Age-related decline in visual perception is usually attributed to optical factors of the eye and neural factors. However, the detection of light by cones converting light into neural signals is a ...

Estimating the coseismic slip distribution and interseismic slip-deficit distribution play an important role in understanding the mechanism of massive earthquakes and predicting the resulting damage.

There are a number of challenges associated with measures of excess deaths. The most important challenge is to properly estimate some level of expected deaths that would occur in non-Covid19 context ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. If the second term is an order of magnitude smaller than the ...

When the degree of variation between healthcare organisations or geographical regions is quantified, there is often a failure to account for the role of chance, which can lead to an overestimation of ...

aDepartment of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA bDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine and ...

aDesmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa ...

Mortality after first-ever stroke, and particularly after recurrent stroke, and predictors of long-term mortality among young and middle-aged stroke patients are not well-known. We assessed 17-year ...

1 Clinical Addiction Research Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University ...

The nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) governing biomolecular electrostatics neglects ion size and ion correlation effects, and recent research activity has focused on accounting for these ...