Collective male sexual violence is part of a continuum of sexual coercion in South Africa. This paper is based on long-term ethnographic work in an urban township in the former Transkei region. Drawing on intensive participant observation and interviews with young men in particular, it attempts to make sense of emergent narratives relating to streamlining, a local term for a not uncommon form o...

A Bayesian geostatistical model was used to identify factors related to topographical variation in the analysis of mortality risk for children less than 5 years of age in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the People's Republic of China. Epidemiological data from a standardized survey were available from 115 locations across the study area. Physical and demographic factors measured directly at the...

Twp experiments were performed to investigate the effects of input stimuli's perceptual characteristics on visual hemifield asymmetries. The task used involved the temporal integration uf form: a stimulus was flashed in two incomplete but complementary flashes, which then had to be integrated over time into the complete stimulus. In this task, successful performance depends on the visible persi...

Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy. Starting from the assumption that gender inequalities play a key role in driving the epidemic amongst young people, we outline a framework for conceptualizing the processes underlying success...

OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns and causes of childhood injury presenting to a South African township health centre in 1991. DESIGN Retrospective review of clinic held case notes. SETTING Typical South-African urban township within Greater Johannesburg. SUBJECTS 695 subjects aged 0-19 years presenting as a direct result of injury. RESULTS Overall rates of presentation for injury wer...

Reproduction and motherhood are among the most important components of women's identity throughout Mexico and, for many women, are the only vehicles for gaining recognition and status in the family and community. At the same time, however, abortion is a central experience in the lives of many women and carries with it the complexities and contradictions of women's reproductive and sexual health...

The past decades have witnessed a number of informal land developments on the urban fringe in China although many strict state regulations have been made to control this. The dual urban rural land system is widely believed to be one major determinant of informal developments in the existing literature. However, the important role of local villages and townships are often neglected. This paper a...

The paper focuses on improving the spectrum sharing using NSU, FLS and Traffic Pattern Prediction and also made comparison that traffic pattern prediction provides a better way of improving the spectrum utilization and avoids the spectrum scarcity. This helps to increase the number of active users, ease of identification of optimal users to use the spectrum with maximized coverage of the spectr...

Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European) countries, obesity is much more prevalent among women than men. We examine several potential explanations for this phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and women in reports and effects of potential underlying causes of obesity-childhood and adult poverty, depression,...

There is growing concern over the double burden of over- and under-nutrition in individuals, especially in children and adolescents, which could dwarf their growth and development. This study aims to explore the rural-urban difference in BMI and anemia among children and adolescents. A stratified cluster sampling technique was employed. Dietary data were collected through interviews, and anthro...