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Volume 12, issue 12, 2017

Reinforcement learning produces dominant strategies for the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma pp. 1-33

Marc Harper, Vincent Knight, Martin Jones, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Nikoleta E Glynatsi and Owen Campbell

Testing the event witnessing status of micro-bloggers from evidence in their micro-blogs pp. 1-33

Marie Truelove, Maria Vasardani and Stephan Winter

Prophetic Granger Causality to infer gene regulatory networks pp. 1-21

Daniel E Carlin, Evan O Paull, Kiley Graim, Christopher K Wong, Adrian Bivol, Peter Ryabinin, Kyle Ellrott, Artem Sokolov and Joshua M Stuart

Efficacy and safety of Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty versus Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-21

Saiqun Li, Liangping Liu, Wei Wang, Ting Huang, Xingwu Zhong, Jin Yuan and Lingyi Liang

Nicotinic alpha 7 receptor agonists EVP-6124 and BMS-933043, attenuate scopolamine-induced deficits in visuo-spatial paired associates learning pp. 1-21

Michael R Weed, Joseph Polino, Laura Signor, Mark Bookbinder, Deborah Keavy, Yulia Benitex, Daniel G Morgan, Dalton King, John E Macor, Robert Zaczek, Richard Olson and Linda J Bristow

Psychological, pharmacological, and combined smoking cessation interventions for smokers with current depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-21

Roberto Secades-Villa, Alba González-Roz, Ángel García-Pérez and Elisardo Becoña

Null diffusion-based enrichment for metabolomics data pp. 1-21

Sergio Picart-Armada, Francesc Fernández-Albert, Maria Vinaixa, Miguel A Rodríguez, Suvi Aivio, Travis H Stracker, Oscar Yanes and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

Forecasting success via early adoptions analysis: A data-driven study pp. 1-21

Giulio Rossetti, Letizia Milli, Fosca Giannotti and Dino Pedreschi

Near-zero methane emission from an abandoned boreal peatland pasture based on eddy covariance measurements pp. 1-21

Mei Wang, Jianghua Wu, Junwei Luan, Peter Lafleur, Huai Chen and Xinbiao Zhu

Norm, gender, and bribe-giving: Insights from a behavioral game pp. 1-21

Tian Lan and Ying-yi Hong

A model for foreign exchange markets based on glassy Brownian systems pp. 1-22

M A Sánchez-Granero, Juan Trinidad-Segovia, J Clara-Rahola, A M Puertas and F J De las Nieves

Forecasting influenza-like illness dynamics for military populations using neural networks and social media pp. 1-22

Svitlana Volkova, Ellyn Ayton, Katherine Porterfield and Courtney D Corley

Attitudes and norms affecting scientists’ data reuse pp. 1-22

Renata Gonçalves Curty, Kevin Crowston, Alison Specht, Bruce W Grant and Elizabeth D Dalton

Transcriptome analysis of filling stage seeds among three buckwheat species with emphasis on rutin accumulation pp. 1-22

Jia Gao, Tingting Wang, Minxuan Liu, Jing Liu and Zongwen Zhang

Racism and health service utilisation: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-22

Jehonathan Ben, Donna Cormack, Ricci Harris and Yin Paradies

Widespread local chronic stressors in Caribbean coastal habitats pp. 1-19

Iliana Chollett, Rachel Collin, Carolina Bastidas, Aldo Cróquer, Peter M H Gayle, Eric Jordán-Dahlgren, Karen Koltes, Hazel Oxenford, Alberto Rodriguez-Ramirez, Ernesto Weil, Jahson Alemu, David Bone, Kenneth C Buchan, Marcia Creary Ford, Edgar Escalante-Mancera, Jaime Garzón-Ferreira, Hector M Guzmán, Björn Kjerfve, Eduardo Klein, Croy McCoy, Arthur C Potts, Francisco Ruíz-Rentería, Struan R Smith, John Tschirky and Jorge Cortés

Driver fatigue detection through multiple entropy fusion analysis in an EEG-based system pp. 1-19

Jianliang Min, Ping Wang and Jianfeng Hu

Improved multi-objective clustering algorithm using particle swarm optimization pp. 1-19

Congcong Gong, Haisong Chen, Weixiong He and Zhanliang Zhang

Effects of early afterdepolarizations on excitation patterns in an accurate model of the human ventricles pp. 1-19

Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse, Gunnar Seemann, Alexander V Panfilov and Nele Vandersickel

Does a decision aid improve informed choice in mammography screening? Results from a randomised controlled trial pp. 1-19

Maren Reder and Petra Kolip

Does cognitive impairment impact adherence? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between cognitive impairment and medication non-adherence in stroke pp. 1-19

Daniela Rohde, Niamh A Merriman, Frank Doyle, Kathleen Bennett, David Williams and Anne Hickey

Monitoring bottlenose dolphin leukocyte cytokine mRNA responsiveness by qPCR pp. 1-19

Amelia Ruth Hofstetter, Kirsten C Eberle, Stephanie K Venn-Watson, Eric D Jensen, Tracy J Porter, Theresa E Waters and Randy E Sacco

Robust moving-blocker scatter correction for cone-beam computed tomography using multiple-view information pp. 1-19

Cong Zhao, Xi Chen, Luo Ouyang, Jing Wang and Mingwu Jin

Reliability demonstration test for load-sharing systems with exponential and Weibull components pp. 1-19

Jianyu Xu, Qingpei Hu, Dan Yu and Min Xie

What constitutes responsiveness of physicians: A qualitative study in rural Bangladesh pp. 1-19

Taufique Joarder, Asha George, Syed Masud Ahmed, Sabina Faiz Rashid and Malabika Sarker

Poverty and disability in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review pp. 1-19

Lena Morgon Banks, Hannah Kuper and Sarah Polack

The influence of the social and cultural environment on maternal mortality in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2013 demographic and health survey pp. 1-19

Oluwatosin Ariyo, Ifeoma D Ozodiegwu and Henry V Doctor

A systematic review and meta-analysis of comprehensive interventions for pre-school children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) pp. 1-28

Yoshiyuki Tachibana, Celine Miyazaki, Erika Ota, Rintaro Mori, Yeonhee Hwang, Eriko Kobayashi, Akiko Terasaka, Julian Tang and Yoko Kamio

Improving resolution of dynamic communities in human brain networks through targeted node removal pp. 1-28

Kimberly J Schlesinger, Benjamin O Turner, Scott T Grafton, Michael B Miller and Jean M Carlson

A multi-scale spatial model of hepatitis-B viral dynamics pp. 1-28

Quentin Cangelosi, Shawn A Means and Harvey Ho

A computational study on outliers in world music pp. 1-28

Maria Panteli, Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon

Instantaneous sediment transport model for asymmetric oscillatory sheet flow pp. 1-28

Xin Chen, Yong Li, Genfa Chen, Fujun Wang and Liuchao Qiu

The effects of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors on bone fracture among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials pp. 1-20

Jun Yang, Chao Huang, Shanshan Wu, Yang Xu, Ting Cai, Sanbao Chai, Zhirong Yang, Feng Sun and Siyan Zhan

Reduced visual attention in heterogeneous textures is reflected in occipital alpha and theta band activity pp. 1-20

Tobias Feldmann-Wüstefeld, Makoto Miyakoshi, Marco Alessandro Petilli, Anna Schubö and Scott Makeig

Merging FT-IR and NGS for simultaneous phenotypic and genotypic identification of pathogenic Candida species pp. 1-20

Claudia Colabella, Laura Corte, Luca Roscini, Volha Shapaval, Achim Kohler, Valeria Tafintseva, Carlo Tascini and Gianluigi Cardinali

Urban networks among Chinese cities along "the Belt and Road": A case of web search activity in cyberspace pp. 1-20

Lu Zhang, Hongru Du, Yannan Zhao, Rongwei Wu and Xiaolei Zhang

Improved approach for electric vehicle rapid charging station placement and sizing using Google maps and binary lightning search algorithm pp. 1-20

Md Mainul Islam, Hussain Shareef and Azah Mohamed

Audio-motor but not visuo-motor temporal recalibration speeds up sensory processing pp. 1-20

Yoshimori Sugano, Mirjam Keetels and Jean Vroomen

SCM: A method to improve network service layout efficiency with network evolution pp. 1-20

Qi Zhao, Chuanhao Zhang and Zheng Zhao

Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies pp. 1-20

Jamie Archambault, Alvaro Moreira, Dawn McDaniel, Lauryn Winter, LuZhe Sun and Peter Hornsby

The potential of statistical shape modelling for geometric morphometric analysis of human teeth in archaeological research pp. 1-25

Christopher Woods, Christianne Fernee, Martin Browne, Sonia Zakrzewski and Alexander Dickinson

Two decades of climate driving the dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity of a tropical small mammal community in western Mexico pp. 1-25

Edgard David Mason-Romo, Ariel A Farías and Gerardo Ceballos

An economic evaluation of Alexander Technique lessons or acupuncture sessions for patients with chronic neck pain: A randomized trial (ATLAS) pp. 1-16

Holly Essex, Steve Parrott, Karl Atkin, Kathleen Ballard, Martin Bland, Janet Eldred, Catherine Hewitt, Ann Hopton, Ada Keding, Harriet Lansdown, Stewart Richmond, Helen Tilbrook, David Torgerson, Ian Watt, Aniela Wenham, Julia Woodman and Hugh MacPherson

Method for enhancing single-trial P300 detection by introducing the complexity degree of image information in rapid serial visual presentation tasks pp. 1-16

Zhimin Lin, Ying Zeng, Li Tong, Hangming Zhang, Chi Zhang and Bin Yan

Elastic K-means using posterior probability pp. 1-16

Aihua Zheng, Bo Jiang, Yan Li, Xuehan Zhang and Chris Ding

Bodily motion fluctuation improves reaching success rate in a neurophysical agent via geometric-stochastic resonance pp. 1-16

Shogo Yonekura and Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Synchrotron macro ATR-FTIR microspectroscopic analysis of silica nanoparticle-embedded polyester coated steel surfaces subjected to prolonged UV and humidity exposure pp. 1-16

Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Vi Khanh Truong, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Shane Maclaughlin, Mark J Tobin, Russell J Crawford and Elena P Ivanova

Automatic detection and decoding of honey bee waggle dances pp. 1-16

Fernando Wario, Benjamin Wild, Raúl Rojas and Tim Landgraf

Site-level progression of periodontal disease during a follow-up period pp. 1-16

Yoshiaki Nomura, Toshiya Morozumi, Taneaki Nakagawa, Tsutomu Sugaya, Masamitsu Kawanami, Fumihiko Suzuki, Keiso Takahashi, Yuzo Abe, Soh Sato, Asako Makino-Oi, Atsushi Saito, Satomi Takano, Masato Minabe, Yohei Nakayama, Yorimasa Ogata, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yuichi Izumi, Naoyuki Sugano, Koichi Ito, Satoshi Sekino, Yukihiro Numabe, Chie Fukaya, Nobuo Yoshinari, Mitsuo Fukuda, Toshihide Noguchi, Tomoo Kono, Makoto Umeda, Osamu Fujise, Fusanori Nishimura, Atsutoshi Yoshimura, Yoshitaka Hara, Toshiaki Nakamura, Kazuyuki Noguchi, Erika Kakuta, Nobuhiro Hanada, Shogo Takashiba, Yasuharu Amitani and Hiromasa Yoshie

Monodisperse measurement of the biotin-streptavidin interaction strength in a well-defined pulling geometry pp. 1-16

Steffen M Sedlak, Magnus S Bauer, Carleen Kluger, Leonard C Schendel, Lukas F Milles, Diana A Pippig and Hermann E Gaub

Neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation and health-related quality of life: A multilevel analysis pp. 1-16

Vânia Rocha, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Milton Severo, Henrique Barros and Sílvia Fraga

Impact of multisectoral health determinants on child mortality 1980–2010: An analysis by country baseline mortality pp. 1-16

Robert L Cohen, John Murray, Susan Jack, Sharon Arscott-Mills and Vincenzo Verardi

Correlations between human mobility and social interaction reveal general activity patterns pp. 1-16

Anders Mollgaard, Sune Lehmann and Joachim Mathiesen

Sugary drinks taxation, projected consumption and fiscal revenues in Colombia: Evidence from a QUAIDS model pp. 1-16

Juan Carlos Caro, Shu Wen Ng, Ricardo Bonilla, Jorge Tovar and Barry M Popkin

Neuropsychological performance in solvent-exposed vehicle collision repair workers in New Zealand pp. 1-16

Samuel Keer, Bill Glass, Dave McLean, Elizabeth Harding, Duncan Babbage, Janet Leathem, Yanis Brinkmann, Bradley Prezant, Neil Pearce and Jeroen Douwes

Process service quality evaluation based on Dempster-Shafer theory and support vector machine pp. 1-16

Feng-Que Pei, Dong-Bo Li, Yi-Fei Tong and Fei He

Biopsychosocial predictors of perceived life expectancy in a national sample of older men and women pp. 1-16

Lindsay C Kobayashi, Rebecca J Beeken and Susanne F Meisel

Effect of 3D microstructure of dermal papillae on SED concentration at a mechanoreceptor location pp. 1-16

Trung Quang Pham, Takayuki Hoshi, Yoshihiro Tanaka and Akihito Sano

Temporal dynamics of gene expression in heat-stressed Caenorhabditis elegans pp. 1-16

Katharina Jovic, Mark G Sterken, Jacopo Grilli, Roel P J Bevers, Miriam Rodriguez, Joost A G Riksen, Stefano Allesina, Jan E Kammenga and L Basten Snoek

Time trend analysis (2009-2016) of antimicrobial susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Italy following the introduction of the combined antimicrobial therapy pp. 1-16

Paola Stefanelli, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Maria Paola Landini, Ivano Dal Conte, Alberto Matteelli, Antonio Cristaudo, Marina Gaino, Marco Cusini, Anna Maria Barbui, Antonella Mencacci, Rosella De Nittis, Valeria Ghisetti, Elena Stroppiana, Anna Carannante and for The Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobials resistant Study Group

Identifying maternal and infant factors associated with newborn size in rural Bangladesh by partial least squares (PLS) regression analysis pp. 1-16

Alamgir Kabir, Md Jahanur Rahman, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Rolf D W Klemm, Alain B Labrique, Mahbubur Rashid, Parul Christian and Keith P West

Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading papers depend on academic career stage pp. 1-16

Katharine E Hubbard and Sonja D Dunbar

The statistical mechanics of human weight change pp. 1-16

John C Lang, Hans De Sterck and Daniel M Abrams

Risk of infertility following pelvic angiographic embolization in female patients with pelvic fractures: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Taiwan pp. 1-10

Sheng- Der Hsu, Shih-Yu Lee, Kuen-Tze Lin, Chun-Shu Lin, Wu-Chien Chien, Cheng-Jueng Chen, Chi-Hsiang Chung and Wei-Kuo Chang

On the calculation of betweenness centrality in marine connectivity studies using transfer probabilities pp. 1-10

Andrea Costa, Anne A Petrenko, Katell Guizien and Andrea M Doglioli

An improved wrapper-based feature selection method for machinery fault diagnosis pp. 1-10

Kar Hoou Hui, Ching Sheng Ooi, Meng Hee Lim, Mohd Salman Leong and Salah Mahdi Al-Obaidi

Pediatric siMS score: A new, simple and accurate continuous metabolic syndrome score for everyday use in pediatrics pp. 1-10

Rade Vukovic, Tatjana Milenkovic, George Stojan, Ana Vukovic, Katarina Mitrovic, Sladjana Todorovic and Ivan Soldatovic

Compatible topologies and parameters for NMR structure determination of carbohydrates by simulated annealing pp. 1-10

Yingang Feng

Classification of optic disc shape in glaucoma using machine learning based on quantified ocular parameters pp. 1-10

Kazuko Omodaka, Guangzhou An, Satoru Tsuda, Yukihiro Shiga, Naoko Takada, Tsutomu Kikawa, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Hideo Yokota, Masahiro Akiba and Toru Nakazawa

An effective assessment method of spinal flexibility to predict the initial in-orthosis correction on the patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) pp. 1-10

Chen He, Michael Kai-Tsun To, Jason Pui-Yin Cheung, Kenneth Man-Chee Cheung, Chi-Kwan Chan, Wei-Wei Jiang, Guang-Quan Zhou, Kelly Ka-Lee Lai, Yong-Ping Zheng and Man-Sang Wong

On the prediction of DNA-binding proteins only from primary sequences: A deep learning approach pp. 1-18

Yu-Hui Qu, Hua Yu, Xiu-Jun Gong, Jia-Hui Xu and Hong-Shun Lee

Research on the development efficiency of regional high-end talent in China: A complex network approach pp. 1-18

Zhen Zhang, Minggang Wang, Lixin Tian and Wenbin Zhang

Effects of calcium channel blockers comparing to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease stage 3 to 5 and dialysis: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-18

Yen-Chung Lin, Jheng-Wei Lin, Mai-Szu Wu, Kuan-Chou Chen, Chiung-Chi Peng and Yi-No Kang

The role of the clinical departments for understanding patient heterogeneity in one-year mortality after a diagnosis of heart failure: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity for profiling provider outcomes pp. 1-18

Nermin Ghith, Anne Frølich and Juan Merlo

Correction of failure in linear antenna arrays with greedy sparseness constrained optimization technique pp. 1-18

Shafqat Ullah Khan, M K A Rahim, Murtala Aminu-Baba and N A Murad

Low-energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) improves metaphyseal fracture healing in an osteoporotic rat model pp. 1-18

Gina A Mackert, Matthias Schulte, Christoph Hirche, Dimitra Kotsougiani, Julian Vogelpohl, Bernd Hoener, Teresa Fiebig, Stefanie Kirschner, Marc A Brockmann, Marcus Lehnhardt, Ulrich Kneser and Leila Harhaus

Sparse Bayesian classification and feature selection for biological expression data with high correlations pp. 1-18

Xian Yang, Wei Pan and Yike Guo

Molecular dynamics simulations of the glucocorticoid receptor DNA-binding domain suggest a role of the lever-arm mobility in transcriptional output pp. 1-18

Lautaro Damián Álvarez, Diego Martín Presman and Adalí Pecci

Cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing malaria diagnostic testing in drug shops: A cluster-randomised trial in Uganda pp. 1-18

Kristian Schultz Hansen, Siân E Clarke, Sham Lal, Pascal Magnussen and Anthony K Mbonye

Five-year study of the effects of simulated nitrogen deposition levels and forms on soil nitrous oxide emissions from a temperate forest in northern China pp. 1-18

Ke Xu, Chunmei Wang and Xintong Yang

Deep vector-based convolutional neural network approach for automatic recognition of colonies of induced pluripotent stem cells pp. 1-18

Muthu Subash Kavitha, Takio Kurita, Soon-Yong Park, Sung-Il Chien, Jae-Sung Bae and Byeong-Cheol Ahn

Calculating the Malliavin derivative of some stochastic mechanics problems pp. 1-18

Paul Hauseux, Jack S Hale and Stéphane P A Bordas

Accounting for tourism benefits in marine reserve design pp. 1-18

Daniel F Viana, Benjamin S Halpern and Steven D Gaines

The value of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCa) to determine the lymph nodal metastasis in cervical cancer: A meta-analysis and literature review pp. 1-15

Ziqi Zhou, Wenbo Li, Fuquan Zhang and Ke Hu

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of fish and EPA+DHA consumption in 17 US and European cohorts pp. 1-15

Dariush Mozaffarian, Hassan S Dashti, Mary K Wojczynski, Audrey Y Chu, Jennifer A Nettleton, Satu Männistö, Kati Kristiansson, Mägi Reedik, Jari Lahti, Denise K Houston, Marilyn C Cornelis, Frank J A van Rooij, Maria Dimitriou, Stavroula Kanoni, Vera Mikkilä, Lyn M Steffen, Marcia C de Oliveira Otto, Lu Qi, Bruce Psaty, Luc Djousse, Jerome I Rotter, Kennet Harald, Markus Perola, Harri Rissanen, Antti Jula, Fischer Krista, Evelin Mihailov, Mary F Feitosa, Julius S Ngwa, Luting Xue, Paul F Jacques, Mia-Maria Perälä, Aarno Palotie, Yongmei Liu, Nike A Nalls, Luigi Ferrucci, Dena Hernandez, Ani Manichaikul, Michael Y Tsai, Jessica C Kiefte- de Jong, Albert Hofman, André G Uitterlinden, Loukianos Rallidis, Paul M Ridker, Lynda M Rose, Julie E Buring, Terho Lehtimäki, Mika Kähönen, Jorma Viikari, Rozenn Lemaitre, Veikko Salomaa, Paul Knekt, Andres Metspalu, Ingrid B Borecki, L Adrienne Cupples, Johan G Eriksson, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Stefania Bandinelli, David Siscovick, Oscar H Franco, Panos Deloukas, George Dedoussis, Daniel I Chasman, Olli Raitakari and Toshiko Tanaka

Influence of socioeconomic status on the whole blood transcriptome in African Americans pp. 1-15

Amadou Gaye, Gary H Gibbons, Charles Barry, Rakale Quarells and Sharon K Davis

Individual preferences for physical exercise as secondary prevention for non-specific low back pain: A discrete choice experiment pp. 1-15

Emmanuel Aboagye, Jan Hagberg, Iben Axén, Lydia Kwak, Malin Lohela-Karlsson, Eva Skillgate, Gunilla Dahlgren and Irene Jensen

The psychometric properties of a shortened Dutch version of the consequences scale used in the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey pp. 1-15

Sara De Bruyn, Edwin Wouters, Koen Ponnet, Joris Van Damme, Guido Van Hal and the Task Force substance use in Flemish universities and colleges

Evidence of increasing sedentarism in Mexico City during the last decade: Sitting time prevalence, trends, and associations with obesity and diabetes pp. 1-15

Catalina Medina, Lizbeth Tolentino-Mayo, Ruy López-Ridaura and Simón Barquera

Sex-dependent modulation of ultrasonic vocalizations in house mice (Mus musculus musculus) pp. 1-15

Sarah M Zala, Doris Reitschmidt, Anton Noll, Peter Balazs and Dustin J Penn

Preperimetric Glaucoma Prospective Observational Study (PPGPS): Design, baseline characteristics, and therapeutic effect of tafluprost in preperimetric glaucoma eye pp. 1-15

Naoko Aizawa, Hiroshi Kunikata, Yukihiro Shiga, Satoru Tsuda, Yu Yokoyama, Kazuko Omodaka, Tomoki Yasui, Keiichi Kato, Hiroaki Kurashima, Etsuyo Miyamoto, Masayo Hashimoto and Toru Nakazawa

Socioeconomic disparities and sexual dimorphism in neurotoxic effects of ambient fine particles on youth IQ: A longitudinal analysis pp. 1-15

Pan Wang, Catherine Tuvblad, Diana Younan, Meredith Franklin, Fred Lurmann, Jun Wu, Laura A Baker and Jiu-Chiuan Chen

Self-organization in a diversity induced thermodynamics pp. 1-15

Alessandro Scirè and Valerio Annovazzi-Lodi

Presenting information on regulation values improves the public’s sense of safety: Perceived mercury risk in fish and shellfish and its effects on consumption intention pp. 1-15

Michio Murakami, Mai Suzuki and Tomiko Yamaguchi

Culturally appropriate organization of water and sewerage projects built through public private partnerships pp. 1-15

Jessica A Kaminsky

Religion, a social determinant of mortality? A 10-year follow-up of the Health and Retirement Study pp. 1-15

Ellen Idler, John Blevins, Mimi Kiser and Carol Hogue

White blood cell differential count of maturation stages in bone marrow smear using dual-stage convolutional neural networks pp. 1-15

Jin Woo Choi, Yunseo Ku, Byeong Wook Yoo, Jung-Ah Kim, Dong Soon Lee, Young Jun Chai, Hyoun-Joong Kong and Hee Chan Kim

Fluctuation-driven price dynamics and investment strategies pp. 1-15

Yan Li, Bo Zheng, Ting-Ting Chen and Xiong-Fei Jiang

Genome-wide association study identifies a locus associated with rotator cuff injury pp. 1-15

Thomas R Roos, Andrew K Roos, Andrew L Avins, Marwa A Ahmed, John P Kleimeyer, Michael Fredericson, John P A Ioannidis, Jason L Dragoo and Stuart K Kim

On the relation between economic bubbles and effort gaps between sellers and buyers: An experimental study pp. 1-15

Eldad Yechiam, Amitay Kauffmann, Nathaniel J S Ashby and Gal Zahavi

Tools for fairness: Increased structure in the selection process reduces discrimination pp. 1-15

Sima Wolgast, Martin Bäckström and Fredrik Björklund

Temporal trends in educational inequalities in non-communicable diseases in Korea, 2007-2015 pp. 1-15

Gyu Ri Kim and Chung Mo Nam

Mean field analysis of algorithms for scale-free networks in molecular biology pp. 1-34

S Konini and E J Janse van Rensburg

Whole-system approaches to improving the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers: A systematic review pp. 1-26

Sarah L Brand, Jo Thompson Coon, Lora E Fleming, Lauren Carroll, Alison Bethel and Katrina Wyatt

Wrapped: An R package for circular data pp. 1-26

Saralees Nadarajah and Yuanyuan Zhang

Parent-progeny imputation from pooled samples for cost-efficient genotyping in plant breeding pp. 1-26

Frank Technow and Justin Gerke

Evolutionary design optimization of traffic signals applied to Quito city pp. 1-37

Rolando Armas, Hernán Aguirre, Fabio Daolio and Kiyoshi Tanaka

The obesity paradox and incident cardiovascular disease: A population-based study pp. 1-12

Virginia W Chang, Kenneth M Langa, David Weir and Theodore J Iwashyna

Human behaviours associated with dominance in elite amateur boxing bouts: A comparison of winners and losers under the Ten Point Must System pp. 1-12

