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"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Communication Review on 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714421.2019.1599642" ; [EN] During election campaigns, candidates, parties, and media share their relevance on Twitter with a group of especially active users, aligned with a particular party. This paper introduces the profile of ¿party evangelists,¿ and explores the activity and effects these users had on the general political conversation during the 2015 Spanish general election. On that occasion, the electoral expectations were uncertain for the two major parties (PP and PSOE) because of the rise of two emerging parties that were disrupting the political status quo (Podemos and Ciudadanos). This was an ideal situation to assess the differences between the evangelists of established and emerging parties. The paper evaluates two aspects of the political conversation based on a corpus of 8.9 million tweets: the retweet- ing effectiveness, and the sentiment analysis of the overall conver- sation. We found that one of the emerging party¿s evangelists dominated message dissemination to a much greater extent. ; The present research was supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CSO2013-43960-R] [CSO2016-77331-C2-1-R]. The present research was supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain, under Grants CSO2013-43960-R ("2015-2016 Spanish political parties' online campaign strategies") and CSO2016-77331-C2-1-R ("Strategies, agendas and discourse in electoral cybercampaigns: media and citizens"). This work was possible thanks to help received from Emilio Giner in his task of extracting the corpus of tweets and from assistance provided by Mike Thelwall and David Vilares in the use of the SentiStrength application. We have benefited from valuable comments on drafts of this article from professors Joaquín Aldás, Amparo Baviera-Puig, Guillermo López-García, and especially Lidia Valera-Ordaz. ; Baviera, T.; ...

Purpose. Based on tracing dualistic tendencies in the history of the concept "self" formation, the paper aims to clarify in what way dualism – contradistinction of the self and sociality, in particular – is being overcome in phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches to the self. Methodology. The systematic and integrative approaches, hermeneutic, phenomenological and retrospective methods, comparative analysis, description and synthesis underlie the research conducted in this paper. Theoretical basis. The development of the concept "self" is traced based on historical retrospective of its definitions. The paper shows the influence of Kantian interpretation of the self upon the contemporary approaches, presents the comparative analysis of the most recent definitions of the self and illustrates the study results on the relation of the self to the body, the world, the narration and the identity with reference to Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor in particular. Originality. An integration of phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches to the self is introduced in the paper. It is argued that phenomenological and hermeneutic interpretations can be represented as complementing each other, since they share the anti-dualist perspective and interweave in description of the key aspects of the self, particularly sociality and language. Conclusion. Dualism is overcome in the contemporary interpretations of the self as it is clear from the phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches example. There is no more acute opposition between the self and the world, the self and the body, the self and the social life of a person. The self is considered as "being-in-the-world" which unfolds through intersection of different dimensions: subjectivity, body, temporality, language and sociality. Sociality provides the self with a moral framework through identity and enables conditions for person's self-fulfillment, since the self reaches completeness only by transcending itself towards the others. The modern discovery of the self entails the need to invent a new type of solidarity.

In this paper, the classical Gurson model for ductile porous media is extended for strain-rate-dependent materials. Based on micromechanical considerations, approximate closed-form macroscopic behavior equations are derived to describe the viscous response of a ductile metallic material. To this end, the analysis of the expansion of a long cylindrical void in an ideally plastic solid introduced by McClintock (J Appl Mech 35:363, 1968) is revisited. The classical Gurson yield locus has been modified to explicitly take into account the strain rate sensitivity parameter for strain rate power-law solids. Two macroscopic approaches are proposed in this work. Both models use the first term of a Taylor series expansion to approximate integrals to polynomial functions. The first proposed closed-form approach is analytically more tractable than the second one. The second approach is more accurate. In order to compare the proposed approximate Gurson-type macroscopic functions with the behavior of the original Gurson yield locus, numerical finite element analyses for cylindrical cells have been conducted for a wide range of porosities, triaxialities, and strain rate sensitivity parameters. The results presented evidence that, for large values of the rate sensitivity parameters, the proposed extended Gurson-type models have the important quality to better predict the behavior of rate sensitive materials than the classical one. They also provide simpler and accurate alternatives to more traditional viscoplastic models. ; The authors are indebted to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Projects EUIN2015-62556 and DPI2014-57989-P) for the financial support received which allowed conducting part of this work. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 Programme (Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions) under REA Grant Agreement 675602 (Project OUTCOME).

Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893-1982), a French mathematician of Lille, was an international specialist in fluid mechanics and was director of the Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille (IMFL) from its creation in 1929. By familiarizing himself with this field and by addressing questions of an experimental nature through his work on ballistics, during his scientific wartime service to the Gâvre Commission (1915-1919), this scientist played a triple role in the institute. As a mathematician, he made a remarkable contribution to Taylor-von Kármán's statistical theory of turbulence using the theory of random functions due to Kolmogorov, Khintchine, and Slutsky. As an experimental scientist, he took part in the experimental work of the IMFL aiming on one hand to study atmospheric turbulence and, on the other hand, to validate the ideas of the school of Philippe Wehrle and Georges Dedebant. This school was formed within the Atmospheric Turbulence Commission, created by the Minister of Air in 1935. Finally, as director of the institute, he strengthened links with industry and society in Lille, in the same way that he reinforced links with military officers during his work in Gâvre.In our thesis, we will use the scientific and institutional career path of J. Kampé de Fériet – from his service at Gâvre (1915) up until the year of his resignation as director of the IMFL (1945) - as a prism by which we will answer further questions of a more general nature regarding fluid mechanics in France during the first half of the twentieth century. Some but not all of these considerations bring to light new elements that are common to ballistics and to other areas of applied mathematics. ; Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893–1982) est un mathématicien lillois, spécialiste international en mécanique des fluides et directeur de l'Institut de mécanique des fluides de Lille (IMFL) depuis sa création en 1929. En se familiarisant avec ce domaine et avec les questions expérimentales grâce à ses travaux de balistique pendant sa mobilisation ...

This special issue originates from a transnational collaboration of scholars in philology, comparative literature, social theory, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and media studies. The collection strives to advance a research agenda built on the nexus of three intellectual and academic domains: post-Soviet 'Russian cultural studies', the research paradigm put forward by Cultural Studies, as well as empirical methods developed in sociology. The collection illustrates the importance of expanding the experience of Cultural Studies beyond its established spheres of national investigation, while it also speaks to the necessity to re-evaluate the hegemony of the English-language academic and cultural production on the global scale. The collection offers insights into the gamut of cultural practices and institutional environments in which Russian cultural production happens today. It shows how cultural industries and institutions in Russia are integrated into the global marketplace and transnational communities, while they also draw on and contribute to local lives and experiences by trying to create an autonomous space for symbolic production at personal and collective levels. Through diverse topics, the issue sheds light on the agency, i.e. practitioners and participants, creators and consumers, of Russian cultural production and the neoliberal practices implemented on creative work and cultural administration in Russia today. The Introduction outlines the development of academic studies on Russian cultural practices since 1991; describes main political developments shaping the cultural field in Putin's Russia; and, finally, identifies the Cultural Studies debates the editors of the collection find most productive for investigations of Russia, i.e. the instrumentalization of culture and culture as resource. Relocated in an analysis of a post-socialist society, these conceptualisations seem increasingly problematic in a situation where local and federal policies governing cultural and creative work focus simultaneously on marketization and on nationalism as the main tools of legitimizing the federal government. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Biofuels on 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2016.1274163" ; [EN] The Brazilian government created the Social Fuel Seal (SFS) within the framework of the National Program of Production and Use of Biodiesel (PNPB) launched in 2004. The SFS is a certification standard aimed at upgrading small farmers in the biodiesel value chain, and it was conceived as a response to the increasing concerns about the social aspects of biofuel production. In this article we discuss the institutional settings and explore the uptake, achievements and shortcomings of this instrument in the light of the official data and the academic literature. Specific aspects of the practical implementation of SFS are examined upon the base of interviews conducted with different stakeholders in the state of São Paulo. Dysfunctions in the overall operation of the SFS put under question the accomplishment of the social inclusion objective and awaken concerns about the sustainability of the role of family farmers in it. ; This work was supported by CAPES Foundation - Ministry of Education (Brazil) [grant number BEX 9604/13-8]. ; Planchez De Carvalho-Marcossi, G.; Moreno-Pérez, OM. (2018). A Closer Look at the Brazilian Social Fuel Seal: Uptake, Operation and Dysfunctions. Biofuels. 9(4):429-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2016.1274163 ; S ; 429 ; 439 ; 9 ; 4 ; Huang, J., Yang, J., Msangi, S., Rozelle, S., & Weersink, A. (2012). Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on agricultural markets. Food Policy, 37(4), 439-451. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.04.004 ; Augusto Horta Nogueira, L., & Silva Capaz, R. (2013). Biofuels in Brazil: Evolution, achievements and perspectives on food security. Global Food Security, 2(2), 117-125. doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2013.04.001 ; Labruto, N. (2014). Experimental biofuel governance: Historicizing social certification in Brazilian ethanol production. Geoforum, 54, 272-281. ...

