OBJECTIVES We examined the possible public health consequences of adolescent gang membership for adult functioning. METHODS Data were drawn from the Seattle Social Development Project, a longitudinal study focusing on the development of positive and problem outcomes. Using propensity score matching and logistic regression analyses, we assessed the effects of adolescent gang membership on ille...

Received (received date) Revised (revised date) Communicated by Editor's name ABSTRACT Gang scheduling has been widely used as a practical solution to the dynamic parallel job scheduling problem. To overcome some of the limitations of traditional Gang scheduling algorithms, Concurrent Gang is proposed as a class of scheduling policies which allows the exible and simultaneous scheduling of multi...

Research has frequently focused on the increased likelihood of violence and homicide among gang-involved individuals, as well factors that contribute to this violence. Such work examined relationship between immigration frequency crime, well. However, there is a dearth research examining gang-related presence both gang migrants from within U.S. those abroad in given community. The current paper...

We deene the bounds of two gang service algorithms, namely time balanced and instruction balanced, using interactivity and throughput based metrics. The work-load is composed of V-RAM jobs, and the architectural model chosen is LogP. We also analyze the eeect of workload and space sharing strategies on the bounds found. The following results are demonstrated: when inter-activity is considered, ...

The goal of this paper is to determine how e ciently we can implement an adequate parallel programming environment on a workstation cluster without modifying the existing operating system. We have implemented a runtime environment for parallel programs and gang-scheduling on a workstation cluster. In this paper, we report the techniques used to implement gang-scheduling on a workstation cluster...

Many urban environments have criminal gangs competing for control of available resources and gang territories. Research in criminology has linked the effect of these gang territories on criminal activity by criminal gangs. However, a great deal of a given criminal group’s activity occurs beyond the boundaries of that gang’s known territory but within a region we term a gang’s criminal sphere of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between gang involvement and female adolescents' health. METHODS African American adolescent females (N = 522) completed a survey that assessed their history of gang involvement and health behaviors and provided specimens that were analyzed for marijuana use and sexually transmitted diseases. RESULTS In logistic regression analyses, adolescents with a hi...

Gang youth are at an increased likelihood of participating in unsafe sexual behaviors and at an elevated risk of exposure to sexually transmitted infection (STIs), including HIV. This manuscript presents quantitative and qualitative data on sexual behaviors among a sample of predominately heterosexual, male gang youth aged 16 to 25 years interviewed in Los Angeles between 2006 and 2007 (n = 60)...

We examined condom attitudes, perceived vulnerability to HIV, HIV testing experiences, and sexual and substance use risk behaviors of 161 active Latino male gang members, aged 18-26 years old, living in Los Angeles, California. Gang members reported negative condom attitudes and a perceived vulnerability to HIV. The majority (53%) of gang members reported unprotected vaginal intercourse (UVI) i...