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    • A Data-Driven Design Evaluation Tool for Handheld Device Soft Keyboards 

      Trudeau, Matthieu B.; Sunderland, Elsie M.; Jindrich, Devin L.; Dennerlein, Jack T. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Thumb interaction is a primary technique used to operate small handheld devices such as smartphones. Despite the different techniques involved in operating a handheld device compared to a personal computer, the keyboard ...
    • Differences in the Selection Bottleneck between Modes of Sexual Transmission Influence the Genetic Composition of the HIV-1 Founder Virus 

      Tully, Damien C.; Ogilvie, Colin B.; Batorsky, Rebecca E.; Bean, David J.; Power, Karen A.; Ghebremichael, Musie; Bedard, Hunter E.; Gladden, Adrianne D.; Seese, Aaron M.; Amero, Molly A.; Lane, Kimberly; McGrath, Graham; Bazner, Suzane B.; Tinsley, Jake; Lennon, Niall J.; Henn, Matthew R.; Brumme, Zabrina L.; Norris, Philip J.; Rosenberg, Eric S.; Mayer, Kenneth H.; Jessen, Heiko; Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L.; Walker, Bruce D.; Altfeld, Marcus; Carlson, Jonathan M.; Allen, Todd M. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Due to the stringent population bottleneck that occurs during sexual HIV-1 transmission, systemic infection is typically established by a limited number of founder viruses. Elucidation of the precise forces influencing the ...
    • Dynamics of the Microbiota in Response to Host Infection 

      Belzer, Clara; Gerber, Georg K.; Roeselers, Guus; Delaney, Mary; DuBois, Andrea; Liu, Qing; Belavusava, Vera; Yeliseyev, Vladimir; Houseman, Andres; Onderdonk, Andrew; Cavanaugh, Colleen; Bry, Lynn (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Longitudinal studies of the microbiota are important for discovering changes in microbial communities that affect the host. The complexity of these ecosystems requires rigorous integrated experimental and computational ...
    • Early Warning Signals of Ecological Transitions: Methods for Spatial Patterns 

      Kéfi, Sonia; Guttal, Vishwesha; Brock, William A.; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Livina, Valerie N.; Seekell, David A.; Scheffer, Marten; van Nes, Egbert H.; Dakos, Vasilis (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      A number of ecosystems can exhibit abrupt shifts between alternative stable states. Because of their important ecological and economic consequences, recent research has focused on devising early warning signals for ...
    • How Do Astronomers Share Data? Reliability and Persistence of Datasets Linked in AAS Publications and a Qualitative Study of Data Practices among US Astronomers 

      Pepe, Alberto; Goodman, Alyssa; Muench, August; Crosas, Merce; Erdmann, Christopher (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      We analyze data sharing practices of astronomers over the past fifteen years. An analysis of URL links embedded in papers published by the American Astronomical Society reveals that the total number of links included in ...
    • Modeling the Role of Networks and Individual Differences in Inter-Group Violence 

      Isakov, Alexander; Holcomb, Amelia; Glowacki, Luke; Christakis, Nicholas A. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      There is significant heterogeneity within and between populations in their propensity to engage in conflict. Most research has neglected the role of within-group effects in social networks in contributing to between-group ...
    • Muscle Logic: New Knowledge Resource for Anatomy Enables Comprehensive Searches of the Literature on the Feeding Muscles of Mammals 

      Druzinsky, Robert E.; Balhoff, James P.; Crompton, Alfred W.; Done, James; German, Rebecca Z.; Haendel, Melissa A.; Herrel, Anthony; Herring, Susan W.; Lapp, Hilmar; Mabee, Paula M.; Muller, Hans-Michael; Mungall, Christopher J.; Sternberg, Paul W.; Van Auken, Kimberly; Vinyard, Christopher J.; Williams, Susan H.; Wall, Christine E. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Background: In recent years large bibliographic databases have made much of the published literature of biology available for searches. However, the capabilities of the search engines integrated into these databases for ...
    • Phylogeny of Elatinaceae and the Tropical Gondwanan Origin of the Centroplacaceae(Malpighiaceae, Elatinaceae) Clade 

      Cai, Liming; Xi, Zhenxiang; Peterson, Kylee; Rushworth, Catherine; Beaulieu, Jeremy; Davis, Charles C. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The flowering plant family Elatinaceae is a widespread aquatic lineage inhabiting temperate and tropical latitudes, including ∼35(-50) species. Its phylogeny remains largely unknown, compromising our understanding of its ...
    • Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History 

      Brooks, Andrew W.; Kohl, Kevin D.; Brucker, Robert M.; van Opstal, Edward J.; Bordenstein, Seth R. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny of related host species. Here, we test the ...
    • Plans, Habits, and Theory of Mind 

      Gershman, Samuel J.; Gerstenberg, Tobias; Baker, Chris L.; Cushman, Fiery A. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Human success and even survival depends on our ability to predict what others will do by guessing what they are thinking. If I accelerate, will he yield? If I propose, will she accept? If I confess, will they forgive? ...
    • Poverty, Disease, and the Ecology of Complex Systems 

      Ngonghala, Calistus N.; Pluciński, Mateusz M.; Murray, Megan B.; Farmer, Paul E.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Keenan, Donald C.; Bonds, Matthew H. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base ...
    • Quantifying Clonal and Subclonal Passenger Mutations in Cancer Evolution 

      Bozic, Ivana; Gerold, Jeffrey M.; Nowak, Martin A. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The vast majority of mutations in the exome of cancer cells are passengers, which do not affect the reproductive rate of the cell. Passengers can provide important information about the evolutionary history of an individual ...
    • Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity’s Largest Gathering 

      Barnett, Ian; Khanna, Tarun; Onnela, Jukka-Pekka (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has ...
    • Testing the Efficacy of Global Biodiversity Hotspots for Insect Conservation: The Case of South African Katydids 

      Bazelet, Corinna S.; Thompson, Aileen C.; Naskrecki, Piotr (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The use of endemism and vascular plants only for biodiversity hotspot delineation has long been contested. Few studies have focused on the efficacy of global biodiversity hotspots for the conservation of insects, an ...
    • When Does Model-Based Control Pay Off? 

      Kool, Wouter; Cushman, Fiery A.; Gershman, Samuel J. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Many accounts of decision making and reinforcement learning posit the existence of two distinct systems that control choice: a fast, automatic system and a slow, deliberative system. Recent research formalizes this distinction ...