309 316 15 3 ; OJS ; [EN] This paper documents the design and implementation of a controller for DC/DC Buck–Parallel Converter under the perspective of differential flatness and active disturbance rejection control approach based on GPI extended state observer. The main objectives of the proposed controller are to regulate the output voltage and a balance of currents for parallel converters. The hardware architecture of this controller was modelled using tools with a high level of hardware abstraction and implemented in a FPGA Artix-7 of the Xilinx Company. Finally, the performance of the proposed controller is shown through a series of experiments that consisted of subjecting the converter to various external, unknown and variant over time disturbances, and changes in system parameters. Cid-Pastor, A., Martìnez-Salamero, L., Alonso, C., Leyva, R., Singer S., 2007, Paralleling DC-DC switching converters by means of power gyrators, IEEE transactions on power electronics, no. 6, vol. 22, 2444-2453. Jaber, A., Qahouq, A., y Huang, L., 2008, N-phase sensorless current sharing digital controller, Power Electronics Specialist Conference, 1257-1262. Kailath, T., 1980, Linear Systems, Prentice-Hall Information. Lévine, J., Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems: A Flatness-based Approach, Springer Science & Business Media. Li, S., Yang, J., Chen, W.-H., Chen, X., 2014, Disturbance Observer-Based Control: Methods and Applications, CRC Press Taylor Francis. Linares-Flores, J., Barahona-Avalos, J.L., Sira-Ramírez, H. y Contreras-Ordaz, M.A., 2012, Robust Passivity-Based Control of a Buck-Boost-Converter/DC-Motor System: An Active Disturbance Rejection Approach, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, no. 6, vol. 48, 2362-2371. Qiao, L. y Jie, W., 2005, Implementation of a New Nonlinear Controller for DC-DC Converter Using Matlab and DSPACE DSP, IEEE ISIE, Dubrovnik, Croacia, 621-626. Sarvi, M., Derakhshan, M., Sedighizadeh, M., 2014, A new intelligent controller for parallel DC/DC converters, International ...

