Police and Victims of Physical Assault

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP W. WIRTZ ◽  
ADELE V. HARRELL
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Service Availability ◽  
Domestic Assault ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
Crime Types ◽  
Assault Victims ◽  
To Receive

A total of 150 recent victims of physical assault were interviewed about their interactions with police officers and were assessed at approximately one month and six months postattack on three measures of psychological distress. Victims of all three crime types— rape, domestic assault, and nondomestic assault—were found to exhibit similar patterns of response to victimization, including significant declines in symptomatology on two of the three measures across the six-month period. While some police actions were approximately equally distributed across crime types, nondomestic assault victims were significantly less likely to receive information on available intervention resources than victims of the other two types of crime. Furthermore, a strong relationship was found between nature of services received and police mention of service availability, suggesting the importance of the police officer in the information dissemination process.

scholarly journals Sexual Assault: Social and Stranger Rape

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Edward Renner ◽  
Carol Wackett
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Assault Victims ◽  
To Receive

The Service for Sexual Assault Victims in Halifax reviewed 474 cases of sexual assault handled over a three-year period to determine the nature and relative frequency of social and stranger sexual assault. Women are most likely to be sexually assaulted by a man who is known to and often trusted by them. Women who are raped in a social context are less willing than those raped by a stranger to seek help at the time of the assault, to receive medical attention, or to report the rape to the police. They are also less likely to be threatened with physical harm or to receive physical injury. The cultural values which are responsible for the high frequency of sexual assaults by men who are known to their victims, and for the reluctance of the women to disclose the assault, are discussed.

Copyright Relevancy at Stake in Libraries of the Digital Era

2013 ◽  
pp. 379-384
Author(s):  
Manju Dubey ◽  
Mangala Hirwade
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Dissemination Process

Libraries are changing in every aspect to deal with the information dissemination process mainly pertaining to the form and format of “significant information,” which is the lifeblood of libraries. With copyrights restricting the uncontrolled and unbalanced use of information in the digital format, there is a need to understand that copyrights were brought to balance the synchronization of the creator, publisher, and the users at large. The chapter is an attempt to show the changing perspective of copyright in the digital era, its relevancy in the digital era, and how libraries can get the most out of the various exceptions and provisions provided for the libraries in copyright law, while at the same time striving to balance the copyright as well as solve various problems and issues cropping up from new digital perspectives.

Information Expertise and the Vision of Future Library Institutions and User Environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 1674-1686
Author(s):  
Joseph Walker
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Library Services ◽  
New Information ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
The One ◽  
Information Today

This is the Information Age, and that epicenter is information flow and content control. This is the one occupation that is best suited to benefit from this still evolving epoch of human history. In fact, any organization that fundamentally relies on information dissemination as a core resource to their production would seek out information experts as the de facto experts in this field for consultation on how best to handle their large volumes of information. Today, companies are searching for these very professionals and will pay extraordinarily well to have such expertise in their organizations. As long as they change their mindset, evolve from conservative ideologies of what a library professional is, and retain and improve upon the traditional library services while seeking to develop techniques and technologies that effectively handle the workflow of the information dissemination process in a Digital Age—adapting technologies such as the KATIE Index, the MEL System, and the LISA Informationbase for the physical and virtual collection management requirements—most library professionals will be able to focus on becoming information experts and establish their relevance at the very epicenter of business and education. Evolving into the information expert and leveraging new information technologies is where the future of library studies lays in this digital segment of the Information Age. This chapter concludes the first section of the book.

scholarly journals The relationship between education, income, economic freedom and happiness

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Olena Stryzhak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Index Index ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

Education is a factor for economic prosperity and social development in modern society. As well education allows its owner to receive a higher income and gives the opportunity for self-expression, creative fulfilment, as well as moral satisfaction from current activities. The life of educated people is not only longer, but also more interesting and informative. Moreover people with a higher level of education are happier also. In this aspect the purpose of the article is to determine the relationship between the quality of education, the degree of economic freedom, the level of income and the feeling of happiness. This paper presents results of the correlation analysis between indicators of education, income, happiness and economic freedom for 145 countries for 2018. The author of the work calculated Pearson (product-moment) correlation, the Spearman rank correlation, and Kendall’s Tau correlation in the Statistica. The analysis showed that Education Index has a strong relationship with Happiness Index, Economic Freedom of the World Index, Index of Economic Freedom and GDP. The analysis showed that education is closely related to the level of income and selfawareness of happiness. Education is also closely related to economic freedom. Also, the results of the study suggest that education not only contributes to an increase in income, but also makes persons happier.

