What is the relationship between armed violence and patriarchal values? This question addressed with help of a survey young men in conflict-affected southern provinces Thailand. In Study 1 we find that more values are prone to volunteer for paramilitary service. 2 uses natural experiment made possible by conscription lottery Thailand compare responses who were involuntarily enlisted do Military...

The text follows the post-cultural turn oral history paradigm, as expressed in concepts of Luisa Passerini, Alessandro Portelli, and others. It also makes use “dream stories” (Traumgeschichten) research by Reinhart Koselleck, to discover interpret cultural processes forms related problematic historical subjectivity an ex-Czechoslovak People’s Army conscript. main source is recorded oral-history...

The influence of adult foreign-language acquisition on human brain organization is poorly understood. We studied cortical thickness and hippocampal volumes of conscript interpreters before and after three months of intense language studies. Results revealed increases in hippocampus volume and in cortical thickness of the left middle frontal gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus, and superior temporal g...

To study the association between handedness and mortality, we evaluated the experience of a Swedish population-based cohort comprising 48,964 conscripts age 18-21 years in 1969-1970. We linked this cohort to the Cause-of-Death Register through 1989. Hand preference was measured by a simple question regarding handedness; to confirm the answer, the conscript held a dummy rifle while an observer r...

The Danish Conscription Database (DCD) was established to enable studies of the influence of early physical and mental exposures on adverse health and social outcomes from a life-course perspective. In Denmark, all young men are requested to appear before the conscription board when they turn 18 years, to be assessed for military service. The DCD was established by digitizing information from c...

Intestinal myofibroblasts are alpha-smooth muscle actin-positive stromal cells that exist as a syncytium with fibroblasts and mural cells in the lamina propria of the gut. Through expression and secretion of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, prostaglandins, and basal lamina/extracellular matrix molecules, as well as expression of adhesion molecules and receptors for many of the same solubl...