Extra Supplement: Peace

Extra Protection for Pregnant Women: Calcium Supplement Reduces Blood Lead

Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) impairs cognitive development in infants and children, according to numerous studies of these ubiquitous environmental pollutants. Studies of PCB damage have considered many different end points, but the results of these different studies have never been coordinated to pinpoint the neuropsychologic functions most likely to be damaged by pren...

Conclusions to the Supplement, "Extra-Renal Complications of Cystinosis".

One of the founders of the field of inborn errors of metabolism, J. Edwin Seegmiller, once said, “Cystinosis is a durable, but perhaps not doable, problem.” Since he said that more than 50 years ago, great progress has been made in understanding this complex multiorgan, systemic disease. Now with genotyping readily available, a host of new questions can be asked, such as, why are some late comp...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

The Peace

From the eminent point of view which the happy consummation of peace has led us to, we may survey at our leisure the condition of the European powers. Warned by the past, we look upon the present state of the world with a cautious, as well as a critical eye. According to our conception, the study of Mind, in its broad physiognomy of nations and dynasties, of religion and civilization, is the hi...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...