Look-alike modelling in violence-related research: A missing data approach.

Violence has been analysed in silo due to difficulties in accessing data and concerns for the safety of those exposed. While there is some literature on violence and its associations using individual datasets, analyses using combined sources of data are very limited. Ideally data from the same individuals would enable linkage and a longitudinal understanding of experiences of violence and their (health) impacts and consequences.

Determinants of Referral Outcomes for Victim-Survivors Accessing Specialist Sexual Violence and Abuse Support Services.

Sexual violence and abuse (SVA) is highly prevalent globally, has devastating and wide-ranging effects on victim-survivors, and demands the provision of accessible specialist support services. In the UK, Rape Crisis England & Wales (RCEW), a voluntary third sector organization, is the main provider of specialist SVA services. Understanding the profile of victim-survivors who are referred to RCEW and their referral outcomes is important for the effective allocation of services.

Relationship quality and family formation in Europe.

The increase in cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing across Europe has raised questions about who still marries either before or after having a child. Although prior studies have addressed the sequence of marriage and childbearing, few have examined the role of relationship quality in these transitions. Here we employ a cross-national perspective to study the association between relationship quality and marriage and/or first birth within cohabitation.

Sleep hours and quality before and after baby: Inequalities by gender and partnership.

While prior studies have examined sleep across the lifecourse, few studies have investigated sleep around the birth of a child, one of the most important events to cause sleep deprivation. This study investigates changes in sleep hours and quality, paying attention to differences by gender and partnership status. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we follow approximately 1,000 participants as they transition into parenthood in a three-year window.

So happy together … Examining the association between relationship happiness, socio-economic status, and family transitions in the UK.

The increases in cohabitation and in childbearing within cohabitation raise questions about who marries. Most studies have found that childbearing within cohabitation is associated with disadvantage; here, we examine the role of relationship happiness and whether it helps to explain this association. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-17), our competing risk hazard models follow respondents as they transition: (1) from cohabitation into marriage or childbearing; and (2) from marriage or cohabitation into childbearing.

Current and Expected Economic Hardship and Satisfaction With Family Life in Europe.

This study investigated how people's satisfaction with their family life is influenced by economic circumstances. Expectations were formulated that people who experienced or expected economic hardship would be less satisfied with their family life. Additionally, it was hypothesized that current and expected economic hardship would amplify each other's consequences on satisfaction, and that current and expected economic hardship was more harmful for people with children and when the rise of unemployment in a country was larger.

Ethnic health inequalities in Europe. The moderating and amplifying role of healthcare system characteristics.

Health inequalities between ethnic majority and ethnic minority members are prevalent in contemporary European societies. In this study we used theories on socioeconomic deprivation and intersectionality to derive expectations on how ethnic inequalities in health may be exacerbated or mitigated by national healthcare policies. To test our hypotheses we used data from six waves of the European Social Survey (2002-2012) on 172,491 individuals living in 24 countries.

Media Exposure and Health in Europe: Mediators and Moderators of Media Systems.

This study examined media exposure as an explanatory factor for individual and cross-national differences in self-assessed general health. In studying media exposure, traditional media (television, radio, and newspapers) and contemporary media (internet) were separately considered. Aside from hypotheses about the relation between media exposure and general health, we also tested hypotheses regarding the mediating role of social isolation and mean world syndrome as well as the moderating role of different media systems across countries.

Unusual observation of nitrogen chemical shift anisotropies in tetraalkylammonium halides by 14N MAS NMR spectroscopy.

14N Magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR spectra for a number of polycrystalline, symmetrical tetraalkylammonium halides with short alkyl chains (C2H(5)- to n-C4H(9)-) have been recorded following a careful setup of the experimental conditions. Analysis of the spectra demonstrates the presence of 14N chemical shift anisotropies (CSAs) on the order of |delta sigma| = 10-30 ppm along with 14N quadrupole coupling constants in the range of 10-70 kHz. The magnitude and sign of the CSAs determined from 14N MAS NMR are confirmed by recording and analysis of the corresponding slow-speed spinning (500-650 Hz) 15N CP/MAS NMR spectra.