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    • Ancient Aqueous Environments at Endeavour Crater, Mars 

      Arvidson, R. E.; Squyres, S. W.; Bell, J. F.; Catalano, J. G.; Clark, B. C.; Crumpler, L. S.; de Souza, P. A.; Fairen, A. G.; Farrand, W. H.; Fox, V. K.; Gellert, R.; Ghosh, A.; Golombek, M. P.; Grotzinger, J. P.; Guinness, E. A.; Herkenhoff, K. E.; Jolliff, B. L.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert; Li, R.; McLennan, S. M.; Ming, D. W.; Mittlefehldt, D. W.; Moore, J. M.; Morris, R. V.; Murchie, S. L.; Parker, T. J.; Paulsen, G.; Rice, J. W.; Ruff, S. W.; Smith, M. D.; Wolff, M. J. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014)
      Opportunity has investigated in detail rocks on the rim of the Noachian age Endeavour crater, where orbital spectral reflectance signatures indicate the presence of Fe+3-rich smectites. The signatures are associated with ...

    • Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season 

      Ur, Jason Alik; De Jong, Lidewijde; Giraud, Jessica; Osborne, James F.; MacGinnis, John (British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2013)
      In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and ...

    • Ancient Greek Elegy 

      Nagy, Gregory (Oxford University Press, 2009)

    • The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours 

      Nagy, Gregory (Belknap Press, 2013)
      The ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today, Gregory Nagy argues—and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles, ...

    • Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes 

      Suh, Alexander; Witt, Christopher C.; Menger, Juliana; Sadanandan, Keren R.; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Gerth, Michael; Weigert, Anne; McGuire, Jimmy A.; Mudge, Joann; Edwards, Scott V.; Rheindt, Frank E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Parasite host switches may trigger disease emergence, but prehistoric host ranges are often unknowable. Lymphatic filariasis and loiasis are major human diseases caused by the insect-borne filarial nematodes Brugia, ...

    • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans 

      Lazaridis, Iosif; Patterson, Nick; Mittnik, Alissa; Renaud, Gabriel; Mallick, Swapan; Kirsanow, Karola; Sudmant, Peter H.; Schraiber, Joshua G.; Castellano, Sergi; Lipson, Mark; Berger, Bonnie; Economou, Christos; Bollongino, Ruth; Fu, Qiaomei; Bos, Kirsten I.; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Li, Heng; de Filippo, Cesare; Prüfer, Kay; Sawyer, Susanna; Posth, Cosimo; Haak, Wolfgang; Hallgren, Fredrik; Fornander, Elin; Rohland, Nadin; Delsate, Dominique; Francken, Michael; Guinet, Jean-Michel; Wahl, Joachim; Ayodo, George; Babiker, Hamza A.; Bailliet, Graciela; Balanovska, Elena; Balanovsky, Oleg; Barrantes, Ramiro; Bedoya, Gabriel; Ben-Ami, Haim; Bene, Judit; Berrada, Fouad; Bravi, Claudio M.; Brisighelli, Francesca; Busby, George B. J.; Cali, Francesco; Churnosov, Mikhail; Cole, David E. C.; Corach, Daniel; Damba, Larissa; van Driem, George; Dryomov, Stanislav; Dugoujon, Jean-Michel; Fedorova, Sardana A.; Romero, Irene Gallego; Gubina, Marina; Hammer, Michael; Henn, Brenna M.; Hervig, Tor; Hodoglugil, Ugur; Jha, Aashish R.; Karachanak-Yankova, Sena; Khusainova, Rita; Khusnutdinova, Elza; Kittles, Rick; Kivisild, Toomas; Klitz, William; Kučinskas, Vaidutis; Kushniarevich, Alena; Laredj, Leila; Litvinov, Sergey; Loukidis, Theologos; Mahley, Robert W.; Melegh, Béla; Metspalu, Ene; Molina, Julio; Mountain, Joanna; Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti; Nesheva, Desislava; Nyambo, Thomas; Osipova, Ludmila; Parik, Jüri; Platonov, Fedor; Posukh, Olga; Romano, Valentino; Rothhammer, Francisco; Rudan, Igor; Ruizbakiev, Ruslan; Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Sajantila, Antti; Salas, Antonio; Starikovskaya, Elena B.; Tarekegn, Ayele; Toncheva, Draga; Turdikulova, Shahlo; Uktveryte, Ingrida; Utevska, Olga; Vasquez, René; Villena, Mercedes; Voevoda, Mikhail; Winkler, Cheryl; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Zalloua, Pierre; Zemunik, Tatijana; Cooper, Alan; Capelli, Cristian; Thomas, Mark G.; Ruiz-Linares, Andres; Tishkoff, Sarah A.; Singh, Lalji; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Villems, Richard; Comas, David; Sukernik, Rem; Metspalu, Mait; Meyer, Matthias; Eichler, Evan E.; Burger, Joachim; Slatkin, Montgomery; Pääbo, Svante; Kelso, Janet; Reich, David; Krause, Johannes (2014)
      We sequenced the genomes of a ~7,000 year old farmer from Germany and eight ~8,000 year old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analyzed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show ...