Emily C Dunn, Clare E Humberstone, K Fiona Iredale, David T Martin and Anthony J Blazevich

Fisher’s exact approach for post hoc analysis of a chi-squared test pp. 1-12

Guogen Shan and Shawn Gerstenberger

Watching TV has a distinct sociodemographic and lifestyle profile compared with other sedentary behaviors: A nationwide population-based study pp. 1-12

Elena Andrade-Gómez, Esther García-Esquinas, Rosario Ortolá, David Martínez-Gómez and Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Genomic selection of crossing partners on basis of the expected mean and variance of their derived lines pp. 1-12

Tanja Osthushenrich, Matthias Frisch and Eva Herzog

Normalized emphysema scores on low dose CT: Validation as an imaging biomarker for mortality pp. 1-12

Leticia Gallardo-Estrella, Esther Pompe, Pim A de Jong, Colin Jacobs, Eva M van Rikxoort, Mathias Prokop, Clara I Sánchez and Bram van Ginneken

Visual mismatch negativity to vanishing parts of objects in younger and older adults pp. 1-12

István Sulykos, Zsófia Anna Gaál and István Czigler

How do slums change the relationship between urbanization and the carbon intensity of well-being? pp. 1-12

Julius Alexander McGee, Christina Ergas, Patrick Trent Greiner and Matthew Thomas Clement

Generative mathematical modelling to demonstrate virtual simulations of neovascular age related macular degeneration pp. 1-12

David Hoyle and Tariq Mehmood Aslam

Socioeconomic position and ten-year survival and virologic outcomes in a Ugandan HIV cohort receiving antiretroviral therapy pp. 1-12

Andrew G Flynn, Godwin Anguzu, Frank Mubiru, Agnes N Kiragga, Moses Kamya, David B Meya, David R Boulware, Andrew Kambugu and Barbara C Castelnuovo

Estimating dispersal rates of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) mother-pup pairs from a natal rookery using mark-resight data pp. 1-12

Carey E Kuhn, Kathryn Chumbley, Lowell Fritz and Devin Johnson

Predisposing factors to the practice of self-medication in Brazil: Results from the National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines (PNAUM) pp. 1-12

Emilia da Silva Pons, Daniela Riva Knauth, Álvaro Vigo, Research Group Pnaum and Sotero Serrate Mengue

BatchMap: A parallel implementation of the OneMap R package for fast computation of F1 linkage maps in outcrossing species pp. 1-12

Bastian Schiffthaler, Carolina Bernhardsson, Pär K Ingvarsson and Nathaniel R Street

Pathology in repeated transurethral resection of a bladder tumor as a risk factor for prognosis of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer pp. 1-12

Bum Sik Tae, Chang Wook Jeong, Cheol Kwak, Hyeon Hoe Kim, Kyung Chul Moon and Ja Hyeon Ku

Socioeconomic status and biomedical risk factors in migrants and native tuberculosis patients in Italy pp. 1-12

Silvia Pittalis, Pierluca Piselli, Silvia Contini, Gina Gualano, Mario Giuseppe Alma, Marina Tadolini, Pavilio Piccioni, Marialuisa Bocchino, Alberto Matteelli, Stefano Bonora, Antonio Di Biagio, Fabio Franzetti, Sergio Carbonara, Andrea Gori, Giovanni Sotgiu, Fabrizio Palmieri, Giuseppe Ippolito and Enrico Girardi

A Monte Carlo simulation approach for estimating the health and economic impact of interventions provided at a student-run clinic pp. 1-12

Daniel J Arenas, Elle Lett, Heather Klusaritz and Anne M Teitelman

Development of machine-vision system for gap inspection of muskmelon grafted seedlings pp. 1-12

Siyao Liu, Zuochang Xing, Zifan Wang, Subo Tian and Falalu Rabiu Jahun

Reliability of the parameters of the power-duration relationship using maximal effort time-trials under laboratory conditions pp. 1-12

Christoph Triska, Bettina Karsten, Bernd Heidegger, Bernhard Koller-Zeisler, Bernhard Prinz, Alfred Nimmerichter and Harald Tschan

Impact of residential displacement on healthcare access and mental health among original residents of gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City pp. 1-12

Sungwoo Lim, Pui Ying Chan, Sarah Walters, Gretchen Culp, Mary Huynh and L Hannah Gould

A novel methodology for strengthening human rights based monitoring in public health: Family planning indicators as an illustrative example pp. 1-11

Sofia Gruskin, Laura Ferguson, Shubha Kumar, Alexandra Nicholson, Moazzam Ali and Rajat Khosla

The gender gap in self-rated health and education in Spain. A multilevel analysis pp. 1-11

Sara Pinillos-Franco and Carmen García-Prieto

Association between exercise type and quality of life in a community-dwelling older people: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-11

Sang-Ho Oh, Don-Kyu Kim, Shi-Uk Lee, Se Hee Jung and Sang Yoon Lee

Complete synchronization of the global coupled dynamical network induced by Poisson noises pp. 1-11

Qing Guo and Fangyi Wan

An adaptive map-matching algorithm based on hierarchical fuzzy system from vehicular GPS data pp. 1-11

Jinjun Tang, Shen Zhang, Yajie Zou and Fang Liu

The effect of somatostatin analogues on postoperative outcomes following pancreatic surgery: A meta-analysis pp. 1-11

Xianlin Han, Zhiyan Xu, Shaobo Cao, Yupei Zhao and Wenming Wu

Cost-effectiveness of national health insurance programs in high-income countries: A systematic review pp. 1-11

Hong Son Nghiem, Nicholas Graves, Adrian Barnett and Catherine Haden

Perceptual training to improve hip fracture identification in conventional radiographs pp. 1-11

Weijia Chen, David HolcDorf, Mark W McCusker, Frank Gaillard and Piers D L Howe

Association of serum brain derived neurotropic factor with duration of drug-naive period and positive-negative symptom scores in drug naive schizophrenia pp. 1-11

Abdurrahim Bakirhan, Safak Yalcin Sahiner, Ismail Volkan Sahiner, Yasir Safak and Erol Goka

Biological characterization of a novel in vitro cell irradiator pp. 1-11

Tyler L Fowler, Michael M Fisher, Alison M Bailey, Bryan P Bednarz and Randall J Kimple

Energy compensation after sprint- and high-intensity interval training pp. 1-11

Matthew M Schubert, Elyse Palumbo, Rebekah F Seay, Katie K Spain and Holly E Clarke

Theoretical proposal of a low-loss wide-bandwidth silicon photonic crystal fiber for supporting 30 orbital angular momentum modes pp. 1-11

Xun Xu, Hongzhi Jia, Yu Lei, Chunhua Jia, Gang Liu, Junyu Chai, Yanting Peng and Jilong Xie

More visual mind wandering occurrence during visual task performance: Modality of the concurrent task affects how the mind wanders pp. 1-11

HeeSun Choi, Michael Geden and Jing Feng

The impact of visceral adipose tissue as best predictor for difficult colonoscopy and the clinical utility of a long small-caliber scope as rescue pp. 1-11

Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Nagamu Inoue, Toshifumi Yoshida, Rieko Bessho, Kazuaki Yoneno, Hiroyuki Imaeda, Haruhiko Ogata, Takanori Kanai, Yoshinori Sugino and Yasushi Iwao

Effect of anterior chamber depth on the choice of intraocular lens calculation formula pp. 1-11

Soonwon Yang, Woong-Joo Whang and Choun-Ki Joo

Variance components associated with long-echo-time MR spectroscopic imaging in human brain at 1.5T and 3T pp. 1-11

Michael J Thrippleton, Jehill P Parikh, Scott I K Semple, Bridget A Harris, Peter J D Andrews, Joanna M Wardlaw and Ian Marshall

Integrated self-regulating resistive heating for isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) in Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) devices pp. 1-11

Tamas Pardy, Indrek Tulp, Clemens Kremer, Toomas Rang and Ray Stewart

The cost and utilisation patterns of a pilot sign language interpreter service for primary health care services in South Africa pp. 1-11

Tryphine Zulu, Marion Heap and Edina Sinanovic

Prevalence and risk factors for postoperative stress-related cardiomyopathy in adults pp. 1-11

Tak Kyu Oh, In-Ae Song, Young-mi Park, Jung-Won Hwang, Young-Tae Jeon, Sang-Hwan Do, Yeonyee E Yoon, Soyeon Ahn and Jae-sung Lee

Complex patterns of concomitant medication use: A study among Norwegian women using paracetamol during pregnancy pp. 1-11

Stefania Salvatore, Diana Domanska, Mollie Wood, Hedvig Nordeng and Geir Kjetil Sandve

Empirical analysis of pig welfare levels and their impact on pig breeding efficiency—Based on 773 pig farmers’ survey data pp. 1-11

Yanling Li, Nanjun Wu, Rong Xu, Liqing Li, Wei Zhou and Xianjun Zhou

Comparison of computer systems and ranking criteria for automatic melanoma detection in dermoscopic images pp. 1-11

Kajsa Møllersen, Maciel Zortea, Thomas R Schopf, Herbert Kirchesch and Fred Godtliebsen

Preference in place of delivery among rural Indian women pp. 1-11

Ashoke Gorain, Anamitra Barik, Abhijit Chowdhury and Rajesh Kumar Rai

Linear distributed source modeling of local field potentials recorded with intra-cortical electrode arrays pp. 1-29

Rikkert Hindriks, Joscha Schmiedt, Xerxes D Arsiwalla, Alina Peter, Paul F M J Verschure, Pascal Fries, Michael C Schmid and Gustavo Deco

FGMD: A novel approach for functional gene module detection in cancer pp. 1-29

Daeyong Jin and Hyunju Lee

Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter pp. 1-23

Matthew C Benigni, Kenneth Joseph and Kathleen M Carley

Age-related changes in somatic condition and reproduction in the Eurasian beaver: Resource history influences onset of reproductive senescence pp. 1-23

Ruairidh D Campbell, Frank Rosell, Chris Newman and David W Macdonald

Rubus: A compiler for seamless and extensible parallelism pp. 1-23

Muhammad Adnan, Faisal Aslam, Zubair Nawaz and Syed Mansoor Sarwar

Genome-wide admixture and association study of subclinical atherosclerosis in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) pp. 1-23

Aditi Shendre, Howard W Wiener, Marguerite R Irvin, Bradley E Aouizerat, Edgar T Overton, Jason Lazar, Chenglong Liu, Howard N Hodis, Nita A Limdi, Kathleen M Weber, Stephen J Gange, Degui Zhi, Michelle A Floris-Moore, Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Qibin Qi, David B Hanna, Robert C Kaplan and Sadeep Shrestha

Design of a novel instrument for active neutron interrogation of artillery shells pp. 1-23

Camille Bélanger-Champagne, Hannes Vainionpää, Pauli Peura, Harri Toivonen, Paula Eerola and Peter Dendooven

A decoy chain deployment method based on SDN and NFV against penetration attack pp. 1-23

Qi Zhao, Chuanhao Zhang and Zheng Zhao

Genetic relatedness of previously Plant-Variety-Protected commercial maize inbreds pp. 1-23

Travis J Beckett, A Jason Morales, Klaus L Koehler and Torbert R Rocheford

Optimized maritime emergency resource allocation under dynamic demand pp. 1-23

Wenfen Zhang, Xinping Yan and Jiaqi Yang

Brain-to-brain hyperclassification reveals action-specific motor mapping of observed actions in humans pp. 1-23

Dmitry Smirnov, Fanny Lachat, Tomi Peltola, Juha M Lahnakoski, Olli-Pekka Koistinen, Enrico Glerean, Aki Vehtari, Riitta Hari, Mikko Sams and Lauri Nummenmaa

Effectiveness of eHealth interventions for reducing mental health conditions in employees: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-23

Elizabeth Stratton, Amit Lampit, Isabella Choi, Rafael A Calvo, Samuel B Harvey and Nicholas Glozier

Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation and development investments in reducing deforestation and fires in Ankeniheny-Zahemena Corridor, Madagascar pp. 1-23

Karyn Tabor, Kelly W Jones, Jennifer Hewson, Andriambolantsoa Rasolohery, Andoniaina Rambeloson, Tokihenintsoa Andrianjohaninarivo and Celia A Harvey

Variability of ultraplankton composition and distribution in an oligotrophic coastal ecosystem of the NW Mediterranean Sea derived from a two-year survey at the single cell level pp. 1-23

Maria Luiza Pedrotti, Laure Mousseau, Sophie Marro, Ornella Passafiume, Marjorie Gossaert and Jean-Philippe Labat

Right-wing authoritarianism and stereotype-driven expectations interact in shaping intergroup trust in one-shot vs multiple-round social interactions pp. 1-23

Giorgia Ponsi, Maria Serena Panasiti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti and Marco Tullio Liuzza

Hybrid precoding based on matrix-adaptive method for multiuser large-scale antenna arrays pp. 1-9

Yongpan Feng and Suk Chan Kim

The prognostic value of asymmetric dimethylarginine in patients with cardiac syndrome X pp. 1-9

Tse-Min Lu, Tzong-Shyuan Lee, Shing-Jong Lin, Wan-Leong Chan and Chiao-Po Hsu

Recognized focused practice: Does sub-specialty designation offer value to the neurosurgeon? pp. 1-9

Maya A Babu, Linda M Liau and Fredric B Meyer

The Great American Recession and forgone healthcare: Do widened disparities between African-Americans and Whites remain? pp. 1-9

Jasmine L Travers, Catherine C Cohen, Andrew W Dick and Patricia W Stone

Diffusion-weighted MRI distinguishes Parkinson disease from the parkinsonian variant of multiple system atrophy: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-9

Sweta Bajaj, Florian Krismer, Jose-Alberto Palma, Gregor K Wenning, Horacio Kaufmann, Werner Poewe and Klaus Seppi

Vertebral cross-sectional growth: A predictor of vertebral wedging in the immature skeleton pp. 1-9

Ervin Poorghasamians, Patricia C Aggabao, Tishya A L Wren, Skorn Ponrartana and Vicente Gilsanz

Association between osteoprotegerin gene T950C polymorphism and osteoporosis risk in the Chinese population: Evidence via meta-analysis pp. 1-7

Shouyi Li, Huiqiang Jiang and Ningke Du

Dependence of prevalence of contiguous pathways in proteins on structural complexity pp. 1-17

Kelly M Thayer, Jesse C Galganov and Avram J Stein

Poisson pre-processing of nonstationary photonic signals: Signals with equality between mean and variance pp. 1-17

Michaela Poplová, Pavel Sovka and Michal Cifra

The factor structure and construct validity of the inventory of callous-unemotional traits in Chinese undergraduate students pp. 1-17

Meng-Cheng Wang, Yu Gao, Jiaxin Deng, Hongyu Lai, Qiaowen Deng and Cherie Armour

3D diffusion model within the collagen apatite porosity: An insight to the nanostructure of human trabecular bone pp. 1-17

Fabiano Bini, Andrada Pica, Andrea Marinozzi and Franco Marinozzi

Evolution of language: An empirical study at eBay Big Data Lab pp. 1-17

David Bodoff, Ron Bekkerman and Julie Dai

Accelerated decline in cardiac stem cell efficiency in Spontaneously hypertensive rat compared to normotensive Wistar rat pp. 1-17

Sherin Saheera and Renuka R Nair

Improving vehicle tracking rate and speed estimation in dusty and snowy weather conditions with a vibrating camera pp. 1-17

Nastaran Yaghoobi Ershadi

Pockets as structural descriptors of EGFR kinase conformations pp. 1-17

Marcia Anahi Hasenahuer, German Patricio Barletta, Sebastián Fernandez-Alberti, Gustavo Parisi and María Silvina Fornasari

Do neural nets learn statistical laws behind natural language? pp. 1-17

Shuntaro Takahashi and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Multilayer perceptron architecture optimization using parallel computing techniques pp. 1-17

Wilson Castro, Jimy Oblitas, Roberto Santa-Cruz and Himer Avila-George

Policies for biosimilar uptake in Europe: An overview pp. 1-17

Evelien Moorkens, Arnold G Vulto, Isabelle Huys, Pieter Dylst, Brian Godman, Simon Keuerleber, Barbara Claus, Maria Dimitrova, Guenka Petrova, Ljiljana Sović-Brkičić, Juraj Slabý, Robin Šebesta, Ott Laius, Allan Karr, Morgane Beck, Jaana E Martikainen, Gisbert W Selke, Susan Spillane, Laura McCullagh, Gianluca Trifirò, Patricia Vella Bonanno, Asbjørn Mack, Antra Fogele, Anita Viksna, Magdalena Władysiuk, Helder Mota-Filipe, Dmitry Meshkov, Marija Kalaba, Simona Mencej Bedrač, Jurij Fürst, Corrine Zara, Peter Skiöld, Einar Magnússon and Steven Simoens

Risk and protective factors of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: Results of the longitudinal BELLA study pp. 1-17

Christiane Otto, Anne-Catherine Haller, Fionna Klasen, Heike Hölling, Monika Bullinger, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer and on behalf of the BELLA study Group

MADM-based smart parking guidance algorithm pp. 1-30

Bo Li, Yijian Pei, Hao Wu and Dijiang Huang

A transcriptomics approach uncovers novel roles for poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in the basal defense response in Arabidopsis thaliana pp. 1-30

Amy G Briggs, Lori C Adams-Phillips, Brian D Keppler, Sophia G Zebell, Kyle C Arend, April A Apfelbaum, Joshua A Smith and Andrew F Bent

Profiling of volatile fragrant components in a mini-core collection of mango germplasms from seven countries pp. 1-14

Li Li, Xiao-Wei Ma, Ru-Lin Zhan, Hong-Xia Wu, Quan-Sheng Yao, Wen-Tian Xu, Chun Luo, Yi-Gang Zhou, Qing-Zhi Liang and Song-Biao Wang

Accelerating cross-validation with total variation and its application to super-resolution imaging pp. 1-14

Tomoyuki Obuchi, Shiro Ikeda, Kazunori Akiyama and Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Socioeconomic differences in children’s television viewing trajectory: A population-based prospective cohort study pp. 1-14

Junwen Yang-Huang, Amy van Grieken, Henriëtte A Moll, Vincent W V Jaddoe, Anne I Wijtzes and Hein Raat

The burden of obesity in women of reproductive age and in pregnancy in a middle-income setting: A population based study from Jamaica pp. 1-14

Lovney Kanguru, Affette McCaw-Binns, Jacqueline Bell, Novie Yonger-Coleman, Rainford Wilks and Julia Hussein

Genetic variations at 8q24 and gastric cancer susceptibility: A meta-analysis study pp. 1-14

Pengke Zhi, Jian Shi and Feng Liu

“Gaining or losing”: The importance of the perspective in primary care health services valuation pp. 1-14

Jesús Martín-Fernández, Gloria Ariza-Cardiel, Luz Mª Peña-Longobardo, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Juan Oliva, Ana Isabel Gil-Lacruz, Héctor Medina-Palomino and Isabel del Cura-González

Timing of chronic hepatitis B diagnosis after migration and its determinants among Sub-Saharan African migrants living in France pp. 1-14

Julie Pannetier, Virginie Gigonzac, Nathalie Lydié, Annabel Desgrées du Loû and Rosemary Dray Spira

Analysis of area level and unit level models for small area estimation in forest inventories assisted with LiDAR auxiliary information pp. 1-14

Francisco Mauro, Vicente J Monleon, Hailemariam Temesgen and Kevin R Ford

Stability evaluation of reference genes for gene expression analysis by RT-qPCR in soybean under different conditions pp. 1-14

Qiao Wan, Shuilian Chen, Zhihui Shan, Zhonglu Yang, Limiao Chen, Chanjuan Zhang, Songli Yuan, Qinnan Hao, Xiaojuan Zhang, Dezhen Qiu, Haifeng Chen and Xinan Zhou

Instantaneous simulation of fluids and particles in complex microfluidic devices pp. 1-14

Junchao Wang, Victor G J Rodgers, Philip Brisk and William H Grover

Systematic review and meta-analysis of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome pp. 1-14

Dan-yan Li, Yun-kai Dai, Yun-zhan Zhang, Meng-xin Huang, Ru-liu Li, Jia Ou-yang, Wei-jing Chen and Ling Hu

Collaborative representation-based classification of microarray gene expression data pp. 1-14

Lizhen Shen, Hua Jiang, Mingfang He and Guoqing Liu

Off-hours presentation is associated with short-term mortality but not with long-term mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis pp. 1-14

Bingjian Wang, Yanchun Zhang, Xiaobing Wang, Tingting Hu, Ju Li and Jin Geng

Different involvement of medial prefrontal cortex and dorso-lateral striatum in automatic and controlled processing of a future conditioned stimulus pp. 1-14

Francisco Pérez-Díaz, Estrella Díaz, Natividad Sánchez, Juan Pedro Vargas, John M Pearce and Juan Carlos López

Cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic versus open distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic cancer pp. 1-14

Kurinchi Selvan Gurusamy, Deniece Riviere, C J H van Laarhoven, Marc Besselink, Mohammed Abu-hilal, Brian R Davidson and Steve Morris

Examining public knowledge and preferences for adult preventive services coverage pp. 1-14

Jessica A R Williams and Selena E Ortiz

Personal relative deprivation associated with functional disorders via stress: An examination of fibromyalgia and gastrointestinal symptoms pp. 1-14

Shadi Beshai, Sanju Mishra, Sandeep Mishra and R Nicholas Carleton

Diagnostic accuracy research in glaucoma is still incompletely reported: An application of Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) 2015 pp. 1-14

Manuele Michelessi, Ersilia Lucenteforte, Alba Miele, Francesco Oddone, Giada Crescioli, Valeria Fameli, Daniël A Korevaar and Gianni Virgili

Hidden early-warning signals in scale-free networks pp. 1-14

Georg Jäger, Christian Hofer, Marie Kapeller and Manfred Füllsack

Accurate and fast feature selection workflow for high-dimensional omics data pp. 1-14

Yasset Perez-Riverol, Max Kuhn, Juan Antonio Vizcaíno, Marc-Phillip Hitz and Enrique Audain

Transition probabilities between changing sensitization levels, waitlist activity status and competing-risk kidney transplant outcomes using multi-state modeling pp. 1-14

Sanjay Kulkarni, Isaac Hall, Richard Formica, Carrie Thiessen, Darren Stewart, Geliang Gan, Erich Greene and Yanhong Deng

Supervised retinal vessel segmentation from color fundus images based on matched filtering and AdaBoost classifier pp. 1-35

Nogol Memari, Abd Rahman Ramli, M Iqbal Bin Saripan, Syamsiah Mashohor and Mehrdad Moghbel

Reactive navigation in extremely dense and highly intricate environments pp. 1-51

Javier Antich Tobaruela and Alberto Ortiz Rodríguez

Size, skills, and suffrage: Motivated distortions in perceived formidability of political leaders pp. 1-27

Jill E P Knapen, Nancy M Blaker and Thomas V Pollet

Particle swarm optimization-based automatic parameter selection for deep neural networks and its applications in large-scale and high-dimensional data pp. 1-36

Fei Ye

Development and application of coupled system dynamics and game theory: A dynamic water conflict resolution method pp. 1-24

Mehdi Zomorodian, Sai Hin Lai, Mehran Homayounfar, Shaliza Ibrahim and Gareth Pender

HIV-1 envelope sequence-based diversity measures for identifying recent infections pp. 1-24

Alexis Kafando, Eric Fournier, Bouchra Serhir, Christine Martineau, Florence Doualla-Bell, Mohamed Ndongo Sangaré, Mohamed Sylla, Annie Chamberland, Mohamed El-Far, Hugues Charest and Cécile L Tremblay

Optimal shortening of uniform covering arrays pp. 1-44

Jose Torres-Jimenez, Nelson Rangel-Valdez, Himer Avila-George and Oscar Carrizalez-Turrubiates

Reinforcement learning account of network reciprocity pp. 1-8

Takahiro Ezaki and Naoki Masuda

Chinese version of the Perceived Stress Scale-10: A psychometric study in Chinese university students pp. 1-8

Wei Lu, Qian Bian, Wenzheng Wang, Xiaoling Wu, Zhen Wang and Min Zhao

Tragedy of the commons in the chemostat pp. 1-13

Martin Schuster, Eric Foxall, David Finch, Hal Smith and Patrick De Leenheer

Translating statistical species-habitat models to interactive decision support tools pp. 1-13

Lyndsie S Wszola, Victoria L Simonsen, Erica F Stuber, Caitlyn R Gillespie, Lindsey N Messinger, Karie L Decker, Jeffrey J Lusk, Christopher F Jorgensen, Andrew A Bishop and Joseph J Fontaine

Comparison of construct validity of two short forms of Stroke-Specific Quality of Life scale pp. 1-13

Chia-Yeh Chou, Chien-Yu Huang, Yi-Jing Huang, Gong-Hong Lin, Sheau-Ling Huang, Shu-Chun Lee and Ching-Lin Hsieh

Designing a more efficient, effective and safe Medical Emergency Team (MET) service using data analysis pp. 1-13

Christoph Bergmeir, Irma Bilgrami, Christopher Bain, Geoffrey I Webb, Judit Orosz and David Pilcher

Optimized plasma preparation is essential to monitor platelet-stored molecules in humans pp. 1-13

Marion Mussbacher, Waltraud C Schrottmaier, Manuel Salzmann, Christine Brostjan, Johannes A Schmid, Patrick Starlinger and Alice Assinger

Landscape effects on demersal fish revealed by field observations and predictive seabed modelling pp. 1-13

Sophie A M Elliott, Alessandro D Sabatino, Michael R Heath, William R Turrell and David M Bailey

Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss pp. 1-13

Savannah Nuwagaba, Feng Zhang and Cang Hui

Migraine and risk of narcolepsy in children: A nationwide longitudinal study pp. 1-13

Chun-Pai Yang, Meng-Lun Hsieh, Jen-Huai Chiang, Hsing-Yi Chang and Vivian Chia-Rong Hsieh

