Cancer Statistics, 2004
Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on...
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Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests
Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss some fundamental conc...
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008
Erratum in Crit Care Med. 2008 Apr;36(4):1394-6. \nAbstract \nOBJECTIVE: To provide an update to the original Surviving Sepsis Campaign clinical management guidelines, ...
A study of the behavior of several methods for balancing machine learning training data
There are several aspects that might influence the performance achieved by existing learning systems. It has been reported that one of these aspects is related to class imbalanc...
Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
ABSTRACT Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the sp...
The earth is round (p < .05).
After 4 decades of severe criticism, the ritual of null hypothesis significance testing (mechanical dichotomous decisions around a sacred .05 criterion) still persists. This art...
MetaboAnalyst 5.0: narrowing the gap between raw spectra and functional insights
Abstract Since its first release over a decade ago, the MetaboAnalyst web-based platform has become widely used for comprehensive metabolomics data analysis and interpretation. ...
Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicle. II. A multipurpose cloning system
In vitro recombination techniques were used to construct a new cloning vehicle, pBR322. This plasmid, derived from pBR313, is a relaxed replicating plasmid, does not produce and...
Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain
Our ability to have an experience of another's pain is characteristic of empathy. Using functional imaging, we assessed brain activity while volunteers experienced a painful sti...
Erlotinib Plus Gemcitabine Compared With Gemcitabine Alone in Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Phase III Trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group
Purpose Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have a poor prognosis and there have been no improvements in survival since the introduction of gemcitabine in 1996. Pancreatic ...
Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change.
Transtheoretical therapy is presented as one alternative within the Zeitgeist seeking a synthesis for the increasing proliferation of therapeutic systems. From a comparative ana...