Publications

<i>The Physics of Liquid Crystals</i>

Part 1 Liquid crystals - main types and properties: introduction - what is a liquid crystal? the building blocks nematics and cholesterics smectics columnar phases more on long-...

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Comm...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometri...

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

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...

Surviving Sepsis Campaign

To provide an update to the "Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock," last published in 2008. A consensus committee of 68 internat...

Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals

Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2021, Tutor: Josep Taron Roca

A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

We have developed a new set of algorithms, collectively called “Velvet,” to manipulate de Bruijn graphs for genomic sequence assembly. A de Bruijn graph is a compact representat...