Qualitative research methods are enjoying unprecedented popularity. Although checklists
have undoubtedly contributed to the wider acceptance of such methods, these can be …

Background In a previous meta-analysis, we identified a survival benefit from neoadjuvant
chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy before surgery in patients with resectable oesophageal …

Objective: The aim was to update the guidelines for the management of thyroid dysfunction
during pregnancy and postpartum published previously in 2007. A summary of changes …

… volume, Barbour presents … Barbour argues that the holy grail of physicists--the unification
of Einstein's general relativity with quantum mechanics--may well spell the end of time. Barbour …

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal of malignancies and a major health burden.
We performed whole-genome sequencing and copy number variation (CNV) analysis of …

Five years is a long time in the world of qualitative research; the landscape has shifted and
a number of significant debates have raged. Consequently, the first edition of this book (…

Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignancy with few effective therapies. We performed
exome sequencing and copy number analysis to define genomic aberrations in a …

A structure of dynamical theories is proposed that implements Mach’s ideas by being relational
in its treatment of both motion and time. The resulting general dynamics, which is called …

Shape dynamics is a completely background-independent universal framework of dynamical
theories from which all absolute elements have been eliminated. For particles, only the …

A new and universal method for implementing scale invariance, called best matching, is
presented. It extends to scaling the method introduced by Bertotti and the author to create a fully …