Previous research into rape victim blaming has often neglected to assess attitudes toward male victims. The present study was designed to redress this imbalance and specifically, investigate the role of homophobic attitudes in male rape victim perception. Men and women read a vignette describing an incident of rape and answered two questionnaires that assessed firstly, homophobic attitudes towa...

We propose a novel way for ambient assisted living: a system that with motion detector to observe the daily activities of the elderly, build the daily activity model of the user. In case of unusual activities the system send alarm signal to caregiver. The problems with this approach to build such a model: firstly, the activities of the user are random and dynamic distributed, that means the rel...

Coronary artery spasm is not an uncommon event, but its pathophysiologic mechanisms followed by coronary artery vasospasm are not yet completely clarified. Coronary artery spasm can lead to sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrhythmias or heart block. In the cases of cardiogenic shock secondly to severe coronary artery spasm, IABP is sufficient to support the patient’s hemodynamics, in th...

We introduce a collection of complex networks generated by a combination of preferential attachment and a previously unexamined process of “splitting” nodes of degree k into k nodes of degree 1. Four networks are considered, each evolves at each time step by either preferential attachment, with probability p, or splitting with probability 1 − p. Two methods of attachment are considered; first, ...

The widespread use of mobile devices, particularly by young people, offers new and exciting possibilities for learning. The mobility and pervasiveness factors inherent to mobile technologies allow learning at any time and in any place. This has led to some new developments in educational pedagogy based on the affordances that mobile technology brings to learning. “Mobile scaffolding” is a new r...

either social or psychological problems. Initially, a supportive identified member of that office screens the problem. The matter can then be referred to the Associate Dean or the year coordinator and discussed at the Student Welfare Committee meeting. Appropriate documentation is kept. Secondly, students may be reported to the Associate Dean by other concerned students or staff, usually when t...

This paper reflects on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) at Construction Youth Trust (the Trust) with London South Bank University (LSBU) that aims to provide the Trust with a comprehensive and internal process that will result in Social Return on Investment (SROI) being embedded within the organisation. The aims of this paper are twofold, firstly to examine the development and growth of K...

This paper is a contribution to the aid effectiveness literature in two important fronts. Firstly, it develops a new database for project aid and programme aid disbursements for 104 developing countries, for the period of 1973-2001. Secondly, using this new dataset and, food aid and technical assistance data from the OECD-DAC database the paper re-examines the savings displacement hypothesis. T...

Nowadays, new technologies, like genomics, cannot be developed without the support of the public. However, although interested, the public does not always actively participate in science issues when offered the opportunity via public participation activities. In a study aimed at validating a measurement scale, first, we investigated if public participation existed, and, secondly, we investigate...