    • Ancient Impact and Aqueous Processes at Endeavour Crater, Mars 

      Knoll, Andrew Herbert; Squyres, S. W.; Arvidson, R. E.; Bell, J. F., III; Calef, F., III; Clark, B. C.; Cohen, B. A.; Crumpler, L. A.; de Souza, P. A., Jr.; Farrand, W. H.; Gellert, R.; Grant, J.; Hurowitz, J. A.; Herkenhoff, K. E.; Johnson, J. R.; Jolliff, B. L.; Li, R.; McLennan, S. M.; Ming, D. W.; Mittlefehldt, D. W.; Parker, T. J.; Paulsen, G.; Rice, M. S.; Ruff, S. W.; Schröder, C.; Yen, A. S.; Zacny, K. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012)
      The rover Opportunity has investigated the rim of Endeavour Crater, a large ancient impact crater on Mars. Basaltic breccias produced by the impact form the rim deposits, with stratigraphy similar to that observed at ...

    • Ancient origin of placental expression in the growth hormone genes of anthropoid primates 

      Papper, Z.; Jameson, N. M.; Romero, R.; Weckle, A. L.; Mittal, P.; Benirschke, K.; Santolaya-Forgas, J.; Uddin, M.; Haig, David Addison; Goodman, M.; Wildman, D. E. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      In anthropoid primates, growth hormone (GH) genes have undergone at least 2 independent locus expansions, one in platyrrhines (New World monkeys) and another in catarrhines (Old World monkeys and apes). In catarrhines, the ...

    • Ancient Roman Topography and Architecture Ian Campbell Arnold Nesselrath Johannes Röll Lynda Fairbairn David Hemsoll 

      Connors, Joseph (University of California Press, 2006)

    • Ancient West African Foragers in the Context of African Population History 

      Lipson, Mark; Rohland-Pinello, Nadin; Lawson, Ann; Lavachery, Philippe; Mindzie, Christophe Mbida; Orban, Rosine; Semal, Patrick; Van Neer, Wim; Veeramah, Krishna R.; Kennett, Douglas J.; Patterson, Nick; Hellenthal, Garrett; Lalueza-Fox, Carles; MacEachern, Scott; Prendergast, Mary E.; Reich, David; Ribot, Isabelle; Mallick, Swapan; Olalde, Inigo; Adamski, Nicole; Broomandkhoshbacht, Nadin; López, Saloa; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Stewardson, Kristin; Asombang, Raymond; Bocherens, Herve; Bradman, Neil; Culleton, Brendan; Cornelissen, Els; Crevecoeur, Isabelle; de Maret, Pierre; Fomine, Forka Leypey Mathew; Sawchuk, Elizabeth; Thomas, Mark (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01)
      We generated genome-wide DNA data from four children buried roughly 8000 and 3000 years ago at Shum Laka (Cameroon), one of the earliest archaeological sites within the probable homeland of Bantu languages. One individual ...

