In recent decades, national governments and international authorities have increasingly emphasized the role of legal institutions in restoring order after political violence. This study explores how, following the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government created new decentralized grassroots legal forums that aimed to produce community out of a divided population. The legal institutions were design...

We investigated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alteration of microbial mediation of litter decomposition. AMF (Glomus hoi) were either allowed access to or excluded from Plantago lanceolata L. root litter embedded in soil; litter was labeled with either (13) C only or (13) C and (15) N. Plant N uptake was significantly increased if AMF accessed the litter, and (15) N analysis of the plant m...

"Restorative Justice" has emerged internationally as a viable response to the harm caused by crime. Its acceptance and promotion are underscored by the fact that the United Nations has adopted a set of principles that encourage use of restorative justice programming by member states. In addition, the Council of Europe supports its use in criminal matters while the American Bar Association promo...

Accumulating evidence points to the mediating effects of sexual self-schemas on the sexual difficulties of women with a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). The following study adds to the extant literature by investigating (1) sexual function and (2) sexual satisfaction utilizing validated measures, and reporting on the relationship between sexual self-schemas and physiological (vaginal ph...

OBJECTIVES To examine changes in maternal-child health surrounding the April 2015 civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, following Freddie Gray's death while in police custody. METHODS We conducted cross-sectional Children's HealthWatch surveys January 2014 through December 2015 in pediatric emergency departments and primary care clinics on maternal-child health and June 2015 through October 20...

the present study aimed at investigating the possible impact ofzone of proximal development (zpd) on the learners’ performance. forty-sixiranian university students participated in this study by taking two types of readingcomprehension tests (i.e., the main idea and wh-question type). the researchersused the winstep program to analyze the data and estimate the learners’ raschmeasure in pre, pos...

This study aims to determine how the role of community participation in mediating relationship between perceptions based tourism and sustainability performance industry. research was conducted Pinggan Village by taking 100 samples with stratified random sampling method. The approach used this is Partial Least Square (PLS) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) equation model. result that has a posi...

The study is about the settlement of disputes over land grants to adopted children in village Gedung, Palas District, South Lampung Regency from perspective Islamic law and positive Indonesia. focus research how Indonesian Positive Law view grant children. purpose this find out resolve cases In research, data collection method used by author field interview methods with parties related. After c...

Mediation analysis is a popular framework for identifying underlying mechanisms in social psychology. In the context of simple mediation, we review and discuss the implications of three facets of mediation analysis: (a) conceptualization of the relations between the variables, (b) statistical approaches, and (c) relevant elements of design. We also highlight the issue of equivalent models that ...

Problems partners in the Community Service activities are lack of public knowledge Kelurahan Kampung Melayu Kecamatan Sukajadi Kota Pekanbaru on mediation procedure court. The solution offered community service increased Method implementation is using lectures, dialogues and discussions framework legal counseling Partner participation to provide time, providing a place other supporting faciliti...