This study explored how Chinese culture affects the relationship between social support and postpartum depression. In-depth interviews with 38 mothers in mainland China showed that discrepancies between expected and perceived available social support and conflicts among social support providers are two major contributors to the stress associated with postpartum depression. These dynamics are de...

Armed conflicts are defined as political conflicts in which armed combat involves the armed forces of at least one state or one or more armed factions seeking to gain control of all or part of the state, and in which at least 1,000 people have been killed by the fighting during the course of the conflict. Globally, the number of armed conflicts has been decreasing since 1995, when it peaked at ...

This paper reviews a variety of criteria which have been proposed for legislative and congressional redistricting in the US and discusses the political and legal factors which have shaped 1980s redistricting. Particular attention is paid to the conflicts of interest between incumbents (seeking re-election), party organizations (seeking aggregate partisan advantage), minority interests (seeking ...

BACKGROUND Recently, proposals have been made to improve mental health care for U.K. military veterans. Combat stress (CS), a veteran's charity, has provided mental health services for veterans since 1919. Since 2003, service users have included veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts; however, their pattern of help-seeking has not been evaluated. AIMS To describe the characteristics...

Recent years have seen frequent geopolitical conflicts and the world economy has fallen into a recession. In order to explore how wars, terrorist attacks international tensions affect foreign direct investment (FDI), this paper uses fixed-effect model investigate impact of risks on FDI flows in 41 countries during 2003–2020 from perspective market seeking, natural resource seeking strategic see...

In recent years, with the in-depth development of globalization, cross-cultural communication between East 
 and West is increasing. However, differences in cultural background historical tradition lead to great social values, thinking patterns behavior norms West, which leads emergence conflicts brings adverse effects on activities. Therefore, this study, author analyzes works The Namesak...

The article gives a brief description of tactical and medical situation of Baku garrison during military conflict, and also the data concerning the character and the structure of sanitary losses, and the volume of medical care. Organizational, transportation, personnel and logistic problems of medical support of troops are also described. The proposals are given how it is possible to settle the...