Papers in this group
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The involvement of immune mechanisms in the aetiology of preeclampsia is often suggested. Normal pregnancy is thought to be associated with a state of tolerance to the foreign antigens of the fetus, whereas in preeclamptic women this immunological…
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Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on other people may have…
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A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California.
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From public health pariah to pin-up bunny?
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We present two studies of online ephemerality and anonymity based on the popular discussion board /b/ at 4chan.org: a website with over 7 million users that plays an influential role in Internet culture. Although researchers and practitioners often…
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The goal of the present study was to analyze the epidemiology and specific risk factors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the Asterix illustrated comic books. Among the illustrated literature, TBI is a predominating injury pattern.
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The title of this editorial is a variation on the observation of the late U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, that "any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one." These words apply as well to the…
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We introduce a stable, well tested Python implementation of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) proposed by Goodman & Weare (2010). The code is open source and has already been used in several published projects…
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Ensemble musicians play in synchrony despite expressively motivated irregularities in timing. We hypothesized that synchrony is achieved by each performer internally simulating the concurrent actions of other ensemble members, relying initially on…
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In this issue, Yu et al. (2010) provide a crystal structure for the bipartite interface between the μ2 subunit of the adaptor protein AP-2 complex and Dishevelled, a key component for Wnt signaling.
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Histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG), also known as histidine-proline-rich glyco-protein, is an abundant and well-characterized protein of vertebrate plasma. HRG has a multidomain structure that allows the molecule to interact with many ligands,…
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