Cancer statistics, 2024
Abstract Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States and compiles the most recent data on population‐based c...
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A robust layered control system for a mobile robot
A new architecture for controlling mobile robots is described. Layers of control system are built to let the robot operate at increasing levels of competence. Layers are made up...
WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1). At a news briefing , WHO Director-General, D...
Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors
The proliferation of large-scale DNA-sequencing projects in recent years has driven a search for alternative methods to reduce time and cost. Here we describe a scalable, highly...
Laplacian Eigenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Representation
One of the central problems in machine learning and pattern recognition is to develop appropriate representations for complex data. We consider the problem of constructing a rep...
Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods
Estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 36 cancers and for all cancers combined for the year 2018 are now available in the GLOBOCAN 2018 database, compiled and d...
The Wretched of the Earth
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, ...
The Population Ecology of Organizations
A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective. The strength of inertial pressures o...