Does access to clinical study reports from the European Medicines Agency reduce reporting biases? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on the effect of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in cancer patients pp. 1-13

Eliane Rohner, Michael Grabik, Thomy Tonia, Peter Jüni, Frank Pétavy, Francesco Pignatti and Julia Bohlius

Improving the quality of child anthropometry: Manual anthropometry in the Body Imaging for Nutritional Assessment Study (BINA) pp. 1-13

Joel Conkle, Usha Ramakrishnan, Rafael Flores-Ayala, Parminder S Suchdev and Reynaldo Martorell

The cost of comorbidities in treatment for HIV/AIDS in California pp. 1-13

David S Zingmond, Kodi B Arfer, Jennifer L Gildner and Arleen A Leibowitz

Contour recognition of complex leaf shapes pp. 1-13

Giacomo Diaz

Vector similarity measures of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their applications pp. 1-13

Yongming Song and Jun Hu

Reference data on reaction time and aging using the Nintendo Wii Balance Board: A cross-sectional study of 354 subjects from 20 to 99 years of age pp. 1-13

Andreas W Blomkvist, Fredrik Eika, Martin T Rahbek, Karin D Eikhof, Mette D Hansen, Malene Søndergaard, Jesper Ryg, Stig Andersen and Martin G Jørgensen

Differential impact of white matter hyperintensities on long-term outcomes in ischemic stroke patients with large artery atherosclerosis pp. 1-13

Minyoul Baik, Kyoungsub Kim, Joonsang Yoo, Hyeon Chang Kim, Seong Ho Jeong, Ki Hoon Kim, Hyung Jong Park, Young Dae Kim, Ji Hoe Heo and Hyo Suk Nam

Tumor necrosis factor-α antagonist diminishes osteocytic RANKL and sclerostin expression in diabetes rats with periodontitis pp. 1-13

Ji-Hye Kim, Ae Ri Kim, Yun Hui Choi, Sungil Jang, Gye-Hyeong Woo, Jeong-Heon Cha, Eun-Jung Bak and Yun-Jung Yoo

Sensitivity and specificity of automated analysis of single-field non-mydriatic fundus photographs by Bosch DR Algorithm—Comparison with mydriatic fundus photography (ETDRS) for screening in undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy pp. 1-13

Pritam Bawankar, Nita Shanbhag, S Smitha K., Bodhraj Dhawan, Aratee Palsule, Devesh Kumar, Shailja Chandel and Suneet Sood

Validation of a smartphone app to map social networks of proximity pp. 1-13

Tjeerd W Boonstra, Mark E Larsen, Samuel Townsend and Helen Christensen

Maternal influenza immunization in Malawi: Piloting a maternal influenza immunization program costing tool by examining a prospective program pp. 1-13

Clint Pecenka, Spy Munthali, Paul Chunga, Ann Levin, Win Morgan, Philipp Lambach, Niranjan Bhat, Kathleen M Neuzil, Justin R Ortiz and Raymond Hutubessy

Reasons for encounter and health problems managed by general practitioners in the rural areas of Beijing, China: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-13

Yanli Liu, Chao Chen, Guanghui Jin, Yali Zhao, Lifen Chen, Juan Du and Xiaoqin Lu

The impact of persistent bacterial bronchitis on the pulmonary microbiome of children pp. 1-13

Leah Cuthbertson, Vanessa Craven, Lynne Bingle, William O C M Cookson, Mark L Everard and Miriam F Moffatt

On the validity and consistency of misjudgment of stepping ability in young and older adults pp. 1-13

Nick Kluft, Sjoerd M Bruijn, Roel H A Weijer, Jaap H van Dieën and Mirjam Pijnappels

Probabilistic inversion of expert assessments to inform projections about Antarctic ice sheet responses pp. 1-13

Robert William Fuller, Tony E Wong and Klaus Keller

Patients’ perceptions of service quality in China: An investigation using the SERVQUAL model pp. 1-13

Li-hua Fan, Lei Gao, Xin Liu, Shi-hong Zhao, Hui-tong Mu, Zhe Li, Lei Shi, Ling-ling Wang, Xiao-li Jia, Min Ha and Feng-ge Lou

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using porous media modeling predicts recurrence after coiling of cerebral aneurysms pp. 1-13

Yasuyuki Umeda, Fujimaro Ishida, Masanori Tsuji, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Masato Shiba, Ryuta Yasuda, Naoki Toma, Hiroshi Sakaida and Hidenori Suzuki

Volume 12, issue 11, 2017

Unintended costs and consequences of school closures implemented in preparation for Hurricane Isaac in Harrison County School District, Mississippi, August-September 2012 pp. 1-18

Yenlik Zheteyeva, Jeanette J Rainey, Hongjiang Gao, Evin U Jacobson, Bishwa B Adhikari, Jianrong Shi, Jonetta J Mpofu, Darlene Bhavnani, Thomas Dobbs and Amra Uzicanin

Public responses to proposals for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages: A thematic analysis of online reader comments posted on major UK news websites pp. 1-18

Molly Thomas-Meyer, Oliver Mytton and Jean Adams

Accuracy of a screening tool for medication adherence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale-8 pp. 1-18

Sun Jae Moon, Weon-Young Lee, Jin Seub Hwang, Yeon Pyo Hong and Donald E Morisky

Risk of predation makes foragers less choosy about their food pp. 1-18

Alice Charalabidis, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Sandrine Petit and David A Bohan

Authorship attribution of source code by using back propagation neural network based on particle swarm optimization pp. 1-18

Xinyu Yang, Guoai Xu, Qi Li, Yanhui Guo and Miao Zhang

Generation of polychromatic projection for dedicated breast computed tomography simulation using anthropomorphic numerical phantom pp. 1-18

Hosang Jeon, Hanbean Youn, Jin Sung Kim, Jiho Nam, Jayoung Lee, Juhye Lee, Dahl Park, Wontaek Kim, Yongkan Ki and Donghyun Kim

Piecing together the puzzle: Improving event content coverage for real-time sub-event detection using adaptive microblog crawling pp. 1-18

Laurissa Tokarchuk, Xinyue Wang and Stefan Poslad

The spatial equity principle in the administrative division of the Central European countries pp. 1-18

Marián Halás, Pavel Klapka, Vladimír Bačík and Michal Klobučník

No evidence of critical slowing down in two endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers pp. 1-18

Jessica C Rozek, Richard J Camp and J Michael Reed

Synthetic host defense peptide IDR-1002 reduces inflammation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection pp. 1-18

Kelli C Wuerth, Reza Falsafi and Robert E W Hancock

Motor expertise facilitates the accuracy of state extrapolation in perception pp. 1-18

Nicolas Ludolph, Jannis Plöger, Martin A Giese and Winfried Ilg

drLumi: An open-source package to manage data, calibrate, and conduct quality control of multiplex bead-based immunoassays data analysis pp. 1-18

Hector Sanz, John J Aponte, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Yan Dong, Aintzane Ayestaran, Augusto Nhabomba, Maxmillian Mpina, Obiang Régis Maurin, Núria Díez-Padrisa, Ruth Aguilar, Gemma Moncunill, Agnandij Selidji Todagbe, Claudia Daubenberger, Carlota Dobaño and Clarissa Valim

Hospital utilization and out of pocket expenditure in public and private sectors under the universal government health insurance scheme in Chhattisgarh State, India: Lessons for universal health coverage pp. 1-18

Sulakshana Nandi, Helen Schneider and Priyanka Dixit

Development and validation of open-source software for DNA mixture interpretation based on a quantitative continuous model pp. 1-18

Sho Manabe, Chie Morimoto, Yuya Hamano, Shuntaro Fujimoto and Keiji Tamaki

Performance of thigh-mounted triaxial accelerometer algorithms in objective quantification of sedentary behaviour and physical activity in older adults pp. 1-18

Jorgen A Wullems, Sabine M P Verschueren, Hans Degens, Christopher I Morse and Gladys L Onambélé

1H NMR-Based metabolomic profiling method to develop plasma biomarkers for sensitivity to chronic heat stress in growing pigs pp. 1-18

Samir Dou, Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix, Laurence Liaubet, Yvon Billon, Mario Giorgi, Hélène Gilbert, Jean-Luc Gourdine, Juliette Riquet and David Renaudeau

Development and validation of a tool to assess knowledge and attitudes towards generic medicines among students in Greece: The ATtitude TOwards GENerics (ATTOGEN) questionnaire pp. 1-18

Philip J Domeyer, Vassilis Aletras, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Vasiliki Katsari and Dimitris Niakas

Metabolic health assessment of zoo elephants: Management factors predicting leptin levels and the glucose-to-insulin ratio and their associations with health parameters pp. 1-18

Kari A Morfeld and Janine L Brown

Fractal analyses reveal independent complexity and predictability of gait pp. 1-18

Frédéric Dierick, Anne-Laure Nivard, Olivier White and Fabien Buisseret

Using systems science to understand the determinants of inequities in healthy eating pp. 1-18

Sharon Friel, Melanie Pescud, Eleanor Malbon, Amanda Lee, Robert Carter, Joanne Greenfield, Megan Cobcroft, Jane Potter, Lucie Rychetnik and Beth Meertens

U-shaped relationship between serum phosphate and cardiovascular risk: A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-10

Nicholas Hayward, Andrew McGovern, Simon de Lusignan, Nicholas Cole, William Hinton and Simon Jones

Referral determinants in Swiss primary care with a special focus on managed care pp. 1-10

Ryan Tandjung, Seraina Morell, Andreas Hanhart, Andreas Haefeli, Fabio Valeri, Thomas Rosemann and Oliver Senn

A novel method for multifactorial bio-chemical experiments design based on combinational design theory pp. 1-10

Xun Wang, Beibei Sun, Boyang Liu, Yaping Fu and Pan Zheng

Suicides as a response to adverse market sentiment (1980-2016) pp. 1-10

Pankaj Agrrawal, Doug Waggle and Daniel H Sandweiss

Predicting mortality and hospitalization of older adults by the multimorbidity frailty index pp. 1-10

Yao-Chun Wen, Liang-Kung Chen and Fei-Yuan Hsiao

Criterion validity of 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale in patients with asthma pp. 1-10

Ana Janežič, Igor Locatelli and Mitja Kos

Evolutionary dynamics of group formation pp. 1-10

Marco Alberto Javarone and Daniele Marinazzo

The relationship between shift work and mental health among electronics workers in South Korea: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-10

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Assessing current temporal and space-time anomalies of disease incidence pp. 1-10

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The association of Social Anxiety Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder and reproduction: Results from four nationally representative samples of adults in the USA pp. 1-10

Beyon Miloyan, Adam Bulley, Ben Brilot and Thomas Suddendorf

Malignancy risk estimation of pulmonary nodules in screening CTs: Comparison between a computer model and human observers pp. 1-15

Sarah J van Riel, Francesco Ciompi, Mathilde M Winkler Wille, Asger Dirksen, Stephen Lam, Ernst Th Scholten, Santiago E Rossi, Nicola Sverzellati, Matiullah Naqibullah, Rianne Wittenberg, Marieke C Hovinga- de Boer, Miranda Snoeren, Liesbeth Peters-Bax, Onno Mets, Monique Brink, Mathias Prokop, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop and Bram van Ginneken

The gram-negative sensing receptor PGRP-LC contributes to grooming induction in Drosophila pp. 1-15

Aya Yanagawa, Claudine Neyen, Bruno Lemaitre and Frédéric Marion-Poll

Probability of lek collapse is lower inside sage-grouse Core Areas: Effectiveness of conservation policy for a landscape species pp. 1-15

Emma Suzuki Spence, Jeffrey L Beck and Andrew J Gregory

Trend and treatment status of latent tuberculosis infection patients in Japan – Analysis of Japan TB Surveillance data pp. 1-15

Lisa Kawatsu, Kazuhiro Uchimura and Akihiro Ohkado

Association between biomarkers and clinical characteristics in chronic subdural hematoma patients assessed with lasso regression pp. 1-15

Are Hugo Pripp and Milo Stanišić

Building a profile of subjective well-being for social media users pp. 1-15

Lushi Chen, Tao Gong, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell and Robert L Davidson

Analytical model for effects of capsule shape on the healing efficiency in self-healing materials pp. 1-15

Zhong Lv, Songpeng Li and Huisu Chen

An exploration of the Facebook social networks of smokers and non-smokers pp. 1-15

Luella Fu, Megan A Jacobs, Jody Brookover, Thomas W Valente, Nathan K Cobb and Amanda L Graham

Digital case-based learning system in school pp. 1-15

Peipei Gu and Jiayang Guo

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Ilya R Fischhoff, Felicia Keesing and Richard S Ostfeld

Forecast horizon of multi-item dynamic lot size model with perishable inventory pp. 1-15

Fuying Jing and Zirui Lan

MRI-defined paraspinal muscle morphology in Japanese population: The Wakayama Spine Study pp. 1-15

Takahide Sasaki, Noriko Yoshimura, Hiroshi Hashizume, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Oka, Ko Matsudaira, Hiroki Iwahashi, Kazunori Shinto, Yuyu Ishimoto, Keiji Nagata, Masatoshi Teraguchi, Ryohei Kagotani, Shigeyuki Muraki, Toru Akune, Sakae Tanaka, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kozo Nakamura, Akihito Minamide, Yukihiro Nakagawa and Munehito Yoshida

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Seung Yeon Song, Boyeon Kim, Inhye Kim, Sungeun Kim, Minjeong Kwon, Changsu Han and Eunyoung Kim

Nurses’ professional competency and organizational commitment: Is it important for human resource management? pp. 1-15

Abbas Karami, Jamileh Farokhzadian and Golnaz Foroughameri

Socioeconomic inequalities in frailty and frailty components among community-dwelling older citizens pp. 1-15

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Design of the smart home system based on the optimal routing algorithm and ZigBee network pp. 1-15

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Impact of scale of aggregation on associations of cardiovascular hospitalization and socio-economic disadvantage pp. 1-15

Ivan C Hanigan, Thomas Cochrane and Rachel Davey

Medical therapy versus radiofrequency endometrial ablation in the initial treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding (iTOM Trial): A clinical and economic analysis pp. 1-15

Abimbola O Famuyide, Shannon K Laughlin-Tommaso, Sherif A Shazly, Kirsten Hall Long, Daniel M Breitkopf, Amy L Weaver, Michaela E McGree, Sherif A El-Nashar, Maureen A Lemens and Matthew R Hopkins

Tobacco industry attempts to frame smoking as a 'disability' under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act pp. 1-15

Yvette van der Eijk and Stanton A Glantz

Characteristics of somatic tinnitus patients with and without hyperacusis pp. 1-15

Massimo Ralli, Richard J Salvi, Antonio Greco, Rosaria Turchetta, Armando De Virgilio, Giancarlo Altissimi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Giancarlo Cianfrone and Marco de Vincentiis

DEclust: A statistical approach for obtaining differential expression profiles of multiple conditions pp. 1-15

Yoshimasa Aoto, Tsuyoshi Hachiya, Kazuhiro Okumura, Sumitaka Hase, Kengo Sato, Yuichi Wakabayashi and Yasubumi Sakakibara

Identification and validation of reference genes for gene expression analysis in Aphidius gifuensis (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) pp. 1-15

Xue-Ke Gao, Shuai Zhang, Jun-Yu Luo, Chun-Yi Wang, Li-Min Lü, Li-Juan Zhang, Xiang-Zhen Zhu, Li Wang and Jin-Jie Cui

Primary care and health inequality: Difference-in-difference study comparing England and Ontario pp. 1-15

Richard Cookson, Luke Mondor, Miqdad Asaria, Dionne S Kringos, Niek S Klazinga and Walter P Wodchis

Engaging with change: Information and communication technology professionals’ perspectives on change in the context of the ‘Brexit’ vote pp. 1-26

Elizabeth Lomas and Julie McLeod

Intrinsic group behaviour: Dependence of pedestrian dyad dynamics on principal social and personal features pp. 1-26

Francesco Zanlungo, Zeynep Yücel, Dražen Brščić, Takayuki Kanda and Norihiro Hagita

Information-theoretic analysis of the directional influence between cellular processes pp. 1-26

Sourabh Lahiri, Philippe Nghe, Sander J Tans, Martin Luc Rosinberg and David Lacoste

Biomechanical simulation of vocal fold dynamics in adults based on laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy pp. 1-26

Michael Döllinger, Pablo Gómez, Rita R Patel, Christoph Alexiou, Christopher Bohr and Anne Schützenberger

Fuzzy-based propagation of prior knowledge to improve large-scale image analysis pipelines pp. 1-26

Johannes Stegmaier and Ralf Mikut

A non-linear data mining parameter selection algorithm for continuous variables pp. 1-26

Peyman Tavallali, Marianne Razavi and Sean Brady

Structural and kinetic considerations on the catalysis of deoxyarbutin by tyrosinase pp. 1-26

Antonio Garcia-Jimenez, Jose Antonio Teruel-Puche, Pedro Antonio Garcia-Ruiz, Adrian Saura-Sanmartin, Jose Berna, Francisco Garcia-Canovas and José Neptuno Rodriguez-Lopez

Association between diabetes mellitus and active tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-26

Rami H Al-Rifai, Fiona Pearson, Julia A Critchley and Laith J Abu-Raddad

Characterization of small-to-medium head-and-face dimensions for developing respirator fit test panels and evaluating fit of filtering facepiece respirators with different faceseal design pp. 1-26

Yi-Chun Lin and Chen-Peng Chen

Evaluating the glucose raising effect of established loci via a genetic risk score pp. 1-11

Eirini Marouli, Stavroula Kanoni, Vasiliki Mamakou, Sophie Hackinger, Lorraine Southam, Bram Prins, Angela Rentari, Maria Dimitriou, Eleni Zengini, Fragiskos Gonidakis, Genovefa Kolovou, Vassilis Kontaxakis, Loukianos Rallidis, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Klea Lamnissou, George Dedoussis, Eleftheria Zeggini and Panagiotis Deloukas

Association between birth season and physical development in children under 3 years old residing in low-income counties in western China pp. 1-11

Fangliang Lei, Shanshan Li, Baibing Mi, Danmeng Liu, Jiaomei Yang, Pengfei Qu, Ruo Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jia Ying, Shaonong Dang and Hong Yan

A mathematical function for the description of nutrient-response curve pp. 1-11

Hamed Ahmadi

Feasibility of including patients with migration background in a structured heart failure management programme: A prospective case-control study exemplarily on Turkish migrants pp. 1-11

Roman Pfister, Peter Ihle, Birgit Mews, Elisabeth Kohnen, Marcus Wähner, Ute Karbach, Hasan Aslan, Hans-Wilhelm Höpp and Christian Alfons Schneider

High SLC4A11 expression is an independent predictor for poor overall survival in grade 3/4 serous ovarian cancer pp. 1-11

Lianzhi Qin, Ting Li and Yuhua Liu

Blocks of chromosomes identical by descent in a population: Models and predictions pp. 1-11

Mathieu Tiret and Frédéric Hospital

A systematic review of emergency department based HIV testing and linkage to care initiatives in low resource settings pp. 1-11

Bhakti Hansoti, Gabor D Kelen, Thomas C Quinn, Madeleine M Whalen, Taylor T DesRosiers, Steven J Reynolds, Andrew Redd and Richard E Rothman

Atopic dermatitis is associated with active and passive cigarette smoking in adolescents pp. 1-11

So Young Kim, Songyong Sim and Hyo Geun Choi

Update of the Dutch manual for costing studies in health care pp. 1-11

Tim A Kanters, Clazien A M Bouwmans, Naomi van der Linden, Siok Swan Tan and Leona Hakkaart- van Roijen

Intraoperative ventilatory leak predicts prolonged air leak after lung resection: A retrospective observational study pp. 1-11

Won Ho Kim, Hyung-Chul Lee, Ho-Geol Ryu, Hyun-Kyu Yoon and Chul-Woo Jung

Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? pp. 1-11

Jerome Busemeyer and Zheng Wang

The efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immunotherapy in animal models for solid tumors: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-11

Yingcheng Wu, Ran Xu, Keren Jia and Hui Shi

The fear of being laughed at as additional diagnostic criterion in social anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder? pp. 1-11

Michael M Havranek, Fleur Volkart, Bianca Bolliger, Sophie Roos, Maximilian Buschner, Ramin Mansour, Thomas Chmielewski, Katharina Gaudlitz, Josef Hättenschwiler, Erich Seifritz and Willibald Ruch

Premedical special master’s programs increase USMLE STEP1 scores and improve residency placements pp. 1-11

Bryan Johnson, Matthew Flemer, Sadik Khuder and Nitin Puri

Generation Y and surgical residency – Passing the baton or the end of the world as we know it? Results from a survey among medical students in Germany pp. 1-11

Robert Kleinert, Claudia Fuchs, Vanessa Romotzky, Laura Knepper, Marie-Luise Wasilewski, Wolfgang Schröder, Christiane Bruns, Christiane Woopen and Jessica Leers

Salient object segmentation based on active contouring pp. 1-11

Xin Xia, Tao Lin, Zhi Chen and Hongyan Xu

Association of polymorphisms in heat shock protein 70 genes with the susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss: A meta-analysis pp. 1-11

Shimin Zong, Xue Zeng, Tianyi Liu, Fangmin Wan, Pan Luo and Hongjun Xiao

Alcohol consumption and risk of uterine myoma: A systematic review and meta analysis pp. 1-11

Francesca Chiaffarino, Sonia Cipriani, Elena Ricci, Carlo La Vecchia, Vito Chiantera, Alessandro Bulfoni and Fabio Parazzini

Using iterative learning to improve understanding during the informed consent process in a South African psychiatric genomics study pp. 1-11

Megan M Campbell, Ezra Susser, Sumaya Mall, Sibonile G Mqulwana, Michael M Mndini, Odwa A Ntola, Mohamed Nagdee, Zukiswa Zingela, Stephanus Van Wyk and Dan J Stein

Medical costs, Cesarean delivery rates, and length of stay in specialty hospitals vs. non-specialty hospitals in South Korea pp. 1-11

Seung Ju Kim, Sun Jung Kim, Kyu-Tae Han and Eun-Cheol Park

Colorectal cancer stages transcriptome analysis pp. 1-11

Tianyao Huo, Ronald Canepa, Andrei Sura, François Modave and Yan Gong

A tool for simulating collision probabilities of animals with marine renewable energy devices pp. 1-11

Pál Schmitt, Ross Culloch, Lilian Lieber, Sverker Molander, Linus Hammar and Louise Kregting

Diagnostic performance of the (1–3)-β-D-glucan assay in patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii compared with those with candidiasis, aspergillosis, mucormycosis, and tuberculosis, and healthy volunteers pp. 1-11

Hyo-Ju Son, Heungsup Sung, Se Yoon Park, Taeeun Kim, Hyun Jeong Lee, Sun-Mi Kim, Yong Pil Chong, Sang-Oh Lee, Sang-Ho Choi, Yang Soo Kim, Jun Hee Woo and Sung-Han Kim

Reducing the rate of cesarean delivery on maternal request through institutional and policy interventions in Wenzhou, China pp. 1-12

Yushan Yu, Xiangyang Zhang, Caixia Sun, Huijie Zhou, Qi Zhang and Chun Chen

Real-time endoscopic image orientation correction system using an accelerometer and gyrosensor pp. 1-12

Hyung-Chul Lee, Chul-Woo Jung and Hee Chan Kim

Comparison between public and private sectors of care and disparities in adverse neonatal outcomes following emergency intrapartum cesarean at term – A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-12

Woonji Jang, Christopher Flatley, Ristan M Greer and Sailesh Kumar

Swimming championship finalist positions on success in international swimming competitions pp. 1-12

I Yustres, R Martín, L Fernández and J M González-Ravé

Multimodel inference applied to oxygen recovery kinetics after 6-min walk tests in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease pp. 1-12

Florent Baty, Christian Ritz, Signe Marie Jensen, Lukas Kern, Michael Tamm and Martin Hugo Brutsche

Impact of inability to turn in bed assessed by a wearable three-axis accelerometer on patients with Parkinson's disease pp. 1-12

Kenji Uchino, Makoto Shiraishi, Keita Tanaka, Masashi Akamatsu and Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Accelerometric estimates of physical activity vary unstably with data handling pp. 1-12

Maia P Smith, Marie Standl, Joachim Heinrich and Holger Schulz

High stress, lack of sleep, low school performance, and suicide attempts are associated with high energy drink intake in adolescents pp. 1-12

So Young Kim, Songyong Sim and Hyo Geun Choi

Vaccination and nutritional status of children in Karawari, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea pp. 1-12

Louis Samiak and Theophilus I Emeto

Elevated N-telopeptide as a potential diagnostic marker for bone metastasis in lung cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-12

Boxuan Liu, Yun Zhao, Jingyan Yuan, Lizhong Zeng, Ruiying Sun, Xia Meng and Shuanying Yang

Comparison of the new Exponential Injury Severity Score with the Injury Severity Score and the New Injury Severity Score in trauma patients: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-12

Spencer C H Kuo, Pao-Jen Kuo, Yi-Chun Chen, Peng-Chen Chien, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh and Ching-Hua Hsieh

Nature is the best source of anticancer drugs: Indexing natural products for their anticancer bioactivity pp. 1-12

Anwar Rayan, Jamal Raiyn and Mizied Falah

Assessment of the suitability of biodegradable rods for use in posterior lumbar fusion: An in-vitro biomechanical evaluation and finite element analysis pp. 1-12

Fon-Yih Tsuang, Yueh-Ying Hsieh, Yi-Jie Kuo, Chia-Hsien Chen, Feng-Huei Lin, Chen-Sheng Chen and Chang-Jung Chiang

Prognostic value of pretreatment serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 level in patients with colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-12

Zhan Yu, Zhen Chen, Jian Wu, Zhong Li and Yugang Wu

Socioeconomic differential in self-assessment of health and happiness in 5 African countries: Finding from World Value Survey pp. 1-12

