Since the introduction of insulin almost a century ago, more than 80 peptide drugs have
reached the market for a wide range of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis …

Diabetic retinopathy is the most fre-quent cause of new cases of blindness among adults
aged 20–74 years. During the first two decades of disease, nearly all patients with type 1 …

Recent studies have identified that the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) and increased
diacylglycerol (DAG) levels initiated by hyperglycemia are associated with many vascular …

Background Retinal ischemia induces intraocular neovascularization, which often leads to
glaucoma, vitreous hemorrhage, and retinal detachment, presumably by stimulating the …

We discuss a method for improving causal inferences called “Coarsened Exact
Matching”(CEM), and the new “Monotonic Imbalance Bounding”(MIB) class of matching …

We report the annotation and analysis of the draft genome sequence of Brassica rapa
accession Chiifu-401-42, a Chinese cabbage. We modeled 41,174 protein coding genes in …

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed~ 7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as …

Maps of the paleography of Iran are presented to summarize and review the geological
evolution of the Iranian region since late Precambrian time. On the basis of the data …

The classic work on qualitative methods in political science Designing Social Inquiry
presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science …

We study rare events data, binary dependent variables with dozens to thousands of times
fewer ones (events, such as wars, vetoes, cases of political activism, or epidemiological …