Human Migration and the Marginal Man
Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history. E...
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Introduction to the recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
Background Criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were established in 1984. A broad consensus now exists that these criteria should be revised to incorp...
Assessing the Probability That a Positive Report is False: An Approach for Molecular Epidemiology Studies
Abstract Too many reports of associations between genetic variants and common cancer sites and other complex diseases are false positives. A major reason for this unfortunate si...
Safety and Immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 Vaccine in Older Adults
In this small study involving older adults, adverse events associated with the mRNA-1273 vaccine were mainly mild or moderate. The 100-μg dose induced higher binding- and neutra...
Overdiagnosis in Cancer
This article summarizes the phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis-the diagnosis of a "cancer" that would otherwise not go on to cause symptoms or death. We describe the two prerequ...
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is the entry-level subject in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is required of all studen...
New developments in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD): accessibility in support of materials research and design
The materials community in both science and industry use crystallographic data models on a daily basis to visualize, explain and predict the behavior of chemicals and materials....
A stagewise rejective multiple test procedure based on a modified Bonferroni test
Journal Article A stagewise rejective multiple test procedure based on a modified Bonferroni test Get access G. HOMMEL G. HOMMEL Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Dokument...
Promoter Hypermethylation and BRCA1 Inactivation in Sporadic Breast and Ovarian Tumors
Silencing of the BRCA1 gene by promoter hypermethylation occurs in primary breast and ovarian carcinomas, especially in the presence of LOH and in specific histopathologic subgr...
Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975–2001, with a special feature regarding survival
Abstract BACKGROUND The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Associat...
Application-specific protocol architectures for wireless networks
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Control
Although the decrease in overall cancer incidence and death rates is encouraging, large state and regional differences in lung cancer trends among women underscore the need to m...