Since 2001, well over 2.1 million U.S. military personnel have served during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Operation New Dawn (OND) (Elder, 2015). During the OEF/OIF/OND era, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) have become a hallmark injury of returning veterans in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and chronic pain (Mott, Mondragon, Hundt, Beason-Smith, Grady, & Teng, 2014). Approximately 20% of OEF/OIF/OND veterans meet the criteria for having polytrauma and estimates of 6-8% have what is known as the polytrauma clinical triad (PCT) which is co-occurring PTSD, TBI, and chronic pain (Cifu, Taylor, Carne, Bidelspach, Sayer, Scholten, & Campbell, 2013). Numerous randomized clinical trials have shown that cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and prolonged exposure (PE), two evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are equally effective at improving PTSD symptoms. The present study aims to shed light on predicting clinical outcomes for OEF/OIF/OND veterans with PCT who have engaged in CPT or PE. Whether or not CPT and PE are effective treatments, for veterans with PCT, at reducing self-reported PTSD, depression, anxiety, alcohol use, and pain symptoms is measured using changes in total scores on the PTSD Checklist Military Version (PCL-M), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C), and the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale (DVPRS) scores. This study was completed via retrospective review of approximately 2,100 electronic medical record charts. The final cohort included in this study was comprised of 140 veterans in individual therapy utilizing CPT or PE through the Veterans Health Administration. Two-way RM-ANOVAs and RM-MANOVA were used to analyze the data in SPSS. Consistent with previous findings, this study found that both CPT and PE are effective treatments for PTSD although treatment outcomes varied within and between groups when race/ethnicity ...

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Governmental climate change mitigation targets are typically developed with the aid of forecasts of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The robustness and credibility of such forecasts depends, among other issues, on the extent to which forecasting approaches can reflect prevailing uncertainties. We apply a transparent and replicable method to quantify the uncertainty associated with projections of gross domestic product growth rates for Mexico, a key driver of GHG emissions in the country. We use those projections to produce probabilistic forecasts of GHG emissions for Mexico. We contrast our probabilistic forecasts with Mexico's governmental deterministic forecasts. We show that, because they fail to reflect such key uncertainty, deterministic forecasts are ill-suited for use in target-setting processes. We argue that (i) guidelines should be agreed upon, to ensure that governmental forecasts meet certain minimum transparency and quality standards, and (ii) governments should be held accountable for the appropriateness of the forecasting approach applied to prepare governmental forecasts, especially when those forecasts are used to derive climate change mitigation targets. POLICY INSIGHTSNo minimum transparency and quality standards exist to guide the development of GHG emission scenario forecasts, not even when these forecasts are used to set national climate change mitigation targets.No accountability mechanisms appear to be in place at the national level to ensure that national governments rely on scientifically sound processes to develop GHG emission scenarios.Using probabilistic forecasts to underpin emission reduction targets represents a scientifically sound option for reflecting in the target the uncertainty to which those forecasts are subject, thus increasing the validity of the target.Setting up minimum transparency and quality standards, and holding governments accountable for their choice of forecasting methods could lead to more robust emission reduction targets nationally and, by extension, internationally.

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Plant Signaling and Behaviour on 21-09-2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2017.1370164." ; [EN] The gene regulatory network comprised of LEAFY (LFY), APETALA1 (AP1), the AP1 paralog CAULIFLOWER (CAL), and TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1) is a major determinant of the flowering process in Arabidopsis thaliana. TFL1 activity in the shoot apical meristem provides inflorescence identity while the transcription factors LFY and AP1/CAL confer floral identity to emerging floral primordia. It has been thought that LFY and AP1/CAL control the onset of flowering in part by repressing TFL1 expression in flowers. However, in the June issue of Plant Physiology, we reported that LFY and AP1 act antagonistically in the regulation of several key flowering regulators, including TFL1. Specifically, TFL1 transcription was suppressed by AP1 but promoted by LFY. Here, we present additional evidence for the role of LFY as an activator of TFL1 and propose that this regulatory activity is pivotal for the indeterminate growth of the SAM during the reproductive phase of development. ; A.S.-M. is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 746396. F.W. and E.G. are supported by grants from Science Foundation Ireland. F.M. is supported by MINECO and FEDER, grant No. BIO2015-64307-R. B.Z. is supported by the Irish Research Council. ; Serrano Mislata, A.; Goslin, K.; Zheng, B.; Rae, L.; Wellmer, F.; Graciet, E.; Madueño Albi, F. (2017). Regulatory interplay between LEAFY, APETALA1/ CAULIFLOWER and TERMINAL FLOWER1: New insights into an old relationship. Plant Signaling and Behaviour (Online). 12(10):1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2017.1370164 ; S ; 1 ; 4 ; 12 ; 10 ; Blázquez, M. A., Ferrándiz, C., Madueño, F., & Parcy, F. (2006). How Floral Meristems are Built. Plant Molecular Biology, 60(6), 855-870. doi:10.1007/s11103-006-0013-z ...

