Buka (Бу́ка) is a Russian inexplicable monster, often mentioned to frighten little kids, to make them obey. The word бука is also used in Russian for gloomy and unsociable person.
Buka cloak, Noongar South West Western Australian indigenous language word describing usually kangaroo skin cloak worn draped over one shoulder.
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Buka, who describes himself as "one of the world's only child psychologist-epidemiologists," directs studies that follow children from conception into adulthood, gathering data on everything from parents' infections during pregnancy, eating habits, and neighborhoods, to their offspring's health, preschool experiences, and school performance.
Last fall, Buka published a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry of grown children born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy, which found that kids whose moms smoked at least one pack a day demonstrated twice the normal risk of lifelong nicotine dependency.
Buka is also exploring possible prenatal triggers of schizophrenia, a devastating affliction that typically becomes manifest in late adolescence.
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