Since our previous publication (17) on this subject, several articles have appeared in which other explanations of cottonseed-meal poisoning have been offered. Thus, Rommel and Vedder (14) have suggested that poisoning by cottonseed meal is similar to beriberi, and is caused by deficient diets. This view was based on the similarity of post-mortem symptoms noted in pigs fed on rice and tankage. ...

Domestic violence against women is an important health issue, but few studies have focused on city of residence and ethnic differences. To estimate the prevalence of various forms of domestic violence and certain related factors, with a specific focus on city of residence and ethnicity, we studied 1820 married women attending public health centers in 4 large cities in Khuzestan Province, southw...

This article analyses the recent jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on the issue of domestic violence, with a particular focus on Valiuliene v Lithuania. It seems that to date the Court’s jurisprudence on this issue is somewhat inconsistent, and with Valiuliene v Lithuania the Court was given an opportunity to clarify its approach in this area. There are certainly a number of p...

PURPOSE To determine whether participation in an intensive domestic violence interclerkship (DVI) improved the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of two successive cohorts of students at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. METHOD The authors measured the knowledge, attitudes, and skills pertaining to domestic violence of third-year students in the classes of 1997 and 1998 using a va...

OBJECTIVE When workers experience domestic violence (DV) at home, impacts are felt in the workplace; however, little research is available on this topic. METHODS We conducted an online survey regarding the impacts of DV at work. RESULTS A total of 8429 people completed the survey. More than a third of respondents reported experiencing DV; among them, more than a third reported that DV affec...

All books, including Donald G. Dutton’s (2006) Rethinking Domestic Violence, are written and published in a specific political and economic context. As vividly described by Faludi (1991), Hammer (2002), and many others who made progressive contributions to an interdisciplinary understanding of the enduring discrimination against contemporary North American women, we still live in a climate char...

Domestic Violence Survivor Assessment (DVSA) assesses the process of change using the Transtheoretical Model of Change for 12 issues conceptualized as relating to the relationship or the individual. This article presents the psychometric properties of the revised DVSA with a new item, "Control of Money." The factor analysis was done for 119 survivors resulting in a three-factor solution explain...

The blood serum protein and electrolyte levels as well the effects of age, sex time bleeding on these were investigated in a 2x2x2 factorial experiment using twenty four mature guinea fowls(Numedia melagris pallas). results showed fiat proteins major — sodium . (ppm), potassium. (ppm) calcium (mg/100 ml), magkesium ml) phosphates mg/100ml) res­pectively 2.45 ±0.04, 3231 56 ±107.52, 1301. 26 ±33...