This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

Introduction: In critical COVID- 19 patients, we aimed to examine the relationship mortality between parameters and macrocytic/microcytic erythrocyte population that are routinely evaluated in each patient admitted intensive care unit. 
 Material Method: It is a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted Kastamonu University, Faculty of Medicine, tertiary hospital units located Nort...

together with the results of the low ferritin patients of the previously mentioned anemic cohort (five men and eight women). In the group with ferritin values below the reference interval (,25 mg/L), 5 out of 11 men had CDTect values $20 units/L and 8 out of 18 women had CDTect values $26 units/L. Therefore, a disproportionate number of high CDTect values were observed in anemic and nonanemic p...

Previous research has indicated that a light tactile contact is associated with a positive response towards the person who is touching. The effect of touch on courtship was investigated in this experiment, which was conducted in a field setting. A female confederate either slightly touched or did not touch a man in a bar when asking him for some help. It was found that men who were touched show...

This study examined Taiwanese female and male police officers’ perceptions of handling domestic violence. Specifically, it assessed officers’ attitudes toward whether female officers, male officers, or a combination of female and male officers are more suited for handling cases of battered women, offenders, and domestic violence overall. Survey data were collected from 96 female and 156 male of...