background and objectives: violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. this type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. this study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac­tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...

Aesthetics of violence is a common film style and expression technique used in the creation 'adult-oriented' Chinese animation also form artistic exploration violence. The aesthetics relies on virtual world animation, putting bloody romantic poetic veneer, highlighting aesthetic feelings audience, at same time setting values as modern social values, turning into an allegorical "non-child" adult...

We examine whether retaliatory violence exists between law enforcement and citizens while controlling for any social media contagion effect related to prior fatal encounters. Analyzed using a trivariate dynamic structural vector-autoregressive model, daily time-series data over a 21-month period captured the frequencies of police killed in the line of duty, police deadly use of force incidents,...

This paper shows that arbitrage is limited if rational agents face uncertainty about completing their arbitrage portfolios. This “execution risk” arises in our model because there are slippages in asset prices as arbitrageurs compete for the limited supply of assets needed for a profitable arbitrage portfolio. This is distinct from the existing limits of arbitrage such as noise trader risk, fun...

Violent offending by women has been on the rise in recent decades. Women perpetrate relationship violence, child physical and sexual abuse, and stalking. They commit approximately half of the cases of filicide, and nearly all neonaticides. Like men, women may be aggressive and have rational though unsavory reasons for horrific offenses. Yet, propensity toward violence is often perceived as a ma...