Readers' Advisory: Bad Boy Romances: Biker Boys and Mobster Royalty

More Forensic Romances: De

De Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) has invariably been regarded as a female disorder (with male victims); however, a number of recent reports describe male patients with the disorder, especially in violence-prone male offender populations. Seven cases are presented of violence-prone men suffering from the disorder, including Hinckley and Poddar. The syndrome is discussed from a nosological ...

Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong evidence for corrupt behavior on the men’s tour, as bubble players are substantially more likely to beat ...

Lysophosphatidic acid, LPA: a bad boy becomes good

The biologically active growth factor LPA has gained broad interest after it was proposed as a possible marker for ovarian cancer [1]. Although much is known about LPA signaling, its physiological and pathological relevance remains unclear. Recent data from Tokumura et al. [2–4] may change our perception of LPA and cause LPA researches to focus on its physiological aspects. LPA functions may al...

A Moral Imbecile or a Bad Boy: Which?

badness. That alternative has been present even though the teacher was entirely unaware of it, possibly because he belonged to that dogmatic class who insist that all this talk about degeneracy, moral imbecility, hereditary taints, and abnormalities is merely another fad, and that what most bad boys need is a frequent application of the classical English birch rod translated into an American hi...

Gender and Sexuality, Self-Identity, and Libraries: Readers’ Advisory as a Technique for Creative (Dis)Assembly