ABSTRACT Marine biology is an increasingly preferred study major and career among youth. This is particularly the case of countries with extensive coastlines, such as Italy. In order to understand what exactly is fuelling this trend, and whether it culminates in the successful absorption of marine biologists as valued workforce by society, this study investigated the motivations, satisfaction and career goals of marine biology undergraduate students in Italy. Although it was expected that scientific literacy in formal education plays an important role in motivating marine biology students, the results showed that intrinsic motivations and informal education play a more crucial role. The students consider realistic career options, although these imply having to leave the country. The results of this study were used to make recommendations on the importance of marine and ocean literacy in the formal educational system in Italy, and the general improvement of scientific literacy in formal school education. Recommendations were also made on the potential improvements that can be made by higher education institutions, to better equip marine biologists with the skills required by emerging sectors in society. Finally, considerations were made regarding the dimensioning of supply, offer and marketing of employment opportunities for marine biologists in Italy ; This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Biological Education on 17 October 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00219266.2017.1385509 An embargo period of 18 months applies to this Journal. This paper has received funding from the European Union (EU)'s H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 643712 to the project Green Bubbles RISE for sustainable diving (Green Bubbles). This paper reflects only the authors' view. The Research Executive Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. © 2017. ...

International audience ; Au prix du sens, voire des valeurs – Ce que peut faire le management à la ressource humaine des associations Une approche volontairement négative face à des idéologies trop optimistes Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, cette contribution, polémique au sens positif du terme, s'appuiera sur des travaux issus de la littérature internationale ainsi que sur des études françaises pour mettre en évidence quelques effets négatifs que peut avoir le management sur le fonctionnement des associations et sur les personnes qui y contribuent. L'auteur prie donc à l'avance ses lecteurs de bien vouloir excuser sa posture, qui fait le choix prospectif inhabituel de ne considérer que quelques signaux faibles, négatifs, et de pointer les menaces qu'ils font peser sur l'idéal associatif. Pour planter le décor de cette réflexion, nous donnerons d'abord une définition du managérialisme, pour ensuite explorer comment le management influence trois catégories de ressources humaines du monde associatif, les salariés, les bénévoles, et les volontaires. Klikauer (2015) synthétise les travaux critiques sur le management en proposant une vision particulière du managérialisme. Pour lui, il s'agit de l'idéologie qui prête au management la capacité à traiter tous les problèmes de la société de la même façon qu'ont été prétendument résolus les problèmes de production au cours du développement industriel. Dès les travaux de Taylor sur l'organisation du travail, les partisans du management ont su donner à la discipline une coloration scientifique et positiviste qui a ensuite été favorable à son expansion. Dans leur approche, l'évaluation – composante essentielle du contrôle – est centrale, et la mesure – qui plus est objective – est fantasmée comme étant toujours possible. Ainsi, les managers pourraient optimiser, avec les mêmes méthodes, le fonctionnement de l'industrie comme celui de l'éducation, des services sociaux, ou encore celui de l'organisation générale de la société, et donc des politiques publiques. Cette idéologie parvient progressivement à s'imposer dans le monde associatif, certains auteurs ayant montré à quel point certaines organisations approchent dans leur fonctionnement celui des entreprises capitalistes classiques (Hély, 2009).

