In the tradition of EM Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel,
James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis …

Paleodemography and paleopathology presuppose that direct relationships exist between
statistics calculated from archaeological skeletal series (eg, skeletal lesion frequencies and …

A key priority for infectious disease research is to clarify how pathogen genetic variation,
modulated by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks, and epidemic dynamics, determines the …

Background Estimates of influenza-associated mortality are important for national and
international decision making on public health priorities. Previous estimates of 250 000–500 000 …

Although projective techniques continue to be widely used in clinical and forensic settings,
their scientific status remains highly controversial. In this monograph, we review the current …

The effects of a four month aerobic exercise conditioning program on neuropsychological test
performance, depression indices, sensory thresholds, and visual acuity of 55–70 year old …

Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a
quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to host …

Recent reports demonstrate that somatic mouse cells can be directly converted to other mature
cell types by using combined expression of defined factors. Here we show that the same …

The risk of progression from exposure to the tuberculosis bacilli to the development of active
disease is a two-stage process governed by both exogenous and endogenous risk factors. …

Technological advances in DNA recovery and sequencing have drastically expanded the
scope of genetic analyses of ancient specimens to the extent that full genomic investigations …