In this article, the authors report on the development of a short screening tool that deputies in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department could use in the field to help forecast domestic violence incidents in particular households. The data come from more than 500 households to which sheriff's deputies were dispatched in fall 2003. Information on potential predictors was collected at the scene. Ou...

INTRODUCTION Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and has held since 2008. The present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of Iranian medical universities' faculty members about holding Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. METHODS Th...

We analyze the network of relations between parliament members according to their voting behavior. In particular, we examine the emergent community structure with respect to political coalitions and government alliances. We rely on tools developed in the Complex Network literature to explore the core of these communities and use their topological features to develop new metrics for party polari...

In this paper we discuss how a mathematical approach can be used to solve a serious drawback in the current Italian electoral system for the election of representatives at the Chamber of Deputies and suggest a methodology which is close to the one traditionally adopted in the Italian electoral history, but able to guarantee a more transparent, logical and fairer solution to the problem of trans...

A Working Party on Venereal Diseases* was appointed by the European Public Health Committee in 1972. As one of the background documents for the Working Party a report was prepared by Dr. Thorstein Guthe (Guthe, 1974). As a result of its work the Working Party presented to the European Public Health Committee a draft resolution on the control of sexually-transmitted diseases which, after approva...