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1. Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims
- www.ojp.usdoj.gov
- Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims.
- Addressing the mandate of the National Child Protection Act of 1993, which called for a study of offenders who committed crimes against children, this study found that (a) 1 in 5 violent State prisoners (about 65,000 offenders) reported a victim under age 18; (b) older violent inmates were substantially more likely than younger inmates to have victimized a child; and (c) 8 out of 10 prisoners convicted of sexual assault had committed their crime against a victim under age 18. ... The report describes the sociodemographic data on these offenders, the physical or sexual abuse they may have experienced, their current offense, their criminal history backgrounds (including prior offenses against children), and their use of drugs or alcohol at the time of the offense. For child victims of adult offenders, the study includes their sociodemographic backgrounds, the victim-offender relationship, and the consequences to the victim, such as injuries and weapon use by the offender. ...
2. ISCA - International Society for Computers and Their Applications
- www.isca-hq.org
- International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.
- The International Society for Computers and Their Applications, Inc. , promotes the advancement of science and engineering in the area of computers and their applications, and disseminates this technology throughout the world. ...
- ISCA (International Society for Computers and Their Applications) is a not-for-profit society. ...
- International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA) 975 Walnut Street, Suite 132 Cary, NC 27511-4216 Phone: (919) 467-5559 Fax: (919) 467-3430 E-mail: isca@ipass. ...
3. Patients who are active in their health care may lower their risk of heart disease
- www.eurekalert.org
- Patients who are active in their health care may lower their risk of heart disease.
- 28 – Middle-aged women who take an active role in their health care may be less likely to develop cardiovascular disease as they transition through menopause, according to research done at the University of Pittsburgh. ...
- The results, presented today at the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting, suggest women who believe they should take charge of their health, rather than rely solely on treatment by doctors, have fewer signs of pre-clinical atherosclerosis. ...
- "Our findings provide evidence that women who believe they should be engaged in the maintenance of their health, rather than women who would rather put the responsibility for their health into someone else's hands, somehow translate those attitudes into better health through behavioral and psychological mechanisms," said Wendy Troxel, M. ...
- Participants' involvement in their health care was measured using the Krantz Health Opinion Survey. ...
- Women who scored as active participants in the opinion survey had lower IMT and plaques in their arteries compared to non-active participants, which translates into a lower risk of developing heart disease or suffering a heart attack or stroke. ...
- The results showing lower IMT in women who reported greater involvement in their health care persisted after statistically controlling for education, age during follow-up, pulse pressure, smoking history and triglycerides, and were independent of a general personality measure. ...
- "This study supports the present trend in health care to encourage patients to take an active role in their health and well-being," said Ms. ...
4. B2B: Help Your Fans Convince Their Bosses (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- www.useit.com
- B2B: Help Your Fans Convince Their Bosses.
- Process specifics vary by industry, and I recommend that you perform a field study with a few customers to discover how your site can best support their internal processes. ...
- When the people researching possible vendors begin their search, you want to be found. ...
- Domain experts conduct the initial research, then offer their shortlist and recommendations in memos and presentations to committees of middle managers, who then go to the Big Boss with a shorter list and a shorter presentation. ...
- One of your main goals is to help your advocates convince their peers and later their bosses that your product is the best. ...
- You can assure yourself a place in their hearts by making it easier for them to substantiate their recommendations to the bosses; deep experts hate nothing more than politicking. ...
- Give them the tools to build their internal sales argument, write their memos, and develop their presentations. ...
- Make these short, and don't use PDF; standard Web pages make it easier for advocates to cut and paste text and images into their memos and presentations. ...
- Ongoing updates through an e-mail newsletter, which can offer advocates hints about tidbits to feed their bosses. ...
5. Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
- www.eurekalert.org
- Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults.
- SEATTLE – A new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center suggests that parents who quit smoking when their children are young may have a big influence on whether their offspring will quit smoking as young adults. ...
- "We found that parents quitting smoking early, before their children reach third grade, is associated with nearly double the chances that their children would quit smoking in young adulthood," said Jonathan Bricker, Ph. ...
- These findings build on an earlier study by Bricker and colleagues, published in the May 2003 issue of Addiction, which that found parents who quit smoking before their children reached third grade significantly reduced their child's odds of becoming a smoker by their senior year of high school. ...
- "Taken together, these two studies suggest that parents who quit smoking by the time their children are 8 or 9 years old may help prevent their children from becoming adolescent smokers and, if they do start, may help them quit smoking in young adulthood," said Bricker, also a clinical instructor in the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. ...
- The most surprising finding of the study, Bricker said, was that parents who quit smoking late, when their child was between third and 12th grade, had no impact on their child's quitting behavior in early adulthood. ...
- "We had thought that parents quitting late might serve as a recent model of behavior that their children could remember and emulate, but our data did not show a significant result for late quitting," Bricker said. One possible explanation, he said, was lack of statistical power in their data; there simply were not enough young-adult quitters whose parents were late quitters enrolled in their study. ...
- "This study is unique because it is the first prospective study to follow a large group of parents and children over time to examine whether parents' quitting behavior might be related to their young-adult children quitting smoking," Bricker said. ...
