Our Sexy Brain; Our Compelling Environment: Interactionism in Female Development

Our sexy brain; our compelling environment: interactionism in female development.

The infant female is unique. Her particular qualities include specific genetic, hormonal, and physiological ingredients that help sculpt her development. Parental influences and the wider society and culture have a profound shaping effect on her particular biological components. Whereas male infants have their own inimitable developmental line, this paper’s focus is on the female. Our recent hi...

To save our environment

An algorithmic approach to constructing mixed-level orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays Quasi Monte Carlo simulations of Brownian sheet with an application to interest rate stochastic string model A method for generating uniformly scattered points on the Lp-norm unit sphere and its application in statistical simulation A new class of model-robust designs A method for screening active effects ...

Modeling Development and Disease in Our "Second" Brain

The enteric nervous system (ENS) in our gastrointestinal tract, nicknamed the “second brain”, is responsible for normal gut function and peristaltic contraction. Embryonic development of the ENS involves the colonization of the gut wall from one end to the other by a population of proliferating neural crest (NC) cells. Failure of these cells to invade the whole gut results in the relatively com...

Our children and the environment.

The publication of research articles in this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and papers from two important symposia concerning children and their environments in the June issue of EHP Supplements is an encouraging sign of increased attention to the importance of scientific research on the relationship of children to their environments. A recent publication by the National Science and...

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