A study examined the process of evaluating family-oriented substance abuse prevention efforts in three Native American communities. In general, the Native communities exhibited a lack of commitment to academic evaluation research due to concerns over who would gain from such research, how much value was placed on Indian opinions, the level of intrusion involved, whether the research was an atte...

Recently, in a number of high-profile cases, defendants who were prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced on the basis of false confessions have been exonerated through DNA evidence. As a historical matter, confession has played a prominent role in religion, in psychotherapy, and in criminal law-where it is a prosecutor's most potent weapon. In recent years, psychologists from the clinical, persona...

There are few sounds that carry as much biological clout as the cries of a distressed infant. Consider a crying infant on a plane: the sound is as unpleasant as it is difficult to ignore, even amongst a host of other environmental noises. A distressed infant’s cry, characterized by high and variable pitch, elicits autonomic arousal in the listener as measured by heart rate, blood pressure, skin...

Dear Editor, Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA1, MIM 208920) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by early-onset cerebellar ataxia, polyneuropathy, oculomotor apraxia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypercholesterolemia.1 It is caused by pathogenic variants of APTX, which encodes the aprataxin protein that is involved in DNA strand-break repair.1 We recruited a consanguineous family ...

One anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) is growing in popularity, although it potentially associated with biliary gastritis and gastroesophageal reflux esophagitis, a potential rise esophageal carcinoma. We describe the surgical management of 53-year-old man history OAGB whom adenocarcinoma developed. performed minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy, resected sleeved stomach pouch, created n...

The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) has been documented visiting and breaking the eggs of artificial nests, but the implications of such observations are unclear because there is little cost in depredating an undefended nest. During the summer of 2001 at Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas, we videotaped a gray catbird that broke and consumed at least 1 egg in a brown thrasher (Toxos...

Demosponges dominate the littoral zone of Lake Baikal, Russia. During August 1993, we measured the in situ pumping activity of a globose sponge, Baikalospongia bacillifera, common at depths of 8-50 m. Excurrent flow speed, surface area, and oscular diameter were measured with fluorescein dye release, underwater video, and image processing for nine individual sponges; diel deployments of a heate...

29 Volume 35, Number 1, January/February 2003 At the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it is time for the inevitable stocktaking by the prochoice movement. But rather than celebrating such a landmark anniversary, many in the movement appear grimly relieved that abortion is still legal at all in the United States. It was not supposed to be like this. Acknowledging such a milestone should involve ...

2439 What could an African lion stalking a distant impala in the African savanna possibly have in common with an electric fish searching for nearby water fleas in the Amazon River? Both the lion and the rather less daunting 14cm black ghost knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons) use sensory information to help them to locate and catch prey. But lions, which rely on their acute vision during the hunt...

Studying people's thinking, particularly when both "cognitive" and "affective" aspects are of interest, requires a setting conducive to in-depth exploration of the participants’ dialogue and actions. This need has implications for the duration of the study and for the nature of the environment in which the inquiry is conducted. The researcher must be able to spend a good deal of time with the p...