This article presents lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates and comorbidity for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among a sample of 428 homeless and runaway adolescents. Data are from baseline interviews of a longitudinal diagnostic study of 428 (187 males; 241 females) homeless and runaway adolescents aged 16-19 years (mean age = 17.4 years, SD = 1.05). The data were collected by full-time...

We describe a new survey for unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs), stars traveling with such extreme velocities that dynamical ejection from a massive black hole (MBH) is their most likely origin. We investigate the possible contribution of unbound runaway stars, and show that the physical properties of binaries constrain low mass runaways to bound velocities. We measure radial velocities for HVS...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this study is to examine the extent to which running away from home as a child is associated with behavioral problems and victimization during childhood and with suicidal behavior and substance abuse during early adulthood. METHODS A random probability sample comprising 7,461 respondents was interviewed for the 2007 survey of psychiatric morbidity of adults in Engla...

ABSTRACT We study the kinematics of luminous blue variables (LBVs) in Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Using high-resolution spectra, we measure systemic radial velocities for a sample 16 LBVs and LBV candidates. In order to net motion compared their local environments, subtract projected line-of-sight velocity at same location derived from rotation curve model LMC. nebular wind emission lines, in...

Based on risk amplification and victimization theories, path analysis was used to investigate the effect of early sexual abuse on later sexual victimization among 361 female homeless and runaway adolescents in four midwestern states. Results indicated that early sexual abuse in the home had a positive direct effect on sexual victimization of adolescents on the streets. Early sexual abuse also i...

Deuterium, impurity and impurity doped pellets are studied in light of their use for ELM and disruption mitigation. Based on ELM pace making studies at ASDEX Upgrade and JET, the minimum pellet size required to cause an ELM, has been estimated in ITER for the foreseen pellet velocities. Concerning disruption mitigation studies the number of runaways is determined for JET like plasmas for deuter...

We consider the network of citations of scientific papers and use a combination of the theoretical and experimental tools to uncover microscopic details of this network growth. Namely, we develop a stochastic model of citation dynamics based on the copying-redirection-triadic closure mechanism. In a complementary and coherent way, the model accounts both for statistics of references of scientif...

PROBLEM Various demographic and familial risk factors have been linked to runaway behavior. To date, there has not been a systematic investigation of the impact of size of community on runaway behavior. This study will compare runaways from smaller cities and rural areas to their urban counterparts. METHODS A convenience sample of 602 adolescents was interviewed between 1995 and August of 199...

The primary aim of this study was to describe the abuse experiences of sexually exploited runaway adolescents seen at a Child Advocacy Center (N=62). We also sought to identify risk behaviors, attributes of resiliency, laboratory results for sexually transmitted infection (STI) screens, and genital injuries from colposcopic exams. We used retrospective mixed-methods with in-depth forensic inter...