Filoviruses: One of These Things is (not) Like the Other

Filoviruses: One of These Things is (not) Like the Other

The family Filoviridae contains several of the most deadly pathogens known to date and the current Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Western Africa, due to Ebola virus (EBOV) infection, highlights the need for active and broad research into filovirus pathogenesis. However, in comparison, the seven other known filovirus family members are significantly understudied. Many of these, including ...

Which of these things is not like the others?

In etiologic research, the goal is to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on a disease outcome, which means the result that would be obtained in a large randomized trial with perfect adherence if exposure could be assigned without regard to the baseline characteristics of the study participants. But there is no reason to think that effects must be homogeneous across units in a randomized ...

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Users Search Different Information Resources

There is scant evidence that children younger than 7 years show a memory advantage for distinct information, a memory phenomenon termed the isolation effect (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2001, Vol. 27, pp. 1359-1366). We investigated whether 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds' developing organizational processing and executive function contributed to the isolation e...

One of These Records Is Not Like the Others

This position paper argues the need to develop provenances, and provenance systems, in such a way that errors in the provenance (whether deliberate or not) can be detected and corrected. The requirement that a provenance have high assurance leads to some suggestions about the way a provenance should be constructed.

One protoplast is not the other!