This symposium brings together ten essays that explore hypotheses about critical junctures, understood as major episodes of institutional innovation that generate an enduring legacy. Scholars routinely focus on episodes of innovation that occur in contrasting ways across cases, which in turn yields distinct trajectories of change and produces different legacies. These contrasts readily lend themselves to analysis based on the comparative method, generally combined with process tracing. For the analysis of single cases, the comparison is typically focused on explicit or implicit counterfactual alternatives that might have produced different trajectories of change. The critical juncture framework is seen as offering a set of hypotheses that may or may not fit a given historical situation, and whose actual fit must be demonstrated with great care. The symposium builds on Lipset and Rokkan's (1967) classic study of cleavage structures and party systems, as well as Collier and Collier's (1991) Shaping the Political Arena. The introduction by the coeditors provides an overall framework for studying critical junctures and the essays apply this framework, while at same time moving the discussion in new directions. The substantive domains explored include state-formation, party systems, neoliberal transformation, religion, law, economic growth, and colonial rebellion. Most essays focus on Latin America, while two discuss Europe and the United States; some analyze developments since the 1980s, whereas others reach back to the 19th century. Given that a critical juncture hypothesis inherently focuses on trajectories of change that extend over a substantial period of time, a key issue debated in the symposium is the amount of historical perspective required to establish that a critical juncture has in fact occurred. Contributors to the symposium, in addition to the coeditors, are Sidney Tarrow, Kenneth M. Roberts, Robert R. Kaufman, Taylor C. Boas, Timothy R. Scully, Jorge I. Dominguez, Sebastian L. Mazzuca, Andrew C. Gould, and Thad Dunning.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport, Education and Society on 27 March 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13573322.2017.1307176. ; Globalization and its ideological bedfellow neoliberalism have demonstrably failed to deliver on many of their promises; not least of providing greater social mobility and more educational and economic opportunities, especially to the most 'disadvantaged'. The rise of new Right, populist politics across the globe is one expression of this failure. The extent to which education policy and associated research in education, physical education (PE), health, and sport share in failure to address the interests of those disillusioned with mainstream Governments and politicians is moot, and yet to be adequately explored. As means of promoting some further reflection on this matter this paper argues that although the achievements of Physical Education, health and sport (PEHS) research communities in addressing equality and inclusion issues are many, varied, and to be applauded, they are incomplete and have come at a cost. The reasons for this lie both outwith and inside our professional practices: They refer to disturbing systemic pressures, born of neo liberalism and its manufactured austerities, threatening the wellbeing of those very disciplines and research communities that are likely to be asking searching, sometimes difficult, questions of extant social hierarchies, and to limitations within the theoretical leanings of PEHS research communities respectively. Our analyses suggest that if research is to be seen as credible means of addressing current socio-economic change including the worst excesses of new Right populism and its effects on equity and inclusion in Physical Education, health and sport in schools and society, then it will be because its practices are grounded in research expertise and theoretical bodies of knowledge that are finely attuned both to structural inequalities and the cultural interests of its target communities.

Background: Distinct gender roles influence gender inequality and build the foundation for gender-based violence. Violence against women is a major public health problem in all societies, and a violation of human rights. Prevalence surveys on gender-based violence have been published from Sri Lanka, but qualitative studies on men's perceptions are lacking. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore young educated Sri Lankan men's perceptions of violence against women. Methods: Seven focus-group discussions were held. Men at the end of their university studies were purposefully selected. A topic guide was used, covering various scenarios of violence against women. Qualitative content analysis was carried out. Results: Four categories were developed through the analytic process: fixed gender roles – patriarchal values are accepted in society, female mobility control, and slowly changing attitudes; violence not accepted but still exists – sexual harassment exists everywhere, different laws for different people, female tolerance of violence, and men's right to punish; multiple factors cause violence – alcohol, violent behavior is inherited, violence culturally accepted, low education, and lack of communication; and prevention of violence against women – both parents must engage and socialize girls and boys equally, life skills education, premarital counselling, working places value clarification, and more women in politics and boards are suggested. Conclusions: Medical and management students, possible future male leaders of the country, have suggestions of prevention strategies in life skills to reduce gender-based violence and to increase knowledge of health consequences with the aim of changing attitudes. ; publishedVersion ; © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.