Stephanie Levine Wellen, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers. An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls

Sexual relationship power, intimate partner violence, and condom use among minority urban girls.

This study examined the association between sexual relationship power, intimate partner violence, and condom use among African American and Hispanic urban girls. In this sample of 56 sexually active girls, 50% did not use condoms consistently and therefore were at higher risk for acquiring HIV or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Teens who experienced more intimate partner violence had a si...

Stephanie Huerre_CASA_2010

Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development is developing a 3-D agent-based crowd simulation tool for collaboration amongst designers, engineers and operations managers. The autonomous agents in our tool model the realistic behaviors of theme park guests with non-goal driven decision-making, and dynamic queuing, crowding, and grouping behaviors. Agents are based on the same universal logi...

Stephanie Yates

Numbers are present in every aspect of our daily lives. Whether we are making a phone call on our cell phones, calculating the waiter’s tip at dinner or counting pairs of socks to make sure none of them disappeared in the laundry the use of numbers is evident. It is easy to take them for granted considering how prevalent they are in the world today. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact numb...

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The Relationship between Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning among Girls and Young Women in the Philippines

This study explored the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and family planning among adolescent girls and young women in formal unions in the Philippines. Analyzing a sample (n =1,566) from the 2013 Philippines Demographic and Health Survey, logistic regression models were separately run for current contraception use and unmet need for family planning on recent physical violen...