As the social sciences deal with macrophenomena which are caused by individual human actions, they have to use a theory of human behaviour. They use basically three types of theory: the rational-utilitarian theory, the causalist theory which sees behaviour as caused by social, cultural or biological forces, and the «rational psychology» in Nisbet’s sense. The three theories are important in the...

Silvia Picozzi, Kunihiko Yamauchi, Ivan A. Sergienko, Cengiz Sen, Biplab Sanyal, Elbio Dagotto CNR-INFM, CASTI Regional Lab. c/o Dip. Fisica, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67100 Coppito (L’Aquila),Italy 2 Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA and Dept. of Physics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA 3 Theoretical...

topological surface states in metallic Bi2Te3 topological insulator K. Shrestha1,∗ and M. Chou, D. Graf, H. D. Yang, B. Lorenz and C. W. Chu Idaho National Laboratory, 2525 Fremont Ave, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83402, USA Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida ...

Human transmission to offspring and future generations of acquired epigenetic modifications has not been definitively established, although there are several environmental exposures with suggestive evidence. This article uses three examples of hazardous substances with greater exposures in vulnerable populations: pesticides, lead, and diesel exhaust. It then considers whether, if there were sci...

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

We study the issues of reconstruction and stability issues of the inverse nodal problem for the one-dimensional p-Laplacian eigenvalue problem. A key step is the application of a modified Prüfer substitution to derive a detailed asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues and nodal lengths. Two associated Ambarzumyan problems are also solved. AMS Subject Classification (2000) : 34A55, 34B24. 1 2 1...

A baby born in America today has a pretty good chance of making it to adulthood: only a bit more than 0.6% of US infants die (CIA World Factbook). It also has a pretty good chance of living a well-fed and care-for existence compared to most any time and place in history. Coincidence? Well, not exactly. In this paper, we will explore how child mortality affects the standard of living as discusse...

Lawrence DeMarzo: My agency, House of the Crossroads, like other drug-free com­ munity-based agencies, has historically cho­ sen not to use medications in its treatment regimens. That is changing now, through our involvement in NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network and our acquaintance with litera­ ture like Dr. Kampman’s article (Kampman, 2008). Much has changed since we started Cross­ roads. We know...

My purpose today is to outline a strategy for development and to draw some of the implications for the development research agenda. Our title deliberately echoes Albert Hirschman's Strategy of Economic Development and his emphasis on processes rather than prices and quantities. By leaving out “Economic” in the title, I of course do not pretend to be broader or more catholic than Hirschman. But ...

The twin issues of making peace and building it over time, which are very much at the forefront of social concerns in contemporary India, remain a major source of worry and require a thoughtful understanding. The lack of effort that has been dedicated towards the development of a systematic understanding of the psychological dynamics underpinning intergroup hostility and violence between Hindus...