Quantifying and analysing the stages of online information dissemination in different enterprise emergencies: The idea of system cybernetics

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152094844
Author(s):  
Yongtian Yu ◽  
Guang Yu ◽  
Xiangbin Yan ◽  
Xiao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Accumulation Process ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Quantitative Calculation ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Information Accumulation

Previous research on information dissemination in emergencies focus on prediction of the volume via abundant models. However, most of these models did not specify different stages of emergencies, and hence making it difficult for public relations (PR) practitioner to make decisions based on needs of each stage in today’s rapid changing media environments. In this study, we introduce the idea of system cybernetics and the method of system identification into information dissemination perspective. Based on the proposed information accumulation probability distribution continuity (IAPDC) model, we provide a quantitative division of the information accumulation process. The durations of each stage and the time points that each stage begins are stated and defined with a quantitative calculation method. Using empirical data from 83 emergencies in 2016 and 2017 covering Weibo, WeChat Platforms and over 20,000 web media, we verify the effectiveness of this method. Next, we use simulation analysis to demonstrate what effects of parameters have on the dissemination process and how do changes on different stages affect the process. Moreover, we also demonstrate the effects of emergencies’ attributes on the information dissemination process and on each stage. Our study complements the gaps in existing communication discipline and provides insight for PR practitioner when dealing with enterprise emergencies.

Psychiatric morbidity in bus crews following violent assault: a follow-up study

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Fisher ◽  
Robin Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Assault Victims ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Violent Assault

SynopsisIn a prospective study 22 bus crews who were victims of physical assault were assessed using standardized psychiatric instruments, followed up for 18 months and compared to a non-assaulted control group drawn from the same bus garage. At initial assessment the assaulted group, compared to the controls showed a significant increase in psychiatric impairment and distress (as measured by the GHQ-30 and IES respectively), with 23% of assault victims developing post-traumatic stress disorder as defined by DSM-III-R. At follow-up, while high levels of both psychiatric impairment and distress persisted there was evidence that they may be separate phenomena.

The Optimization Algorithm Based on Vector Space Model to Determine the Influence of Microblogging Text

2014 ◽  
Vol 571-572 ◽  
pp. 278-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Chen Dong ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Jun Yong Luo ◽  
Jin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Vector Space ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Real World ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Vector Space Model ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Space Model ◽  
Dissemination Process

This article uses the vector space model to express microblogging text in quantity, via the cosine of the angle of text clustering method to calculate the similarity between the text. We can generate alternative microblogging hot cluster by centralized method, by adding the "microblogging impact Factor " into vector text mold of alternative hotspot clusters. In order to simulate the exclusive advantage of "star" in the information dissemination process of the real world, we use the alternative hotspot clusters which already weighted the "microblogging impact factor" to re-evaluate its characteristics of vector, to optimize the hot microblogging discovery algorithm and to make the sorting results more in line with the law of information dissemination, finally to give some suggestions and opinions on hot microblogging evaluation method.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Epidemic-Based Information Dissemination in a Wireless Network Testbed

Technologies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Andreana Stylidou ◽  
Alexandros Zervopoulos ◽  
Aikaterini Georgia Alvanou ◽  
George Koufoudakis ◽  
Georgios Tsoumanis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Epidemic Model ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Network Coverage ◽  
Sir Epidemic Model ◽  
Sir Epidemic ◽  
Dissemination Process ◽  
Efficient Alternative ◽  
Probabilistic Flooding

Information dissemination is an integral part of modern networking environments, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Probabilistic flooding, a common epidemic-based approach, is used as an efficient alternative to traditional blind flooding as it minimizes redundant transmissions and energy consumption. It shares some similarities with the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model, in the sense that the dissemination process and the epidemic thresholds, which achieve maximum coverage with the minimum required transmissions, have been found to be common in certain cases. In this paper, some of these similarities between probabilistic flooding and the SIR epidemic model are identified, particularly with respect to the epidemic thresholds. Both of these epidemic algorithms are experimentally evaluated on a university campus testbed, where a low-cost WSN, consisting of 25 nodes, is deployed. Both algorithm implementations are shown to be efficient at covering a large portion of the network’s nodes, with probabilistic flooding behaving largely in accordance with the considered epidemic thresholds. On the other hand, the implementation of the SIR epidemic model behaves quite unexpectedly, as the epidemic thresholds underestimate sufficient network coverage, a fact that can be attributed to implementation limitations.

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