Predictors of 12-month prevalence of sexual infidelity were examined in a population-based sample of married individuals (N = 2,291). Predictor variables were organized in terms of involved-partner (e.g., personality, religiosity), marital (e.g., marital dissatisfaction, partner affair), and extradyadic (e.g., parenting) variables. Annual prevalence of infidelity was 2.3%. Controlling for marit...

In the vast majority of cases linguistic comprehension does not care much about what there is in the world and what state the world is in. Comprehension is often satisfied with satisfaction: you have understood somebody’s statement once you have set up a model that satisfies the statement. But occasionally reality matters. When Albert confesses to Bob: “I ́m having an affair with your wife”, and...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in world populations in various age and racial backgrounds. It has led to research and numerous clinical studies in an endeavour to limit the progression of this disease. Chemoprevention by dietary constituents has emerged as a novel advance to control cancer commonness. Breast cancer which is the second largest cause of death of women in worldwide. ...

Glucocorticoids exert a wide variety of physiological and pathological responses, most of which are mediated by the ubiquitously expressed glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The glucocorticoid response varies among individuals, as well as within tissues from the same individual, and this phenomenon can be partially explained through understanding the process of generating bioavailable ligand and the...

You’ve heard it all before, perhaps: the epic story of an uncooperative lab director with communication problems; a disenfranchised and disillusioned whistleblower with a mission, a world-renowned but obstinate scientist; a powerful congressman with a mandate to ensure that the taxpayer’s money is used responsibly; a duo of unofficial but intellectually well-armed and ethically uncompromising i...

This essay provides a summary of my professional activities. My interest in renal physiology started as a medical student in Vienna, when I became acquainted with Homer Smith's essays on kidney function. After moving to the United States in 1951, I was fortunate to be mentored by Robert Pitts, in whose Department of Physiology at Cornell Medical College in New York I was given early independenc...

During Yemenite Jews’ stay in Israeli transit camps during 1948–1950, many of their children disappeared the so-called “Yemenite Children Affair,” undermining immigrants’ faith redemptive ethos Zionism. To better understand this collective trauma, we return to original Freudian conceptualization melancholia as “failed mourning,” locating it within ethnographic context Affair and integrating its...