Mainstream Legal Responses to Domestic Violence Versus Real Needs of Diverse Communities

Keynote speaker Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, discussed the importance of getting to the root of what makes violence against women. She stressed the importance of looking at what makes men act violent, taking down barriers of reporting violence, and analyzing other contributing factors. Panelist Aurora Salamone from the New York City Department for the Aging then discussed domestic abuse against elders, stressing that domestic violence in the household does not all the sudden stop at a certain age. Panelist Kimberly A. Madden from from the Jewish Association for Services of the Aged discussed how violence against elders is similar to violence at younger ages because of the cycle of violence but different because of how the power is exerted and how someone can get out of the situation. Louisa Gilbert, co-director of the Social Intervention Group at Columbia, then discussed how drug use contributes to abuse of women and how it creates barriers for them from getting help. Holly Devine from Barrier Free Living Domestic Violence Program then described her work at her transitional shelter for disabled men and women who have become homeless. Jenny Rivera, professor CUNY School of Law, discussed the shortcomings of legal solutions for women being abused

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thesisThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Foamaseptic, a non-hexachlorophene soap product, against gram-positive and gram-negative organisms as found on the hands of the nursing personnel of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit of a 284 bed hospital. The sample included a total of 23 nursing personnel. In this saitple, eleven were asked to use the Foamaseptic as their exclusive handwashing product in the nursery, and twelve were asked to continue using the hexachlorophene base soaps that were routinely used in the nursery. A second part of the study, although not a part of the hypothesis, was to investigate by means of a questionnaire the following variables 'which the investigator believed might have had some effects on the results of the study. The variables were: the number of children in the family of each subject, the number of house pets owned by the subjects, the shift and the minutes into the shift at which the cultures were taken and whether the subjects were working in the critical care or intermediate care nursery at the time of culturing. Differences between the Foamaseptic group and the hexachlorophene group were identified by means of a one-way analysis of variance. There were no statistically significant differences in regard to the number of organisms grown between the two groups on the base line data nor at any other time during the four weeks the study was being conducted. The data taken from this small sample indicated that while the Foamaseptic was on occasion as effective as the hexachlorophene soaps in controlling colonization, it was not more effective in reducing the number of organisms on the hands of the nursery personnel. There was no statistically significant difference between the subjects who used the Foamaseptic and those who used the hexachlorophene soaps. In fact, during one week of the study there was a marked rise in the number of colonies cultured from the hands of the subjects using the foam, which was not true for the hexachlorophene soaps. The bacterial growth was in no way affected by the type of soap used at hone by the subjects for handwashing, the time the culture was collected, the shift or nursery the subjects were working in, nor whether the subjects had children and/or pets at home

Nonpayment of water bills in Guatemala: Dissatisfaction or inability to pay?

This paper investigates nonpayment behavior in Guatemala. Determinants of nonpayment behavior are identified through zero-inflated negative binomial regression models in order to take into account particular distributional characteristics of the amount of outstanding payments. Findings indicate that nonpayment behavior is a demonstration of consumer dissatisfaction with current water services. The amount of outstanding bill payments also responds to system unreliability. Results also suggest that nonpayment behaviors are more prominent in community-managed systems than in municipal systems. No evidence was found on a potential relationship between nonpayment behavior and household income. Policy implications are discussed

Source amplitudes for active exterior cloaking

The active cloak comprises a discrete set of multipole sources that destructively interfere with an incident time harmonic scalar wave to produce zero total field over a finite spatial region. For a given number of sources and their positions in two dimensions it is shown that the multipole amplitudes can be expressed as infinite sums of the coefficients of the incident wave decomposed into regular Bessel functions. The field generated by the active sources vanishes in the infinite region exterior to a set of circles defined by the relative positions of the sources. The results provide a direct solution to the inverse problem of determining the source amplitudes. They also define a broad class of non-radiating discrete sources.Comment: 21 pages, 17 figure