Purpose To determine the effect of a standardized 6-week self-defense program on the incidence of sexual assault in adolescent high school girls in an urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Methods Population-based survey ...

Two semantic variables, concreteness and morphological family size, were examined in a single word and a primed lexical decision task. Single word recognition latencies were faster for concrete relative to abstract targets ...

Previous research by S. L. Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten. In ...

Harmful traditional practices are probably the most severe menace to women's rights and the optimum realization of their development potential in contemporary African history. Over time, and in recent years in particular, ...

The major purpose of this study was to examine the factors which influenced Kenya's insistence on respect for the principle of territorial integrity as the basis of her foreign policy behavior towards Somalia. In this ...

Recent decades have seen an escalation in interethnic resource conflicts and banditry among pastoralists in the Kenya-Uganda border region, fuelled by a growing number of small arms. State management has been largely ...

A May 2011 survey of 999 residents of Istanbul reveals high levels of intolerance towards members of many social identities in Turkey. With the exception of people perceived to be ethnically „Turkish‟ or „Dindar‟ ...

Infertility in men and women is a widespread global phenomenon. However, socio-cultural beliefs and practices have been associated with failed reproduction processes in Africa. The study specifically aimed at establishing ...