In recent years, with the continuous acceleration of urbanization construction, city-centered metropolitan area has become an important factor regional economic development. Based on relationship between transportation infrastructure and growth, Moran Index is calculated from panel data 11 cities in Zhujiang- Xijiang Economic Belt 2010 to 2017 analyze spatial correlation economy, results show t...

W ith the recent death of E J M (Moran) Campbell, respiratory medicine lost one of its most notable figures of the last 50 years. Moran Campbell graduated in medicine from the Middlesex Hospital London in 1949 following a career defining intercalated BSc in physiology. He then worked as a researcher and clinician at the Middlesex and later at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmit...

This study uses atomic force microscopy (AFM) force-deformation (F-Δ) curves to investigate for the first time the Young's modulus of a phospholipid microbubble (MB) ultrasound contrast agent. The stiffness of the MBs was calculated from the gradient of the F-Δ curves, and the Young's modulus of the MB shell was calculated by employing two different mechanical models based on the Reissner and e...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Brazil. The better understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the Brazilian elderly population is essential to support more appropriate health actions for each region of the country. OBJECTIVE To describe and to compare geospatially the rates of mortality from cardiova...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that challenges to partisan gerrymanders presented a nonjusticiable political question. This decision threatened discard decades of work by scientists and other experts, who had developed myriad techniques designed help courts objectively unambiguously identify excessively district maps. Simulated redistricting promised be one most effective thes...