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Cancer: Radical Surgery and the Patient
This chapter explores the historiography of cancer surgery since the 1890s and the development of radical operations for this group of diseases. Focusing mainly on the USA, it puts particular emphasis on the t...
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Open AccessAccelerating the search for the missing proteins in the human proteome
The Human Proteome Project (HPP) aims to discover high-stringency data for all proteins encoded by the human genome. Currently, ∼18% of the proteins in the human proteome (the missing proteins) do not have hig...
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Open AccessA novel multiplexed immunoassay identifies CEA, IL-8 and prolactin as prospective markers for Dukes’ stages A-D colorectal cancers
Current methods widely deployed for colorectal cancers (CRC) screening lack the necessary sensitivity and specificity required for population-based early disease detection. Cancer-specific protein biomarkers a...
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Exploring the Effects of Changes in Design on the Analytical Uses of the NCVS Data
In 1992 changes were made in the design of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to improve its accuracy and utility. Little is known about the effect of the redesign on the analytic uses of the NCVS....
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Book Review: On Second Thought And Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science
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Unemployment and Crime Rate Fluctuations: A Comment on Greenberg
Several ways in which the specification of the Cantor and Land (1985) conceptual model of transient relationships between aggregate unemployment and crime rate fluctuations differs from that of Greenberg (2001...
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Arima models of seasonal variation in U. S. birth and death rates
This paper applies methods of seasonal ARIMA time series analysis to U. S. monthly birth and death rates for January 1950–December 1978. For model selection, the conventional Box-Jenkins (1970, 1976) diagnosti...