Working Women and The Lebanese Legislature

Computers in the Legislature

Patterns and determinants of mammography screening in Lebanese women

The associations of ever using and/or repeating a mammography test with psychosocial and socio-demographic factors were surveyed in 2014 among Lebanese women ≥ 40. A sample of 2400 women was selected across Lebanon. Variables with significant bivariate associations with various types of behaviors were entered in multivariate analysis. Of the total, 105 women (4·4%) had never heard of mammograph...

Power in the US Legislature

Using a standard model of the US legislative system as a monotonic simple game, we look at rankings of the four types of players – the president, the vice president, senators, and representatives – induced by power indices. We show that regardless of the power index used, the president is always ranked above the other players, and a senator is always ranked above the vice president and a repres...

Women Are Bitches, Men Are Leaders: How Men and Women Varied in Legislative Effectiveness in the 2014 Colorado State Legislature

Cognitive Inhibition and Working Memory in Obese and Normal Women

Background: The increasing incidence of overweight or obesity is a significant health problem.  Hence, this study aims to investigate attention inhibition and memory function in obese and normal women. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted from 2017 to 2018 in Ahvaz. A sample of 200 women referred to sports clubs was selected by the convenience sampling method. The tools ...