Oluwafunmilade Adesanya A., Bomar Mendez Rojas, Amadou Darboe and Idrissa Beogo

Factors affecting foveal avascular zone in healthy eyes: An examination using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography pp. 1-12

Atsushi Fujiwara, Yuki Morizane, Mio Hosokawa, Shuhei Kimura, Yusuke Shiode, Masayuki Hirano, Shinichiro Doi, Shinji Toshima, Kosuke Takahashi, Mika Hosogi and Fumio Shiraga

Cost-effectiveness of expanding childhood routine immunization against Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C, W and Y with a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine in the African meningitis belt pp. 1-12

Andreas Kuznik, Garba Iliyasu, Mohammed Lamorde, Mustapha Mahmud, Baba M Musa, Ibrahim Nashabaru, Stephen Obaro, Idris Mohammed and Abdulrazaq G Habib

The validity of linear and non-linear heart rate metrics as workload indicators of emergency physicians pp. 1-12

Frederick Schneider, Jan Martin, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Denis Jordan, Gerhard Schneider and Christian M Schulz

Determinants and effects of medical students’ core self-evaluation tendencies on clinical competence and workplace well-being in clerkship pp. 1-12

Yung Kai Lin, Chen Der-Yuan and Blossom Yen-Ju Lin

Predicting perceived visual complexity of abstract patterns using computational measures: The influence of mirror symmetry on complexity perception pp. 1-29

Andreas Gartus and Helmut Leder

Embedding resilience in the design of the electricity supply for industrial clients pp. 1-33

Márcio das Chagas Moura, Helder Henrique Lima Diniz, Enrique López Droguett, Beatriz Sales da Cunha, Isis Didier Lins and Vicente Ribeiro Simoni

Video summarization using line segments, angles and conic parts pp. 1-22

Md Musfequs Salehin, Manoranjan Paul and Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Real-time robustness evaluation of regression based myoelectric control against arm position change and donning/doffing pp. 1-22

Han-Jeong Hwang, Janne Mathias Hahne and Klaus-Robert Müller

Discrimination of emotional states from scalp- and intracranial EEG using multiscale Rényi entropy pp. 1-22

Yelena Tonoyan, Theerasak Chanwimalueang, Danilo P Mandic and Marc M Van Hulle

A new method to determine cortical bone thickness in CT images using a hybrid approach of parametric profile representation and local adaptive thresholds: Accuracy results pp. 1-22

Oleg Museyko, Bastian Gerner and Klaus Engelke

Comparative growth rates of cultured marine dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium and the effects of temperature and light pp. 1-22

Anke Klueter, Jennifer Trapani, Frederick I Archer, Shelby E McIlroy and Mary Alice Coffroth

Comparative efficacy and safety of antibiotics used to treat acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections: Results of a network meta-analysis pp. 1-22

Julian F Guest, Jaime Esteban, Anton G Manganelli, Andrea Novelli, Giuliano Rizzardini and Miquel Serra

Manifold absolute pressure estimation using neural network with hybrid training algorithm pp. 1-22

Mohd Taufiq Muslim, Hazlina Selamat, Ahmad Jais Alimin and Mohamad Fadzli Haniff

Principal component and discriminant analyses as powerful tools to support taxonomic identification and their use for functional and phylogenetic signal detection of isolated fossil shark teeth pp. 1-22

Giuseppe Marramà and Jürgen Kriwet

Application and interpretation of functional data analysis techniques to differential scanning calorimetry data from lupus patients pp. 1-21

Sarah K Kendrick, Qi Zheng, Nichola C Garbett and Guy N Brock

Stakeholder's experiences, expectations and decision making on reproductive care: An ethnographic study of three districts in northern Ghana pp. 1-21

Martin Amogre Ayanore, Milena Pavlova, Regien Biesma and Wim Groot

The trophoblast survival capacity in preeclampsia pp. 1-21

Martina Hutabarat, Noroyono Wibowo and Berthold Huppertz

Statistical analysis of co-occurrence patterns in microbial presence-absence datasets pp. 1-21

Kumar P Mainali, Sharon Bewick, Peter Thielen, Thomas Mehoke, Florian P Breitwieser, Shishir Paudel, Arjun Adhikari, Joshua Wolfe, Eric V Slud, David Karig and William F Fagan

Distribution, maturity and population structure of Meganyctiphanes norvegica and Thysanoessa inermis around Iceland in spring pp. 1-21

Teresa Silva, Astthor Gislason, Olafur S Astthorsson and Gudrún Marteinsdóttir

Smartphone-based quantitative measurements on holographic sensors pp. 1-21

Gita Khalili Moghaddam and Christopher Robin Lowe

Risk factors for HIV infection among female sex workers in Bangui, Central African Republic pp. 1-21

Jean De Dieu Longo, Marcel Mbeko Simaleko, Henri Saint-Calvaire Diemer, Gérard Grésenguet, Gilles Brücker and Laurent Belec

Feeling younger and identifying with older adults: Testing two routes to maintaining well-being in the face of age discrimination pp. 1-21

Bibiana M Armenta, Katherine Stroebe, Susanne Scheibe, Tom Postmes and Nico W Van Yperen

Quantifying unpredictability: A multiple-model approach based on satellite imagery data from Mediterranean ponds pp. 1-21

Lluis Franch-Gras, Eduardo Moisés García-Roger, Belen Franch, María José Carmona and Manuel Serra

Investigating the validity of the DN4 in a consecutive population of patients with chronic pain pp. 1-21

Hans Timmerman, Monique A H Steegers, Frank J P M Huygen, Jelle J Goeman, Nick T van Dasselaar, Marcel J Schenkels, Oliver H G Wilder-Smith, André P Wolff and Kris C P Vissers

Exploring the reproducibility of functional connectivity alterations in Parkinson’s disease pp. 1-21

Liviu Badea, Mihaela Onu, Tao Wu, Adina Roceanu and Ovidiu Bajenaru

Arbuscular mycorrhizal strategy for zinc mycoremediation and diminished translocation to shoots and grains in wheat pp. 1-21

Abdelghafar M Abu-Elsaoud, Nivien A Nafady and Ahmed M Abdel-Azeem

3D multi-view convolutional neural networks for lung nodule classification pp. 1-21

Guixia Kang, Kui Liu, Beibei Hou and Ningbo Zhang

A short feature vector for image matching: The Log-Polar Magnitude feature descriptor pp. 1-21

Damian J Matuszewski, Anders Hast, Carolina Wählby and Ida-Maria Sintorn

A machine learning approach to triaging patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease pp. 1-21

Sumanth Swaminathan, Klajdi Qirko, Ted Smith, Ethan Corcoran, Nicholas G Wysham, Gaurav Bazaz, George Kappel and Anthony N Gerber

Detecting event-related changes in organizational networks using optimized neural network models pp. 1-21

Ze Li, Duoyong Sun, Renqi Zhu and Zihan Lin

Extension of biomass estimates to pre-assessment periods using density dependent surplus production approach pp. 1-19

Jan Horbowy and Maciej T Tomczak

Do intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections delay total knee replacement in patients with osteoarthritis – A Cox model analysis pp. 1-19

Angélique Delbarre, Bernard Amor, Isabelle Bardoulat, Aymeric Tetafort and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

Predicting temporal variation in zooplankton beta diversity is challenging pp. 1-19

Vanessa Guimarães Lopes, Christina W Castelo Branco, Betina Kozlowsky-Suzuki, Izidro F Sousa-Filho, Leonardo Coimbra e Souza and Luis Mauricio Bini

Fairness in optimizing bus-crew scheduling process pp. 1-19

Jihui Ma, Cuiying Song, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Tao Liu and Wei Guan

Potential worldwide distribution of Fusarium dry root rot in common beans based on the optimal environment for disease occurrence pp. 1-19

Renan Macedo, Lilian Patrícia Sales, Fernanda Yoshida, Lidianne Lemes Silva-Abud and Murillo Lobo Junior

One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana pp. 1-19

Anna Lou Abatayo and Bo Thorsen

The interplay of various sources of noise on reliability of species distribution models hinges on ecological specialisation pp. 1-19

Alaaeldin Soultan and Kamran Safi

Resting-state fMRI in sleeping infants more closely resembles adult sleep than adult wakefulness pp. 1-19

Anish Mitra, Abraham Z Snyder, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Helmut Laufs, Jed Elison, Robert W Emerson, Mark D Shen, Jason J Wolff, Kelly N Botteron, Stephen Dager, Annette M Estes, Alan Evans, Guido Gerig, Heather C Hazlett, Sarah J Paterson, Robert T Schultz, Martin A Styner, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, The IBIS Network, Bradley L Schlaggar, Joseph Piven, John R Pruett and Marcus Raichle

Association of objectively measured arm inclination with shoulder pain: A 6-month follow-up prospective study of construction and health care workers pp. 1-19

Markus Koch, Lars-Kristian Lunde, Kaj Bo Veiersted and Stein Knardahl

Range-based volatility, expected stock returns, and the low volatility anomaly pp. 1-19

Benjamin Blau and Ryan J Whitby

Deployment-based lifetime optimization for linear wireless sensor networks considering both retransmission and discrete power control pp. 1-19

Ruiying Li, Wenting Ma, Ning Huang and Rui Kang

Measuring couple relationship quality in a rural African population: Validation of a Couple Functionality Assessment Tool in Malawi pp. 1-19

Allison Ruark, Rachel Chase, John Hembling, Valerie Rhoe Davis, Paul Clayton Perrin and Dorothy Brewster-Lee

Can self-testing increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-19

Ci Zhang, Xianhong Li, Mary-Lynn Brecht and Deborah Koniak-Griffin

The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI pp. 1-20

Henk R Cremers, Tor D Wager and Tal Yarkoni

Health effects of saturated and trans-fatty acid intake in children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Lisa Te Morenga and Jason M Montez

Socioeconomic characterization of regions through the lens of individual financial transactions pp. 1-20

Behrooz Hashemian, Emanuele Massaro, Iva Bojic, Juan Murillo Arias, Stanislav Sobolevsky and Carlo Ratti

An accurate and adaptable photogrammetric approach for estimating the mass and body condition of pinnipeds using an unmanned aerial system pp. 1-20

Douglas J Krause, Jefferson T Hinke, Wayne L Perryman, Michael E Goebel and Donald J LeRoi

The impact of financial incentives on the implementation of asthma or diabetes self-management: A systematic review pp. 1-20

Tracy Jackson, Michael D Shields, Liam G Heaney, Marilyn Kendall, Christina J Pearce, Chi Yan Hui and Hilary Pinnock

High-dimensional linear state space models for dynamic microbial interaction networks pp. 1-20

Iris Chen, Yogeshwar D Kelkar, Yu Gu, Jie Zhou, Xing Qiu and Hulin Wu

Predictors of unmet health care needs in Serbia; Analysis based on EU-SILC data pp. 1-20

Natasa Popovic, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Snezana Simic and Biljana Mladenovic

Separating conditional and unconditional cooperation in a sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma game pp. 1-20

Raoul Bell, Laura Mieth and Axel Buchner

Psychometric properties of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) and its relationship with life-stress, anxiety and depression in a Hispanic Latin-American community sample pp. 1-20

Roxanna Morote, Odin Hjemdal, Patricia Martinez Uribe and Jozef Corveleyn

Estimation of stress distribution in ferromagnetic tensile specimens using low cost eddy current stress measurement system and BP neural network pp. 1-20

Jianwei Li, Weimin Zhang, Weiqin Zeng, Guolong Chen, Zhongchao Qiu, Xinyuan Cao and Xuanyi Gao

High-accuracy detection of early Parkinson's Disease using multiple characteristics of finger movement while typing pp. 1-20

Warwick R Adams

Consensual punishment does not promote cooperation in the six-person prisoner's dilemma game with noisy public monitoring pp. 1-20

Nynke van Miltenburg, Wojtek Przepiorka and Vincent Buskens

Reference-shaping adaptive control by using gradient descent optimizers pp. 1-20

Baris Baykant Alagoz, Gurkan Kavuran, Abdullah Ates and Celaleddin Yeroglu

Biomarker profiling in reef corals of Tonga’s Ha’apai and Vava’u archipelagos pp. 1-28

Anderson B Mayfield, Chii-Shiarng Chen and Alexandra C Dempsey

Selection and classification of gene expression in autism disorder: Use of a combination of statistical filters and a GBPSO-SVM algorithm pp. 1-25

Shilan S Hameed, Rohayanti Hassan and Fahmi F Muhammad

A functional pipeline framework for landmark identification on 3D surface extracted from volumetric data pp. 1-25

Pan Zheng, Bahari Belaton, Iman Yi Liao and Zainul Ahmad Rajion

Unsupervised morphological segmentation of tissue compartments in histopathological images pp. 1-25

Shereen Fouad, David Randell, Antony Galton, Hisham Mehanna and Gabriel Landini

Association between urinary manganese and blood pressure: Results from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2011-2014 pp. 1-6

Cynthia Wu, Jessica G Woo and Nanhua Zhang

A video-based real-time adaptive vehicle-counting system for urban roads pp. 1-16

Fei Liu, Zhiyuan Zeng and Rong Jiang

Lesions in deep gray nuclei after severe traumatic brain injury predict neurologic outcome pp. 1-16

Frédéric Clarençon, Éric Bardinet, Jacques Martinerie, Vincent Pelbarg, Nicolas Menjot de Champfleur, Rajiv Gupta, Eléonore Tollard, Gustavo Soto-Ares, Danielle Ibarrola, Emmanuelle Schmitt, Thomas Tourdias, Vincent Degos, Jérome Yelnik, Didier Dormont, Louis Puybasset, Damien Galanaud and for the Neuro Imaging for Coma Emergence and Recovery (NICER) consortium

Process evaluation of knowledge transfer across industries: Leveraging Coca-Cola’s supply chain expertise for medicine availability in Tanzania pp. 1-16

Erika Linnander, Christina T Yuan, Shirin Ahmed, Emily Cherlin, Kristina Talbert-Slagle and Leslie A Curry

Adolescents' perception of parental feeding practices: Adaptation and validation of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire for Brazilian adolescents—The CFPQ-Teen pp. 1-16

Ângela Bein Piccoli, Lucas Neiva-Silva, Clarisse Pereira Mosmann, Dara Musher-Eizenman and Lucia C Pellanda

Recurrence quantification analysis to characterize cyclical components of environmental elemental exposures during fetal and postnatal development pp. 1-16

Paul Curtin, Austen Curtin, Christine Austin, Chris Gennings, Kristiina Tammimies, Sven Bölte and Manish Arora

Trajectories of maternal ante- and postpartum depressive symptoms and their association with child- and mother-related characteristics in a West African birth cohort study pp. 1-16

Dana Barthel, Levente Kriston, Daniel Fordjour, Yasmin Mohammed, Esther Doris Kra-Yao, Carine Esther Bony Kotchi, Ekissi Jean Koffi Armel, Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt, Torsten Feldt, Rebecca Hinz, Koffi Mathurin, Stefanie Schoppen, Carola Bindt, Stephan Ehrhardt and on behalf of the International CDS Study Group

Multi-categorical deep learning neural network to classify retinal images: A pilot study employing small database pp. 1-16

Joon Yul Choi, Tae Keun Yoo, Jeong Gi Seo, Jiyong Kwak, Terry Taewoong Um and Tyler Hyungtaek Rim

Health impact and cost-effectiveness of a domestically-produced rotavirus vaccine in India: A model based analysis pp. 1-16

Johnie Rose, Laura Homa, Sharon B Meropol, Sara M Debanne, Roger Bielefeld, Claudia Hoyen and Mendel E Singer

Promoting professional identity, motivation, and persistence: Benefits of an informal mentoring program for female undergraduate students pp. 1-16

Paul R Hernandez, Brittany Bloodhart, Rebecca T Barnes, Amanda S Adams, Sandra M Clinton, Ilana Pollack, Elaine Godfrey, Melissa Burt and Emily V Fischer

Activation of plantar flexor muscles is constrained by multiple muscle synergies rather than joint torques pp. 1-16

Takahito Suzuki, Ryuta Kinugasa and Senshi Fukashiro

Personalized blood glucose prediction: A hybrid approach using grammatical evolution and physiological models pp. 1-16

Iván Contreras, Silvia Oviedo, Martina Vettoretti, Roberto Visentin and Josep Vehí

Understanding disciplinary vocabularies using a full-text enabled domain-independent term extraction approach pp. 1-16

Erjia Yan, Jake Williams and Zheng Chen

Altruistic behavior in cohesive social groups: The role of target identifiability pp. 1-16

Ilana Ritov and Tehila Kogut

Point cloud registration from local feature correspondences—Evaluation on challenging datasets pp. 1-16

Tomas Petricek and Tomas Svoboda

Economics of One Health: Costs and benefits of integrated West Nile virus surveillance in Emilia-Romagna pp. 1-16

Giulia Paternoster, Sara Babo Martins, Andrea Mattivi, Roberto Cagarelli, Paola Angelini, Romeo Bellini, Annalisa Santi, Giorgio Galletti, Simonetta Pupella, Giuseppe Marano, Francesco Copello, Jonathan Rushton, Katharina D C Stärk and Marco Tamba

Crowdsourcing prior information to improve study design and data analysis pp. 1-16

Jeffrey S Chrabaszcz, Joe W Tidwell and Michael R Dougherty

Association between polymorphisms of heat-shock protein 70 genes and noise-induced hearing loss: A meta-analysis pp. 1-16

Song Lei, Liu Huang, Yaqian Liu, Liangwen Xu, Dahui Wang and Lei Yang

Community detection in dynamic networks via adaptive label propagation pp. 1-16

Jihui Han, Wei Li, Longfeng Zhao, Zhu Su, Yijiang Zou and Weibing Deng

Cost-effectiveness of different strategies for diagnosis of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women presenting in primary care pp. 1-16

Judith E Bosmans, Veerle M H Coupé, Bart J Knottnerus, Suzanne E Geerlings, Eric P Moll van Charante and Gerben ter Riet

Reproductive isolation in the acoustically divergent groups of tettigoniid, Mecopoda elongata pp. 1-16

Rochishnu Dutta, Tom Tregenza and Rohini Balakrishnan

A fast stochastic framework for automatic MR brain images segmentation pp. 1-24

Marwa Ismail, Ahmed Soliman, Mohammed Ghazal, Andrew E Switala, Georgy Gimel’farb, Gregory N Barnes, Ashraf Khalil and Ayman El-Baz

Perceptual judgments made better by indirect interactions: Evidence from a joint localization task pp. 1-24

Pavel Valeryevich Voinov, Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich

Younger age at diagnosis predisposes to mucosal recovery in celiac disease on a gluten-free diet: A meta-analysis pp. 1-24

Zsolt Szakács, Péter Mátrai, Péter Hegyi, Imre Szabó, Áron Vincze, Márta Balaskó, Bernadett Mosdósi, Patrícia Sarlós, Mária Simon, Katalin Márta, Alexandra Mikó, Dániel Pécsi, Alexandra Demcsák and Judit Bajor

Temporal trends in adolescents’ self-reported psychosomatic health complaints from 1980-2016: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-24

Thomas Potrebny, Nora Wiium and Margrethe Moss-Iversen Lundegård

The peer review gap: A longitudinal case study of gendered publishing and occupational patterns in a female-rich discipline, Western North America (1974–2016) pp. 1-24

Shannon Tushingham, Tiffany Fulkerson and Katheryn Hill

Asymmetry of price returns—Analysis and perspectives from a non-extensive statistical physics point of view pp. 1-24

Łukasz Bil, Dariusz Grech and Magdalena Zienowicz

Comparative rates of upstaging and upgrading in Caucasian and Korean prostate cancer patients eligible for active surveillance pp. 1-8

Hwang Gyun Jeon, Jae Ho Yoo, Byong Chang Jeong, Seong Il Seo, Seong Soo Jeon, Han-Yong Choi, Hyun Moo Lee, Michelle Ferrari, James D Brooks and Benjamin I Chung

Risk factors for incidental durotomy during posterior open spine surgery for degenerative diseases in adults: A multicenter observational study pp. 1-8

Hisatoshi Ishikura, Satoshi Ogihara, Hiroyuki Oka, Toru Maruyama, Hirohiko Inanami, Kota Miyoshi, Ko Matsudaira, Hirotaka Chikuda, Seiichi Azuma, Naohiro Kawamura, Kiyofumi Yamakawa, Nobuhiro Hara, Yasushi Oshima, Jiro Morii, Kazuo Saita, Sakae Tanaka and Takashi Yamazaki

Heavy-atom effect on optically excited triplet state kinetics pp. 1-13

Christian Hintze, Tobias O Morgen and Malte Drescher

Validation of a light-scattering PM2.5 sensor monitor based on the long-term gravimetric measurements in field tests pp. 1-13

Jingjin Shi, Fei’er Chen, Yunfei Cai, Shichen Fan, Jing Cai, Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan, Yihan Lu and Zhuohui Zhao

A novel, efficient method for estimating the prevalence of acute malnutrition in resource-constrained and crisis-affected settings: A simulation study pp. 1-13

Severine Frison, Marko Kerac, Francesco Checchi and Jennifer Nicholas

Differences exist across insurance schemes in China post-consolidation pp. 1-13

Yang Li, Yinjun Zhao, Danhui Yi, Xiaojun Wang, Yan Jiang, Yu Wang, Xinchun Liu and Shuangge Ma

Examining the accuracy of students’ self-reported academic grades from a correlational and a discrepancy perspective: Evidence from a longitudinal study pp. 1-13

Fabio Sticca, Thomas Goetz, Madeleine Bieg, Nathan C Hall, Franz Eberle and Ludwig Haag

ExpressionDB: An open source platform for distributing genome-scale datasets pp. 1-13

Laura D Hughes, Scott A Lewis and Michael E Hughes

Cystatin B, cathepsin L and D related to surrogate markers for cardiovascular disease in children pp. 1-13

Magnus Dencker, Tina Tanha, Magnus K Karlsson, Per Wollmer, Lars B Andersen and Ola Thorsson

The prognostic value of CT radiomic features for patients with pulmonary adenocarcinoma treated with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors pp. 1-13

Hyungjin Kim, Chang Min Park, Bhumsuk Keam, Sang Joon Park, Miso Kim, Tae Min Kim, Dong-Wan Kim, Dae Seog Heo and Jin Mo Goo

Prognostic significance of cytokeratin 19 expression in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Dong Cen, Jiang Chen, Zheyong Li, Jie Zhao and Xiujun Cai

Evaluating Bayesian spatial methods for modelling species distributions with clumped and restricted occurrence data pp. 1-13

David W Redding, Tim C D Lucas, Tim M Blackburn and Kate E Jones

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 isoenzyme expression as a marker of cancer stem cells correlates to histopathological features in head and neck cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Yue Dong, Sebastian Ochsenreither, Chengxuan Cai, Andreas M Kaufmann, Andreas E Albers and Xu Qian

Comparative study of the 7th and 8th AJCC editions for gastric cancer patients after curative surgery pp. 1-13

Wen-Liang Fang, Kuo-Hung Huang, Ming-Huang Chen, Chien-An Liu, Yi-Ping Hung, Yee Chao, Ling-Chen Tai, Su-Shun Lo, Anna Fen-Yau Li, Chew-Wun Wu and Yi-Ming Shyr

Enrichment of minor allele of SNPs and genetic prediction of type 2 diabetes risk in British population pp. 1-13

Xiaoyun Lei and Shi Huang

Maternal immune activation in rats produces temporal perception impairments in adult offspring analogous to those observed in schizophrenia pp. 1-13

Ashley R Deane, Jessica Millar, David K Bilkey and Ryan D Ward

Discordance between 'actual' and 'scheduled' check-in times at a heart failure clinic pp. 1-13

Eiran Z Gorodeski, Emer Joyce, Benjamin T Gandesbery, Eugene H Blackstone, David O Taylor, W H Wilson Tang, Randall C Starling and Rory Hachamovitch

Heterozygous deletion of both sclerostin (Sost) and connexin43 (Gja1) genes in mice is not sufficient to impair cortical bone modeling pp. 1-13

Susan K Grimston, Francesca Fontana, Marcus Watkins and Roberto Civitelli

Intensive Care Syndrome: Promoting Independence and Return to Employment (InS:PIRE). Early evaluation of a complex intervention pp. 1-13

Joanne McPeake, Martin Shaw, Theodore J Iwashyna, Malcolm Daniel, Helen Devine, Lyndsey Jarvie, John Kinsella, Pamela MacTavish and Tara Quasim

Clinical tool for disease phenotyping in granulomatous lung disease pp. 1-13

Lori J Silveira, Matthew Strand, Michael V Van Dyke, Margaret M Mroz, Anna V Faino, Dana M Dabelea, Lisa A Maier and Tasha E Fingerlin

A novel method to rapidly distinguish the geographical origin of traditional fermented-salted vegetables by mass fingerprinting pp. 1-13

So-Ra Yoon, Sung Hyun Kim, Hae-Won Lee and Ji-Hyoung Ha

A model-guided symbolic execution approach for network protocol implementations and vulnerability detection pp. 1-13

Shameng Wen, Qingkun Meng, Chao Feng and Chaojing Tang

Determinants for cardiovascular disease health check questionnaire: A validation study pp. 1-13

Ai Theng Cheong, Karuthan Chinna, Ee Ming Khoo and Su May Liew

Oral versus intravenous methylprednisolone for the treatment of multiple sclerosis relapses: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials pp. 1-13

Shuo Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Shuying Chen, Yingxiu Xiao and Weiduan Zhuang

Ensemble machine learning and forecasting can achieve 99% uptime for rural handpumps pp. 1-13

Daniel L Wilson, Jeremy R Coyle and Evan A Thomas

Developing an eye-tracking algorithm as a potential tool for early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in children pp. 1-13

