Social support can affect health outcomes of female sex workers. In this inductive feminist grounded theory study based on 20 in-depth interviews, we explore how establishment-based female sex workers in Tijuana perceive the impact of the connections among women on their lives and health. Participants elected to discuss the importance of social support from mothers, sisters, friends, and co-wor...

the demonstration of female figures on sasanian silver vessels was an interesting subject to sasanian silversmiths which caused much dispute among the scholars over whose character the female figure represents. are they representations of the goddess anahita or members of her cult? is there any connection between them and the cult of asiatic dionysus? the other question that arises is whether t...

This paper focuses on newspapers as a scientific research source in the humanities. The purpose of this paper is to present a portion of the results obtained in the nationwide study which explored how Croatian humanities academics and scholars perceive and use (historical and current) newspapers. The study presented in this paper focused on two groups of researchers, historians and linguists, a...

This survey takes into account the unconscious aspects of emotions and the critical role played in them by the right hemisphere, considering different acceptations of the term ‘unconscious’. In a preliminary step, the nature of emotions, their componential and hierarchical organization and the relationships between emotions and hemispheric specialization are shortly discussed, then different as...

Research on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why, but neglects to explain the timing or nature of participation. Support and logistical apparatuses play critical roles in sustaining armed conflict, but scholars have not explained role differentiation within militant organizations or accounted for the structures, processes, and practices that produce discrete cate...

Debates regarding purported negative effects of video games have raged among scholars, clinicians and in the public arena. Surveys of both scholars and the general public reveal wide discrepancies in beliefs about the potential harmfulness of video games, and some evidence suggests that a ‘‘generational divide’’ may be at play. The current study examines this in a sample of 109 clinicians and c...