OBJECTIVES We examine gender differences in population rates of various types of interpersonal violence in a U.S. national sample and investigate gender as a moderator of the associations between interpersonal violence and lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts. METHODS Data were drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication study; 5,692 women and men completed interviews ass...

The American justice system traditionally has relied on expert witnesses hired by adverse parties, resulting in the appearance of dueling hired guns. There have been attempts to reform the system through court-appointed impartial experts, but trial attorneys have resisted them. Celebrated cases have brought the problem to the forefront--for example, the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nat...

This research focuses on causes of low female literacy in FATA areas of Pakistan. The area of this study is nowadays undergoing terrorist activities and military operations. Majority of people in the study area are internally displaced called IDPs due to the unfavorable situation. Unfortunately in Pakistan the level of literacy is extremely low and hardly touches 57% including 69% males and 45%...

The study examined the entrepreneurship awareness and skills among Library and Information Science (LIS) students in two Nigerian Universities. In Nigeria, the overcrowded job market is forcing thousands of graduates into unemployment and its associated consequences of kidnapping, drug addiction, youth restiveness and general poor standard of living. This has made it imperative that graduates b...

In many real-life situations, massive quantities of signatures have to be issued on cheap passive supports (e.g. paper-based) such as bank-notes, badges, ID cards, driving licenses or passports (hereafter IDs); while large-scale ID replacements are costly and prohibitive, one may reasonably assume that the updating of verification equipment (e.g. off-line border checkpoints or mobile patrol uni...

Forensic botany encompasses many sub-disciplines, including plant anatomy, plant ecology, plant systematics, plant molecular biology, palynology, and limnology. Although the field of forensic botany has been recognized since the mid-1900’s, the use of trace plant material as physical evidence in criminal casework is still novel. A review of published forensic casework that used plant evidence i...

The VAST Challenge 2014 MC3 featured a dataset of roughly 4000 microblog messages and 200 emergency callcenter reports produced in the fictitious city of Abila. The task was to identify relevant events and outliers in the data and highlight observations that are connected to an earlier kidnapping of employees from a company called GASTECH. In contrast to earlier challenges, the focus was on rea...

In 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by a group of extremists while traveling as a freelance journalist in Somalia. She and a colleague were held captive for more than 15 months, released only after their families paid a ransom. In this interview, Amanda discusses her experiences in captivity and her ongoing recovery from this experience with Katherine Porterfield, Ph.D. a clinical psychologi...

Adolescence can be a specifically turbulent as well as a dynamic period of one’s life. It has been identified as a period in which young people develop abstract thinking abilities, become more aware of their sexuality, develop a clearer sense of psychological identity and increase their independence from parents. G. Stanly Hall denoted this period as one of “Storm and Stress” and, according to ...

BACKGROUND This work has investigated the psychological status of family members of kidnapped seafarers, 5 months after their release. AIM The goal of this study was to assess if relatives of victims of maritime piracy showed signs of psychological distress, to diagnose eventual pathologies and to measure their severity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve family members (8 females and 4 males) of...