Natalia I Vargas-Cuentas, Avid Roman-Gonzalez, Robert H Gilman, Franklin Barrientos, James Ting, Daniela Hidalgo, Kelly Jensen and Mirko Zimic

Erectile dysfunction and quality of life in men receiving methadone or buprenorphine maintenance treatment. A cross-sectional multicentre study pp. 1-13

Fabio Lugoboni, Lorenzo Zamboni, Angela Federico, Stefano Tamburin and for the Gruppo InterSERT di Collaborazione Scientifica (gics)

Contributing to the debate on categorising shared sanitation facilities as ‘unimproved’: An account based on field researchers’ observations and householders’ opinions in three regions, Tanzania pp. 1-23

Khalid Massa, Fadhili Kilamile, Emmanuela Safari, Amour Seleman, Anyitike Mwakitalima, Jonas G Balengayabo, Telemu Kassile, Peter E Mangesho and Godfrey M Mubyazi

The Demirjian versus the Willems method for dental age estimation in different populations: A meta-analysis of published studies pp. 1-23

Temitope Ayodeji Esan, Veerasamy Yengopal and Lynne A Schepartz

Wavelet brain angiography suggests arteriovenous pulse wave phase locking pp. 1-23

William E Butler

Integrative analysis of genome-wide gene copy number changes and gene expression in non-small cell lung cancer pp. 1-23

Verena Jabs, Karolina Edlund, Helena König, Marianna Grinberg, Katrin Madjar, Jörg Rahnenführer, Simon Ekman, Michael Bergkvist, Lars Holmberg, Katja Ickstadt, Johan Botling, Jan G Hengstler and Patrick Micke

An incremental anomaly detection model for virtual machines pp. 1-23

Hancui Zhang, Shuyu Chen, Jun Liu, Zhen Zhou and Tianshu Wu

Relationship between fine particulate matter, weather condition and daily non-accidental mortality in Shanghai, China: A Bayesian approach pp. 1-23

Xin Fang, Bo Fang, Chunfang Wang, Tian Xia, Matteo Bottai, Fang Fang and Yang Cao

A multi-paradigm framework to assess the impacts of climate change on end-use energy demand pp. 1-23

Roshanak Nateghi and Sayanti Mukherjee

Executive function assessment in New Zealand 2-year olds born at risk of neonatal hypoglycemia pp. 1-23

Judith M Ansell, Trecia A Wouldes, Jane E Harding and on behalf of the CHYLD Study Group

Clustering of samples and variables with mixed-type data pp. 1-23

Manuela Hummel, Dominic Edelmann and Annette Kopp-Schneider

Analyzing cross-college course enrollments via contextual graph mining pp. 1-23

Yongzhen Wang, Xiaozhong Liu and Yan Chen

An analytical approach to sparse telemetry data pp. 1-23

Michael J Kinney, David Kacev, Suzanne Kohin and Tomoharu Eguchi

Inclusion of periodontal ligament fibres in mandibular finite element models leads to an increase in alveolar bone strains pp. 1-23

Steven W McCormack, Ulrich Witzel, Peter J Watson, Michael J Fagan and Flora Gröning

Human mobility prediction from region functions with taxi trajectories pp. 1-23

Minjie Wang, Su Yang, Yi Sun and Jun Gao

Extracellular vesicles released by fibroblasts undergoing H-Ras induced senescence show changes in lipid profile pp. 1-23

Sandra Buratta, Lorena Urbanelli, Krizia Sagini, Stefano Giovagnoli, Silvia Caponi, Daniele Fioretto, Nico Mitro, Donatella Caruso and Carla Emiliani

Cell transmission model of dynamic assignment for urban rail transit networks pp. 1-31

Guangming Xu, Shuo Zhao, Feng Shi and Feilian Zhang

Second thoughts on the final rule: An analysis of baseline participant characteristics reports on ClinicalTrials.gov pp. 1-9

Amos Cahan and Vibha Anand

Factors related to acupuncture response in patients with chronic severe functional constipation: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial pp. 1-9

Xingyue Yang, Yan Liu, Bing Liu, Liyun He, Zhishun Liu, Yanshi Yan, Jia Liu and Baoyan Liu

From rationality to cooperativeness: The totally mixed Nash equilibrium in Markov strategies in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma pp. 1-17

Ivan S Menshikov, Alexsandr V Shklover, Tatiana S Babkina and Mikhail G Myagkov

Modelling the cost-effectiveness of HIV care shows a clear benefit when transmission risk is considered in the calculations – A message for Central and Eastern Europe pp. 1-17

Justyna D Kowalska, Grzegorz Wójcik, Jakub Rutkowski, Magdalena Ankiersztejn-Bartczak and Ewa Siewaszewicz

Impact of surgical parathyroidectomy on chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) – A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-17

Mugurel Apetrii, David Goldsmith, Ionut Nistor, Dimitrie Siriopol, Luminita Voroneanu, Dragos Scripcariu, Marc Vervloet and Adrian Covic

Path-oriented test cases generation based adaptive genetic algorithm pp. 1-17

Xiaoan Bao, Zijian Xiong, Na Zhang, Junyan Qian, Biao Wu and Wei Zhang

Two is better than one: The effects of strategic cooperation on intra- and inter-brain connectivity by fNIRS pp. 1-17

Michela Balconi, Laurent Pezard, Jean-Louis Nandrino and Maria Elide Vanutelli

Economic evaluation of the one-hour rule-out and rule-in algorithm for acute myocardial infarction using the high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T assay in the emergency department pp. 1-17

Apoorva Ambavane, Bertil Lindahl, Evangelos Giannitis, Julie Roiz, Joan Mendivil, Lutz Frankenstein, Richard Body, Michael Christ, Roland Bingisser, Aitor Alquezar, Christian Mueller and for the TRAPID-AMI Investigators

Using functional data analysis to understand daily activity levels and patterns in primary school-aged children: Cross-sectional analysis of a UK-wide study pp. 1-17

Francesco Sera, Lucy J Griffiths, Carol Dezateux, Marco Geraci and Mario Cortina-Borja

An electronic health record based model predicts statin adherence, LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease in the United States Military Health System pp. 1-17

Joseph E Lucas, Taylor C Bazemore, Celan Alo, Patrick B Monahan and Deepak Voora

Predictability of machine learning techniques to forecast the trends of market index prices: Hypothesis testing for the Korean stock markets pp. 1-17

Sujin Pyo, Jaewook Lee, Mincheol Cha and Huisu Jang

Community ecology in 3D: Tensor decomposition reveals spatio-temporal dynamics of large ecological communities pp. 1-17

Romain Frelat, Martin Lindegren, Tim Spaanheden Denker, Jens Floeter, Heino O Fock, Camilla Sguotti, Moritz Stäbler, Saskia A Otto and Christian Möllmann

Inhibitory control and decimal number comparison in school-aged children pp. 1-17

Margot Roell, Arnaud Viarouge, Olivier Houdé and Grégoire Borst

A modified Delphi study to determine the level of consensus across the European Union on the structures, processes and desired outcomes of the management of polypharmacy in older people pp. 1-17

Derek Stewart, Kathrine Gibson-Smith, Katie MacLure, Alpana Mair, Albert Alonso, Carles Codina, Antonio Cittadini, Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Glenda Fleming, Dimitra Gennimata, Ulrika Gillespie, Cathy Harrison, Ulrike Junius-Walker, Przemysław Kardas, Thomas Kempen, Moira Kinnear, Pawel Lewek, Joao Malva, Jennifer McIntosh, Claire Scullin and Birgitt Wiese

Identifying social factors amongst older individuals in linked electronic health records: An assessment in a population based study pp. 1-17

Anu Jain, Albert J van Hoek, Jemma L Walker, Rohini Mathur, Liam Smeeth and Sara L Thomas

Automated tracking and quantification of angiogenic vessel formation in 3D microfluidic devices pp. 1-30

Mengmeng Wang, Lee-Ling Sharon Ong, Justin Dauwels and H Harry Asada

A community detection algorithm using network topologies and rule-based hierarchical arc-merging strategies pp. 1-30

Yu-Hsiang Fu, Chung-Yuan Huang and Chuen-Tsai Sun

Testing the applicability of a benthic foraminiferal-based transfer function for the reconstruction of paleowater depth changes in Rhodes (Greece) during the early Pleistocene pp. 1-30

Yvonne Milker, Manuel F G Weinkauf, Jürgen Titschack, Andre Freiwald, Stefan Krüger, Frans J Jorissen and Gerhard Schmiedl

Criticism by community people and poor workplace communication as risk factors for the mental health of local welfare workers after the Great East Japan Earthquake: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-14

Ikki Ueda, Atsushi Sakuma, Yoko Takahashi, Wataru Shoji, Ayami Nagao, Mikika Abe, Yuriko Suzuki, Hiroo Matsuoka and Kazunori Matsumoto

Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance elastography and Fibroscan for detecting liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-14

Huanming Xiao, Meijie Shi, Yubao Xie and Xiaoling Chi

Validity and reliability of Chinese version of Adult Carer Quality of Life questionnaire (AC-QoL) in family caregivers of stroke survivors pp. 1-14

Yongxia Mei, Beilei Lin, Yingshuang Li, Chunge Ding and Zhenxiang Zhang

The October 2014 United States Treasury bond flash crash and the contributory effect of mini flash crashes pp. 1-14

Zachary S Levine, Scott A Hale and Luciano Floridi

The impact of antenatal care, iron–folic acid supplementation and tetanus toxoid vaccination during pregnancy on child mortality in Bangladesh pp. 1-14

Tanvir Abir, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Garry John Stevens, Andrew Nicolas Page, Abul Hasnat Milton and Kingsley Emwinyore Agho

Influence of boron supplementation on performance, immunity and antioxidant status of lambs fed diets with or without adequate level of calcium pp. 1-14

T Vijay Bhasker, N K S Gowda, D T Pal, S Karthik Bhat, P Krishnamoorthy, S Mondal, A K Pattanaik and A K Verma

Volumetric brain tumour detection from MRI using visual saliency pp. 1-14

Somosmita Mitra, Subhashis Banerjee and Yoichi Hayashi

Embedding graphs in Lorentzian spacetime pp. 1-14

James R Clough and Tim S Evans

Assessing risk of fibrosis progression and liver-related clinical outcomes among patients with both early stage and advanced chronic hepatitis C pp. 1-14

Monica A Konerman, Dongxia Lu, Yiwei Zhang, Mary Thomson, Ji Zhu, Aashesh Verma, Boang Liu, Nizar Talaat, Ulysses Balis, Peter D R Higgins, Anna S F Lok and Akbar K Waljee

Distributed smoothed tree kernel for protein-protein interaction extraction from the biomedical literature pp. 1-14

Gurusamy Murugesan, Sabenabanu Abdulkadhar and Jeyakumar Natarajan

Employing open/hidden administration in psychotherapy research: A randomized-controlled trial of expressive writing pp. 1-14

Theresa Tondorf, Lisa-Katrin Kaufmann, Alexander Degel, Cosima Locher, Johanna Birkhäuer, Heike Gerger, Ulrike Ehlert and Jens Gaab

Cluster-randomized controlled trial of the effects of free glasses on purchase of children's glasses in China: The PRICE (Potentiating Rural Investment in Children's Eyecare) study pp. 1-14

Xiuqin Wang, Nathan Congdon, Yue Ma, Min Hu, Yuan Zhou, Weiqi Liao, Ling Jin, Baixiang Xiao, Xiaoyi Wu, Ming Ni, Hongmei Yi, Yiwen Huang, Beatrice Varga, Hong Zhang, Yongkang Cun, Xianshun Li, Luhua Yang, Chaoguang Liang, Wan Huang, Scott Rozelle and Xiaochen Ma

Stromal interaction molecule 1 haploinsufficiency causes maladaptive response to pressure overload pp. 1-14

Takayoshi Ohba, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Manabu Murakami, Kenji Iino, Takeshi Adachi, Yoshihiro Baba, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Kyoichi Ono and Hiroshi Ito

Facial width-to-height ratio differs by social rank across organizations, countries, and value systems pp. 1-14

Tim Hahn, Nils R Winter, Christine Anderl, Karolien Notebaert, Alina Marie Wuttke, Celina Chantal Clément and Sabine Windmann

Robust iterative closest point algorithm based on global reference point for rotation invariant registration pp. 1-14

Shaoyi Du, Yiting Xu, Teng Wan, Huaizhong Hu, Sirui Zhang, Guanglin Xu and Xuetao Zhang

Fast, axis-agnostic, dynamically summarized storage and retrieval for mass spectrometry data pp. 1-14

Kyle Handy, Jebediah Rosen, André Gillan and Rob Smith

A qualitative exploration of malaria operational research situation in Nigeria pp. 1-14

IkeOluwapo O Ajayi, Maduka D Ughasoro, Akintayo Ogunwale, Oluwaseun Odeyinka, Obafemi Babalola, Salami Sharafadeen, Al-Mukhtar Y Adamu, Olufemi Ajumobi, Taiwo Orimogunje and Patrick Nguku

Multi-AUV autonomous task planning based on the scroll time domain quantum bee colony optimization algorithm in uncertain environment pp. 1-14

Jianjun Li, Rubo Zhang and Yu Yang

Disentangling the influence of living place and socioeconomic position on health services use among diabetes patients: A population-based study pp. 1-14

Sébastien Lamy, Denis Ducros, Chloé Diméglio, Hélène Colineaux, Romain Fantin, Eloïse Berger, Pascale Grosclaude, Cyrille Delpierre and Béatrice Bouhanick

Impact of the surgical strategy on the incidence of C5 nerve root palsy in decompressive cervical surgery pp. 1-14

Theresa Krätzig, Malte Mohme, Klaus C Mende, Sven O Eicker and Frank W Floeth

Geometric calibration of a stationary digital breast tomosynthesis system based on distributed carbon nanotube X-ray source arrays pp. 1-14

Changhui Jiang, Na Zhang, Juan Gao and Zhanli Hu

Blood serum metabolome of atopic dermatitis: Altered energy cycle and the markers of systemic inflammation pp. 1-14

Aigar Ottas, Dmytro Fishman, Tiia-Linda Okas, Tõnu Püssa, Peeter Toomik, Aare Märtson, Külli Kingo and Ursel Soomets

Volume 12, issue 10, 2017

A multiplex PCR mini-barcode assay to identify processed shark products in the global trade pp. 1-9

Diego Cardeñosa, Andrew Fields, Debra Abercrombie, Kevin Feldheim, Stanley K H Shea and Demian D Chapman

Use, knowledge, and perception of the scientific contribution of Sci-Hub in medical students: Study in six countries in Latin America pp. 1-9

Christian R Mejia, Mario J Valladares-Garrido, Armando Miñan-Tapia, Felipe T Serrano, Liz E Tobler-Gómez, William Pereda-Castro, Cynthia R Mendoza-Flores, Maria Y Mundaca-Manay and Danai Valladares-Garrido

Active and resting motor threshold are efficiently obtained with adaptive threshold hunting pp. 1-9

Christelle B Ah Sen, Hunter J Fassett, Jenin El-Sayes, Claudia V Turco, Mahdiya M Hameer and Aimee J Nelson

Revealed willingness-to-pay versus standard cost-effectiveness thresholds: Evidence from the South African HIV Investment Case pp. 1-9

Gesine Meyer-Rath, Craig van Rensburg, Bruce Larson, Lise Jamieson and Sydney Rosen

Determinants of dog owner-charged rabies vaccination in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1-9

Eric Kawaya Kazadi, Georges Mbuyi Tshilenge, Victor Mbao, Zakariaou Njoumemi and Justin Masumu

Assessment of sustainable urban transport development based on entropy and unascertained measure pp. 1-9

Yancang Li, Jing Yang, Huawang Shi and Yijie Li

A sequential Monte Carlo approach to gene expression deconvolution pp. 1-31

Oyetunji E Ogundijo and Xiaodong Wang

Barriers to global health development: An international quantitative survey pp. 1-23

Bahr Weiss and Amie Alley Pollack

Liver segmentation from CT images using a sparse priori statistical shape model (SP-SSM) pp. 1-23

Xuehu Wang, Yongchang Zheng, Lan Gan, Xuan Wang, Xinting Sang, Xiangfeng Kong and Jie Zhao

Something from nothing: Estimating consumption rates using propensity scores, with application to emissions reduction policies pp. 1-23

Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Büchs and Sylke Schnepf

Autonomous dynamic obstacle avoidance for bacteria-powered microrobots (BPMs) with modified vector field histogram pp. 1-23

Hoyeon Kim, U Kei Cheang and Min Jun Kim

R1R2 peptide ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis in mice through fibrocyte migration and differentiation pp. 1-23

Hou-Yu Chiang, Pao-Hsien Chu and Ting-Hein Lee

Validation of a theoretically motivated approach to measuring childhood socioeconomic circumstances in the Health and Retirement Study pp. 1-23

Anusha M Vable, Paola Gilsanz, Thu T Nguyen, Ichiro Kawachi and M Maria Glymour

A structural equation model of the relationship between insomnia, negative affect, and paranoid thinking pp. 1-23

Alexander J Scott, Georgina Rowse and Thomas L Webb

Modelling individual tree height to crown base of Norway spruce ( Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) pp. 1-23

Ram P Sharma, Zdeněk Vacek, Stanislav Vacek, Vilém Podrázský and Václav Jansa

The full benefits of adult pneumococcal vaccination: A systematic review pp. 1-23

Elizabeth T Cafiero-Fonseca, Andrew Stawasz, Sydney T Johnson, Reiko Sato and David E Bloom

Distinct retrosplenial cortex cell populations and their spike dynamics during ketamine-induced unconscious state pp. 1-23

Grace E Fox, Meng Li, Fang Zhao and Joe Z Tsien

Method for measuring tri-axial lumbar motion angles using wearable sheet stretch sensors pp. 1-14

Akio Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Nakamoto, Tokiya Yamaji, Hideo Ootaka, Yusuke Bessho, Ryo Nakamura and Rei Ono

The effect of sucralose on flavor sweetness in electronic cigarettes varies between delivery devices pp. 1-14

Kathryn Rosbrook, Hanno C Erythropel, Tamara M DeWinter, Mark Falinski, Stephanie O’Malley, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Paul T Anastas, Julie B Zimmerman and Barry G Green

Viper’s bugloss (Echium spp.) honey typing and establishing the pollen threshold for monofloral honey pp. 1-14

Tomás Martín Arroyo, Amelia V González-Porto and Carmen Bartolomé Esteban

Relations between mental health team characteristics and work role performance pp. 1-14

Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Jean-Marie Bamvita and Lambert Farand

Men ask more questions than women at a scientific conference pp. 1-14

Amy Hinsley, William J Sutherland and Alison Johnston

Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences pp. 1-14

Adèle Paul-Hus, Adrián A Díaz-Faes, Maxime Sainte-Marie, Nadine Desrochers, Rodrigo Costas and Vincent Larivière

Comparative characterization of bacterial communities in geese fed all-grass or high-grain diets pp. 1-14

Qi Xu, Xiaoya Yuan, Tiantian Gu, Yang Li, Wangcheng Dai, Xiaokun Shen, Yadong Song, Yang Zhang, Wenming Zhao, Guobin Chang and Guohong Chen

Study on association of working hours and occupational physical activity with the occurrence of coronary heart disease in a Chinese population pp. 1-14

Yao Ma, Ying-Jun Wang, Bing-Rui Chen, Hao-Jie Shi, Hao Wang, Mohammad Reeaze Khurwolah, Ya-Fei Li, Zhi-Yong Xie, Yang Yang and Lian-Sheng Wang

A meta-analysis comparing tenotomy and tenodesis for treating rotator cuff tears combined with long head of the biceps tendon lesions pp. 1-14

Xiliang Shang, Jiwu Chen and Shiyi Chen

Anticipating, measuring, and minimizing MEMS mirror scan error to improve laser scanning microscopy's speed and accuracy pp. 1-14

John P Giannini, Andrew G York and Hari Shroff

Short-term efficacy and tolerability of venlafaxine extended release in adults with generalized anxiety disorder without depression: A meta-analysis pp. 1-14

Xinyuan Li, Lijun Zhu, Yingying Su and Shaokuan Fang

Evaluation of spoligotyping, SNPs and customised MIRU-VNTR combination for genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in Madagascar pp. 1-14

Rondroarivelo Rasoahanitralisoa, Niaina Rakotosamimanana, David Stucki, Christophe Sola, Sebastien Gagneux and Voahangy Rasolofo Razanamparany

The trade-off between morphology and control in the co-optimized design of robots pp. 1-14

Andre Rosendo, Marco von Atzigen and Fumiya Iida

Can editors save peer review from peer reviewers? pp. 1-14

Rafael D’Andrea and James P O’Dwyer

A question of data quality—Testing pollination syndromes in Balsaminaceae pp. 1-14

Stefan Abrahamczyk, Sissi Lozada-Gobilard, Markus Ackermann, Eberhard Fischer, Vera Krieger, Almut Redling and Maximilian Weigend

Development and validation of a nursing professionalism evaluation model in a career ladder system pp. 1-14

Yeon Hee Kim, Young Sun Jung, Ja Min, Eun Young Song, Jung Hui Ok, Changwon Lim, Kyunghee Kim and Ji-Su Kim

Factors related to environmental barriers experienced by persons with and without disabilities in diverse African settings pp. 1-14

Surona Visagie, Arne H Eide, Karin Dyrstad, Hasheem Mannan, Leslie Swartz, Marguerite Schneider, Gubela Mji, Alister Munthali, Mustafa Khogali, Gert van Rooy, Karl-Gerhard Hem and Malcolm MacLachlan

Results of a massive experiment on virtual currency endowments and money demand pp. 1-14

Nenad Živić, Igor Andjelković, Tolga Özden, Milovan Dekić and Edward Castronova

Small-angle X-ray scattering characteristics of mouse brain: Planar imaging measurements and tomographic imaging simulations pp. 1-14

Mina Choi, Bahaa Ghammraoui and Aldo Badano

The influence of alcohol consumption on sickness presenteeism and impaired daily activities. The WIRUS screening study pp. 1-14

Randi Wågø Aas, Lise Haveraaen, Hildegunn Sagvaag and Mikkel Magnus Thørrisen

Comparability of activity monitors used in Asian and Western-country studies for assessing free-living sedentary behaviour pp. 1-14

Satoshi Kurita, Shohei Yano, Kaori Ishii, Ai Shibata, Hiroyuki Sasai, Yoshio Nakata, Noritoshi Fukushima, Shigeru Inoue, Shigeho Tanaka, Takemi Sugiyama, Neville Owen and Koichiro Oka

Rising trends and inequalities in cesarean section rates in Pakistan: Evidence from Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990-2013 pp. 1-14

Sarwat Mumtaz, Jinwook Bahk and Young-Ho Khang

Should preventive antibiotics be used in patients with acute stroke? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials pp. 1-14

Feng Zheng, Niklas von Spreckelsen, Xintong Zhang, Pantelis Stavrinou, Marco Timmer, Christian Dohmen, Roland Goldbrunner, Fang Cao, Qiang Zhang, Qishan Ran, Gang Li, Ruiming Fan, Shengtao Yao and Boris Krischek

Risk factors for intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in the United States: A population-based study in SEER-Medicare pp. 1-14

Jessica L Petrick, Baiyu Yang, Sean F Altekruse, Alison L Van Dyke, Jill Koshiol, Barry I Graubard and Katherine A McGlynn

Chronic administration of fluoxetine and pro-inflammatory cytokine change in a rat model of depression pp. 1-14

Yanxia Lu, Cyrus S Ho, Xin Liu, Anna N Chua, Wei Wang, Roger S McIntyre and Roger C Ho

Influence of surface geometry on the culture of human cell lines: A comparative study using flat, round-bottom and v-shaped 96 well plates pp. 1-14

Sara Shafaie, Victoria Hutter, Marc B Brown, Michael T Cook and David Y S Chau

Is systematic training in opioid overdose prevention effective? pp. 1-14

Albert Espelt, Marina Bosque-Prous, Cinta Folch, Ana Sarasa-Renedo, Xavier Majó, Jordi Casabona, M Teresa Brugal and Group Redan

An equity analysis of health examination service utilization by women from underdeveloped areas in western China pp. 1-14

Yuyan Qian, Jianmin Gao, Zhongliang Zhou, Ju’e Yan, Yongjian Xu, Xiaowei Yang and Yanli Li

Epstein-Barr virus infection and oral squamous cell carcinoma risk: A meta-analysis pp. 1-14

Yangyang She, Xiaolin Nong, Min Zhang and Menglin Wang

Predicting local malaria exposure using a Lasso-based two-level cross validation algorithm pp. 1-14

Bienvenue Kouwaye, Fabrice Rossi, Noël Fonton, André Garcia, Simplice Dossou-Gbété, Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou and Gilles Cottrell

Questionnaire survey of the pan-African trade in lion body parts pp. 1-35

Vivienne L Williams, Andrew J Loveridge, David J Newton and David W Macdonald

Using redescription mining to relate clinical and biological characteristics of cognitively impaired and Alzheimer’s disease patients pp. 1-35

Matej Mihelčić, Goran Šimić, Mirjana Babić Leko, Nada Lavrač, Sašo Džeroski, Tomislav Šmuc and for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Process-driven and biological characterisation and mapping of seabed habitats sensitive to trawling pp. 1-30

Aurélie Foveau, Sandrine Vaz, Nicolas Desroy and Vladimir E Kostylev

Music viewed by its entropy content: A novel window for comparative analysis pp. 1-30

Gerardo Febres and Klaus Jaffe

Changes in aortic pulse wave velocity of four thoracic aortic stent grafts in an ex vivo porcine model pp. 1-7

Hector W L de Beaufort, Margherita Coda, Michele Conti, Theodorus M J van Bakel, Foeke J H Nauta, Ettore Lanzarone, Frans L Moll, Joost A van Herwaarden, Ferdinando Auricchio and Santi Trimarchi

Prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-17

Tingting Wang, Yuan Liu, Zhanzhan Li, Kaihua Liu, Yang Xu, Wenpei Shi and Lizhang Chen

A collaborative approach for research paper recommender system pp. 1-17

Khalid Haruna, Maizatul Akmar Ismail, Damiasih Damiasih, Joko Sutopo and Tutut Herawan

DOMe: A deduplication optimization method for the NewSQL database backups pp. 1-17

Longxiang Wang, Zhengdong Zhu, Xingjun Zhang, Xiaoshe Dong and Yinfeng Wang

The development of fears of compassion scale Japanese version pp. 1-17

Kenichi Asano, Masao Tsuchiya, Ikuo Ishimura, Shuzhen Lin, Yuki Matsumoto, Haruko Miyata, Yasuhiro Kotera, Eiji Shimizu and Paul Gilbert

Perceived needs of health tutors in rural and urban health training institutions in Ghana: Implications for health sector staff internal migration control pp. 1-17

Robert Kaba Alhassan, Christopher B Beyere, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Prudence P Mwini-Nyaledzigbor

A deep convolutional neural network-based automatic delineation strategy for multiple brain metastases stereotactic radiosurgery pp. 1-17

Yan Liu, Strahinja Stojadinovic, Brian Hrycushko, Zabi Wardak, Steven Lau, Weiguo Lu, Yulong Yan, Steve B Jiang, Xin Zhen, Robert Timmerman, Lucien Nedzi and Xuejun Gu

A robust ECC based mutual authentication protocol with anonymity for session initiation protocol pp. 1-17

Zahid Mehmood, Gongliang Chen, Jianhua Li, Linsen Li and Bander Alzahrani

Analysis of the interests of Google users on toothache information pp. 1-17

Matheus Lotto, Patricia Estefania Ayala Aguirre, Daniela Rios, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado, Agnes Fátima Pereira Cruvinel and Thiago Cruvinel

Worry about racial discrimination: A missing piece of the puzzle of Black-White disparities in preterm birth? pp. 1-17

Paula Braveman, Katherine Heck, Susan Egerter, Tyan Parker Dominguez, Christine Rinki, Kristen S Marchi and Michael Curtis

Process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL®) marginally effects student achievement measures but substantially increases the odds of passing a course pp. 1-17

Lindsey Walker and Abdi-Rizak M Warfa

Equity in international health research collaborations in Africa: Perceptions and expectations of African researchers pp. 1-17

Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Bongani M Mayosi and Jantina de Vries

Heterodimerization of two pore domain K + channel TASK1 and TALK2 in living heterologous expression systems pp. 1-17

Yoshiaki Suzuki, Kanako Tsutsumi, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Hisao Yamamura and Yuji Imaizumi

Predictors of adverse drug reaction-related hospitalisation in Southwest Ethiopia: A prospective cross-sectional study pp. 1-17

Mulugeta Tarekegn Angamo, Colin Michael Curtain, Leanne Chalmers, Daniel Yilma and Luke Bereznicki

Correlates of physical activity among community-dwelling adults aged 50 or over in six low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-17

Ai Koyanagi, Brendon Stubbs, Lee Smith, Benjamin Gardner and Davy Vancampfort

Healthy competition drives success in results-based aid: Lessons from the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative pp. 1-17

Charbel El Bcheraoui, Erin B Palmisano, Emily Dansereau, Alexandra Schaefer, Alexander Woldeab, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Benito Salvatierra, Bernardo Hernandez-Prado and Ali H Mokdad

Import, use, and emissions of PCBs in Switzerland from 1930 to 2100 pp. 1-24

Juliane Glüge, Christine Steinlin, Simone Schalles, Lukas Wegmann, Josef Tremp, Knut Breivik, Konrad Hungerbühler and Christian Bogdal

Integrating strategic and tactical decisions in livestock supply chain using bi-level programming, case study: Iran poultry supply chain pp. 1-24

Ebrahim Teimoury, Armin Jabbarzadeh and Mohammadhosein Babaei

Beta-arrestin 1 regulation of reward-motivated behaviors and glutamatergic function pp. 1-24

Nitish Mittal, Ani Minasyan, Nicole Romaneschi, Joshua K Hakimian, Gabriel Gonzalez-Fernandez, Ralph Albert, Nina Desai, Ian A Mendez, Timothy Schallert, Sean B Ostlund and Wendy Walwyn

Using worldwide edaphic data to model plant species niches: An assessment at a continental extent pp. 1-24

Santiago José Elías Velazco, Franklin Galvão, Fabricio Villalobos and Paulo De Marco Júnior

Wavelet Imaging on Multiple Scales (WIMS) reveals focal adhesion distributions, dynamics and coupling between actomyosin bundle stability pp. 1-24

Tim Toplak, Benoit Palmieri, Alba Juanes-García, Miguel Vicente-Manzanares, Martin Grant and Paul W Wiseman

Barcoding the butterflies of southern South America: Species delimitation efficacy, cryptic diversity and geographic patterns of divergence pp. 1-24

Pablo D Lavinia, Ezequiel O Núñez Bustos, Cecilia Kopuchian, Darío A Lijtmaer, Natalia C García, Paul D N Hebert and Pablo L Tubaro

Cognitive processing of orientation discrimination in anisometropic amblyopia pp. 1-27

Jianglan Wang, Jiao Zhao, Shoujing Wang, Rui Gong, Zhong Zheng and Longqian Liu

A cross-sectional study of the temporal evolution of electricity consumption of six commercial buildings pp. 1-27

Ethan M Pickering, Mohammad A Hossain, Jack P Mousseau, Rachel A Swanson, Roger H French and Alexis R Abramson

Experiences of operational costs of HPV vaccine delivery strategies in Gavi-supported demonstration projects pp. 1-13

Siobhan Botwright, Taylor Holroyd, Shreya Nanda, Paul Bloem, Ulla K Griffiths, Anissa Sidibe and Raymond C W Hutubessy

Optical coherence tomography for identification and quantification of human airway wall layers pp. 1-13

Julia N S d’Hooghe, Annika W M Goorsenberg, Daniel M de Bruin, Joris J T H Roelofs, Jouke T Annema and Peter I Bonta

Activity recognition with wearable sensors on loose clothing pp. 1-13

Brendan Michael and Matthew Howard

Scale of Body Connection: A multi-sample construct validation study pp. 1-13

Cynthia J Price, Elaine Adams Thompson and Sunny Chieh Cheng

Success rates in smoking cessation: Psychological preparation plays a critical role and interacts with other factors such as psychoactive substances pp. 1-13

Bertrand Joly, Jean Perriot, Philippe d’Athis, Emmanuel Chazard, Georges Brousse and Catherine Quantin

Getting it right when budgets are tight: Using optimal expansion pathways to prioritize responses to concentrated and mixed HIV epidemics pp. 1-13

Robyn M Stuart, Cliff C Kerr, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Janne Estill, Laura Grobicki, Zofia Baranczuk, A. Lorena Prieto Toledo, Vilma Montañez, Iyanoosh Reporter, Richard T Gray, Jolene Skordis, Olivia Keiser, Nejma Cheikh, Krittayawan Boonto, Sutayut Osornprasop, Fernando Lavadenz, Clemens J Benedikt, Rowan Martin-Hughes, S Azfar Hussain, Sherrie L Kelly, David J Kedziora and David P Wilson

Differences in change blindness to real-life scenes in adults with autism spectrum conditions pp. 1-13

Chris Ashwin, Sally Wheelwright and Simon Baron-Cohen

Evaluation of carotid plaque echogenicity based on the integral of the cumulative probability distribution using gray-scale ultrasound images pp. 1-13

Xiaowei Huang, Yanling Zhang, Long Meng, Derek Abbott, Ming Qian, Kelvin K L Wong, Rongqing Zheng, Hairong Zheng and Lili Niu

The continuous reaction time test for minimal hepatic encephalopathy validated by a randomized controlled multi-modal intervention—A pilot study pp. 1-13

M M Lauridsen, S Mikkelsen, T Svensson, J Holm, C Klüver, J Gram, H Vilstrup and O B Schaffalitzky de Muckadell

Effectiveness of beta-blockers depending on the genotype of congenital long-QT syndrome: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Jinhee Ahn, Hyun Jung Kim, Jong-Il Choi, Kwang No Lee, Jaemin Shim, Hyeong Sik Ahn and Young-Hoon Kim

Urban retail location: Insights from percolation theory and spatial interaction modeling pp. 1-13

Duccio Piovani, Carlos Molinero and Alan Wilson

Childhood socioeconomic position and adult mental wellbeing: Evidence from four British birth cohort studies pp. 1-13

Natasha Wood, David Bann, Rebecca Hardy, Catharine Gale, Alissa Goodman, Claire Crawford and Mai Stafford

An email-based intervention to improve the number and timeliness of letters sent from the hospital outpatient clinic to the general practitioner: A pair-randomized controlled trial pp. 1-13

Stephanie Medlock, Juliette L Parlevliet, Danielle Sent, Saeid Eslami, Marjan Askari, Derk L Arts, Joost B Hoekstra, Sophia E de Rooij and Ameen Abu-Hanna

Validation of the child and youth resilience measure among South African adolescents pp. 1-13

Kaymarlin Govender, Richard G Cowden, Kwaku Oppong Asante, Gavin George and Candice Reardon

Impact of social inequalities at birth on the longevity of children born 1914–1916: A cohort study pp. 1-13

Nicolas Todd, Sophie Le Fur, Pierre Bougnères and Alain-Jacques Valleron

Dietary patterns in internal migrants in a continental country: A population-based study pp. 1-13

Antonio Augusto Ferreira Carioca, Bartira Gorgulho, Juliana Araujo Teixeira, Regina Mara Fisberg and Dirce Maria Marchioni

Accuracy of Xpert Clostridium difficile assay for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection: A meta analysis pp. 1-13

Yuanyuan Bai, Xiaorong Sun, Yan Jin, Yueling Wang and Juan Li

Analysis of the interaction of Plexin-B1 and Plexin-B2 with Rnd family proteins pp. 1-13

Thomas Wylie, Ritu Garg, Anne J Ridley and Maria R Conte

Rank distributions: Frequency vs. magnitude pp. 1-13

Carlos Velarde and Alberto Robledo

Influence of pharmaceutical marketing on Medicare prescriptions in the District of Columbia pp. 1-13

Susan F Wood, Joanna Podrasky, Meghan A McMonagle, Janani Raveendran, Tyler Bysshe, Alycia Hogenmiller and Adriane Fugh-Berman

A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing combined intravenous and topical tranexamic acid with intravenous administration alone in THA pp. 1-13

Yangbai Sun, Chaoyin Jiang and Qingfeng Li

Effect of a package of integrated demand- and supply-side interventions on facility delivery rates in rural Bangladesh: Implications for large-scale programs pp. 1-13

Sayedur Rahman, Aziz Ahmed Choudhury, Rasheda Khanam, Syed Mamun Ibne Moin, Salahuddin Ahmed, Nazma Begum, Nurun Naher Shoma, Md Abdul Quaiyum, Abdullah H Baqui and for the Projahnmo Study Group in Bangladesh

Prognostic and clinicopathological value of Twist expression in breast cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Weiqiang Qiao, Zhiqiang Jia, Heyang Liu, Qipeng Liu, Ting Zhang, Wanying Guo, Peng Li, Miao Deng and Sanqiang Li

Herpesviruses in etiopathogenesis of aggressive periodontitis: A meta-analysis based on case-control studies pp. 1-13

Fei Li, Ce Zhu, Feng-Ying Deng, May Chun Mei Wong, Hai-Xia Lu and Xi-Ping Feng

Antithrombotic therapy strategies for atrial fibrillation patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A systematic review and network meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Xiaoxuan Gong, Shaowen Tang, Jiangjin Li, Xiwen Zhang, Xiaoyi Tian and Shuren Ma

Dexamethasone-mediated inhibition of Glioblastoma neurosphere dispersal in an ex vivo organotypic neural assay pp. 1-13

Ahmed M Meleis, Aria Mahtabfar, Shabbar Danish and Ramsey A Foty

Quantitative assessment of finger motor performance: Normative data pp. 1-13

Alessio Signori, Maria Pia Sormani, Irene Schiavetti, Ambra Bisio, Marco Bove and Laura Bonzano

Hypothyroidism as a risk factor for open angle glaucoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Shiming Wang, Yue Liu and Guangying Zheng

Incident experience predicts freezing-like responses in firefighters pp. 1-13

Verena Ly, Linsey Roijendijk, Hans Hazebroek, Clemon Tonnaer and Muriel A Hagenaars

Assessment of fitness for duty of underperforming physicians: The importance of using appropriate norms pp. 1-13

Betsy White Williams, Philip Flanders, Elizabeth S Grace, Elizabeth Korinek, Dillon Welindt and Michael V Williams

Expectancy after the first treatment and response to acupuncture for menopausal hot flashes pp. 1-13

Carolyn C Ee, Sharmala Thuraisingam, Marie V Pirotta, Simon D French, Charlie C Xue and Helena J Teede

Effects of self-reported sensitivity and road-traffic noise levels on the immune system pp. 1-13

Ahra Kim, Joo Hyun Sung, Jin-Hee Bang, Seung Woo Cho, Jiho Lee and Chang Sun Sim

MRI-based Brain Healthcare Quotients: A bridge between neural and behavioral analyses for keeping the brain healthy pp. 1-13

Kiyotaka Nemoto, Hiroki Oka, Hiroki Fukuda and Yoshinori Yamakawa

Clinical features of superficial and deep peripapillary microvascular density in healthy myopic eyes pp. 1-13

Mi Sun Sung, Tae Hee Lee, Hwan Heo and Sang Woo Park

Clinical and economic burdens experienced by patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: An observational study using a Japanese claims database pp. 1-13

Nozomi Ebata-Kogure, Kazutaka Nozawa, Aya Murakami, Tetsumi Toyoda, Yuri Haga and Koichi Fujii

Modeling the relationship between wolf control and cattle depredation pp. 1-13

Lyudmyla Kompaniyets and Marc A Evans

Out-of-pocket payment for surgery in Uganda: The rate of impoverishing and catastrophic expenditure at a government hospital pp. 1-13

Geoffrey A Anderson, Lenka Ilcisin, Peter Kayima, Lenard Abesiga, Noralis Portal Benitez, Joseph Ngonzi, Mayanja Ronald and Mark G Shrime

A manometry classification to assess pelvic floor muscle function in women pp. 1-8

Priscylla Helouyse Angelo, Larissa Ramalho Dantas Varella, Maria Clara Eugênia de Oliveira, Monayane Grazielly Leite Matias, Maria Aneilma Ribeiro de Azevedo, Luzinete Medeiros de Almeida, Paulo Roberto Medeiros de Azevedo and Maria Thereza Micussi

Two-frequency chimera state in a ring of nonlocally coupled Brusselators pp. 1-8

Qionglin Dai, Danna Liu, Hongyan Cheng, Haihong Li and Junzhong Yang

Genetically defined elevated homocysteine levels do not result in widespread changes of DNA methylation in leukocytes pp. 1-19

Pooja R Mandaviya, Roby Joehanes, Dylan Aïssi, Brigitte Kühnel, Riccardo E Marioni, Vinh Truong, Lisette Stolk, Marian Beekman, Marc Jan Bonder, Lude Franke, Christian Gieger, Tianxiao Huan, M Arfan Ikram, Sonja Kunze, Liming Liang, Jan Lindemans, Chunyu Liu, Allan F McRae, Michael M Mendelson, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Annette Peters, P Eline Slagboom, John M Starr, David-Alexandre Trégouët, André G Uitterlinden, Marleen M J van Greevenbroek, Diana van Heemst, Maarten van Iterson, Philip S Wells, Chen Yao, Ian J Deary, France Gagnon, Bastiaan T Heijmans, Daniel Levy, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, Melanie Waldenberger, Sandra G Heil, Joyce B J van Meurs and on behalf of The CHARGE Consortium Epigenetics group and BIOS Consortium

Parental depressive symptoms, children’s emotional and behavioural problems, and parents’ expressed emotion—Critical and positive comments pp. 1-19

Lamprini Psychogiou, Nicholas J Moberly, Elizabeth Parry, Selina Nath, Angeliki Kallitsoglou and Ginny Russell

Features of the normal choriocapillaris with OCT-angiography: Density estimation and textural properties pp. 1-19

Giovanni Montesano, Davide Allegrini, Leonardo Colombo, Luca M Rossetti and Alfredo Pece

3D craniofacial registration using thin-plate spline transform and cylindrical surface projection pp. 1-19

Yucong Chen, Junli Zhao, Qingqiong Deng and Fuqing Duan

Trade-off between jerk and time headway as an indicator of driving style pp. 1-19

Teemu H Itkonen, Jami Pekkanen, Otto Lappi, Iisakki Kosonen, Tapio Luttinen and Heikki Summala

Navigating behavioral energy sufficiency. Results from a survey in Swiss cities on potential behavior change pp. 1-19

Roman Seidl, Corinne Moser and Yann Blumer

Steroid hormones and psychological responses to soccer matches: Insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-19

Maamer Slimani, Julien S Baker, Foued Cheour, Lee Taylor and Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

On the automaticity of relational stimulus processing: The (extrinsic) relational Simon task pp. 1-19

Adriaan Spruyt and Jan De Houwer

On the development of a semi-nonparametric generalized multinomial logit model for travel-related choices pp. 1-19

Ke Wang, Xin Ye, Ram M Pendyala and Yajie Zou

Mapping and predictive variations of soil bacterial richness across France pp. 1-19

Sébastien Terrat, Walid Horrigue, Samuel Dequietd, Nicolas P A Saby, Mélanie Lelièvre, Virginie Nowak, Julie Tripied, Tiffanie Régnier, Claudy Jolivet, Dominique Arrouays, Patrick Wincker, Corinne Cruaud, Battle Karimi, Antonio Bispo, Pierre Alain Maron, Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré and Lionel Ranjard

Recent development of risk-prediction models for incident hypertension: An updated systematic review pp. 1-19

Dongdong Sun, Jielin Liu, Lei Xiao, Ya Liu, Zuoguang Wang, Chuang Li, Yongxin Jin, Qiong Zhao and Shaojun Wen

EAMA: Empirically adjusted meta-analysis for large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing in genomic experiments pp. 1-19

Sinjini Sikdar, Somnath Datta and Susmita Datta

Optimizing a desirable fare structure for a bus-subway corridor pp. 1-21

Bing-Zheng Liu, Ying-En Ge, Kai Cao, Xi Jiang, Lingyun Meng, Ding Liu and Yunfeng Gao

The influence of anonymous peers on prosocial behavior pp. 1-21

Soowon Park and Jongho Shin

A novel approach for automatic visualization and activation detection of evoked potentials induced by epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal cord injury pp. 1-21

Samineh Mesbah, Claudia A Angeli, Robert S Keynton, Ayman El-baz and Susan J Harkema

Automatic crack detection method for loaded coal in vibration failure process pp. 1-21

Chengwu Li and Dihao Ai

Modelling innovation performance of European regions using multi-output neural networks pp. 1-21

Petr Hajek and Roberto Henriques

Inference of epidemiological parameters from household stratified data pp. 1-21

Camelia R Walker, Joshua V Ross and Andrew J Black

Social networks, market transactions, and reputation as a central resource. The Mercado del Mar, a fish market in central Mexico pp. 1-21

Carmen Pedroza-Gutiérrez and Juan M Hernandez

Structure of 311 service requests as a signature of urban location pp. 1-21

Lingjing Wang, Cheng Qian, Philipp Kats, Constantine Kontokosta and Stanislav Sobolevsky

Complementary religious and spiritual interventions in physical health and quality of life: A systematic review of randomized controlled clinical trials pp. 1-21

Juliane Piasseschi de Bernardin Gonçalves, Giancarlo Lucchetti, Paulo Rossi Menezes and Homero Vallada

Musicians have better memory than nonmusicians: A meta-analysis pp. 1-21

Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Barbara Carretti and Massimo Grassi

A medical imaging analysis system for trigger finger using an adaptive texture-based active shape model (ATASM) in ultrasound images pp. 1-21

Bo-I Chuang, Li-Chieh Kuo, Tai-Hua Yang, Fong-Chin Su, I-Ming Jou, Wei-Jr Lin and Yung-Nien Sun

Effects of dry period length on production, cash flows and greenhouse gas emissions of the dairy herd: A dynamic stochastic simulation model pp. 1-21

Akke Kok, Corina E van Middelaar, Pim F Mostert, Ariëtte T M van Knegsel, Bas Kemp, Imke J M de Boer and Henk Hogeveen

Hybrid self-optimized clustering model based on citation links and textual features to detect research topics pp. 1-21

Dejian Yu, Wanru Wang, Shuai Zhang, Wenyu Zhang and Rongyu Liu

Mediterranean California’s water use future under multiple scenarios of developed and agricultural land use change pp. 1-21

Tamara S Wilson, Benjamin M Sleeter and D Richard Cameron

Estimation of confidence limits for descriptive indexes derived from autoregressive analysis of time series: Methods and application to heart rate variability pp. 1-22

Alessandro Beda, David M Simpson and Luca Faes

Emergence of encounter networks due to human mobility pp. 1-22

A P Riascos and José L Mateos

An efficient General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) enabled algorithm for dynamic transit accessibility analysis pp. 1-22

S Kiavash Fayyaz S., Xiaoyue Cathy Liu and Guohui Zhang

A systematic review of cost-effectiveness studies comparing conventional, biological and surgical interventions for inflammatory bowel disease pp. 1-22

Nadia Pillai, Mark Dusheiko, Bernard Burnand and Valérie Pittet

Towards social autonomous vehicles: Efficient collision avoidance scheme using Richardson’s arms race model pp. 1-22

Faisal Riaz and Muaz A Niazi

Business cycles’ correlation and systemic risk of the Japanese supplier-customer network pp. 1-22

Hazem Krichene, Abhijit Chakraborty, Hiroyasu Inoue and Yoshi Fujiwara

Cost-effectiveness of post-landing latent tuberculosis infection control strategies in new migrants to Canada pp. 1-22

Jonathon R Campbell, James C Johnston, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Victoria J Cook, R Kevin Elwood and Fawziah Marra

Hepatitis C virus viremic rate in the Middle East and North Africa: Systematic synthesis, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions pp. 1-22

Manale Harfouche, Hiam Chemaitelly, Silva P Kouyoumjian, Sarwat Mahmud, Karima Chaabna, Zaina Al-Kanaani and Laith J Abu-Raddad

Comparison of rubella immunization rates in immigrant and Italian women of childbearing age: Results from the Italian behavioral surveillance system PASSI (2011-2015) pp. 1-16

Massimo Fabiani, Gianluigi Ferrante, Valentina Minardi, Cristina Giambi, Flavia Riccardo, Silvia Declich and Maria Masocco

Treatment patterns and costs of care for patients with relapsed and refractory Hodgkin lymphoma treated with brentuximab vedotin in the United States: A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-16

Shelagh M Szabo, Ishan Hirji, Karissa M Johnston, Ariadna Juarez-Garcia and Joseph M Connors

A prospective neurosurgical registry evaluating the clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda pp. 1-16

Benjamin J Kuo, Silvia D Vaca, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Catherine A Staton, Linda Xu, Michael Muhumuza, Hussein Ssenyonjo, John Mukasa, Joel Kiryabwire, Lydia Nanjula, Christine Muhumuza, Henry E Rice, Gerald A Grant and Michael M Haglund

ECG data compression using a neural network model based on multi-objective optimization pp. 1-16

Bo Zhang, Jiasheng Zhao, Xiao Chen and Jianhuang Wu

Sinking towards destiny: High throughput measurement of phytoplankton sinking rates through time-resolved fluorescence plate spectroscopy pp. 1-16

Catherine C Bannon and Douglas A Campbell

Economic burden of malaria and predictors of cost variability to rural households in south-central Ethiopia pp. 1-16

Alemayehu Hailu, Bernt Lindtjørn, Wakgari Deressa, Taye Gari, Eskindir Loha and Bjarne Robberstad

Validation of a pregnancy planning measure for Arabic-speaking women pp. 1-16

Eman Almaghaslah, Roger Rochat and Ghada Farhat

Impact of social separation during pregnancy on the manifestation of defensive behaviors related to generalized anxiety and panic throughout offspring development pp. 1-16

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Tiago B Ferreira, Kenneth J Hoffer, Filomena Ribeiro, Paulo Ribeiro and João G O’Neill

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Association of birth weight with corneal power in early adolescence: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2008 pp. 1-11

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Multivariate linear regression analysis to identify general factors for quantitative predictions of implant stability quotient values pp. 1-11

Hairong Huang, Zanzan Xu, Xianhong Shao, Daniel Wismeijer, Ping Sun, Jingxiao Wang and Gang Wu

Secondary analysis of hospital patient experience scores across England’s National Health Service – How much has improved since 2005? pp. 1-11

Kate Honeyford, Felix Greaves, Paul Aylin and Alex Bottle

Comparison of multistate Markov modeling with contemporary outcomes in a reanalysis of the NINDS tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke treatment trial pp. 1-11

Christy Cassarly, Renee’ H Martin, Marc Chimowitz, Edsel A Peña, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and Yuko Y Palesch

Association between a history of periodontitis and the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus in Taiwan: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study pp. 1-11

Yi-Da Wu, Ching-Heng Lin, Wen-Cheng Chao, Tsai-Ling Liao, Chen Der-Yuan and Hsin-Hua Chen

EZSCAN for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-11

Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Andrea Ruiz-Alejos, J Jaime Miranda, Rohini Mathur, Pablo Perel and Liam Smeeth

Volume 12, issue 9, 2017

Volunteer motivators for participating in HIV vaccine clinical trials in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 1-12

Borna A Nyaoke, Gaudensia N Mutua, Rose Sajabi, Delvin Nyasani, Marianne W Mureithi and Omu A Anzala

For how many days and what types of group activities should older Japanese adults be involved in to maintain health? A 4-year longitudinal study pp. 1-12

