Aggressive behavior can be studied as either offensive or defensive responses to a stimulus. The studies discussed in this review are focused on the peripubertal development of offensive aggression in male golden hamsters and its responsiveness to repeated social stress. Quantitative and qualitative changes in offensive responses were analyzed during this period. Quantitative changes in offensi...

Hamsters repeatedly exposed to cocaine throughout adolescence display highly escalated offensive aggression compared to saline-treated littermates. Recently, we have shown that serotonin neural signaling and development play an important role in adolescent cocaine-induced offensive aggression. This study examined whether the adolescent cocaine-induced aggressive response was modulated by seroto...

Chronic anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) treatment during adolescence facilitates offensive aggression in male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). The current study assessed whether adolescent AAS-facilitated offensive attack was modulated by serotonin (5-HT) and if AAS exposure during this developmental period influenced 5-HT innervation to areas of hamster brain implicated in aggressive ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigat the offensive efficiency of the professional handball players forming the front and rear lines. METHODS Our investigation was carried out on four matches (final, semi-finals and classifying match) at the 19(th) male Handball World Championship "Tunisia 2005". Finalist teams were Tunisia, France, Croatia, and Spain. Matches were recorded using 5 ...

We investigate the relationship between global offensive k-alliances and some characteristic sets of a graph including r-dependent sets, τ dominating sets and standard dominating sets. In addition, we discuss the close relationship that exist among the (global) offensive ki-alliance number of Γi, i ∈ {1, 2} and the (global) offensive k-alliance number of Γ1×Γ2, for some specific values of k. As...

Three studies examine the amplifying effects of intergroup anxiety on individuals' negative and offensive responses to out-group-initiated contact. Because intergroup anxiety typically results in avoidance of the initiation of intergroup contact, these studies explored how intergroup anxiety affected individuals' interpretation of and responses to out-group-initiated contact. The authors hypoth...

Odor control policy in Japan has been based on the Offensive Odor Control Law, which regulates the emission of offensive odors generated from business to prevent a nuisance occurring. In Korea, odor control has been under the Air Conservation Law at present. But the Korean Offensive Odor Control Law, newly prepared to be enacted this year, strengthening the regulation of emission of odor, have ...