The Ensembl genome database project
The Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) database project provides a bioinformatics framework to organise biology around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive sourc...
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AN INVESTIGATION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN FAMILIES
The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) was started in 1948 as a prospective investigation of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of adult men and women. Continuous surveillance of this...
Is Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment
Despite a great deal of interest in a possible decline of social capital in the United States, scholars have not reached a consensus on the trend. This article improves upon pre...
The ribosomal database project
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) is a curated database that offers ribosome data along with related programs and services. The offerings include phylogenetically ordered ali...
Supplementary motor area and other cortical areas in organization of voluntary movements in man
1. Previous studies in man have revealed a coupling between the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and the regional cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen. In normal man, increases...
Explaining the Limited Effectiveness of Legalistic “Remedies” for Trust/Distrust
Organizations frequently adopt formal rules, contracts, or other legalistic mechanisms when interpersonal trust is lacking. But recent research has shown such legalistic “remedi...
Toward Understanding and Measuring Conditions of Trust: Evolution of a Conditions of Trust Inventory
Ten conditions of trust were suggested by 84 interviews of managers, and two previous studies of managerial trust. Statements made in the interviews and the studies were used to...
An Ordinal Classification for the Families of Flowering Plants
Recent cladistic analyses are revealing the phylogeny of flowering plants in increasing detail, and there is support for the monophyly of many major groups above the family leve...
Genetic Mapping in Human Disease
Genetic mapping provides a powerful approach to identify genes and biological processes underlying any trait influenced by inheritance, including human diseases. We discuss the ...
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...
The interpretation of a moving retinal image
It is shown that from a monocular view of a rigid, textured, curved surface it is possible, in principle, to determine the gradient of the surface at any point, and the motion o...