Women's Voices, Black and White

The Voices of Black and White Rural Battered Women in Domestic Violence Shelters*

Very little research has examined the experiences of Black and White rural battered women. In this exploratory study of 88 participants, 30 rural battered women who sought assistance from domestic violence shelters in southwest Virginia were interviewed. Black and White rural women’s experiences in the shelters, helpseeking, and perceived social support during and after their stay in the shelte...

the black hole and the white dwarf

astrophysics is becoming now an integral part of general physics. considering the black hole theory ,which is a new and exciting branch of relativistic astrophysics, we see many connections between elementary particle physics and astrophysics. in this article we attempt to explain the development of star physics ,in an easy ,understandable manner. previous knowledge of relativistic theory or cl...

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These ruminations are based on based on UTR 25 (Unicode and Mathematics), revision 7, section 2.11 (Geometric Shapes) in particular. The conclusions are-(i) a plea for more consistency when naming characters; (ii) a request that characters based on abstract shapes should have some indicator of the size of the character relative to the rest of the font; (iii) that the code chart entry for U+2023...

Black and White and Colour

Black Swans and white tablets

The Black Swan, a metaphor for highly improbable, high impact events, warns us to understand the limits of our predictions and expect the “unknown unknowns” everywhere, from war to science and industry. From the earliest stages of discovery to post-marketing events, we argue that fundamentally the structure of pharmaceutical industry is driven by and impacted by both positive and negative Black...