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Deforestation in the Tropics: Reconciling Disparities in Estimates for India
Here we examine recent disparate estimates of deforestation obtained for India. We discuss the sources of disparity and the implications of inaccurate estimates and suggest ways in which future attempts at estimating deforestation might reconcile the disparity. Despite the importance of deforestation and its consequences, no attempt has been made to reconcile the different estimates obtained for India
Lexical Similarities and Differences in the Mathematics, Science and English Language Textbooks
The teaching of Science and Math in English in Malaysia is an area of great concern to educators and students alike. This study looks, in particular, at the common word classes among keywords identified in the Science, Math and English language Form One textbooks used in Malaysia and the differences in language use identified in the Science and Math textbooks
Interactions between species introduce spurious associations in microbiome studies
Microbiota contribute to many dimensions of host phenotype, including
disease. To link specific microbes to specific phenotypes, microbiome-wide
association studies compare microbial abundances between two groups of samples.
Abundance differences, however, reflect not only direct associations with the
phenotype, but also indirect effects due to microbial interactions. We found
that microbial interactions could easily generate a large number of spurious
associations that provide no mechanistic insight. Using techniques from
statistical physics, we developed a method to remove indirect associations and
applied it to the largest dataset on pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Our
method corrected the inflation of p-values in standard association tests and
showed that only a small subset of associations is directly linked to the
disease. Direct associations had a much higher accuracy in separating cases
from controls and pointed to immunomodulation, butyrate production, and the
brain-gut axis as important factors in the inflammatory bowel disease.Comment: 4 main text figures, 15 supplementary figures (i.e appendix) and 6
supplementary tables. Overall 49 pages including reference
Coronary artery grafting in infants
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with cardiac vale repair is an
uncommon surgery in infants. CABG is technically demanding in infants due
to the small size not only of the coronary arteries but also the potential graft
arteries. The short and long-term outcome of surgery is not known and thus
has largely been avoided. This article reports the case histories of two infants in whom CABG was undertaken successfully as a life-saving measure.peer-reviewe
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