This article is based on 28 in-depth interviews with young women (18–25) about their experiences intoxicated sexual encounters in Danish nightlife. Little research has examined the role intoxication plays processes of consensual and non-consensual sex. Using theories scripts, this focuses how alcohol used perceived by these as a potential way modifying behaviours norms encounters; they characte...

We sketch a novel and improved version of Boorse’s biostatistical theory of functions. Roughly, our theory maintains that (i) functions are non-negligible contributions to survival or inclusive fitness (when a trait contributes to survival or inclusive fitness); (ii) situations appropriate for the performance of a function are typical situations in which a trait contributes to survival or inclu...

Formalizations are used in systems development to support the description of artifacts and to shape and regulate developer behavior. The limits to applying formalizations in these two ways are discussed based on examples from systems development practice. It is argued that formalizations, for example in the form of methods, are valuable in some situations, but inappropriate in others. The alter...

Faustmann showed us the basic economic formulation of the forestry problem 163 years ago. However, since then foresters and economists have learned of a number of situations in which Faustmann’s marvelous contribution is incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate. Our more recent experience addresses some of those situations—but we do not have fully accepted answers for all of them. This paper id...

Situations of war and military conflict have been linked to the development of PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). To our knowledge, there are no studies that have examined, within the same conflict and the same culture, exposure to different traumatic events or traumatic events of different intensity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the symptoms of PTSD among Palestinian schoolchildren...

BACKGROUND Elderly residents of long-term care facilities are more vulnerable to being prescribed inappropriate medications because of the high incidence of co-medication in this population resulting from the presence of multiple chronic diseases and also age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the frequency of potentially inappropriate medications...

AIM To determine the prevalence, aetiology, and treatment profile of abnormal sexual behaviour in subjects with dementia in psychogeriatric practices. METHODS A retrospective cross sectional study was conducted in a long term care psychiatry consultation service, community based geriatric psychiatry service, and an inpatient dementia behavioural unit in Edmonton, Canada. RESULTS Forty one s...