Although organizational decision-makers are turning toward “family-friendly” policies to reduce employee work-family strain, the usefulness of such policies, as well as perceptions of their availability, remains unclear. Thus, we examined both perceived availability of family-friendly programs as well as the actual usage of such programs for minimizing work-family conflict. Data from the Work a...

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While information systems provide modern society with great convenience, it also poses new problems in maintaining social order. One of its negative influences is the anonymity of cyberspace, which makes identity tracing a noteworthy predicament which poses obstacles in detection and investigations. It has been found that cyber anonymity has critical impacts on criminal motivation, and the phen...

Law enforcement officers must possess a number of unique characteristics and skills that are not common in most professions such as the ability to react under pressure and high levels of physical fitness. As a result of these demands, candidates applying for acceptance to law enforcement academies, such as the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), are screened, prior to acceptance, using a ba...

T he probability that Medicare reform legislation will pass in 2003 seems as volatile as the stock market. After rapid passage of bills in the Senate and House in June, hopes that differences would be quickly reconciled have given way to concerns about the tough issues that still need to be resolved. Clearly, the commitment of $400 billion for prescription drug coverage would be a major step fo...

Indigenous Australians constitute approximately 2.4% of the Australian population and suffer from disadvantage across a range of social, economic, and health indicators compared to other Australians, including exposure to racism across all domains of contemporary Australian society. However, there has been relatively little research conducted on anti-racism in relation to Indigenous Australians...

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a VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam, the Netherlands b Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies and LEARN! Research institute for Learning and Education, and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands c VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amst...

The important work in this volume tells us some powerful truths. It has long been clear that law enforcement has critical roles to play in protecting the health of the public, and that law enforcement entities have legitimate concerns of public safety, security, and protection. That these roles have led to a broad array of responses to substance use and substance users, which have ranged from h...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study include assessing the motorcycle helmet use pattern in Calicut, India, and analyzing the factors influencing helmet use including motorcyclists' perceptions. METHODS Field observational studies at 15 locations were conducted to determine the helmet use rate among motorcyclists and pillion passengers. A structured questionnaire interview survey was condu...