This work was supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand through a Marsden grant. We acknowledge the use of extensive computer time on Massey University’s parallel supercomputer facilities Doublehelix and Bestgrid. Dr. Matthias Lein, Prof. Dr. Peter Schwerdtfeger, Center for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, The New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University Auckland, Private B...

Scholars from Fudan and multiple campuses across UC presented their work. The conference attracted a large number of professor and student attendees from other universities, as well as community members from southern California. Richard MADSEN, Director of the Fudan-UC Center, and Peter COWHEY, Dean of UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, kicked off the conference...

Poverty analysis is in the midst of a multidimensional turn due, in part, to the growing awareness of the limitations of relative income measures of poverty. In this paper, we argue that the conceptualisation of poverty remains a neglected aspect of this multidimensional turn to date, and demonstrate that the counter-intuitive results which flow from relative income analyses are not problems of...

Increasing debate centers on the decreasing influence of the marketing department within firms. This study investigates such influence and assesses its determinants and consequences. The results show that the accountability and innovativeness of the marketing department represent the two major drivers of its influence. However, the results do not indicate that the customer-connecting role of th...

In this issue of The Journal, Dr. Peter Ash offers the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law some ideas on developmentally informed assessment of criminal culpability during adolescence. After highlighting issues that complicate the definition and assessment of criminal culpability, Ash lists 10 constructs that he believes should be carefully considered by forensic clinicians in developing...

Authors’ response to: Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis: an identifiability problem of the age-period-cohort model From Katherine M Keyes, Ezra Susser, Keely Cheslack-Postava, Christine Fountain, Kayuet Liu and Peter S Bearman* Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Scienc...

M igratory birds make epic journeys of thousands of miles each year, navigating with the help of Earth’s magnetic field. Yet the mechanism behind the biological compass that enables them to achieve this astonishing feat remains a mystery. Peter Hore of the University of Oxford is a leading proponent of the idea that this magnetic sense depends on chemical reactions involving excited radicals pr...

A controversial member of the General Medical Council had to stand down from a disciplinary panel last week after allegations that she had made “biased remarks” and prejudged the outcome of the case. Jennifer Colman, one of five members hearing the case of Peter Robson, a GP accused of sexually harassing three female patients and a receptionist, was asked by Dr Robson’s counsel to withdraw from...

Survival analysis has become a widely used methodology in diverse fields of research such as medicine, economics and political science. This script gives a brief introduction to these statistical methods. It is meant to serve as a self-learning text, combining the basic theoretical background of survival analysis with practical applications. Moreover, it provides some recommendations on the bas...

There is a worldwide epidemic of obesity. We are only slowly beginning to understand its causes and consequences. This paper addresses one important component of the crisis – namely the extent to which obesity – or more generally adiposity is passed down from one generation to the next. Using the BMI as a measure of adiposity, we find that the intergenerational transmission of adiposity is rela...