Zipf's word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions

ST Piantadosi - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2014 - Springer
The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for
the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known …

Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events

SB Fey, AM Siepielski, S Nusslé… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Mass mortality events (MMEs) are rapidly occurring catastrophic demographic events that
punctuate background mortality levels. Individual MMEs are staggering in their observed …

The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities

J Schwaab, R Meier, G Mussetti, S Seneviratne… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urban trees influence temperatures in cities. However, their effectiveness at mitigating urban
heat in different climatic contexts and in comparison to treeless urban green spaces has not …

Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness

EE Zattara, MA Aizen - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Wild and managed bees are key pollinators, ensuring or enhancing the reproduction of a
large fraction of the world's wild flowering plants and the yield of∼ 85% of all cultivated …

Clinical and biomarker changes of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome: a cross-sectional study

J Fortea, E Vilaplana, M Carmona-Iragui, B Benejam… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Alzheimer's disease and its complications are the leading cause of death in
adults with Down syndrome. Studies have assessed Alzheimer's disease in individuals with …

Visualizing fit and lack of fit in complex regression models with predictor effect plots and partial residuals

J Fox, S Weisberg - Journal of Statistical Software, 2018 - jstatsoft.org
Predictor effect displays, introduced in this article, visualize the response surface of complex
regression models by averaging and conditioning, producing a sequence of 2D line graphs …

[HTML][HTML] Lymphatics act as a signaling hub to regulate intestinal stem cell activity

RE Niec, T Chu, M Schernthanner, S Gur-Cohen… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Barrier epithelia depend upon resident stem cells for homeostasis, defense, and repair.
Epithelial stem cells of small and large intestines (ISCs) respond to their local …

Association of brain amyloidosis with pro-inflammatory gut bacterial taxa and peripheral inflammation markers in cognitively impaired elderly

A Cattaneo, N Cattane, S Galluzzi, S Provasi… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The pathway leading from amyloid-β deposition to cognitive impairment is believed to be a
cornerstone of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, what drives amyloid …

Analysis of the human adult urinary metabolome variations with age, body mass index, and gender by implementing a comprehensive workflow for univariate and …

EA Thévenot, A Roux, Y Xu, E Ezan… - Journal of proteome …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Urine metabolomics is widely used for biomarker research in the fields of medicine and
toxicology. As a consequence, characterization of the variations of the urine metabolome …

Update of the Chiou and Youngs NGA model for the average horizontal component of peak ground motion and response spectra

BSJ Chiou, RR Youngs - Earthquake Spectra, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We present an update to our 2008 NGA model for predicting horizontal ground motion
amplitudes caused by shallow crustal earthquakes occurring in active tectonic …