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Love Canal became a household word 30 years ago when outraged residents, led by Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal Homeowners Association, demanded attention to the apparent adverse effects of hazardous waste exposures on their children's health (Boston University School of Public Health 2004). Love Canal was evacuated between 1978 and 1980, and property owners were compensated in the first such wid...

Following previous work, this paper introduces a new dynamical model involving two differential equations describing the time variation of behavior displayed by a couple in a romantic relationship. This model is different from previous ones because it uses complex variables. Since complex variables have both magnitude and phase, they are better able to represent love and can represent more comp...

The present study was conducted in an attempt to examine potential differences between men and women in memory for sexually relevant information. A total of 77 undergraduate students (31 men, 46 women) read a sexual story and completed memory tasks in response to the story. Based on previous research, we hypothesized that differences would exist between men and women for different types of sexu...