THE PERSISTENT POWER OF STIGMA: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF POLICY INITIATIVES TO BREAK THE MENSTRUAL SILENCE AND ADVANCE MENSTRUAL LITERACY.

The persistent power of stigma: A critical review of policy initiatives to break the menstrual silence and advance menstrual literacy.

Menstruation is shrouded in stigma and shame-that is the common refrain in burgeoning initiatives on menstrual health and hygiene.Public policies alone cannot undo stigma and enact social change, but ninkasi lager they do interact with social norms.They can reflect and adopt stigmatizing attitudes and, as a result, institutionalize, formalize, and

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Nonparametric tests of strike price and expiration bias in the implied volatility of the South African All Share Index Future Contract

In this article we assess the appropriateness of the constant volatility assumption required by the Black (1976) option pricing model for options on the All Share Index future.The assessment uses similar nonparametric tests as implemented infinitytools.com in Rubinstein for data recorded over the 1992 to 1996 period.In the nonparametric tests we fo

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Quantum Measurements from a Logical Point of View

We introduce a logic modelling some aspects of the behaviour of the measurement process, in such a way that no direct mention of quantum states is made, thus avoiding the problems associated to this rather evasive notion.We then study some properties of the models of this logic, and deduce some characteristics that any model (and hence, any formula

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