The increasingly recognized notion that conditions during fetal life alter susceptibility to adult disease represents a prototype of how the environment can influence biological processes. Several conditions, including stress exposure, maternal nutrition, and environmental temperature, have been shown to affect the health of offspring. The fast-growing epidemic of obesity has witnessed mounting...

This study investigates the role of the news media in the economic voting process during the 1998 German Bundestag Election, by exploring how exposure to economic news in the mass media affects economic evaluations. The empirical results are based on a content analysis of a range of German news media outlets and on survey data from a two-wave panel survey. News media outlets differed noticeably...

With the post-Cold War rise of major developing countries blurring the distinction between the industrialized “North” and the developing “South,” it is unclear whether a state’s development level remains a strong predictor of its stances in international politics. Do Brazil, India, China, South Africa, and other major developing countries behave like members of the North, or the South? And havi...

Normal animals ingest larger amounts of food diluted with nonnutritive bulk than they do undiluted food, to the extent that nutrient intake remains almost constant. This compensation is complete up to dilutions of 50% and is evident, although incomplete, at 75% dilution. The normal hyperingestive response to 50% diet dilution is depressed within the 1st week of growth of Walker 256 carcinosarco...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...