There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, and of the frequency and types of experiments and research. This paper gives the first results of a comprehensive evidence-based evaluation of the different categories of victims. Human experiments were more extensive than often assumed with a minimum of 15,754 documented victims. Experiments rap...

OBJECTIVE The present study describes factors related to fatal abuse in three age groups in the United States Air Force (USAF). METHOD Records from 32 substantiated cases of fatal child abuse in the USAF were independently reviewed for 60 predefined factors. RESULTS Males were over-represented in young child victims (between 1 year and 4 years of age) and child victims (between 4 years and ...

BACKGROUND False allegations of victimisation although uncommon are important to recognise. This paper examines those who falsely claim to have been the victims of stalking. AIMS To highlight the phenomenon of false victims of stalking. METHOD Twelve individuals who falsely claimed to be victims of stalking were compared with a group of 100 true stalking victims. RESULTS False stalking vi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the severity of trauma in entrapped victims and to identify risk factors for mortality and morbidity. INTRODUCTION Triage and rapid assessment of trauma severity is essential to provide the needed resources during prehospital and hospital phases and for outcome prediction. It is expected that entrapped victims will have greater severity of trauma and mortality than non-en...

BACKGROUND Road traffic fatalities (RTF) are among the top ten causes of deaths in the world. The risk factors for RTF fatal victims have been extensively characterized, but studies of household burden of RTF have been very few in number. Accordingly, this article investigates post-crash impacts on RTF victims' family members, including the adverse impacts of lost income, occupational disruptio...

Non-partner sexual violence (NPSV), an important risk factor for HIV, is of global public health significance and understudied. The 2010 earthquake interacted syndemically with structural factors to increase sexual violence and HIV risk for women in Cité Soleil, Haiti. We used an exploratory sequential qualitative design and Grounded Theory to investigate language/terminology for NPSV, victims ...

Sensors can provide new and valuable information beyond the human senses: surgeons are provided with vital sign data without attention shift, firefighters may see through smoke, etc. This paper investigates how wearable sensing technology can be applied to alpine avalanche rescue. Sensors worn by mountaineers reveal information about vital functions of the victims in an emergency case. In parti...

BACKGROUND Three groups of children are involved in bullying: victims, bullies and bully-victims who are both bullies and victims of bullying. Understanding the origins of these groups is important since they have elevated emotional and behavioural problems, especially the bully-victims. No research has examined the genetic and environmental influences on these social roles. METHOD Mother and...

To examine long-term reactions to rape, 27 adult women who had been rape victims were interviewed and their current functioning assessed through a variety of written measures. Victims were significantly more depressed and reported less pleasure in daily activities than matched nonvictim controls. Women who had been victims of sudden violent attacks by complete strangers showed the most severe r...