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This study examines the factor structure, consistency, stability, and validity of children's reports of violence and verbal aggression in the home. Children recruited from clinic and community settings (N = 323) and their parents or guardians were administered the Conflict Tactics Scales to represent different perspectives on the patterns and severity of family violence. Based on children's reports, violence and verbal aggression among family members were quite common and moderately stable over a 2-year period. Children reported considerably higher rates of mother-to-child violence than did mothers, but the opposite pattern occurred for child-to-mother violence. Children's reports of verbal aggression and violence between different dyads predicted forms of children's dysfunction, especially antisocial behavior, at 2-year follow-up. Child reports provided important information not available from parent reports alone. The findings suggest the need for a comprehensive assessment of violence and hostility among family members.

Not Available ; The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has developed expertise on various marine fisheries and mariculture technologies over the past several years. Based on this expertise the Institute has been offering regular training courses to officials from State Governments, Universities, ICAR Institutes, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, training institutions, industry and progressive farmers on subjects like marine prawn hatchery, prawn farming, pearl oyster hatchery, pearl oyster culture, pearl culture, edible oyster hatchery, edible oyster farming, seaweed culture and utilisation, SCUBA diving, estimation of marine fish production and stock assessment. The Trainers' Training Centre (TTC) of the CMFRI, Cochin, established in the year 1983, has so far conducted 83 such trainings for 590 personnel from the various maritime states including Pondicherry, Lakshadweep and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. ; Not Available

About one billion people worldwide are at risk for iodine deficiency. Despite existing programs of prophylaxis, the prevention of iodine deficiency is still a challenge throughout the developing world. We studied the efficacy of low doses of iodized oil in an area of severe iodine deficiency in Zaire. ; Clinical Trial ; Journal Article ; Randomized Controlled Trial ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; SCOPUS: cp.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

This study's primary objective is to evaluate empirically the economic effects of the U.S.‐Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The paper emphasizes bilateral trade flows of agricultural and industrial products between the United States and Canada, given that the FTA removes tariff and non‐tariff barriers. It evaluates the FTA's impact on the two countries' trade with third countries. The paper specifies a traditional log‐linear trade model consisting of import demand and export supply equations for both agricultural and industrial products. It uses quarterly time‐series U.S. and Canadian trade data for 1972–1985.The study uses the two‐stage least‐squares estimator to estimate the models. The models had R coefficients ranging from 0.78 to 0.99, indicating that the models' explanatory variables explain most causes of variations in the dependent variable. This study reveals that U.S. imports of agricultural and industrial products from Canada were more sensitive than were Canadian imports not only to import and domestic prices but also to world prices. This is because Canadian consumers have less domestic substitutes than do their U.S. counterparts. Also, Canada has a smaller internal market than does the United States. The study estimates that U.S. imports from Canada will increase $2.8 billion while Canadian imports from the United States will increase $1.2 billion. The impact on the two countries' trade with third‐party countries will be insignificant.