A challenge in biology is to understand complex traits, which are influenced by many genetic variants. Studies in yeast provide the prospect of analysing such genetic variation in detail in other ...

A study by Professor Yinhua Huang’s team at China Agricultural University has for the first time constructed a “graph-based pan-genome” for chickens, ...

In this paper, we develop ways to compare these frameworks, overcoming their methodological differences. Then, analyzing an extensive dataset (> 4200 growth rate measurements), we find that increases ...

Objectives The objective of this study was to compare occupational variation of the risk of bladder cancer in the Nordic countries and Canada. Methods In the Nordic Occupational Cancer study (NOCCA), ...

BACKGROUNDSeasonal and circadian variations in the occurrence of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death have been ... Rehm J and Mohler‐Kuo M (2008) Exploring daily variations of drinking in ...

Human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) has gained worldwide attention due to their widespread presence in the environment and adverse health effects, but the exposure assessment ...

We present our development of load balancing algorithms to efficiently distribute and parallelize the running of large-scale complex agent-based modeling (ABM) simulators on High-Performance Computing ...

Background Hong Kong, a major city in China, has one of the world's highest income inequalities and one of the world's highest average increases in urban ambient temperatures. Heat-related mortality ...

Objective: To document the normal stool patterns of young children. Design: Prospective population-based longitudinal study. Setting: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Subjects ...

Icing of water is a natural phenomenon when the temperature decreases. However, the ice can be much different in shape or even in crystal structure depending on the freezing conditions. Much effort ...