Epidemiological studies demonstrate an increased risk of colorectal cancer in patients with
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A detailed literature review was conducted on …

This report describes the physics case, the resulting detector requirements, and the evolving
detector concepts for the experimental program at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC …

Chitosan, a given name to a deacetylated form of chitin, is a natural biodegradable
compound derived from crustaceous shells such as crabs and shrimps, whose main attributes …

Context. We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry,
photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for …

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the most frequent leukaemia in adults in Western
countries, is a heterogeneous disease with variable clinical presentation and evolution 1 , 2 . …

We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 1,713 individuals of European
ancestry with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 3,978 controls. After replication in 3,361 cases …

Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in Parkinson's disease have increased
the scope of biological knowledge about the disease over the past decade. We aimed to …

Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree
communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record …

It is now 16 years since the first data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York
et al. 2000). This Early Data Release, or EDR, occurred in 2001 June (Stoughton et al. 2002)…

Construction of the first stage of the Pierre Auger Observatory has begun. The aim of the
Observatory is to collect unprecedented information about cosmic rays above 10 18 eV . The …