Kumiko Nonaka, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Murayama, Masami Hasebe, Takashi Koike, Erika Kobayashi and Yoshinori Fujiwara

Models to predict relapse in psychosis: A systematic review pp. 1-12

Sarah Sullivan, Kate Northstone, Caroline Gadd, Julian Walker, Ruta Margelyte, Alison Richards and Penny Whiting

Does body image perception relate to quality of life in middle-aged women? pp. 1-12

Maria Socorro Medeiros de Morais, Rafaela Andrade do Nascimento, Mariana Carmem Apolinário Vieira, Mayle Andrade Moreira, Saionara Maria Aires da Câmara, Álvaro Campos Cavalcanti Maciel and Maria das Graças Almeida

Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots pp. 1-12

Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara and Sune Lehmann

Outcome of papillary versus clear cell renal cell carcinoma varies significantly in non-metastatic disease pp. 1-12

Nina Wagener, Dominic Edelmann, Axel Benner, Richard Zigeuner, Hendrik Borgmann, Ingmar Wolff, Laura M Krabbe, Mireia Musquera, Paolo Dell’Oglio, Umberto Capitanio, Tobias Klatte, Luca Cindolo, Matthias May, Sabine D Brookman-May and on behalf of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Kidney Cancer Group

Effect of water-based recovery on blood lactate removal after high-intensity exercise pp. 1-12

Francesco Lucertini, Marco Gervasi, Giancarlo D'Amen, Davide Sisti, Marco Bruno Luigi Rocchi, Vilberto Stocchi and Piero Benelli

Economic costs and health-related quality of life for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) patients in China pp. 1-12

Yaming Zheng, Mark Jit, Joseph T Wu, Juan Yang, Kathy Leung, Qiaohong Liao and Hongjie Yu

Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on carotid intima-media thickness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: A meta-analysis pp. 1-12

Li-Da Chen, Li Lin, Xue-Jun Lin, Yang-Wu Ou, Zhi Wu, Yu-Ming Ye, Qiao-Zhen Xu, Ya-Ping Huang and Zhi-Ming Cai

Optimizing information processing in neuronal networks beyond critical states pp. 1-12

Mariana Sacrini Ayres Ferraz, Hiago Lucas Cardeal Melo-Silva and Alexandre Hiroaki Kihara

Liver stiffness measurement predicts liver-related events in patients with chronic hepatitis C: A retrospective study pp. 1-12

Ana Zaida Gomez-Moreno, Daniel Pineda-Tenor, Maria Angeles Jimenez-Sousa, Juan Jose Sánchez-Ruano, Tomas Artaza-Varasa, Jose Saura-Montalban, Pablo Ryan and Salvador Resino

Parsimonious data: How a single Facebook like predicts voting behavior in multiparty systems pp. 1-12

Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Thomas Albrechtsen, Emil Dahl-Nielsen, Michael Jensen, Magnus Skovrind and Tobias Bornakke

Effect of dragon fruit on glycemic control in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-12

Nalinee Poolsup, Naeti Suksomboon and Naw Juna Paw

Endogenous temporal attention in the absence of stimulus-driven cues emerges in the second year of life pp. 1-12

Anna Martinez-Alvarez, Ferran Pons and Ruth de Diego-Balaguer

An analysis of equine round pen training videos posted online: Differences between amateur and professional trainers pp. 1-12

Erin Kydd, Barbara Padalino, Cathrynne Henshall and Paul McGreevy

Degree sums and dense spanning trees pp. 1-12

Tao Li, Yingqi Gao, Qiankun Dong and Hua Wang

Cystatin C, a potential marker for cerebral microvascular compliance, is associated with white-matter hyperintensities progression pp. 1-12

Woo-Jin Lee, Keun-Hwa Jung, Young Jin Ryu, Jeong-Min Kim, Soon-Tae Lee, Kon Chu, Manho Kim, Sang Kun Lee and Jae-Kyu Roh

Cost-of-illness of cholera to households and health facilities in rural Malawi pp. 1-12

Patrick G Ilboudo, Xiao Xian Huang, Bagrey Ngwira, Abel Mwanyungwe, Vittal Mogasale, Martin A Mengel, Philippe Cavailler, Bradford D Gessner and Jean-Bernard Le Gargasson

Prognostic value of SRSF2 mutations in patients with de novo myelodysplastic syndromes: A meta-analysis pp. 1-12

Xue Zheng, Zhi Zhan, Duolan Naren, Jing Li, Tianyou Yan and Yuping Gong

Characterization of the CPAP-treated patient population in Catalonia pp. 1-12

Cecilia Turino, Sandra Bertran, Ricard Gavaldá, Ivan Teixidó, Holger Woehrle, Montserrat Rué, Francesc Solsona, Joan Escarrabill, Cristina Colls, Anna García-Altés, Jordi de Batlle, Manuel Sánchez de-la-Torre and Ferran Barbé

Predictive models of objective oropharyngeal OSA surgery outcomes: Success rate and AHI reduction ratio pp. 1-12

Ji Ho Choi, Jae Yong Lee, Jaehyung Cha, Kangwoo Kim, Seung-No Hong and Seung Hoon Lee

False-belief reasoning from 3 to 92 years of age pp. 1-12

Daniel M Bernstein, Alisha Coolin, Ashley L Fischer, Wendy Loken Thornton and Jessica A Sommerville

Bone marrow basophils provide survival signals to immature B cells in vitro but are dispensable in vivo pp. 1-12

Joshua M Moreau, Selena Cen, Alexandra Berger, Caren Furlonger and Christopher J Paige

Pilot study on novel blood containers with alternative plasticizers for red cell concentrate storage pp. 1-12

Yuki Morishita, Yusuke Nomura, Chie Fukui, Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Toshiyuki Ikeda, Tomokazu Mukai, Toshiyasu Yuba, Ken-ichi Inamura, Hisatoki Yamaoka, Ken-ichi Miyazaki, Hitoshi Okazaki and Yuji Haishima

Overtreatment in the United States pp. 1-11

Heather Lyu, Tim Xu, Daniel Brotman, Brandan Mayer-Blackwell, Michol Cooper, Michael Daniel, Elizabeth C Wick, Vikas Saini, Shannon Brownlee and Martin A Makary

Differences in chemical constituents of Artemisia annua L from different geographical regions in China pp. 1-11

Xiaobo Zhang, Yuping Zhao, Lanping Guo, Zhidong Qiu, Luqi Huang and Xiaobo Qu

Visuo-perceptual capabilities predict sensitivity for coinciding auditory and visual transients in multi-element displays pp. 1-11

Hauke S Meyerhoff and Nina A Gehrer

The impact of HIV infection and socioeconomic factors on the incidence of gonorrhea: A county-level, US-wide analysis pp. 1-11

Nikolaos Andreatos, Christos Grigoras, Fadi Shehadeh, Elina Eleftheria Pliakos, Georgianna Stoukides, Jenna Port, Myrto Eleni Flokas and Eleftherios Mylonakis

How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research funding were distributed equally among researchers? pp. 1-11

Krist Vaesen and Joel Katzav

Shorter dialysis session length was not associated with lower mental health and physical functioning in elderly hemodialysis patients: Results from the Japan Dialysis Outcome and Practice Patterns Study (J-DOPPS) pp. 1-11

Masashi Kitagawa, Ken-ei Sada, Norikazu Hinamoto, Miho Kimachi, Yosuke Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Onishi and Shunichi Fukuhara

Selenium deficiency-induced alterations in ion profiles in chicken muscle pp. 1-11

Haidong Yao, Xia Zhao, Ruifeng Fan, Hamid Sattar, Jinxin Zhao, Wenchao Zhao, Ziwei Zhang, Yufeng Li and Shiwen Xu

Male-specific association of the FCGR2A His167Arg polymorphism with Kawasaki disease pp. 1-11

Young-Chang Kwon, Jae-Jung Kim, Sin Weon Yun, Jeong Jin Yu, Kyung Lim Yoon, Kyung-Yil Lee, Hong-Ryang Kil, Gi Beom Kim, Myung-Ki Han, Min Seob Song, Hyoung Doo Lee, Kee-Soo Ha, Sejung Sohn, Ryota Ebata, Hiromichi Hamada, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Kaoru Ito, Yoshihiro Onouchi, Young Mi Hong, Gi Young Jang, Jong-Keuk Lee and the Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium

Intuitive intellectual property law: A nationally-representative test of the plagiarism fallacy pp. 1-11

Anne A Fast, Kristina R Olson and Gregory N Mandel

Typhoon survivors' subjective wellbeing—A different view of responses to natural disaster pp. 1-11

Yaira Hamama-Raz, Yuval Palgi, Elazar Leshem, Menachem Ben-Ezra and Osnat Lavenda

Do privacy and security regulations need a status update? Perspectives from an intergenerational survey pp. 1-11

Stacey Pereira, Jill Oliver Robinson, Hayley A Peoples, Amanda M Gutierrez, Mary A Majumder, Amy L McGuire and Mark A Rothstein

Artificial intelligence in peer review: How can evolutionary computation support journal editors? pp. 1-11

Maciej J Mrowinski, Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, Marcel Ausloos and Olgica Nedic

Proprioception in patients with posterior cruciate ligament tears: A meta-analysis comparison of reconstructed and contralateral normal knees pp. 1-11

Jung-Ro Yoon, Dae-Hee Lee, Seung-Nam Ko and Young-Soo Shin

Risk of acute gastroenteritis associated with human bocavirus infection in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-11

Ri De, Liying Liu, Yuan Qian, Runan Zhu, Jie Deng, Fang Wang, Yu Sun, Huijin Dong, Liping Jia and Linqing Zhao

Predicting the reward value of faces and bodies from social perception pp. 1-11

Danielle Morrison, Hongyi Wang, Amanda C Hahn, Benedict C Jones and Lisa M DeBruine

Untreated duration predicted the severity of depression at the two-year follow-up point pp. 1-11

Ching-I Hung, Chia-Yih Liu and Ching-Hui Yang

Analysis of inter-country input-output table based on citation network: How to measure the competition and collaboration between industrial sectors on the global value chain pp. 1-29

Lizhi Xing

Investigating the multivariate nature of NHL player performance with structural equation modeling pp. 1-29

Sean N Riley

A semi-symmetric image encryption scheme based on the function projective synchronization of two hyperchaotic systems pp. 1-29

Xiaoqiang Di, Jinqing Li, Hui Qi, Ligang Cong and Huamin Yang

Depolarization of the conductance-voltage relationship in the Na V 1.5 mutant, E1784K, is due to altered fast inactivation pp. 1-29

Colin H Peters, Alec Yu, Wandi Zhu, Jonathan R Silva and Peter C Ruben

Degradable transportation network with the addition of electric vehicles: Network equilibrium analysis pp. 1-29

Rui Zhang, Enjian Yao and Yang Yang

Community Collectivism: A social dynamic approach to conceptualizing culture pp. 1-29

Birol Akkuş, Tom Postmes and Katherine Stroebe

Examining lag effects between industrial land development and regional economic changes: The Netherlands experience pp. 1-34

Eda Ustaoglu and Carlo Lavalle

Access to finance from different finance provider types: Farmer knowledge of the requirements pp. 1-15

Eliana Wulandari, Miranda P M Meuwissen, Maman H Karmana and Alfons G J M Oude Lansink

An iterative approach for the global estimation of sentence similarity pp. 1-15

Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Danushka Bollegala, Yuichi Yoshida and Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

The effect of health status and living arrangements on long term care models among older Chinese: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-15

Liangwen Zhang, Yanbing Zeng and Ya Fang

Cost-effectiveness analysis of use of a polypill versus usual care or best practice for primary prevention in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease pp. 1-15

Sue Jowett, Pelham Barton, Andrea Roalfe, Kate Fletcher, F D Richard Hobbs, Richard J McManus and Jonathan Mant

A pre-registered naturalistic observation of within domain mental fatigue and domain-general depletion of self-control pp. 1-15

Daniel Randles, Iain Harlow and Michael Inzlicht

Identification of a mouse Lactobacillus johnsonii strain with deconjugase activity against the FXR antagonist T-β-MCA pp. 1-15

Michael DiMarzio, Brigida Rusconi, Neela H Yennawar, Mark Eppinger, Andrew D Patterson and Edward G Dudley

Residual volume/total lung capacity ratio confers limited additive significance to lung clearance index for assessment of adults with bronchiectasis pp. 1-15

Wei-jie Guan, Jing-jing Yuan, Yan Huang, Hui-min Li, Rong-chang Chen and Nan-shan Zhong

High rates of loss to follow-up during the first year of pre-antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients at sites providing pre-ART care in Nigeria, 2004–2012 pp. 1-15

Simon G Agolory, Andrew F Auld, Solomon Odafe, Ray W Shiraishi, E Kainne Dokubo, Mahesh Swaminathan, Ibrahim Dalhatu, Dennis Onotu, Oseni Abiri, Henry Debem, Adebobola Bashorun and Tedd V Ellerbrock

Comparison of background EEG activity of different groups of patients with idiopathic epilepsy using Shannon spectral entropy and cluster-based permutation statistical testing pp. 1-15

Jose Antonio Urigüen, Begoña García-Zapirain, Julio Artieda, Jorge Iriarte and Miguel Valencia

Human-in-the-loop Bayesian optimization of wearable device parameters pp. 1-15

Myunghee Kim, Ye Ding, Philippe Malcolm, Jozefien Speeckaert, Christoper J Siviy, Conor J Walsh and Scott Kuindersma

Unmet healthcare needs in homeless women with children in the Greater Paris area in France pp. 1-15

Cécile Vuillermoz, Stéphanie Vandentorren, Ruben Brondeel and Pierre Chauvin

In-vivo biological activity and glycosylation analysis of a biosimilar recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone product (Bemfola) compared with its reference medicinal product (GONAL-f) pp. 1-15

Renato Mastrangeli, Abhijeet Satwekar, Francesca Cutillo, Cinzia Ciampolillo, Wolf Palinsky and Salvatore Longobardi

Diffusion weighted imaging in patients with rectal cancer: Comparison between Gaussian and non-Gaussian models pp. 1-15

Georgios C Manikis, Kostas Marias, Doenja M J Lambregts, Katerina Nikiforaki, Miriam M van Heeswijk, Frans C H Bakers, Regina G H Beets-Tan and Nikolaos Papanikolaou

Coronary heart disease and risk for cognitive impairment or dementia: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Kay Deckers, Syenna H J Schievink, Maria M F Rodriquez, Robert J van Oostenbrugge, Martin P J van Boxtel, Frans R J Verhey and Sebastian Köhler

Differential expression of tetraspanin superfamily members in dendritic cell subsets pp. 1-15

Malou Zuidscherwoude, Kuntal Worah, Alie van der Schaaf, Sonja I Buschow and Annemiek B van Spriel

Aerobic exercise for vasomotor menopausal symptoms: A cost-utility analysis based on the Active Women trial pp. 1-15

Ilias Goranitis, Leana Bellanca, Amanda J Daley, Adele Thomas, Helen Stokes-Lampard, Andrea K Roalfe and Sue Jowett

Effects and safety of oral tolvaptan in patients with congestive heart failure: A systematic review and network meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Mei-Yi Wu, Tzu-Ting Chen, Ying-Chun Chen, Tarng Der-Cherng, Yun-Chun Wu, Hsien-Ho Lin and Yu-Kang Tu

Comparative effectiveness and tolerance of immunosuppressive treatments for idiopathic membranous nephropathy: A network meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Song Ren, Ying Wang, Li Xian, Tadashi Toyama, Meg Jardine, Guisen Li, Vlado Perkovic and Daqing Hong

A new approach to keratoconus detection based on corneal morphogeometric analysis pp. 1-15

Francisco Cavas-Martínez, Laurent Bataille, Daniel G Fernández-Pacheco, Francisco J F Cañavate and Jorge L Alió

Meaningless comparisons lead to false optimism in medical machine learning pp. 1-15

Orianna DeMasi, Konrad Kording and Benjamin Recht

Prevalence of mind and body exercises (MBE) in relation to demographics, self-rated health, and purchases of prescribed psychotropic drugs and analgesics pp. 1-15

Lina Rådmark, Linda L Magnusson Hanson, Eva Bojner Horwitz and Walter Osika

Mapping land cover change over continental Africa using Landsat and Google Earth Engine cloud computing pp. 1-15

Alemayehu Midekisa, Felix Holl, David J Savory, Ricardo Andrade-Pacheco, Peter W Gething, Adam Bennett and Hugh J W Sturrock

Association between perinatal hypoxic-ischemia and periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Jichong Huang, Li Zhang, Bingyao Kang, Tingting Zhu, Yafei Li, Fengyan Zhao, Yi Qu and Dezhi Mu

Molecular population genetics of the Polycomb genes in Drosophila subobscura pp. 1-15

Juan M Calvo-Martín, Montserrat Papaceit and Carmen Segarra

Trends in prevalence of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Baba Maiyaki Musa, Aishatu L Adamu, Najibah A Galadanci, Bashir Zubayr, Chisom N Odoh and Muktar H Aliyu

Does non-invasive brain stimulation reduce essential tremor? A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Nyeonju Kang and James H Cauraugh

The importance of vegetation density for tourists’ wildlife viewing experience and satisfaction in African savannah ecosystems pp. 1-15

Ugo Arbieu, Claudia Grünewald, Matthias Schleuning and Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Principal component analysis identifies patterns of cytokine expression in non-small cell lung cancer patients undergoing definitive radiation therapy pp. 1-10

Susannah G Ellsworth, Bryan M Rabatic, Jie Chen, Jing Zhao, Jeffrey Campbell, Weili Wang, Wenhu Pi, Paul Stanton, Martha Matuszak, Shruti Jolly, Amy Miller and Feng-Ming Kong

Immune response to hepatitis B vaccination in HIV-positive individuals with isolated antibodies against hepatitis B core antigen: Results of a prospective Italian study pp. 1-10

Giulia Morsica, Sabrina Bagaglio, Vincenzo Spagnuolo, Antonella Castagna, Clelia Di Serio, Andrea Galli, Liviana Della Torre, Andrea Andolina, Alexander Pramov and Caterina Uberti-Foppa

Assessment of patient perception of glaucomatous visual field loss and its association with disease severity using Amsler grid pp. 1-10

Kenji Fujitani, Daniel Su, Mark P Ghassibi, Joseph L Simonson, Jeffrey M Liebmann, Robert Ritch and Sung Chul Park

Increased microcirculatory heterogeneity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea pp. 1-10

Lukas Ruzek, Karolina Svobodova, Lyle J Olson, Ondrej Ludka and Ivan Cundrle

Management of pancreatic pseudocysts—A retrospective analysis pp. 1-10

Sebastian Rasch, Bärbel Nötzel, Veit Phillip, Tobias Lahmer, Roland M Schmid and Hana Algül

Spinal cord homogenates from SOD1 familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis induce SOD1 aggregation in living cells pp. 1-10

Edward Pokrishevsky, Ran Ha Hong, Ian R Mackenzie and Neil R Cashman

Outbreak detection and evaluation of a school-based influenza-like-illness syndromic surveillance in Tianjin, China pp. 1-10

Wenti Xu, Tianmu Chen, Xiaochun Dong, Mei Kong, Xiuzhi Lv and Lin Li

E-inclusion: Beyond individual socio-demographic characteristics pp. 1-10

Patrícia Silva, Alice Delerue Matos and Roberto Martinez-Pecino

Association between health literacy and patient experience of primary care attributes: A cross-sectional study in Japan pp. 1-10

Takuya Aoki and Machiko Inoue

Logical inconsistencies in time trade-off valuation of EQ-5D-5L health states: Whose fault is it? pp. 1-10

Zhihao Yang, Jan van Busschbach, Reinier Timman, M F Janssen and Nan Luo

Predictive accuracy of physicians’ estimates of outcome after severe stroke pp. 1-10

Marjolein Geurts, Floor A S de Kort, Paul L M de Kort, Julia H van Tuijl, L Jaap Kappelle and H Bart van der Worp

Focal T2 and FLAIR hyperintensities within the infarcted area: A suitable marker for patient selection for treatment? pp. 1-10

Julia Meisterernst, Pascal P Klinger-Gratz, Lars Leidolt, Matthias F Lang, Gerhard Schroth, Pasquale Mordasini, Mirjam R Heldner, Marie-Luise Mono, Rebekka Kurmann, Monika Buehlmann, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Jan Gralla, Heinrich P Mattle, Marwan El-Koussy and Simon Jung

Cross-sectional-derived determinants of satisfaction with physician-scientist training among Canadian MD/PhD graduates pp. 1-10

David D W Twa, Michael A Skinnider, Jordan W Squair, Christine D Lukac and on behalf of the Canadian MD/PhD Program Investigation Group

OXSA: An open-source magnetic resonance spectroscopy analysis toolbox in MATLAB pp. 1-10

Lucian A B Purvis, William T Clarke, Luca Biasiolli, Ladislav Valkovič, Matthew D Robson and Christopher T Rodgers

Modern health services utilization and associated factors in North East Ethiopia pp. 1-10

Getaw Walle Bazie and Mhiret Teshome Adimassie

tsiR: An R package for time-series Susceptible-Infected-Recovered models of epidemics pp. 1-10

Alexander D Becker and Bryan T Grenfell

Improved artificial bee colony algorithm for vehicle routing problem with time windows pp. 1-18

Baozhen Yao, Qianqian Yan, Mengjie Zhang and Yunong Yang

Household costs and time to seek care for pregnancy related complications: The role of results-based financing pp. 1-18

Jobiba Chinkhumba, Manuela De Allegri, Jacob Mazalale, Stephan Brenner, Don Mathanga, Adamson S Muula and Bjarne Robberstad

Detection of axonal synapses in 3D two-photon images pp. 1-18

Cher Bass, Pyry Helkkula, Vincenzo De Paola, Claudia Clopath and Anil Anthony Bharath

Are attitudes toward peace and war the two sides of the same coin? Evidence to the contrary from a French validation of the Attitudes Toward Peace and War Scale pp. 1-18

Nicolas Van der Linden, Christophe Leys, Olivier Klein and Pierre Bouchat

A decision support model for investment on P2P lending platform pp. 1-18

Xiangxiang Zeng, Li Liu, Stephen Leung, Jiangze Du, Xun Wang and Tao Li

Application of unsupervised analysis techniques to lung cancer patient data pp. 1-18

Chip M Lynch, Victor H van Berkel and Hermann B Frieboes

Fast sparse fractal image compression pp. 1-18

Jianji Wang, Pei Chen, Bao Xi, Jianyi Liu, Yi Zhang and Shujian Yu

Possible clinical effects of molecular hydrogen (H2) delivery during hemodialysis in chronic dialysis patients: Interim analysis in a 12 month observation pp. 1-18

Masaaki Nakayama, Noritomo Itami, Hodaka Suzuki, Hiromi Hamada, Naoyuki Osaka, Ryo Yamamoto, Kazumasa Tsunoda, Hirofumi Nakano, Kimio Watanabe, Wan-Jun Zhu, Yukio Maruyama, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Shigeru Kabayama, Ryoichi Nakazawa, Mariko Miyazaki and Sadayoshi Ito

Academic career intentions in the life sciences: Can research self-efficacy beliefs explain low numbers of aspiring physician and female scientists? pp. 1-18

Nurith Epstein and Martin R Fischer

Predicting carer health effects for use in economic evaluation pp. 1-18

Hareth Al-Janabi, Andrea Manca and Joanna Coast

Probing the stochastic property of endoreduplication in cell size determination of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf epidermal tissue pp. 1-18

Kensuke Kawade and Hirokazu Tsukaya

Development and validation of a prediction model for adenoma detection during screening and surveillance colonoscopy with comparison to actual adenoma detection rates pp. 1-18

Eelco C Brand, Julia E Crook, Colleen S Thomas, Peter D Siersema, Douglas K Rex and Michael B Wallace

High mRNA expression of splice variant SYK short correlates with hepatic disease progression in chemonaive lymph node negative colon cancer patients pp. 1-18

Robert R J Coebergh van den Braak, Anieta M Sieuwerts, Raju Kandimalla, Zarina S Lalmahomed, Sandra I Bril, Anne van Galen, Marcel Smid, Katharina Biermann, J Han J M van Krieken, Wigard P Kloosterman, John A Foekens, Ajay Goel, John W M Martens, Jan N M IJzermans and on behalf of the MATCH study Group

Economic development and wage inequality: A complex system analysis pp. 1-26

Angelica Sbardella, Emanuele Pugliese and Luciano Pietronero

Cluster-based analysis improves predictive validity of spike-triggered receptive field estimates pp. 1-26

James Bigelow and Brian J Malone

Incorporating abundance information and guiding variable selection for climate-based ensemble forecasting of species' distributional shifts pp. 1-26

Evan P Tanner, Monica Papeş, R Dwayne Elmore, Samuel D Fuhlendorf and Craig A Davis

Protein complex prediction via dense subgraphs and false positive analysis pp. 1-37

Cecilia Hernandez, Carlos Mella, Gonzalo Navarro, Alvaro Olivera-Nappa and Jaime Araya

A segmentation method for lung nodule image sequences based on superpixels and density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise pp. 1-25

Wei Zhang, Xiaolong Zhang, Juanjuan Zhao, Yan Qiang, Qi Tian and Xiaoxian Tang

Pre-service teachers’ perceived value of general pedagogical knowledge for practice: Relations with epistemic beliefs and source beliefs pp. 1-25

Samuel Merk, Tom Rosman, Julia Rueß, Marcus Syring and Jürgen Schneider

An analysis of beak shape variation in two ages of domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) using landmark-based geometric morphometrics pp. 1-25

Hillary A Dalton, Benjamin J Wood, Tina M Widowski, Michele T Guerin and Stephanie Torrey

Adaptive grid based multi-objective Cauchy differential evolution for stochastic dynamic economic emission dispatch with wind power uncertainty pp. 1-25

