The natural history and treatment landscape of primary brain tumours are complicated by the
varied tumour behaviour of primary or secondary gliomas (high-grade transformation of low …

This book evolved from a series of Ph. D. seminars presented to students both at Tsinghua
University in Beijing and at the University of Illinois—Chicago. My lectures, in turn, grew out …

Tree mortality is an important process in forest ecosystems, frequently hypothesized to be
highly climate sensitive. Yet, tree death remains one of the least understood processes of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the performance of tasks by machines ordinarily
associated with human intelligence. Machine learning (ML) is a subtype of AI; it refers to the …

Background & Aims: Mucosal healing (MH) in inflammatory bowel disease may be an
important sign of efficacy of treatment and a prognostic marker of long-term disease. The aim …

European governments have banned the use of three common neonicotinoid pesticides due
to insufficiently identified risks to bees. This policy decision is controversial given the …

" Dictators and Dictatorships" is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian
regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite …

High sodium intake limits the antihypertensive and antiproteinuric effects of angiotensin-
converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in patients with CKD; however, whether dietary sodium …

How successful online learners are in achieving their goals varies along geo-cultural and
socioeconomic dimensions, as well as with learning design features. Despite diverse …

Despite perceived challenges to controlling an infectious disease in wildlife, oral rabies
vaccination (ORV) of foxes has proved a remarkably successful tool and a prime example of …