    • And Heal the Sick: The Hospital and the Patient in the 19th Century America 

      Rosenberg, Charles (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1977)

    • Andean Growth and the Deceleration of South American Subduction: Time Evolution of a Coupled Orogen-subduction System 

      Meade, Brendan J.; Conrad, Clinton P. (Elsevier, 2008)
      Present-day orography at the Andean margin is a result of isostasy, tectonic accretion, and erosional processes. The resulting excess mass of the Andes gives rise to frictional stresses on the seismogenic plate interface ...

    • Androgen Exposure and Sensation-Seeking in Young Males 

      Campbell, Bruce C.; Gray, Peter B.; Dreber, Anna; Apicella, Carmel; Little, A.; Ellison, Peter (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
      Testosterone is thought to be associated with short attention spans, increased novelty, and thrill seeking and behavioral disinhibition in men. However, there is little empirical evidence for such associations among normal ...

    • Androgen Receptor CAG Repeats and Body Composition Among Ariaal Men 

      Campbell, Benjamin C.; Gray, Peter B.; Eisenberg, Dan T. A.; Ellison, Peter; Sorenson, Michael D. (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)
      To determine the population variation in the androgen receptor (AR) and its association with body composition in a subsistence population, we sampled 87 settled and 65 nomadic males ages 20+ among the Ariaal of northern ...

    • Anelasticity across seismic to tidal timescales: a self-consistent approach 

      Lau, Harriet C. P.; Faul, Ulrich; Mitrovica, Jerry; Al-Attar, David; Tromp, Jeroen; Garapić, Gordana (Oxford University Press, 2017)

    • Anemia at the Initiation of Tuberculosis Therapy Is Associated with Delayed Sputum Conversion among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania 

      Nagu, Tumaini J.; Spiegelman, Donna; Hertzmark, Ellen; Aboud, Said; Makani, Julie; Matee, Mecky I.; Fawzi, Wafaie; Mugusi, Ferdinand (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis and anemia are both prevalent in Tanzania. There is limited and inconsistent literature on the association between anemia and sputum conversion following tuberculosis treatment. Methods: ...

    • Aneuploidy Prediction and Tumor Classification with Heterogeneous Hidden Conditional Random Fields 

      Barutcuoglu, Zafer; Airoldi, Edoardo; Dumeaux, Vanessa; Schapire, Robert E.; Troyanskaya, Olga G. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Motivation: The heterogeneity of cancer cannot always be recognized by tumor morphology, but may be reflected by the underlying genetic aberrations. Array-CGH methods provide highthroughput data on genetic copy numbers, ...

    • Angels and demons in the pages of Lebor na hUidre 

      McKenna, Catherine (Colgate University Press, 2011)

    • Angiopoietin-1 Requires p190 RhoGAP to Protect against Vascular Leakage in Vivo 

      Mammoto, Tadanori; Parikh, Samir M.; Mammoto, Akiko; Gallagher, Diana; Chan, Barden; Mostoslavsky, Gustavo; Ingber, Donald E.; Sukhatme, Vikas P. (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2007)

    • Angiopoietin-like proteins stimulate HSPC development through interaction with notch receptor signaling 

      Lin, Michelle I; Price, Emily N; Boatman, Sonja; Hagedorn, Elliott J; Trompouki, Eirini; Satishchandran, Sruthi; Carspecken, Charles W; Uong, Audrey; DiBiase, Anthony; Yang, Song; Canver, Matthew C; Dahlberg, Ann; Lu, Zhigang; Zhang, Cheng Cheng; Orkin, Stuart H; Bernstein, Irwin D; Aster, Jon C; White, Richard M; Zon, Leonard I (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2015)
      Angiopoietin-like proteins (angptls) are capable of ex vivo expansion of mouse and human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Despite this intriguing ability, their mechanism is unknown. In this study, we show ...