Publications

Species Diversity in Space and Time

Why do larger areas have more species? What makes diversity so high near the equator? Has the number of species grown during the past 600 million years? Does habitat diversity s...

Modern Quantum Mechanics

Modern Quantum Mechanics is a classic graduate level textbook, covering the main concepts from quantum mechanics in a clear, organized and engaging manner. The original author, ...

Features of 20 133 UK patients in hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study

Abstract Objective To characterise the clinical features of patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in the United Kingdom during the growth phase ...

Assessment of Clinical Criteria for Sepsis

Among ICU encounters with suspected infection, the predictive validity for in-hospital mortality of SOFA was not significantly different than the more complex LODS but was stati...

Coronary Plaque Disruption

Assessment of Global Incidence and Mortality of Hospital-treated Sepsis. Current Estimates and Limitations

Population-level epidemiologic data for sepsis are scarce and nonexistent for low- and middle-income countries. Our analyses underline the urgent need to implement global strate...

Acute Kidney Injury, Mortality, Length of Stay, and Costs in Hospitalized Patients

The marginal effects of acute kidney injury on in-hospital mortality, length of stay (LOS), and costs have not been well described. A consecutive sample of 19,982 adults who wer...

Crizotinib versus Chemotherapy in Advanced <i>ALK</i> -Positive Lung Cancer

Crizotinib is superior to standard chemotherapy in patients with previously treated, advanced non-small-cell lung cancer with ALK rearrangement. (Funded by Pfizer; ClinicalTrial...

Chemistry and Physics in One Dimension:  Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires and Nanotubes

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTChemistry and Physics in One Dimension: Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires and NanotubesJiangtao Hu, Teri Wang Odom, and Charles M...

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge

Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific ...

Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market

Community standards of fairness for the setting of prices and wages were elicited by telephone surveys. In customer or labor markets it isacceptable for a firm to raise prices (...

Biological Sequence Analysis

Probabilistic models are becoming increasingly important in analysing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Proje...