BACKGROUND The differential susceptibility hypothesis states that some genetic variants that confer risk in adverse environments are beneficial in normal or nurturing environments. The cholinergic system is promising as a source of susceptibility genes because of its involvement in learning and neural plasticity. The cholinergic receptor gene CHRNA4 has been linked to characteristics related to...

There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

This study examined the importance assigned by Human Resource personnel to the personality traits of Information Technology officers. The extent to which these traits were evident among Information Technology officers was determined and compared to their level of importance among Human Resource personnel. The well-known 16 Personality Factors model was used and data was collected by questionnai...

It is well known that Dharmakı̄rti followed Dignāga in accepting that there are exactly two sources of new knowledge (pramān. a), namely, sensation (pratyaks. a) and inference (anumāna), and that the criteria by which these two means of acquiring knowledge are distinguished were somewhat different for the two philosophers. Dignāga claimed that the two sources of knowledge were distinct in that s...