Wi th the end of the year approaching , we at EMBO Molecular Medicine decided to make a balance of the journal's first year of existence. 2009 finally saw the journal's first issue and all others that followed, although preparations for launch started already early in 2008. Clinicians and molecular biologists have trusted us with their submissions covering an incredible range of fields and inte...

Table extraction is the task of locating tables in a document and extracting their content along with its arrangement within the tables. The notion of tables applied in this work excludes any sort of meta data, e.g. only the entries of the tables are to be extracted. We follow a simple unsupervised approach by selecting the tables according to a score that measures the in-column consistency as ...

Background: There is a high prevalence of  occupational injuries due to accidents in construction industries which affect human health. Therefore, the exploration and analysis of contributing factors of such accidents can lead to their prevention and the reduction of their consequences. This study was conducted with the aim to identify factors related to occup...

Identification of cancer clusters may have an important value to the study of disease etiology in cancer surveillance. We aimed to determine the spatial pattern of childhood cancer cases (CCCs) from 2007 to 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Records of 176 childhood cancer counts (children younger than 15 years old) for 2007-2009 were obtained from Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Thereafter...