Introduction Many population genetic research projects seek to recruit women during pregnancy or infants at birth for longitudinal birth cohort studies that investigate how early environmental conditions interact with a child’s genome to increase disease susceptibility or confer protective effects. Researchers worldwide are sleuthing for genetic factors related to major child health problems su...

Dr. Richard Forno directs the graduate cybersecurity program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His twenty-year career includes helping build the first formal cybersecurity program for the US House of Representatives, serving as the first Chief Security Officer at Network Solutions (the InterNIC), and co-founding the Maryland Cyber Challenge. Richard was one of the early researcher...

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Why do people distrust others in social exchange? To what degree, if at all, is distrust subject to genetic influences, and thus possibly heritable, and to what degree is it nurtured by families and immediate peers who encourage young people to be vigilant and suspicious of others? Answering these questions could provide fundamental clues about the sources of individual differences in the dispo...

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Cover Page Footnote: Acknowledgments. This paper was first written for the conference “Comparative Arawakan Histories” organized by Jonathan Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero, held at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in July 2000. I am grateful to all of the participants in that conference for their helpful comments on and generous tolerance of this marginal Aruan case. I am...

The noted health care commentator Donald Light recently (2001) opined that the on-going reforms to the UK’s national health service (NHS) could produce devolution of power from the ‘organised profession’ and politicians to the wider community. The root of Light’s optimism rests on the emergence of primary care trusts, which he considers to be highly fluid and open bodies, and the development of...

The publication of volume 12 the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum has opened up a vast field new manuscript material dealing with medieval commentary tradition on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Among important French commentaries briefly discussed therein is Brussels, KBR 2100. was produced in northern France mid-thirteenth century and to date received little detailed scholarly attention. In th...

We investigated two types of metaphors in stock market commentary. Agent metaphors describe price trajectories as volitional actions, whereas object metaphors describe them as movements of inanimate objects. Study 1 examined the consequences of commentators’ metaphors for their investor audience. Agent metaphors, compared with object metaphors and non-metaphoric descriptions, caused investors t...