Conventional algorithms that generate signals for potential side effects may require many thousands of patients to take a drug before producing a signal for a rare side effect and it is even possible that they will never generate a signal for some rare side effects. As these rare side effects often result in patient morbidities or mortalities it is important to identify them efficiently. In thi...

Existing empirical studies are typically unable to sort out the direction of causality between poverty and violent crime in less developed countries. This study uses rainfall variation in a poor rural Tanzanian district – which is plausibly exogenous, and is closely related to income – from a new dataset to estimate the impact of negative income shocks on murder rates, in 66 villages across ele...

I advocate using graphic medicine in introductory medical ethics courses to help trainees learn about patients' experiences of autonomy. Graphic narratives about this content offer trainees opportunities to gain insights into making diagnoses and recommending treatments. Graphic medicine can also illuminate aspects of patients' experiences of autonomy differently than other genres. Specifically...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 209 No. 4 595–608 www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201409142 JCB 595 *L. Luo, H. Wang, and C. Fan contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to Yu Cai: [email protected] Abbreviations used in this paper: Arm, Armadillo; Bam, bag of marbles; CB, cystoblast; ChIP, chromatin immunoprecipitation; Dally, division abnormally delayed; Dpp...

The radiation shielding abilities of waste marbles with different concentrations WO3 (tungsten oxide) nanoparticles were investigated. Four prepared 0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2 nanoparticles. study aims to investigate the effect concentration, density, particle size marble samples. linear attenuation coefficient (LAC) S1 sample, sample no WO3, was determined theoretically experimentally, results demo...