BACKGROUND As HIV infection continues to devastate low-income countries, efforts to search for an effective HIV vaccine are crucial. Therefore, participation in HIV vaccine trials will be useful for the development of a preventive vaccine that will work and thus reduce the global HIV epidemic. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to analyse the willingness to volunteer (WTV) in a Phase I...

BACKGROUND We have previously studied unintentional as well as intentional injury deaths among teenagers living in the four northernmost counties, forming approximately 55% of Sweden with 908,000 inhabitants in 1991. During this work, we found what we suspected to be a suicide cluster among teenagers and we also suspected contagion since there were links between these cases. In this present stu...

OBJECTIVES Helmet use is the best preventive measure available against two wheel motorized vehicle (TWMV) related head injuries. In some countries, however, helmets are used only by a minority of TWMV riders. In collaboration with the Road Traffic Police Department, an inspection survey was undertaken to assess the prevalence and to determine predictors of helmet use. SETTING The Greater Athe...

This paper studies the impact of judicial reform in Mexico. It does so using a survey about crime victimization and perceptions of insecurity (Encuesta Nacional Sobre la Inseguridad, ENSI) from 2005, 2008, and 2009 in eleven Mexican cities, three of which implemented the reform in 2007 and 2008. It shows judicial reform reduces victimization but also lowers perceptions of security. These result...

Introduction. Among the entities for which prevention of illegal acts as main task is implemented in many cases precisely by means interaction with other - territorial community, law enforcement agencies, local public authorities, units preventive activities National Police Ukraine are singled out. Which, turn, actualizes issue proper administrative and legal consolidation activity subjects cri...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem, but few evidence-based prevention programs have yet been implemented. PURPOSE This study explored the perceptions and beliefs of local-level decision makers, social and health-care professionals, and representatives from the police force regarding the possibilities and hindrances for prevention of IPV. METHOD An ex...

this study aims to evaluation of knowledge management processes including knowledge generation & acquisition, saving & organizing, dissemination & sharing and application in the public sector especially in police through a case study based investigation and identifies factors affecting for improvement them. the evaluation was examined through 423 questionnaires provided by in different police u...

This research study aims to identify the key stresses encountered by police officers in Lithuania in 2003. A questionnaire was distributed to officers working in police departments throughout Lithuania. The 2003 results were a compared with a similar study carried out among male and female police officers in Lithuania 1999. The stressors determined to have the greatest negative effects were adm...

François Triozon,* Stephan Roche, Angel Rubio, and Didier Mayou Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, DSM/DRFMC/SPSMS and DRT/LETI/DIHS/LMNO, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Departamento de Fı́sica de Materiales, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Apartado 1072, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain LEPES-CNRS, 25 rue des ...