Day October 12, 2015

Introduction Females experience poorer recovery after ischemic stroke compared to males, even after controlling for age and stroke severity 1], 2]. Many factors contribute to this female disadvantage including the higher prevalence of comorbidities including hypertension and atrial fibrillation and…

Mapping biotic interactions Summary statistics of the data used for time series modelling are presented in Table 1. The analysis identified many genus level interactions (Fig. 1, Additional file 1: Figures S1–S7), with considerable variation among subjects (Table 2). Figures presented in the…

Sample collection Tissue samples were obtained from 154 patients with primary oral and oropharyngeal SCC treated in the Chair and Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology of the Medical University of Lublin. Samples were collected in 2006–2009. The group consisted…

Study site Behavior of acoustic-tagged lake sturgeon was assessed in the lower St. Clair River, which is part of the waterway that connects Lake Huron to Lake Erie (Fig. 1). The lower St. Clair River is core habitat for a large…

By Adam Collison, Elizabeth Percival, Joerg Mattes, and Rani Bhatia of the University of Newcastle. This story was originally published by The Conversation. Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless to…

To answer this study’s research question, the method of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was combined with in-depth country case-studies using process tracing methods. FsQCA is a subset of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) which is a configurational approach focused on…

As the immediacy of ICN2 fades questions remain over whether or not ICN2 made a difference. Do the documents sufficiently challenge the attributes of modern food systems which are widely recognised as failing to deliver what is needed? Do they…

Phase 2 Most of the samples taken from Phase 2 had just one paint layer generally relatively thin (35–50 µm thick approximately, except the white M2 with a paint layer thickness ranging between 50 and 300 µm) (Fig. 5). The grain is very…

The institutional review board at the Boston University (BU) Medical Campus approved all of our research activities (IRB number 31614). Because all participants are deceased, consent does not need to be obtained. Figure 1 shows an overall flowchart of the study…

Study population This was a prospective cohort study that examined adult severe TBI patients admitted to a local neurotrauma center (Shanghai Institute of Head Trauma) in Shanghai, China, from March 2011 to September 2014. The institute, located in the Department…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bloodbaths of 21st-century America, you might think that there would be a lot of research into the causes of gun violence, and which policies work best against it. You would be wrong. Gun interests,…

Participants One hundred seventy-three male elite football players (age 19.4?±?5.2 years; height 177.1?±?7.4 cm; weight 69.3?±?8.8 kg) participated in the study. All participants have played at the Official National Football Championship (Serie A, Primavera, Allievi and Giovanissimi) during five seasons (2009–2014). Participants were…

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on QA, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking. Viewers can request statements to be FactChecked via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on…

We’ve come a long way from the first documented successful caesarean. In 1500, Jacob Nufer, a Swiss farmer who castrated pigs for a living, operated on his wife after a labour of several days involving 13 midwives. Both mother and…