Huifeng Zhang, Xiaohui Lei, Chao Wang, Dong Yue and Xiangpeng Xie

Growth standard charts for monitoring bodyweight in dogs of different sizes pp. 1-28

Carina Salt, Penelope J Morris, Alexander J German, Derek Wilson, Elizabeth M Lund, Tim J Cole and Richard F Butterwick

A quantitative systems pharmacology approach, incorporating a novel liver model, for predicting pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions pp. 1-28

Mohammed H Cherkaoui-Rbati, Stuart W Paine, Peter Littlewood and Cyril Rauch

Effect of cervical cancer education and provider recommendation for screening on screening rates: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-28

Jonah Musa, Chad J Achenbach, Linda C O’Dwyer, Charlesnika T Evans, Megan McHugh, Lifang Hou, Melissa A Simon, Robert L Murphy and Neil Jordan

Automatic machine-learning based identification of jogging periods from accelerometer measurements of adolescents under field conditions pp. 1-28

Eftim Zdravevski, Biljana Risteska Stojkoska, Marie Standl and Holger Schulz

Pharmacological characterisation of S 47445, a novel positive allosteric modulator of AMPA receptors pp. 1-28

Sylvie Bretin, Caroline Louis, Laure Seguin, Stéphanie Wagner, Jean-Yves Thomas, Sylvie Challal, Nathalie Rogez, Karine Albinet, Fabrice Iop, Nadège Villain, Sonia Bertrand, Ali Krazem, Daniel Bérachochéa, Stéphanie Billiald, Charles Tordjman, Alex Cordi, Daniel Bertrand, Pierre Lestage and Laurence Danober

Temporal interpolation alters motion in fMRI scans: Magnitudes and consequences for artifact detection pp. 1-20

Jonathan D Power, Mark Plitt, Prantik Kundu, Peter A Bandettini and Alex Martin

Principal component-based weighted indices and a framework to evaluate indices: Results from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 1996 to 2011 pp. 1-20

Yi-Sheng Chao and Chao-Jung Wu

Robust network data envelopment analysis approach to evaluate the efficiency of regional electricity power networks under uncertainty pp. 1-20

Mohsen Fathollah Bayati and Seyed Jafar Sadjadi

Revising the lower statistical limit of x-ray grating-based phase-contrast computed tomography pp. 1-20

Mathias Marschner, Lorenz Birnbacher, Marian Willner, Michael Chabior, Julia Herzen, Peter B Noël and Franz Pfeiffer

A look back on how far to walk: Systematic review and meta-analysis of physical access to skilled care for childbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1-20

Kerry L M Wong, Lenka Benova and Oona M R Campbell

Beyond group engagement: Multiple pathways from encounters with the police to cooperation and compliance in Northern Ireland pp. 1-20

Samuel Pehrson, Lee Devaney, Dominic Bryan and Danielle L Blaylock

Use of airborne lidar data to improve plant species richness and diversity monitoring in lowland and mountain forests pp. 1-20

Marc Bouvier, Sylvie Durrieu, Frédéric Gosselin and Basile Herpigny

Non-pharmacological treatment for depressed older patients in primary care: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Floor Holvast, Btissame Massoudi, Richard C Oude Voshaar and Peter F M Verhaak

Myocardial wall stiffening in a mouse model of persistent truncus arteriosus pp. 1-20

Christine Miller Buffinton, Alyssa K Benjamin, Ashley N Firment and Anne M Moon

Large-scale cross-species chemogenomic platform proposes a new drug discovery strategy of veterinary drug from herbal medicines pp. 1-20

Chao Huang, Yang Yang, Xuetong Chen, Chao Wang, Yan Li, Chunli Zheng and Yonghua Wang

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Sanni Yaya, Ghose Bishwajit, Michael Ekholuenetale, Vaibhav Shah, Bernard Kadio and Ogochukwu Udenigwe

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An evidence-based evaluation of transferrable skills and job satisfaction for science PhDs pp. 1-16

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Dynamic classification of fetal heart rates by hierarchical Dirichlet process mixture models pp. 1-16

Kezi Yu, J Gerald Quirk and Petar M Djurić

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Stephen Gilmore

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Sarah M Elliott, Mark E Brigham, Kathy E Lee, Jo A Banda, Steven J Choy, Daniel J Gefell, Thomas A Minarik, Jeremy N Moore and Zachary G Jorgenson

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Live-cell imaging to measure BAX recruitment kinetics to mitochondria during apoptosis pp. 1-21

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Learning linear transformations between counting-based and prediction-based word embeddings pp. 1-21

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Deep reconstruction model for dynamic PET images pp. 1-21

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Empirical research on Kano’s model and customer satisfaction pp. 1-22

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An empirical research on relationships between subjective judgement, technology acceptance tendency and knowledge transfer pp. 1-22

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Prediction and analysis of essential genes using the enrichments of gene ontology and KEGG pathways pp. 1-22

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Junhua Wang, Yumeng Kong, Ting Fu and Joshua Stipancic

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Juan Carlos Illera, Guillermo López, Laura García-Padilla and Ángel Moreno

Simple yet effective: Historical proximity variables improve the species distribution models for invasive giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum s.l.) in Poland pp. 1-22

Piotr Mędrzycki, Ingeborga Jarzyna, Artur Obidziński, Barbara Tokarska-Guzik, Zofia Sotek, Piotr Pabjanek, Adam Pytlarczyk and Izabela Sachajdakiewicz

Evaluation of a conceptual framework for predicting navigation performance in virtual reality pp. 1-22

Jascha Grübel, Tyler Thrash, Christoph Hölscher and Victor R Schinazi

Whole-brain high in-plane resolution fMRI using accelerated EPIK for enhanced characterisation of functional areas at 3T pp. 1-22

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Metacognitive monitoring and control in visual change detection: Implications for situation awareness and cognitive control pp. 1-19

Ken I McAnally, Adam P Morris and Christopher Best

Continuous robust sound event classification using time-frequency features and deep learning pp. 1-19

Ian McLoughlin, Haomin Zhang, Zhipeng Xie, Yan Song, Wei Xiao and Huy Phan

Testing students’ e-learning via Facebook through Bayesian structural equation modeling pp. 1-19

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Optimisation of a machine learning algorithm in human locomotion using principal component and discriminant function analyses pp. 1-19

Maria Bisele, Martin Bencsik, Martin G C Lewis and Cleveland T Barnett

Direct and indirect impact of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction on pneumonia hospitalizations and economic burden in all age-groups in Brazil: A time-series analysis pp. 1-19

Ana Lucia Andrade, Eliane T Afonso, Ruth Minamisava, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Elier B Cristo, Otaliba L Morais-Neto, Gabriela M Policena, Carla M A S Domingues and Cristiana M Toscano

Evaluating and implementing temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal methods for outbreak detection in a local syndromic surveillance system pp. 1-19

Robert W Mathes, Ramona Lall, Alison Levin-Rector, Jessica Sell, Marc Paladini, Kevin J Konty, Don Olson and Don Weiss

Causal knowledge promotes behavioral self-regulation: An example using climate change dynamics pp. 1-19

David K Sewell, Peter J Rayner, Daniel B Shank, Sophie Guy, Simon D Lilburn, Saam Saber and Yoshihisa Kashima

Effect of tramadol as an adjuvant to local anesthetics for brachial plexus block: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-19

Hye Won Shin, Bum Jun Ju, Yoo Kyung Jang, Hae Seun You, Hyun Kang and Ji Yong Park

Escherichia coli attachment to model particulates: The effects of bacterial cell characteristics and particulate properties pp. 1-19

Xiao Liang, Chunyu Liao, Michelle L Soupir, Laura R Jarboe, Michael L Thompson and Philip M Dixon

Systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based obesity interventions in mainland China pp. 1-19

Lin Feng, Dong-Mei Wei, Shen-Ting Lin, Ralph Maddison, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Yannan Jiang, Yang Gao and Hai-Jun Wang

Assessment of the trophic state of a hypersaline-carbonatic environment: Vermelha Lagoon (Brazil) pp. 1-19

Lazaro Laut, Maria Virginia Alves Martins, Fabrizio Frontalini, João M Ballalai, Pierre Belart, Renan Habib, Luiz F Fontana, Iara M M M Clemente, Maria Lucia Lorini, João G Mendonça Filho, Vanessa M Laut and Marcos de Souza Lima Figueiredo

Knowledge evolution in physics research: An analysis of bibliographic coupling networks pp. 1-19

Wenyuan Liu, Andrea Nanetti and Siew Ann Cheong

Combination of minimum enclosing balls classifier with SVM in coal-rock recognition pp. 1-19

QingJun Song, HaiYan Jiang, Qinghui Song, XieGuang Zhao and Xiaoxuan Wu

Desert soil clay content estimation using reflectance spectroscopy preprocessed by fractional derivative pp. 1-19

Jingzhe Wang, Tashpolat Tiyip, Jianli Ding, Dong Zhang, Wei Liu, Fei Wang and Nigara Tashpolat

A multimodal logistics service network design with time windows and environmental concerns pp. 1-19

Dezhi Zhang, Runzhong He, Shuangyan Li and Zhongwei Wang

Identifying the factors affecting bike-sharing usage and degree of satisfaction in Ningbo, China pp. 1-19

Yanyong Guo, Jibiao Zhou, Yao Wu and Zhibin Li

Learning and forgetting in the jet fighter aircraft industry pp. 1-19

Anelí Bongers

Improved detection of DNA-binding proteins via compression technology on PSSM information pp. 1-19

Yubo Wang, Yijie Ding, Fei Guo, Leyi Wei and Jijun Tang

A neural network based computational model to predict the output power of different types of photovoltaic cells pp. 1-8

WenBo Xiao, Gina Nazario, HuaMing Wu, HuaMing Zhang and Feng Cheng

Does inhalation injury predict mortality in burns patients or require redefinition? pp. 1-8

Youngmin Kim, Dohern Kym, Jun Hur, Jaechul Yoon, Haejun Yim, Yong Suk Cho and Wook Chun

Short versus prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) duration after coronary stent implantation: A comparison between the DAPT study and 9 other trials evaluating DAPT duration pp. 1-13

Toshiaki Toyota, Hiroki Shiomi, Takeshi Morimoto, Masahiro Natsuaki and Takeshi Kimura

iTRAQ protein profile analysis of developmental dynamics in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] leaves pp. 1-13

Jun Qin, Jianan Zhang, Fengmin Wang, Jinghua Wang, Zhi Zheng, Changcheng Yin, Hao Chen, Ainong Shi, Bo Zhang, Pengyin Chen and Mengchen Zhang

Can public health reconcile profits and pandemics? An analysis of attitudes to commercial sector engagement in health policy and research pp. 1-13

Jeff Collin, Sarah E Hill, Mor Kandlik Eltanani, Evgeniya Plotnikova, Rob Ralston and Katherine E Smith

A retrospective cost-analysis of additional homeopathic treatment in Germany: Long-term economic outcomes pp. 1-13

Julia K Ostermann, Claudia M Witt and Thomas Reinhold

Auto-correlation in the motor/imaginary human EEG signals: A vision about the FDFA fluctuations pp. 1-13

Gilney Figueira Zebende, Florêncio Mendes Oliveira Filho and Juan Alberto Leyva Cruz

Associations between lower-limb muscle activation and knee flexion in post-stroke individuals: A study on the stance-to-swing phases of gait pp. 1-13

Wei Wang, Ke Li, Shouwei Yue, Cuiping Yin and Na Wei

An in vitro lung model to assess true shunt fraction by multiple inert gas elimination pp. 1-13

Balamurugan Varadarajan, Andreas Vogt, Volker Hartwich, Rakesh Vasireddy, Jolanda Consiglio, Beate Hugi-Mayr and Balthasar Eberle

Ostracism via virtual chat room—Effects on basic needs, anger and pain pp. 1-13

Ana Paula Gonçalves Donate, Lucas Murrins Marques, Olivia Morgan Lapenta, Manish Kumar Asthana, David Amodio and Paulo Sérgio Boggio

The direct healthcare costs associated with psychological distress and major depression: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada pp. 1-13

Maria Chiu, Michael Lebenbaum, Joyce Cheng, Claire de Oliveira and Paul Kurdyak

Non-pulmonary vein mediated atrial fibrillation: A novel sub-phenotype pp. 1-13

Maureen Farrell, Zachary Yoneda, Jay Montgomery, Diane Crawford, Lauren Lee Wray, Meng Xu, Matthew J Kolek, Travis Richardson, Ricardo Lugo, Mohamed Metawee, Greg Michaud, Juan Carlos Estrada, Pablo Saavedra, Sharon Shen, Arvindh Kanagasundram, Christopher R Ellis, George Crossley, Dan Roden and M Benjamin Shoemaker

Heterogeneous hybrid signcryption for multi-message and multi-receiver pp. 1-13

Shufen Niu, Ling Niu, Xiyan Yang, Caifen Wang and Xiangdong Jia

Clinical utility of the modified Glasgow prognostic score in lung cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Jing Jin, Kejia Hu, Yongzhao Zhou and Weimin Li

The overlap between autistic spectrum conditions and borderline personality disorder pp. 1-13

Robert B Dudas, Chris Lovejoy, Sarah Cassidy, Carrie Allison, Paula Smith and Simon Baron-Cohen

Influence of attitudes and behavior of milkers on the hygienic and sanitary quality of milk pp. 1-13

Oscar David Múnera-Bedoya, Laerte D Cassoli, Paulo F Machado and Mario Fernando Cerón-Muñoz

Optimal pseudorandom sequence selection for online c-VEP based BCI control applications pp. 1-13

Jonas L Isaksen, Ali Mohebbi and Sadasivan Puthusserypady

Chemical and genetic diversity of Astragalus mongholicus grown in different eco-climatic regions pp. 1-13

Lin Li, Sihao Zheng, Josef A Brinckmann, Juan Fu, Rui Zeng, Linfang Huang and Shilin Chen

The quality of invasive breast cancer care for low reimbursement rate patients: A retrospective study pp. 1-13

Shaofei Su, Han Bao, Xinyu Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xi Li, Meiqi Zhang, Jiaying Wang, Hao Jiang, Wenji Wang, Siyang Qu and Meina Liu

The significant effects of cerebral microbleeds on cognitive dysfunction: An updated meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Xuanting Li, Junliang Yuan, Lei Yang, Wei Qin, Shuna Yang, Yue Li, Huimin Fan and Wenli Hu

ShenQi FuZheng Injection combined with chemotherapy in the treatment of colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Rongzhong Xu, Liubing Lin, Yong Li and Yan Li

Education can improve the negative perception of a threatened long-lived scavenging bird, the Andean condor pp. 1-13

Verónica B Cailly Arnulphi, Sergio A Lambertucci and Carlos E Borghi

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Henry Markovits, Evelyne Gauthier, Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre and Joyce F Benenson

Individual versus group decision making: Jurors’ reliance on central and peripheral information to evaluate expert testimony pp. 1-27

Jessica M Salerno, Bette L Bottoms and Liana C Peter-Hagene

Portfolio optimization for seed selection in diverse weather scenarios pp. 1-27

Oskar Marko, Sanja Brdar, Marko Panić, Isidora Šašić, Danica Despotović, Milivoje Knežević and Vladimir Crnojević

An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios pp. 1-24

Jennifer K Costanza, John W Coulston and David N Wear

Hong Kong Hospital Authority resource efficiency evaluation: Via a novel DEA-Malmquist model and Tobit regression model pp. 1-24

Hainan Guo, Yang Zhao, Tie Niu and Kwok-Leung Tsui

Dealing with AFLP genotyping errors to reveal genetic structure in Plukenetia volubilis (Euphorbiaceae) in the Peruvian Amazon pp. 1-24

Jakub Vašek, Petra Hlásná Čepková, Iva Viehmannová, Martin Ocelák, Danter Cachique Huansi and Pavel Vejl

Maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to foraging uncertainty: A model of individual vs. social allostasis and the "Superorganism Hypothesis" pp. 1-24

Jeremy D Coplan, Nishant K Gupta, Asif Karim, Anna Rozenboym, Eric L P Smith, John G Kral and Leonard A Rosenblum

Detection of atypical network development patterns in children with autism spectrum disorder using magnetoencephalography pp. 1-24

Fang Duan, Katsumi Watanabe, Yuko Yoshimura, Mitsuru Kikuchi, Yoshio Minabe and Kazuyuki Aihara

Cabozantinib versus everolimus, nivolumab, axitinib, sorafenib and best supportive care: A network meta-analysis of progression-free survival and overall survival in second line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma pp. 1-24

Billy Amzal, Shuai Fu, Jie Meng, Johanna Lister and Helene Karcher

Medical leaders or masters?—A systematic review of medical leadership in hospital settings pp. 1-24

Mathilde A Berghout, Isabelle N Fabbricotti, Martina Buljac-Samardžić and Carina G J M Hilders

Gender inequality in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries: A cross-country analysis of time use activities, socioeconomic positions and family characteristics pp. 1-24

Nicholas Kofi Adjei, Tilman Brand and Hajo Zeeb

Exploring the possible relationship between ambient heat and sudden infant death with data from Vienna, Austria pp. 1-7

Thomas Waldhoer and Harald Heinzl

Correlation among baseline variables yields non-uniformity of p-values pp. 1-7

Rebecca A Betensky and Sy Han Chiou

Harmonizing the pixel size in retrospective computed tomography radiomics studies pp. 1-17

Dennis Mackin, Xenia Fave, Lifei Zhang, Jinzhong Yang, A Kyle Jones, Chaan S Ng and Laurence Court

Cost and cost-effectiveness of a school-based education program to reduce salt intake in children and their families in China pp. 1-17

Xian Li, Stephen Jan, Lijing L Yan, Alison Hayes, Yunbo Chu, Haijun Wang, Xiangxian Feng, Wenyi Niu, Feng J He, Jun Ma, Yanbo Han, Graham A MacGregor and Yangfeng Wu

A single-source photon source model of a linear accelerator for Monte Carlo dose calculation pp. 1-17

Obioma Nwankwo, Gerhard Glatting, Frederik Wenz and Jens Fleckenstein

Long-term intra-individual reproducibility of heart rate dynamics during exercise and recovery in the UK Biobank cohort pp. 1-17

Michele Orini, Andrew Tinker, Patricia B Munroe and Pier D Lambiase

Predicting active-layer soil thickness using topographic variables at a small watershed scale pp. 1-17

Aidi Li, Xing Tan, Wei Wu, Hongbin Liu and Jie Zhu

Study on launch scheme of space-net capturing system pp. 1-17

Qingyu Gao, Qingbin Zhang, Zhiwei Feng and Qiangang Tang

The games economists play: Why economics students behave more selfishly than other students pp. 1-17

Philipp Gerlach

Regional differences in treatment rates for patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-17

Philip Vutien, Michelle Jin, Michael H Le, Pauline Nguyen, Sam Trinh, Jee-Fu Huang, Ming-Lung Yu, Wan-Long Chuang and Mindie H Nguyen

Prediction of thermal conductivity of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) electrospun nanocomposite fibers using artificial neural network and prey-predator algorithm pp. 1-17

Waseem S Khan, Nawaf N Hamadneh and Waqar A Khan

Building test data from real outbreaks for evaluating detection algorithms pp. 1-17

Gaetan Texier, Michael L Jackson, Leonel Siwe, Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Xavier Deparis and Herve Chaudet

An experimental study of the Online Information Paradox: Does en-route information improve road network performance? pp. 1-17

Kasun P Wijayaratna, Vinayak V Dixit, Laurent Denant-Boemont and S Travis Waller

A novel feature ranking method for prediction of cancer stages using proteomics data pp. 1-17

Ehsan Saghapour, Saeed Kermani and Mohammadreza Sehhati

Intimate partner violence-related hospitalizations in Appalachia and the non-Appalachian United States pp. 1-17

Danielle M Davidov, Stephen M Davis, Motao Zhu, Tracie O Afifi, Melissa Kimber, Abby L Goldstein, Nicole Pitre, Kelly K Gurka and Carol Stocks

Performance improvement of haptic collision detection using subdivision surface and sphere clustering pp. 1-17

A Ram Choi and Mee Young Sung

Improving heterologous membrane protein production in Escherichia coli by combining transcriptional tuning and codon usage algorithms pp. 1-17

Nico J Claassens, Melvin F Siliakus, Sebastiaan K Spaans, Sjoerd C A Creutzburg, Bart Nijsse, Peter J Schaap, Tessa E F Quax and John van der Oost

Multiscale biphasic modelling of peritumoural collagen microstructure: The effect of tumour growth on permeability and fluid flow pp. 1-17

Peter A Wijeratne, John H Hipwell, David J Hawkes, Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos and Vasileios Vavourakis

F-MAP: A Bayesian approach to infer the gene regulatory network using external hints pp. 1-17

Maryam Shahdoust, Hamid Pezeshk, Hossein Mahjub and Mehdi Sadeghi

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Marta Makowska

Mirror-normal difference in the late phase of mental rotation: An ERP study pp. 1-17

Cheng Quan, Chunyong Li, Jiguo Xue, Jingwei Yue and Chenggang Zhang

Walker occupancy has an impact on changing airborne bacterial communities in an underground pedestrian space, as small-dust particles increased with raising both temperature and humidity pp. 1-17

Torahiko Okubo, Takako Osaki, Eriko Nozaki, Akira Uemura, Kouhei Sakai, Mizue Matushita, Junji Matsuo, Shinji Nakamura, Shigeru Kamiya and Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Associations between body mass index and mortality or cardiovascular events in a general Korean population pp. 1-17

Kyoung Ae Kong, Junbeom Park, So-hyeon Hong, Young Sun Hong, Yeon-Ah Sung and Hyejin Lee

Performance of transient elastography and serum fibrosis biomarkers for non-invasive evaluation of recurrent fibrosis after liver transplantation: A meta-analysis pp. 1-17

Mamatha Bhat, Mahmood Tazari and Giada Sebastiani

Aging and death-associated changes in serum albumin variability over the course of chronic hemodialysis treatment pp. 1-17

Yuichi Nakazato, Riichi Kurane, Satoru Hirose, Akihisa Watanabe and Hiromi Shimoyama

Metro passengers’ route choice model and its application considering perceived transfer threshold pp. 1-17

Fanglei Jin, Enjian Yao, Yongsheng Zhang and Shasha Liu

Stochastic dispersal increases the rate of upstream spread: A case study with green crabs on the northwest Atlantic coast pp. 1-17

Ali Gharouni, Myriam A Barbeau, Joël Chassé, Lin Wang and James Watmough

Uncovering the DNA methylation landscape in key regulatory regions within the FADS cluster pp. 1-14

Elaheh Rahbar, Hannah C Ainsworth, Timothy D Howard, Gregory A Hawkins, Ingo Ruczinski, Rasika Mathias, Michael C Seeds, Susan Sergeant, James E Hixson, David M Herrington, Carl D Langefeld and Floyd H Chilton

Comprehensive analysis of the codon usage patterns in the envelope glycoprotein E2 gene of the classical swine fever virus pp. 1-14

Ye Chen, Xinxin Li, Xiaojuan Chi, Song Wang, Yanmei Ma and Jilong Chen

Risk of gastrointestinal perforation in patients taking oral fluoroquinolone therapy: An analysis of nationally representative cohort pp. 1-14

Shou-Chien Hsu, Shy-Shin Chang, Meng-tse Gabriel Lee, Si-Huei Lee, Yi-Wen Tsai, Shen-Che Lin, Szu-Ta Chen, Yi-Chieh Weng, Lorenzo Porta, Jiunn-Yih Wu and Chien-Chang Lee

Epicuticular chemistry reinforces the new taxonomic classification of the Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Diptera: Tephritidae, Dacinae) pp. 1-14

Lucie Vaníčková, Radka Nagy, Antonio Pompeiano and Blanka Kalinová

The development and validation of an easy to use automatic QT-interval algorithm pp. 1-14

Ben J M Hermans, Arja S Vink, Frank C Bennis, Luc H Filippini, Veronique M F Meijborg, Arthur A M Wilde, Laurent Pison, Pieter G Postema and Tammo Delhaas

Use of alcohol and drugs with addiction potential among older women and men in a population-based study. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study 2006-2008 (HUNT3) pp. 1-14

Kjerstin Tevik, Geir Selbæk, Knut Engedal, Arnfinn Seim, Steinar Krokstad and Anne-S Helvik

Evaluating the role of land cover and climate uncertainties in computing gross primary production in Hawaiian Island ecosystems pp. 1-14

Heather L Kimball, Paul C Selmants, Alvaro Moreno, Steve W Running and Christian P Giardina

Ethics approval in applications for open-access clinical trial data: An analysis of researcher statements to clinicalstudydatarequest.com pp. 1-14

Derek So and Bartha M Knoppers

The rise of the middle author: Investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship pp. 1-14

Philippe Mongeon, Elise Smith, Bruno Joyal and Vincent Larivière

Should I drink responsibly, safely or properly? Confusing messages about reducing alcohol-related harm pp. 1-14

Sandra C Jones, Sabine Hall and Kypros Kypri

A three-dimensional strain measurement method in elastic transparent materials using tomographic particle image velocimetry pp. 1-14

Azuma Takahashi, Sara Suzuki, Yusuke Aoyama, Mitsuo Umezu and Kiyotaka Iwasaki

Reports of unintended consequences of financial incentives to improve management of hypertension pp. 1-14

Sylvia J Hysong, Richard SoRelle, Kristen Broussard Smitham and Laura A Petersen

The prognostic value of interleukin-17 in lung cancer: A systematic review with meta-analysis based on Chinese patients pp. 1-14

Xiao-fei Wang, Yi-tong Zhu, Jia-jia Wang, Da-xiong Zeng, Chuan-yong Mu, Yan-bin Chen, Wei Lei, Ye-han Zhu and Jian-an Huang

The performance of a new local false discovery rate method on tests of association between coronary artery disease (CAD) and genome-wide genetic variants pp. 1-14

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