“With Length of Days I Will Gratify Him”

The days that will still be mine.

Ithink I must have experienced the whole range of human emotions during the time I was being treated for an aggressive breast cancer that seemingly appeared from nowhere. It is an extraordinary and terrifying experience to cross the line from a philosophical grasp of the fact that no one lives forever to the realization that one has a life-threatening illness. Although I had expected and prepar...

George Rosen as I knew him.

T was a gray Baltimore morning in April 1942 when I first met George Rosen in the Johns Hopkins Institute. We 'clicked' immediately. Being both devotees of medical history we talked for hours almost exclusively about our adored subject; strangely enough neither about our careers (as it behooves colleagues) nor about world politics, though at that moment it breathed heavily down all our necks. I...

The Effect of the Slot Length on Beam Vertical Shear in I-Beams with Moment Connections

This paper evaluates the effect of slot existence with limited length between flanges and web junction of I-shaped beams at the region of moment connections on vertical force and shear stress distribution in beam flanges and web at connection section in comparison with classical theory of stress distribution. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficiency of the slot in connect...

Bowman-Bradley type identities for symmetrised MZV’s MZV Days at HIM

Why I Hit Him: Women's Reasons for Intimate Partner Violence.

This study examines motives for intimate partner violence (IPV) among a community sample of 412 women who used IPV against male partners. A "Motives and Reasons for IPV scale" is proposed, and exploratory factor analyses identified five factors: expression of negative emotions, self-defense, control, jealousy, and tough guise. To our knowledge, the study is the first to investigate the relation...