In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. A recent paper in ...

Fox, S. J.,Miller, J. C.,Meyers, L. A. Influenza pandemics can emerge unexpectedly and wreak global devastation. However, each of the six pandemics since 1889 emerged in the Northern Hemisphere just ...

In several of our recent experiments (Herrnstein, Prelec, & Vaughan, 1986), subjects made choices in a way that supports the idea that choice is governed, either sometimes or always, by a principle ...

Background: In the absence of horizontal gene transfer it is possible to reconstruct the history of gene families from empirically determined orthology relations, which are equivalent to event-labeled ...

Recent laboratory experiments suggest that a molecule's ability to evolve neutrally is important for its ability to generate evolutionary innovations. In contrast to laboratory experiments, life ...

Hoffmann, S.,Stadler, P. F.,Strimmer, K. Background: Several sources of noise obfuscate the identification of single nucleotide variation (SNV) in next generation sequencing data. For instance, errors ...

The duration of the quasistationary states (QSSs) emerging in the d-dimensional classical inertial α−XY model, i.e., N planar rotators whose interactions decay with the distance r ij as 1/r α ij (α ≥ ...