Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality
If the control of infectious diseases was the public health success story of the first half of the 20th century, then the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease and st...
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Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire
This book reviews the experimental literature on how survey questions behave as well as the lore of professional experience and culls from them those guiding principles and spec...
Solar fusion cross sections. II. The<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math>chain and CNO cycles
The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized an...
The novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) uses the SARS-coronavirus receptor ACE2 and the cellular protease TMPRSS2 for entry into target cells
Abstract The emergence of a novel, highly pathogenic coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, in China, and its rapid national and international spread pose a global health emergency. Coronaviru...
The anatomy of melancholia – focal abnormalities of cerebral blood flow in major depression
Synopsis Using positron emission tomography (PET) and 15 Oxygen, regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured in 33 patients with primary depression, 10 of whom had an assoc...
Modeled Variance in Two-Level Models
The concept of explained proportion of variance or modeled proportion of variance is reviewed in the situation of the random effects hierarchical two-level model. It is argued t...
Multifactorial Analysis of Differences Between Sporadic Breast Cancers and Cancers Involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
Our study has identified key features of the histologic phenotypes of breast cancers in carriers of mutant BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. This information may improve the classification...
Meeting Highlights: International Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer
Journal Article Meeting Highlights: International Consensus Panel on the Treatment of Primary Breast Cancer Get access Aron Goldhirsch, Aron Goldhirsch Search for other works by...
THE CORRELATION‐BASED LAW OF EFFECT<sup>1</sup>
It is commonly understood that the interactions between an organism and its environment constitute a feedback system. This implies that instrumental behavior should be viewed as...
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975–2004, featuring cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives
Abstract BACKGROUND. The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Ca...
Expression Atlas update—an integrated database of gene and protein expression in humans, animals and plants
Expression Atlas (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gxa) provides information about gene and protein expression in animal and plant samples of different cell types, organism parts, developme...
Cancer Statistics for African Americans
The American Cancer Society provides estimates on the number of new cancer cases and deaths, and compiles health statistics on African Americans in a biennial publication, Cance...