The present research demonstrates that consumers often feel inhibited from engaging in hedonic activities alone, especially when these activities are observable by others. When considering whether to engage in a hedonic and public activity such as going to a movie alone, individuals anticipate negative inferences from others about their social connectedness that reduce their interest in engagin...

Without the SNF-6 acetylcholine transporter (bottom) mutant muscles fall apart. K im /M ac m ill an they are mutant for various members of the dystrophinglycoprotein complex (DGC), which links intracellular actin to extracellular laminin. But now, Hongkyun Kim, Steven McIntire (University of California, San Francisco, CA), and colleagues suggest that loss of the DGC results in loss of an associ...

Continuing with only clinically indicated circumcisions, I occasionally used the foreskin as a flap to cover degloved digits (anchoring the hand to the thigh with sutures and strapping it for a few days) and also as a free skin graft and in hypospadias repair. The foreskin was used most dramatically in scrotal elephantiasis. Here the mass is lifted by assistants and a tourniquet is wound severa...

BACKGROUND Maternal-neonate separation (MNS) in mammals is a model for studying the effects of stress on the development and function of physiological systems. In contrast, for humans, MNS is a Western norm and standard medical practice. However, the physiological impact of this is unknown. The physiological stress-response is orchestrated by the autonomic nervous system and heart rate variabil...

Traditionally, developments in the labon-a-chip community have been technology-pushed, mainly guided by analytical chemists, micro-machinists and material scientists, rather than demand-pulled. Applications such as LabChip from Caliper (Fig. 1) and i-STAT from Abbott Point of Care (Fig. 2) can now be found on the market, solving practical problems for users. However, the field is still lacking ...

3 forms of solitude were studied in young children--reticence (onlooker and unoccupied behavior), solitary-passive behavior (solitary-constructive and -exploratory play), and solitary-active behavior (solitary-functional and -dramatic play). 48 4-year-old children grouped in quartets of same-sex unfamiliar peers were observed in several situations. Mothers completed the Colorado Temperament Inv...