- "We need parents to realize that if they quit smoking, they may be helping their young-adult children to quit smoking in the future. ...
- Parents who would like to quit are encouraged to contact their primary physician for smoking-cessation guidance, Bricker said. ...
- "This study could help tip the motivational balance for parents – or prospective parents – who want to take the next step and do something about their smoking behavior, both for their own health and for that of their child. ...
6. Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
- www.cisa.inf.ed.ac.uk
- Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications.
- Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications .
7. Long Island Maps and Their Makers
- www.sunysb.edu
- Long Island Maps and Their Makers.
- Among their many functions were to guide sea captains, to depict military engagements, to establish property boundaries, to show routes for travelers, to sell real estate, and to depict soil conditions for farmers. ...
- The design of this Web site is based on the author's book Long Island Maps and Their Makers: Five Centuries of Cartographic History (ISBN 0-8488-1804-0). ...
8. FAO : SD Dimensions : Environment : Environmental conventions and agreements
- www.fao.org
- Desertification, drought and their consequences.
- Trees and bushes in particular, due to their long life and their capacity to develop powerful root systems, guarantee effective protection against soil degradation. Their disappearance considerably increases the vulnerability of the land to desertification. Lastly, even under the same conditions in terms of climate, relief, soils and vegetation, and with the same population density, the vulnerability of the land to desertification will vary widely depending on the way in which the natural resources are used by the human communities and their livestock. ...
- Droughts occur frequently in the areas affected by desertification, and are generally a feature of their natural climate. ...
- The people develop a survival strategy in order to attend to their most urgent requirements, and this in turn helps to aggravate desertification and hold up development. ...
- These consequences, in turn, weaken the economies of the developing countries affected by desertification, particularly when they have no other resources than their agriculture. This is particularly true in the African countries in the dry zones: their economy is unable to offset the increasingly serious effects of desertification, and they have to deal with emergency situations created by drought and desertification despite the increasing debt burden that is reducing their possibility of making productive investment in order to break the spiral of underdevelopment. ...
- Women are gradually acquiring the permission of their communities, and are causing land title rules to develop. ...
- In many places in the world, however, they frequently come up against cultural and religious taboos, the disapproval of the men, and reluctance of their government to support them. ...
- In many regions, the perception by the rural people of the importance of their environment and the priority given to a better relationship with the environment, have also changed. ...
- a fragile environment on which they depend for their survival is being neglected or over-exploited, and it is now necessary to rehabilitate it and manage it sustainably; .
- Many genetic strains of cultivated plants which form the basis of the food and health of the world's population originate from the dry zones: their disappearance can affect the possibility of producing plant-based medicines to combat specific diseases or epidemics. ...
- Lastly, desertification leads to an accelerated and often unbridled exploitation of underground fossil water reserves, and their gradual depletion. ...
9. Paying Their Way: Commercial Digital Libraries for the 21st Century
- www.dlib.org
- Paying Their Way.
- Once little more than an infrastructure for electronic mail and a playground for academic users, the Internet has increasingly become a vital information resource for commercial enterprises which want to keep in touch with existing customers or reach new customers with new online product offerings, and which need to keep abreast of their competitors strengths and weaknesses.
- In particular, there are no widely used standards for metadata 2 , or semantic markup, which would allow content providers to annotate their pages with information defining the content of each page. ...
- Unless significant information owners can see that they are making money from the provision of their content, they will simply cease to provide it. ...
- Privacy and security: anyone wishing to use the WWW for commerce must implement their own privacy/security mechanisms; .
- For example, a good librarian would know about the library's users, and use this knowledge in their interests. ...
- From the earliest days of its development, the difficulty of finding and managing information on the WWW was apparent, and the first "meta-Web" applications were developed, in the form of search engines that aim to enable users to find information to meet their requirements (we are talking here of Lycos, Yahoo! and their many relatives). ...
- This information can then be used in that user's interests, to act on their behalf pro-actively, without being explicitly instructed to do so. ...
- Initially, researchers focused on distributed problem solving: essentially, how a problem could be effectively divided between groups of semi-autonomous problem solving components, such that they could each work on the problem independently, with the goal of ultimately integrating their results into a single whole 5 . ...
- Producers are content owners who want to make their information resources available to these consumers. ...
- On reaching the ZunoDL service network, the user will be allocated a user interface agent (UIA): their own if they have used the system before (topmost user in Figure 2), an "anonymous" one if they have not (bottom user in Figure 1). ...
10. Lifeline - the most trusted medical alarm provider
- www.lifelinesys.com
- For 30 years, we've enabled millions of people to live with greater confidence, peace of mind and dignity in their own homes - all for little more than a dollar a day. ...
11. Meteorites and Their Properties - Table of Contents
- meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu
- Impacting meteorites and their craters En Español .
12. DIMACS Workshop on Discrete Metric Spaces and their Algorithmic Applications
- dimacs.rutgers.edu
- DIMACS Workshop on Discrete Metric Spaces and their Algorithmic Applications.
- They should email their request for the reduced fee to the Workshop Coordinator at workshop@dimacs. ...
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