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The article offers information on a paper that assess the attitudes of undergraduate students exposed to a bystanders social marketing campaign in incidents of sexual and relationship violence for a four-week period during the 2011 spring semester. It informs that the attitudes of the participant were compared at three points in time, prior to the campaign administration, immediately after the campaign ended, and again four weeks later.

Once an urban problem, street gangs have now infiltrated U.S. communities large and small. Gang experts say at least 21,500 gangs — with more than 731,000 members — are active nationwide. Long-established domestic gangs like the Bloods and the Crips remain powerful, but the problem has worsened dramatically in recent years. Heavy immigration, particularly from Latin America and Asia, has introduced highly violent gangs like Mara Salvatrucha and the Almighty Latin Kings Nation. Bound by tight ethnic and racial ties, they often stymie police investigations by assaulting or killing potential witnesses. Having already diversified from illegal drugs into auto theft, extortion, property crimes and home invasion, some East Coast gangs have begun trafficking in fraudulent identification papers that could be used by terrorists. While experts agree gangs are more pervasive than ever, few agree on a remedy. Proposed legislation would increase penalties for gang membership and gang crimes, but critics say it won't solve the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses research on the deviant behavior of some top executives. It states that executives are commonly perceived to be deserving of some privileges due to their power and status. According to the author, punishing leaders for abusive and deviant behavior is important to avoid having unethical culture in a company.

The article discusses definitions of unfunded federal mandates in America, and it mentions the U.S. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA). According to some federalism scholars, an unfunded mandate is any responsibility, action, or procedure that is imposed by constitutional, administrative, executive, or judicial action or is required as a condition of aid. America's Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) is examined.

We present evidence that binding mortgage processing capacity constraints reduce mortgage originations to borrowers with low to modest credit scores. Mortgage processing capacity constraints typically bind when the demand for mortgage refinancing shifts outward, usually because of lower mortgage rates. As a result, high capacity utilization leads mortgage lenders to ration mortgage credit, completing mortgages that require less underwriting resources, and are thus less costly, to produce. This is hypothesized to have a particularly adverse impact on relatively higher credit-risk borrowers' ability to obtain mortgages. What is more, we show that, by lowering capacity utilization, a rise in interest rates can, under certain circumstances, induce an increase in mortgage originations to relatively higher risk borrowers. In particular, we find fairly large effects for purchasing borrowers with low to modest credit scores, in which we find that a decrease in capacity utilization of 4 applications per mortgage employee (similar to that observed from 2012 to 2013) could result in increased purchase mortgage originations, as the relaxed capacity constraint might have offset any negative effect on mortgage demand from higher interest rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the random allocation of individuals to the number of initially populated haystacks. It notes that individuals will either migrate to form new haystacks or stay put in their current haystacks. It also states that heterogeneous population that consists of both cooperators and defectors is postulated under cooperator's program. Moreover, migration is motivated by a revised matching which can be expected to yield a higher payoff than the original random matching.

The article offers information on the population of the haystacks. The author explains that two separate haystacks are populated by two adult individuals who are drawn at random from a continuum of adult population. Then, the author states that individuals procreate pair-wise within their haystacks where the size of populated haystacks by type is given.

Forecasts political and economic changes in the United States for the year 2000 and 2001. Includes predictions of percentage changes in real gross domestic product, consumer prices and unemployment rate; Focus of the electorate on the personal qualities of political candidates; Outcome of primaries in the Republican Party; Re-election of members of the House of Representatives.

The article offers international news briefs as of August 2015. Topics mentioned include the attack by Moroccan Ayoub El-Kahzzani on a train in France which was foiled by heroic intervention of travelers from France, U.S., and Great Britain, the awarding of medals to the bravery of the passengers, and the international tragedy on the bomb explosion at the Hindu Erawan shrine in Bangkok, Thailand which killed people and injured citizens from countries including Indonesia, China, and Malaysia.

Comments on the low yields provided by government bonds in Japan in the late 1990s. What the low yields say about investor attitudes; Plans by the government to double its issuance of bonds; Reactions from bond purchasers.

Earlier this week, I watched the livestream footage of the ceremony featuring President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they officially pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey, "Cob." Feeling inspired, I have decided I will also pardon a turkey this year and forego the traditional poultry fare in favor of prime rib. And while I'm very thankful for the homegrown beef on my plate, I'm even more thankful for the people I get to share a Thanksgiving meal with. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a global report of entrepreneurship for 2013, which provides harmonized measured about relevant primary information on entrepreneurship including attitudes, activities, and characteristics of people who participate in a variety of phases of entrepreneurship. The economies within the report are grouped into geographic regions. A comparison of economies across similar development levels and geographic locations is given.

In the 50 years since author Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique helped spark the feminist movement, American women have made phenomenal gains. Women now comprise more than half of the U.S. workforce, earn half of college degrees and hold half of management and professional jobs. Yet relatively few have gained top executive and political leadership positions, and women still earn less than men for comparable work. Moreover, flexible work arrangements, paid family leave and other accommodations designed to relieve domestic pressures shouldered largely by women remain elusive. Some argue that women have limited their own progress in the quest for full equality -- the controversial argument of a recent book by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg. But others say persistent cultural and economic barriers are the main reasons the feminist movement remains a work in progress a half-century after it began. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, have become major battlegrounds in this year's elections. Candidates are using the platforms to identify and organize supporters and raise funds. They bypass traditional news media to send their messages unfiltered to the public. They target niche audiences with growing precision, contact hard-to-reach voters, extend their influence as online supporters forward their messages and carry out many campaign tasks at much lower cost than before. The increasing ability of campaign strategists to collect and analyze information about individual voters has raised privacy concerns, and many worry that the social networks' insular nature contributes to political polarization. But social media's low cost, ease of use and wide reach also raise hopes that they can level the campaign-spending playing field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the research report about the importance of accountability, honesty and trust to foster research integrity in Canada. Topics discussed include the research policy framework gaps and needs, research integrity environment creation, and the approach to research integrity. Also mentioned are the research changing nature and research integrity challenges, the research misconduct prevalence, and the responsibilities to promote research integrity environment.

The perception that civil society is declining has gained currency in recent years. With increasing frequency, politicians and scholars talk about the need for Americans to pay more attention to values and individual responsibility.Meanwhile, many people long for the tranquillity and prosperity of the 1950s and blame many of today's social ills, including poverty and crime, on a dearth of morality and common courtesy.Concern for the nation's moral health has sparked a movement of ideologically diverse thinkers who are linked by the belief that institutions like family and community must be strengthened if America is to thrive. But others wonder whether the positive aspects of the past can be resurrected without also bringing back the conformity and discrimination thatf lourished in the "good old days." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the study of evolution of altruism in the haystack-type model of heterogeneous population. It notes that if the evolutionary edge of programmed migration can translate into a genetic disposition and inclination to migrate, then the role and prominence of economic variables in explaining and accounting for migration behavior could be reduced. Moreover, the wellbeing of human population can be attributed to a variation in the incidence of migration-induced cooperation.

The article reports that India Volatility Index (VIX), a gauge for market's short term expectation of volatility increased by 1.17% and reached 11.62. AVI Photochem has informed about Compliance Certificate of Radico Khaitan certifying maintaining physical & electronic transfer facility under Regulation 7(3) of SEBI. Reliance Industries (RIL) has commissioned second and final phase of its project to produce paraxylene (PX) at Jamnagar in western Indian state of Gujarat.