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Greek students’ attitudes toward rape

Η περίληψη βρίσκεται μέσα στο αρχείο PDFLiterature on sexual harassment and violence against women describes a variety of myths and stereotypes regarding partial or total responsibility of rape victims and their “enjoyment” of sexual violence. Rape stigma and rape myths are aspects of generalized attitudes toward victims of rape and rapists, while it seems that sexual violence remains a taboo in today’s western societies. This study explores Greek university students’ attitudes towards rape. A questionnaire created for the purpose of this study was administered to 950 Greek students at the University of Athens and at the University of Ioannina, divided into three groups: a group of students from the Faculty of Law, a group from Departments orientated to Humanistic and Social Sciences and a group of students from other Faculties and Departments of Applied Sciences. Factor analysis revealed four factors: “Rape victim’s responsibility”, “Defining the concept of rape”, “Rape motivation” and “Rapist’s characteristics”. In line with previous research findings, the results indicated that women were less accepting of conservative attitudestowards rape than men; they also seemed to reject attitudes of “blaming the victim” more, and to hold negative views of rapists. Additionally, the results showed that students of rural origin retain more conservative attitudes with respect to the victim’s responsibility and the rapist’s characteristics than students of urban origin. Finally, students in Law Departments seemed to have accepted more moderate attitudes than the other two groups of students; they mostly disagree with conservative attitudes regarding victim’s responsibilities along with the Social Science students, but they agree more with Applied Sciences students in defining rape

"sich / den Schöpfer des Universums / als einen Gaukler denken" (Michael Krüger): Annäherungen an Gott in der Gegenwartslyrik

In this study we evaluate with experiments three generic clustering algorithms, namely the Lowest-ID, the Highest Degree and the Extended Robust Re-clustering Algorithm which is the one proposed. The aim is to investigate which are the factors that have significant effect on the re-clustering performance. We isolate those performance factors as being network conditions that we simulate with a particular focus on the node deployment pattern, the mobility pattern, the radio transmission range and the energy of the ad hoc nodes. For the evaluation of the re-clustering efficiency and for the comparison of the three algorithms we examined conventional re-clustering performance metrics, such as the cluster head modification rate and the number of the generated clusters but also reliability metrics, such as the cluster head availability probability and the end to end message delivery ratio. We draw generic outcomes that hold for the three algorithms and we also discuss the behavior of the proposed algorithm