Extreme Risk Protection Orders

Civil protection orders and risk of subsequent police-reported violence.

CONTEXT Approximately 1.5 million US women experience intimate partner violence annually. Approximately 20% of these women obtain civil protection orders, but the effectiveness of such orders in preventing future violence is unclear. OBJECTIVE To assess associations between obtaining a protection order and risk of subsequent police-reported intimate partner violence. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SU...

Sub-Category A-vii: Protection Orders

Protection Orders for Battered Women in Israel

The aim of the present study is to describe and re-consider the findings obtained from analysis of 260 protection orders that were granted in cases of violence by men against their partners. The Prevention of Domestic Violence Law was enacted in Israel in 1991. The data collection for the study took place 10 years later, after the 1996 amendment was enacted. In this article I revisit the data, ...

Bipartite Diametrical Graphs of Diameter 4 and Extreme Orders

We provide a process to extend any bipartite diametrical graph of diameter 4 to an S-graph of the same diameter and partite sets. For a bipartite diametrical graph of diameter 4 and partite sets U and W , where 2m |U| ≤ |W |, we prove that 2 is a sharp upper bound of |W | and construct an S-graph G 2m, 2 in which this upper bound is attained, this graph can be viewed as a generalization of the ...

Extreme convergence in egg-laying strategy across insect orders

The eggs of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) bear strong resemblance to plant seeds and are commonly dispersed by females dropping them to the litter. Here we report a novel egg-deposition mode for Phasmatodea performed by an undescribed Vietnamese species of the enigmatic subfamily Korinninae that produces a complex egg case (ootheca), containing numerous eggs in a highly ordered arrangeme...