Bowling Green State University

About: Bowling Green State University is a education organization based out in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8315 authors who have published 16042 publications receiving 482564 citations. The organization is also known as: BGSU.

The relationship context of contraceptive use at first intercourse.

Abstract: An analytic sample of 1593 females who first had intercourse during adolescence (prior to age 18) was drawn from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth Logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression techniques were used to model the effects of sexual partners characteristics and relationship type on contraceptive use at first intercourse and contraceptive method selected at first intercourse Approximately 31% of respondents used no contraceptive method at first intercourse Roughly half (52%) of adolescents who had just met their sexual partner used no method compared with 24% of those who were going steady Whereas 75% of teenagers who practiced contraception at first intercourse used a condom 17% relied on the pill In multivariate models net of other variables adolescents who had just met their partner had 66% lower odds than those who were going steady of practicing contraception at first intercourse Individual-level factors that influenced contraceptive use at first intercourse were age at first intercourse race or ethnicity family type parents education grades in school and receipt of birth control education prior to first intercourse Differences between respondents and their partner in age and race or ethnicity mostly were not significantly related to method use at first intercourse One exception was that adolescents who first had sex with a man 6 or more years older had reduced odds of practicing contraception Type of relationship was significantly associated with method selection only among adolescents who were just friends with their first partner who had higher odds of using “other” methods rather than the condom Variables associated with pill use rather than condom use were age at first sex race family type and mother’s education and school grades Further efforts to understand contraceptive choice among adolescents should focus on relationship features Research on the decision-making process surrounding contraceptive use may benefit from treating this as a partner decision and not just as a decision made by one member of the couple Further research examining the qualities of the relationship may provide important clues for understanding adolescent contraceptive choice (authors)

Ethnicity and judges' sentencing decisions: hispanic-black-white comparisons

Abstract: This study uses data on Pennsylvania sentencing practices to compare the sentence outcomes of white, black, and Hispanic defendants. Besides the overall more lenient treatment of white defendants, our main finding is that Hispanic defendants are the defendant subgroup most at risk to receive the harshest penalty. This pattern is held across all comparisons—i.e., for both the in/out and term-length decisions and for both drug and nondrug cases. These findings are consistent with the “focal concerns” framework on sentencing and with hypotheses drawn from the writings on prejudice and inter group hostility suggesting that the specific social and historical context facing Hispanic Americans will exacerbate perceptions of their cultural dissimilarity and the “threat” they pose.

Do perceptions become reality? the moderating role of supply chain resiliency on disruption occurrence

Abstract: The concern and study of supply risk and supply continuity has recently come to the forefront in managing business and conducting research. This empirical study of U.S. and German firms investigates the relationship between perceived supply risk sources and supply disruption occurrence, as well as the use of supply chain resiliency practices to reduce disruption frequency. We demonstrate that supply managers' concerns with risk emanating from suppliers and the supply market are positively related to supply disruption occurrence. We further show how and when implementing flexibility and redundancy may reduce the effects of supply disruptions.