Human transmission to offspring and future generations of acquired epigenetic modifications has not been definitively established, although there are several environmental exposures with suggestive evidence. This article uses three examples of hazardous substances with greater exposures in vulnerable populations: pesticides, lead, and diesel exhaust. It then considers whether, if there were sci...

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

We study the issues of reconstruction and stability issues of the inverse nodal problem for the one-dimensional p-Laplacian eigenvalue problem. A key step is the application of a modified Prüfer substitution to derive a detailed asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues and nodal lengths. Two associated Ambarzumyan problems are also solved. AMS Subject Classification (2000) : 34A55, 34B24. 1 2 1...

A baby born in America today has a pretty good chance of making it to adulthood: only a bit more than 0.6% of US infants die (CIA World Factbook). It also has a pretty good chance of living a well-fed and care-for existence compared to most any time and place in history. Coincidence? Well, not exactly. In this paper, we will explore how child mortality affects the standard of living as discusse...

Lawrence DeMarzo: My agency, House of the Crossroads, like other drug-free com­ munity-based agencies, has historically cho­ sen not to use medications in its treatment regimens. That is changing now, through our involvement in NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network and our acquaintance with litera­ ture like Dr. Kampman’s article (Kampman, 2008). Much has changed since we started Cross­ roads. We know...

My purpose today is to outline a strategy for development and to draw some of the implications for the development research agenda. Our title deliberately echoes Albert Hirschman's Strategy of Economic Development and his emphasis on processes rather than prices and quantities. By leaving out “Economic” in the title, I of course do not pretend to be broader or more catholic than Hirschman. But ...

The twin issues of making peace and building it over time, which are very much at the forefront of social concerns in contemporary India, remain a major source of worry and require a thoughtful understanding. The lack of effort that has been dedicated towards the development of a systematic understanding of the psychological dynamics underpinning intergroup hostility and violence between Hindus...

Kaluza-Klein monopole and H-monopole solutions, which are T-dual to each other, are the well-known solutions of string theory compactified on T . Since string theory in this case has an S-duality symmetry, we explicitly construct the corresponding dyonic solutions by expressing the D = 4 string effective action in a manifestly SL(2, R) invariant form with an SL(2, R) invariant constraint. The S...

1 UHI Millennium Institute, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban PA37 1QA, Scotland, UK 2 Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban PA37 1QA, Scotland, UK 3 Environmental Systems Research Group, Geography Department, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK * now at: Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry,...

After 15 males invaded troops of wild red howler monkeys {Alouatta seniculus) present in Venezuela during the period from Apr. 1989 to May 1991, five infant killings and eight infant disappearances occurred. Among the eight groups that were invaded, 10 infants of less than 3 mo old and three of over 5 mo old were killed either by the adult or subadult males, or disappeared. However, on the five...