Currently, the major risks to health are the result of engaging in risky behavior. Risky behaviors include not seeking treatment for psychiatric disorders, engaging in unsafe sex, escalating interpersonal conflicts, and abusing drugs. The authors have been involved with two research projects and one large-scale naturalistic study—all of which underscore several key principles necessary to cause...

Economics of conflict, corruption and rent seeking are combined to create an analytical framework for empirical research on the phenomenon of prolonged civil conflict. Prolonged conflict is understood to last across at least one generation in a society. Game theory and a supporting narrative identify five empirical hypotheses to be tested against qualitative and quantitative data developed from...

This study concerns Swedish nurses' experiences of workplace stress and the occurrence of ethical dilemmas in a neurological setting. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 nurses. The interview results were subjected to qualitative latent content analysis and sorted into 4 content areas: workplace distress, ethical dilemmas, managing distress and ethical dilemmas, and quality of nursing...

Fair queueing of rate and delay-sensitive packet flows in a shared-medium, multihop wireless network remains largely unaddressed because of the unique design issues such as location-dependent contention, spatial channel reuse, conflicts between ensuring fairness and maximizing channel utilization, and distributed fair scheduling. In this paper, we propose a new topology-independent fair queuein...

This paper models the trade-off between production and appropriation in the presence of simultaneous interand intra-group conflicts. The model exhibits a ‘group cohesion effect ’: if the contest between the groups becomes more decisive, or contractual incompleteness between groups becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there is also a ‘re...

After these lines of Neo, a character in the semi virtual movie The Matrix, I went to my desk to write this paper. The reason is not far to seek. My mind was seeking the possibilities of such worlda world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world ...where anything is possible. I saw the modern cultural world as the world of immense possibilitieswith conflicts, assimilat...

Search engines are essential, ubiquitous tools for seeking information from the Internet. Prior research has also demonstrated that combining features of separate search engines often improves retrieval performance. However, such feature combination is often difficult, because developers don’t consider other developers when building their software. To facilitate the development of search engine...

Prescription drug abuse is an enormous problem in modern society. Studies have shown that it results in more injuries and deaths to Americans than all illegal drugs combined.1 In this review, the author discusses the prescribing of controlled substances by residents as it relates to intercollegial and other non-patient workplace encounters. Physician drug abuse, medical/legal issues regarding c...

Due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the unmet medical and psychological needs of military personnel are creating major challenges. Increasingly, active duty military personnel are seeking physical and mental health services from civilian professionals. The Civilian Medical Resources Network attempts to address these unmet needs. Participants in the Network include primary care and mental h...

Before the eyelids have opened young rats are negatively heliotropic. They behave very much as does the larva of the blow-fly. The angle of orientation by lights opposed at 180 degrees may be calculated by an equation based upon the elementary requirement of phototropism, namely that orientation is attained when the illumination of bilaterally disposed photoreceptors is equal. The precision of ...