Perspectives on Variation
The significant advances witnessed over the last years in the broad field of linguistic variation testify to a growing convergence between sociolinguistic approaches and the som...
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Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Strategies
OBJECTIVE Effective interventions to prevent, delay, or remit diabetes are currently available. However, their impact on the prevalence of diabetes at the population level is un...
Towards phase transferable potential functions: Methodology and application to nitrogen
We describe a generalizable approach to the development of phase transferable effective intermolecular potentials and apply the method to the study of N2. The method is based on...
What's in a name?
As a patient I have been quite taken aback that whenever I’ve seen doctors recently they have called me by my first name while introducing themselves by their title and surname....
High prevalence of four novel astrovirus genotype species identified from rodents in China
Astroviruses cause gastrointestinal and neurological infections in humans and animals. Since astrovirus is genetically diverse and different astrovirus genotypes can be found in...
Microelectrophoresis and electron‐microscope studies with polymeric flocculants
Abstract Mechanisms for the stabilization and flocculation of colloids have been indicated by microelectrophoresis measurements and electron‐microscope observations with model c...
Segmentation into Three Classes Using Gradients
Consider a three-dimensional "scene" in which a density f(x, y, z) is assigned to every point (x, y, z). In a discretized version of the scene the density D(i, j, k) assigned to...
<sup>14</sup>C Calibration in the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC—Eastern Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project (EMRCP)
We have measured additional known-age German oak samples in 4 intervals in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC to add to (and to replicate) parts of the international Northern Hemisphe...
Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis
Abstract The decision to go public is one of the most important and least studied questions in corporate finance. Most corporate finance textbooks limit themselves to describing...
Data to knowledge: how to get meaning from your result
Structural and functional studies require the development of sophisticated `Big Data' technologies and software to increase the knowledge derived and ensure reproducibility of t...