Publications

VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids

In the course of an investigation of the effect of surface scratches on the mechanical strength of solids, some general conclusions were reached which appear to have a direct be...

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Bodies That Matter

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the bod...

Active contours without edges

We propose a new model for active contours to detect objects in a given image, based on techniques of curve evolution, Mumford-Shah (1989) functional for segmentation and level ...

8 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Foreword Introduction 1. Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory 2. Research through Imperial Eyes 3. Colonizing Knowledges 4. Research Adventures on Indigenous Land 5. Notes f...

Statistical significance for genomewide studies

With the increase in genomewide experiments and the sequencing of multiple genomes, the analysis of large data sets has become commonplace in biology. It is often the case that ...

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area

This case series provides characteristics and early outcomes of sequentially hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 in the New York City area.

Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper ...

Agency costs of free cash flow, corporate finance, and takeovers

Corporate managers are the agents of shareholders; a relationship fraught with conflicting interests. Agency theory, the analysis of such conflicts, is now a major part of the e...

A general and simple method for obtaining <i>R</i> ² from generalized linear mixed‐effects models

Summary The use of both linear and generalized linear mixed‐effects models ( LMM s and GLMM s) has become popular not only in social and medical sciences, but also in biological...

Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

There is increasing evidence that genome-wide association (GWA) studies represent a powerful approach to the identification of genes involved in common human diseases. We descri...

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences

A text that emphasizes the importance of case studies in social science scholarship and shows how to make case study practices more rigorous.