The human potential for language is based in human biology but makes requirements of the social environment to be realized. This paper reports evidence regarding (1) the nature of those environmental requirements, (2) the ways in which the varied social contexts in which children live meet those requirements, and (3) the effects of environmental variability in meeting those requirements on the ...

Food safety is an ever more conflictive issue receiving media attention. ``The increased activity of interest groups, the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy and changes in the retail economy have combined to transform [a relatively closed] food policy community into an issue network''. 1 This account of recent changes lacks the historical dimension that might endow it with meaning. It is ...

There are many kinds of information technology that can be used to make meetings more productive, some of which have more to do with what happens before and after meetings than during them. Document repositories, presentation software, and even intelligent lighting can all play their part. In our discussion of user requirements, we will restrict ourselves to considering systems that draw on the...

Massive computation capabilities of Supercomputers are exploited in an increasing number of research areas. In some of these fields, simulations models involving 10 15 floating-point operations per second (Petaflops) already exist and run on Petascale class Supercomputers [1]. Modelers, programmers, and computer architects alike thus already look at the next grand challenge: build an Exaflops (...

The meeting on Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People took place at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, 30 October–1 November 2012. The meeting was sponsored by The Center for Genetics Nutrition and Health, The Rockefeller Foundation, Green Templeton College of the University of Oxford, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Nutrilite Health Institute, Health Studies Collegiu...

Many underlying psycho-physiological complexities can alter the normal manifestation of sexual responses in women. While these factors may be hormonal changes associated with pregnancy or lactation, medical or surgical debilitating illnesses, relationship issues or socio-cultural and environmental factors, a major hallmark along the life stages is menopause per se. The transition from reproduct...