AbstractSTUDY QUESTION. Is marijuana smoking associated with semen quality, sperm DNA integrity or serum concentrations of reproductive hormones among subferti | Continue reading
Abstract. Most anomalies fail to hold up to currently acceptable standards for empirical finance. With microcaps mitigated via NYSE breakpoints and value-weigh | Continue reading
Abstract. How can we comprehend people who pay for an experience marketed as painful? On one hand, consumers spend billions of dollars every year to alleviate | Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the scie | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. The Milky Way (MW) offers a uniquely detailed view of galactic structure and is often regarded as a prototypical spiral galaxy. But recent observatio | Continue reading
Abstract. Most anomalies fail to hold up to currently acceptable standards for empirical finance. With microcaps mitigated via NYSE breakpoints and value-weigh | Continue reading
AbstractStudy Objectives. To document trends in self-reported sleep duration for the noninstitutionalized U.S. civilian population from 2004 to 2017 and examin | Continue reading
AbstractSTUDY QUESTION. Are in-utero or peripubertal exposures to phthalates, parabens and other phenols found in personal care products associated with timing | Continue reading
Abstract. The clinical manifestations of dysentery have been described for centuries, and the prototypic bacterial agent, Shigella dysenteriae, was identified | Continue reading
Abstract. Background: Several studies in the new field of cognitive epidemiology have shown that higher intelligence predicts longer lifespan. This positive co | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. Depression is more common in obese than non-obese individuals, especially in women, but the causal relationship between obesity and depress | Continue reading
Abstract. Technological advances have resulted in organizations digitalizing many parts of their operations. The threat landscape of cyberattacks is rapidly ch | Continue reading
Abstract. The total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 traversed ~5000 km from coast to coast of North America. In its 90-min span, sunlight dropped by three orde | Continue reading
Conviction in criminal trials in the USA, the UK and many other common law countries requires establishing a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. By con | Continue reading
Abstract. Comparative constructions like More people have been to Russia than I have are reported to be acceptable and meaningful by native speakers of English | Continue reading
Abstract. Airline tickets that have been obtained illicitly represent a truly global crime. The travel industry and law enforcement have been attempting to add | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. Blueshifted absorption lines in the X-ray spectra of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) show that ultrafast outflows with typical velocities $v$ ∼ 0.1c | Continue reading
If you take the train from Naples around the northern rim of Mount Vesuvius, you will arrive at Madonna dell’Arco, on the edge of the town of Sant’Anastasia. Th | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. There is a general perception that almost no one succeeds in long-term maintenance of weight loss. However, research has shown that ≈20% of overweigh | Continue reading
Abstract. Short-read sequencing enables assessment of genetic and biochemical traits of individual genomic regions, such as the location of genetic variation, | Continue reading
Abstract. Background. Acetaminophen has been shown to influence cognitive and affective behavior possibly via alterations in serotonin function. This study bui | Continue reading
Abstract. Comparative constructions like More people have been to Russia than I have are reported to be acceptable and meaningful by native speakers of English | Continue reading
Abstract. Earlier we created a chemical hazard database via natural language processing of dossiers submitted to the European Chemical Agency with ∼10,000 chem | Continue reading
AbstractBACKGROUND. Reported declines in sperm counts remain controversial today and recent trends are unknown. A definitive meta-analysis is critical given th | Continue reading
Abstract. In this perspective, we evaluate the explanatory power of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, 50 years after its introduction by Kimura. We ar | Continue reading
AbstractIntroduction. Caffeine is the most widely consumed stimulant to counter the effects of sleep loss on neurobehavioral performance. However, to be safe a | Continue reading
AbstractBackground. Deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) may facilitate melanoma detection, but data comparing a CNN’s diagnostic performance to l | Continue reading
ABSTRACT. Background: Observational associations between red meat intake and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are inconsistent. There are limited comprehensive ana | Continue reading
Abstract. Sex differences in the human brain are of interest for many reasons: for example, there are sex differences in the observed prevalence of psychiatric | Continue reading
Abstract. Asteroid (514107) 2015 BZ509 was discovered recently in Jupiter’s co-orbital region with a retrograde motion around the Sun. The known chaotic dynami | Continue reading
AbstractMotivation. Studies, mostly from the operations/management literature, have shown that the rate of human error increases with task complexity. What is | Continue reading
Abstract. Scholars, practitioners, and pundits often leave their assessments of uncertainty vague when debating foreign policy, arguing that clearer probabilit | Continue reading
Abstract. Hegemonic stability theory holds that a dominant power can produce international cooperation by providing public goods and resolving collective actio | Continue reading