As the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related disease among adolescents in the United
States continues to increase, physicians are increasingly faced with the dilemma of …

Paediatric obesity continues to be one of the most important health issues facing children
and families today, and there remains a need for effective treatment options. There are a few …

… are all individually Hermitian; we do this by introducing a new set of creation/annihilation
operators [b with combining circumflex] qj as linear combinations of â qj and â −qj , and …

Objective: To investigate how doctors engage with patients with psychotic illness in routine
consultations. Design: Conversation analysis of 32 consultations between psychiatrists and …

As a result of an error during film output, Table 1 was published with some symbols missing.
The correct version can be found at http://www. sanger. ac. uk and is reproduced again here …

The notion of ‘hedging’ dates back to Lakoff (1972), but its nature and its consequences for
English Language Teaching are not well understood. This article offers a description of the …

We have sequenced and annotated the genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomycespombe),
which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a …

Leprosy, a chronic human neurological disease, results from infection with the obligate
intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, a close relative of the tubercle bacillus. …

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. typhi) is the aetiological agent of typhoid fever, a serious
invasive bacterial disease of humans with an annual global burden of approximately 16 …

The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of the systemic invasive
infectious disease classically referred to as plague 1 , and has been responsible for three …