Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide and is associated with
increased cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in adult life. The increase in fat mass in children …

Objective To conduct a systematic review of published research that assessed the predictors
of attitudes toward deceased organ donation, willingness to donate, and donor behavior. …

The southeast Missouri iron metallogenic province contains a remarkable wealth of historically
important Fe, Cu, Au, and rare earth element (REE) deposits including the Pea Ridge iron …

The Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia represents the most volcanically active arc
in the world in terms of magma production and the number of explosive eruptions. We …

Background Smartphone usage has spread to many settings including that of healthcare
with numerous potential and realised benefits. The ability to download custom-built software …

As crude oil price reach a new high, the need for developing alternate fuels has become
acute. Alternate fuels should be economically attractive in order to compete with currently used …

The small number of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in cord blood units limits their
widespread use in human transplant protocols. We identified a family of chemically related …

Viscosity is one of the most significant properties to affect the utilization of biodiesel fuels.
This paper presents a method, which has been verified experimentally, for predicting the …

We describe the methodology, parametrization, and application of a conformational search
method, called ConfGen, designed to efficiently generate bioactive conformers. We define …

Large-scale drained triaxial compression tests have been carried out on heavily compacted
samples of different types of rockfill over a range of confining pressures. The Mohr failure …