Publications

A General Theory of Crime

Preface Part I. Crime: 1. Classical theory and the idea of crime 2. The nature of crime Part II. Criminality: 3. Biological positivism 4. Psychological, economic, and sociologic...

First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, with cases now confirmed in multiple countries. We report the first case of 2019-nCo...

The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods

At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, this book teaches students the principles of research and to construct and test t...

Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

Overview - depression, golden girl, anxiety and unpredictability, childhood failure, sudden psychosomatic death controllability - voluntary responding, response independence and...

BioBERT: a pre-trained biomedical language representation model for biomedical text mining

Abstract Motivation Biomedical text mining is becoming increasingly important as the number of biomedical documents rapidly grows. With the progress in natural language processi...

Dynamic Graph CNN for Learning on Point Clouds

Point clouds provide a flexible geometric representation suitable for countless applications in computer graphics; they also comprise the raw output of most 3D data acquisition ...

‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?*

Associations between modifiable exposures and disease seen in observational epidemiology are sometimes confounded and thus misleading, despite our best efforts to improve the de...

ShuffleNet V2: Practical Guidelines for Efficient CNN Architecture Design

Likelihood Ratio Tests for Model Selection and Non-Nested Hypotheses

In this paper, we develop a classical approach to model selection. Using the Kullback-Leibler Information Criterion to measure the closeness of a model to the truth, we propose ...

The algebraic eigenvalue problem

Theoretical background Perturbation theory Error analysis Solution of linear algebraic equations Hermitian matrices Reduction of a general matrix to condensed form Eigenvalues o...

Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs over the Nearly Four Decades from 01/1981 to 09/2019

This review is an updated and expanded version of the five prior reviews that were published in this journal in 1997, 2003, 2007, 2012, and 2016. For all approved therapeutic ag...

Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychiatric Research

Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary depression) along with the validating evidence for these diagnostic categories comes from workers outside our...