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Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: Barriers to Detection, Confirmation, and Intervention

Children's Services, 2001
Munchausen by Proxy syndrome (MBPS) is a condition that represents abusive parenting and involves a pattern of pathological health-seeking behaviors that jeopardize a child's health and safety. MBPS is one of the least understood forms of child maltreatment, frequently goes unrecognized, and is difficult to detect and confirm.
Patricia T. Siegel, Howard Fischer
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Proxy Intervention in Civil Wars

Journal of Peace Research, 1981
Military intervention in civil wars by smaller states has often been interpreted as a sign of the increasing importance of indirect intervention as a means of foreign policy: the smaller intervening states are seen to have acted as the proxy of a major power.
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Nursing Interventions in Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1995
1. Münchausen syndrome by proxy is a rare but serious and potentially lethal form of child abuse in which a primary care giver induces or reports factitious symptoms in a child. 2. The child suffers from the caregiver's actions and health care providers unknowingly become accomplices when they provide unnecessary testing and therapies. 3.
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Assessing the phenomenon of proxy intervention

Conflict, Security & Development, 2002
This article assesses the phenomenon of ‘proxy intervention’, which has been particularly prevalent since the end of the Second World War and which looks set to be so in future. It takes the view that interstate war is virtually obsolescent as a tool of foreign policy; instead, third parties intervene in what are usually internal con?icts.
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Are changes in foreign exchange reserves a good proxy for official intervention?

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2012
Abstract Little is known about the adequacy of changes in reserves as a proxy for intervention despite its use in computing exchange market pressure index. This paper demonstrates the co-movement between monthly reserves changes and intervention is governed by intervention amount, the frequency of the intervention and the nature of intervention ...
Suardi, Sandy, Chang, Yuanchen
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The Costs and Benefits of Intervention by Proxy

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of proxy warfare—arguably rooted in a Realpolitik mindset—has received little sustained attention in the academic literature.
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