Examination of the handling of one recently published book, white supremacist David Duke’s My Awakening, points out some important technologically-driven changes in the way books are marketed. At Duke’s website, copies of the book can be ordered and lengthy excerpts are presented. A detailed review and a different selection of excerpts of My Awakening are presented at the website of an organiza...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to examine relations between nocturnal awakenings and unintentional injury risk among toddlers. METHODS A nationally representative sample of 799 children was followed longitudinally from birth through 36 months. Patterns of nocturnal awakening were assessed by parent-report at ages 6, 15, 24 and 36 months, and injury events were reported at quarterly interva...

In constraint logic programming (CLP) systems, the standard technique for dealing with hard constraints is to delay solving them until additional constraints reduce them to a simpler form. For example, the CLP(R) system delays the solving of nonlinear equations until they become linear, when certain variables become ground. In a naive implementation , the overhead of delaying and awakening cons...

Early life adversity has been associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction in both children and adults. However, in adulthood, most studies have focused on the effects of early adversity on HPA axis stress reactivity rather than the cortisol awakening response or diurnal cortisol profiles. The goal of this study was to examine the cumulative effects of early life advers...

The perseverative cognition hypothesis suggests that worry/ruminative thinking prolongs stress-related physiological activation. This study explored the association of work-related rumination with salivary cortisol sampled at 10 pm and the cortisol awakening response (CAR) the following morning. On a mid-week evening, 108 school teachers completed a small diary about their work-related thoughts...

Sleep and epilepsy have a close relationship. About 20% of patients suffer seizures only during the night, approximately 40% only during the day and approximately 35% during the day and night. In certain epilepsy syndromes, the occurrence of seizures is strongly related to sleep or awakening. Infantile spasms appear predominately on awakening, and hypsarrhythmia is sometimes visible only in sle...

It is increasingly recognized that in order to understand the complex phenomenon of antisocial behavior, interrelations between biological and social risk factors should be taken into account. In the current study, this biosocial approach was applied to examine the mediating role of deviant peers in longitudinal associations linking the level of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activit...

Previous genetic investigations of variation in normal sleep have focused on measures that describe sleep over longer periods of time. We undertook a study with the aim of evaluating whether heritability can be found in single-night sleep traits. A classical twin study design of monozygotic and dizygotic twins, enriched with siblings of twins was employed. The study included adult twin pairs an...

I In recent years the media, particularly the financial press, have been all agog over the rise of China and India in the international economy (and how they have done relatively well even in the current global downturn).