ABSTRACT. Understanding neural circuits that support mood is a central goal of affective neuroscience, and improved understanding of the anatomy could inform mo | Continue reading
Abstract. This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-b | Continue reading
Abstract. Can statistics help historians to identify the events that are most distinctive of a particular era of time? This essay explores the use of a distinct | Continue reading
Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim | Continue reading
Abstract. ‘Openings’ examines the openings of short stories, which move swiftly to introduce subject, event, and motivation, using techniques of speech, viewpoi | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading global cause of death. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that the consumption of sat | Continue reading
Abstract. Can the step from the singular to the plural be iterated? The resulting superplurals would have many valuable applications but are often met with skep | Continue reading
Abstract. After core hydrogen burning, massive stars evolve from blue-white dwarfs to red supergiants by expanding, brightening, and cooling within few millenni | Continue reading
ABSTRACTBackground. The correlates of prenatal and postnatal growth on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in childhood in term-born children living in high-income count | Continue reading
Abstract . The last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across the advanced democracies. There is still fervent debate in both political a | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. Excessive attention to the animal versus plant binary food choice reflects society's moral views on eating right. To claim that avoidance of animal pr | Continue reading
Abstract. Where in the brain consciousness resides remains unclear. It has been suggested that the subnetworks supporting consciousness should be bidirectionall | Continue reading
Abstract. The p53 tumor suppressor is a transcription factor with roles in cell development, apoptosis, oncogenesis, aging, and homeostasis in response to stres | Continue reading
We propose Anticipated Learning Machine, a dynamics-based data-driven method, to achieve future-state predictions based on short-term but high-dimensional data, | Continue reading
Abstract. Healthy soil is foundational to human health. Healthy soil is needed to grow crops, provides food, and sustains populations. It supports diverse ecosy | Continue reading
Abstract. Does the historical macroeconomic environment affect preferences for redistribution? We find that individuals who experienced a recession when young b | Continue reading
Abstract. Most humans carry mites in the hair follicles of their skin for their entire lives. Follicular mites are the only metazoans that continuously live on | Continue reading
Abstract. The expanding research of complexity economics has been signalling its preference for a formal quantitative investigation of diverse interactions betw | Continue reading
Abstract. Rotifers comprise a modestly sized phylum (≈1,850 species) of tiny (ca. 50–2,000 μm), bilaterally symmetrical, eutelic metazoans, traditionally groupe | Continue reading
AbstractMotivation. Bioinformatics software tools operate largely through the use of specialized genomics file formats. Often these formats lack formal specific | Continue reading
Abstract. Galaxy is a mature, browser accessible workbench for scientific computing. It enables scientists to share, analyze and visualize their own data, with | Continue reading
This article uses a discussion of the currency of the word "wog" in Britain to identify a pivotal, racialized position used to contain alien incomers so as to exclude them from belonging to the national community.(academic.oup.com) | Continue reading
Abstract. The antipredator benefits of grouping are relatively well understood; however, predation risk often differs for individuals that occupy different posi | Continue reading
Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap | Continue reading
Based on a lecture to the Autumn Scientific Meeting of the Association of British Neurologists and the British Neuropsychiatry Association, 3 October 2002 | Continue reading
In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic analysis of the Greenland Inuits (Fum | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. Linoleic acid (LA) is a bioactive fatty acid with diverse effects on human physiology and pathophysiology. LA is a major dietary fatty acid, and also | Continue reading
Abstract. Many countries have phased out nuclear power in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents. This paper examines the sh | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. Most of the millions of people that are vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, have previously been infected by rel | Continue reading
Abstract. The late James A. Davis characterized American public opinion in the Reagan era as “conservative weather” amidst a liberalizing “climate.” By climate, | Continue reading
Abstract. To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents’ soc | Continue reading
ABSTRACTBackground. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with worse coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes but circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH) | Continue reading
Abstract. The facilities that a programming language provides effectively both specify and limit how programs in the language can be written. Programming langua | Continue reading
Abstract. The last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across the advanced democracies. There is still fervent debate in both political an | Continue reading
Abstract. In January 2003, the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that certain individuals should receive smallpox vac | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. In general, plant protein intake was inversely associated with mortality in studies in middle-aged adults. Our aim was to evaluate the long- | Continue reading
Abstract. Coronaviruses (CoVs) have very large RNA viral genomes with a distinct genomic architecture of core and accessory open reading frames (ORFs). It is of | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has enabled the rapid, unbiased detection and identification of microbes without pathogen-spec | Continue reading
Abstract. During the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this unique setting to asses | Continue reading
Abstract. Crohn’s disease [CD] is an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown aetiology. During recent decades, significant technological advances led to developme | Continue reading
Abstract. Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of subtle morphologic substrates, clinically unrecognizable, underlying sudden ca | Continue reading
Abstract. As plans for space exploration and commercial use expand rapidly, biosecurity measures and risk assessments that inform them must adapt. Sophisticated | Continue reading
AbstractAims. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) predicts heart disease onset and may be reduced by intermittent fasting. Some studies, though, reporte | Continue reading
The Helsinki Businessmen Study (HBS) was originally a convenience cohort of executives and businessmen (n = 3490) who participated in health check-ups during th | Continue reading