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Age and the Explanation of Crime
One of the few facts agreed on in criminology is the age distribution of crime. This fact has been used to criticize social theories of crime causation, to provide the foundatio...
The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants
FASTQ has emerged as a common file format for sharing sequencing read data combining both the sequence and an associated per base quality score, despite lacking any formal defin...
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples
We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Os...
GEOCARB II; a revised model of atmospheric CO 2 over Phanerozoic time
Revision of the GEOCARB model (Berner, 1991, 1994) for paleolevels of atmospheric CO2, has been made with emphasis on factors affecting CO2 uptake by continental weathering. Thi...
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...
Demographic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Global Cardiovascular Mortality
The aging and growth of the population resulted in an increase in global cardiovascular deaths between 1990 and 2013, despite a decrease in age-specific death rates in most regi...
Calcium Supplementation and Increases in Bone Mineral Density in Children
In prepubertal children whose average dietary intake of calcium approximated the recommended dietary allowance, calcium supplementation increased the rate of increase in bone mi...
Rationale and Standards for the Systematic Review of Qualitative Literature in Health Services Research
Despite growing recognition of the need for qualitative methods in health services research, there have been few attempts to define quality standards for assessing the results. ...