The acute phase response is a complex systemic early-defense system activated by trauma,
infection, stress, neoplasia, and inflammation. Although nonspecific, it serves as a core of …

Context-dependent biological variation presents a unique challenge to the reproducibility of
results in experimental animal research, because organisms’ responses to experimental …

This chapter addresses the gross pathology and imaging of anencephaly, exencephaly and
cephaloceles, and includes the clinical, epidemiologic, and pathologic features that have …

… The average distance between design points is about l/n for large-sample sizes n, that is
Iti - ti-1 - l/nl = o(l/n). This is required to ensure that there are no gaps in the data, since we …

Introduction Darwin famously characterized the rapid rise and early diversification of flowering
plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record as an “abominable mystery.” Identifying genomic …

Principal component analysis (PCA) simplifies the complexity in high-dimensional data while
retaining trends and patterns. It does this by transforming the data into fewer dimensions, …

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the …
Altman greatly expands his section on race, both in the psychoanalytic and the larger social …

To study the duration of antibody persistence and protection provided by the hepatitis B vaccine,
we followed 773 homosexual men for five years after completion of vaccination. Among …

… of at least n= 5 (preferably larger), although some software does not check for this. For n < 5
… Sample size differences can be assessed by scaling the box plot width in proportion to √n (…

A randomized, double-blind, vaccine/placebo trial of the Merck 20-µg hepatitis B virus (HBV)
vaccine was done among 1402 homosexual men attending venereal disease clinics in five …