At the crossroad between linguistics and cross-cultural communication, multilingualism is frequently presented through its most positive perspective. However, if long-term benefits outrun disadvantages, frustration often dominant feeling among speakers during their early years. Based upon meticulous observations careful collection of examples in a multilingual family, this article case study di...

The human male is, on most measures, more vulnerable than the female. Part of the explanation is the biological fragility of the male fetus, which is little understood and not widely known. A typical attitude to boys is that they are, or must be made, more resilient than girls. This adds "social insult to biological injury." Culture and class make a difference to the health and survival of boys...

project TET 6644 " Machining technologies for nanochannels and interfacing ". Front cover: Signal from a single quantum dot moving inside 1D nanochannels. Back cover: Fluorescent signal inside 2D nanochannels. I would like to dedicate this thesis to my wonderful mother for my upbringing and her support all the time, to my kind father for his pleasure of my achievements, to my sweetheart, Duy Ha...

All patients discharged to hostels from an 800 bed hospital for the mentally handicapped were studied over a 12 year period. Those whose placement was successful were compared with those who returned to the hospital. Youth and early institutional upbringing were associated with failure of placement. Twelve specific problems were identified by hostel staff and of these aggression, psychosis, abs...

The authors examined the associations of the Big Five personality factors with religiousness in adulthood for a 19-year longitudinal sample of 492 adolescents age 12 to 18. Among the Big Five, Conscientiousness in adolescence was uniquely related to higher religiousness in early adulthood. For adolescents high in Emotional Stability, the link between strength of religious upbringing and religio...

Hormones are known to play a critical role in modulating the behaviour and development of organisms when confronted with different environment challenges. In this paper we present a biologically plausible hormonal mechanism that allows an autonomous robot to interact appropriately with novel objects and interactions depending upon both its current internal state and its past experiences. In our...

The Difficult Child and the Problem of Discipline. By C. W. Valentine. Methuen. 4s. It is to be hoped that Professor Valentine's little book will be read by the great number of Parents who have been " put off" the modern 'dea of using the " sweet reasonableness " of Psychological methods in the upbringing of their children by the extravagant statements of extremists and of the ill-informed. How...

a great many experimental studies of the infant's behaviour, intellectual and linguistic growth, play and social development. The author's account of the development of meanings, of imagination and of verbal learning, thinking and working, is sound and clear. The description of the development of social behaviour and the discussion of the complexity of conscious motives entering into social sit...

No causal evidence is available to translate associations between neighborhood characteristics and health outcomes into beneficial changes to built environments. Observed associations may be causal or result from uncontrolled confounds related to family upbringing. Twin designs can help neighborhood effects studies overcome selection and reverse causation problems in specifying causal mechanism...