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- 1From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe proliferation of Social Media and Open Web data has provided researchers with a unique opportunity to better understand human behavior at different levels. In this paper, we show how data from Open Street Map and...
- 2From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEastern redcedar Juniperus virginiana is encroaching into new habitats, which will affect native ecosystems as this species competes with other plants for available resources, including water. We designed a greenhouse...
- 3From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCystatin C, a cysteine protease inhibitor, is used as a biomarker of renal function. It offers several advantages compared to creatinine, and formulas for the estimation of the glomerular filtration rate based on...
- 4From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMulticomponent environmental models have increasingly found their way into archaeological research. Mostly, these models aim to understand human patterns as a result of past climatic and environmental conditions over...
- 5From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDeutsch's scale illusion demonstrates that the overall pitch range is the preferred organization when in competition with both local (note-to-note) pitch proximity and laterality (differences in the input ear). Such...
- 6From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe platy limestone deposit of Vallecillo in northeastern Mexico is dated to the early-middle Turonian (Late Cretaceous) and known to contain a variety of well-preserved vertebrate fossils. One of the most common fish...
- 7From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe physical boundaries of our body do not define what we perceive as self. This malleable representation arises from the neural integration of sensory information coming from the environment. Manipulating the visual and...
- 8From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) are among the most common infections in the US. Only a few studies, however, describe the impact of uUTIs from the patient perspective. Methods A...
- 9From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain, the hottest frontier technologies in recent years, are expected to lead the next technological revolution. Blockchain promises to solve the current challenges encountered by...
- 10From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Measuring changes in the appropriateness of end-of-life care provided to patients with advanced illness such as cancer, COPD or dementia can help governments and practitioners improve service delivery and...
- 11From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMass gatherings provide conditions for the transmission of infectious diseases and pose complex challenges to public health. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and health experts called for suspension of...
- 12From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA significant gap in understanding the response of biodiversity to urban areas is the lack of long-term studies. Most of the information on urban birds comes from studies carried out in the northern hemisphere, and they...
- 13From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjectives The purpose of this study is to determine the associations between Vitamin D supplementation, 25(OH) blood serum levels, suicide attempts, and intentional self-harm in a population of veterans in the...
- 14From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn early March 2020, a few cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in Abidjan, the capital city of Côte d'Ivoire. To combat the spread of the disease, large restrictions to mobility and gatherings were introduced between...
- 15From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic produced far-reaching effects throughout society, and science is no exception. The scale, speed, and breadth of the scientific community's COVID-19 response lead to the emergence of new...
- 16From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe present a new approach to modeling the future development of extreme temperatures globally and on the time-scale of several centuries by using non-stationary generalized extreme value distributions in combination with...
- 17From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe goal of cancer screening is to detect disease at an early stage when treatment may be more effective. Cancer screening in dogs has relied upon annual physical examinations and routine laboratory tests, which are...
- 18From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDisclosure of LGBTQ+ identities at work may reap benefits, but may also exacerbate harms. Faced with ambiguous outcomes, people engage in complex concealment/disclosure decision-making. For health professionals, in...
- 19From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMicroplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in the environment, in the human food chain, and have been recently detected in blood and lung tissues. To undertake a pilot analysis of MP contamination in human vein tissue samples...
- 20From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction When evaluating MRIs for glioblastoma progression, previous scans are usually included into the review. Nowadays dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)-perfusion is an essential component in MR-diagnostics...