the research agenda for the IS field in the years to come? Which innovations, platforms, and paradigms will become dominant, and which others will ultimately pass into obscurity? In this panel discussion, we will seek answers to these questions from those with a unique and unmatched perspective. The leaders who have witnessed the ...

Almost everyone knows that the inner angles of a triangle sum to 180o. But if you ask the typical mathematician how to sum the solid inner angles over the vertices of a tetrahedron, you are likely to receive a blank stare or a mystified shrug. In some cases you may be directed to the Gram-Euler relations for higher dimensional polytopes [3, 4, 6, 7], a 19th century result unjustly consigned to ...

OF THESIS THE EFFECT OF VICTIM RELIGION ON JUROR PERCEPTIONS OF HATE CRIMES The present study investigated mock juror perceptions of hate crimes in the courtroom, specifically whether a victim’s religion (Atheist, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim) influenced the likelihood that a mock juror would render a hate crime verdict. I employed a mock juror methodology where participants read an assault tri...

It was hypothesized that individuals who had harmed another person would be more likely to compensate their victim if the available compensation made up exactly for the harm done than if, in order to compensate at all, it was necessary to give the victim either an insufficient or an excessive compensation. Ss were members of women's church auxiliaries who in the course of a game were led to dep...

BACKGROUND Data regarding the impact of early risk factors on later involvement in bullying are scarce. We investigated the impact of preschool behaviors, family characteristics (socio-economic status, family breakup) and parental mental health on bullying and victimization at age 11 (T1) and age 13.5 (T2). METHODS longitudinal data from a subsample of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Liv...