The Manhattan Bugle

The Manhattan Effect 1

Research on close relationships has frequently contrasted one’s own interests with the interests of the partner or the relationship, and has tended to view the partner’s and the relationship’s interests as inherently aligned. The present article demonstrated that relationship commitment typically causes people to support their partner’s personal interests, but that this effect gets weaker to th...

The Manhattan Metaphor

Fixed operating costs draw a sharp distinction between endogenous growth based on horizontal and vertical innovation: a larger number of product lines puts pressure on an economy’s resources; greater productivity of existing product lines does not. Consequently, the only plausible engine of endogenous growth is vertical innovation whereby progress along the quality or cost ladder does not requi...

The Northern Manhattan Study

Increased left ventricular mass (LVM) and lower socioeconomic status (SES) are predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to have higher LVM and lower SES. The relation between SES, race–ethnicity, and LVM has not been fully explored. Data were used from the NOMAS population-based sample of 1916 subjects living in Northern Manhattan. SES was chara...

EHPnet: The Manhattan Project Cleanup

The Northern Manhattan Stroke Study

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