Mountain definitions and their consequences

What is animal welfare? Common definitions and their practical consequences.

Anomic Aspirations of Youth and Their Consequences

Since a decade ago, Iran has been in economic crisis and anomic situation. Peoples’ aspirations and goals are of the factors and mechanisms that transform economic crisis into social problems and deviances. Accordingly, present research studies levels of youth aspirations, particularly economic aspirations, and their consequences. Using a survey method, youth between 25-30 years of age have bee...

Inbreeding among mountain gorillas has no consequences

"The mountain gorilla population has been falling drastically for many years so we wanted to take a closer look at what effect living in such small populations might have had on them and which consequences many years of inbreeding had had. As it turned out, the damaging genetic variations that usually arise in small, inbred populations were not there," says one of the study's co-authors, the ge...

Frames and Their Consequences

Domestic violence against women: Definitions, epidemiology, risk factors and consequences.

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is considered one of the most common forms of gender-related violence, and various studies estimate that between 10 and 35% of women experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. Nevertheless, it is a frequently neglected problem in crisis intervention centres, emergency wards, and obstetrics and gynaecological emergency rooms. This paper contributes to...