Background The impact of airway obstruction of nonsmoking women caused by their husband's smoking is unclear, despite the association between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure at home and obstructive pulmonary diseases among nonsmoking women. The aim of this study was to provide evidence that ETS exposure from the husband at home has a more significant influence on the airway obstructi...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Consistent links exist between male alcohol intake and male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as female alcohol intake and female-perpetrated IPV. However, the nature of the relationship remains unclear. This study attempted to identify unique alcohol-violence patterns within three different types of relationship dynamics to better understand the...

FOR SUMS OF BIVARIATE RANDOM VARIABLES Minoru Sakaguchi Osaka University (Received March 24, 1978) This paper explores optimal strategies for the problem of choosing several best from a set of sequentially observed bivariate random variables. For example, a couple of husband and wife to make a plan of recreations during a year, has this problem when deciding which offer (or amount of satisfacti...