Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across
many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian …

The marginal likelihood is commonly used for comparing different evolutionary models in
Bayesian phylogenetics and is the central quantity used in computing Bayes Factors for …

Motivated by recent financial crises in East Asia and the United States where the downfall of
a small number of firms had an economy‐wide impact, this paper generalizes existing …

We present FPGA-based emulation results of a single QC-LDPC code with 20% redundancy
designed for applications in 100 Gb/s optical transmission systems. Error floor-free …

Cancer develops through a process of somatic evolution 1 , 2 . Sequencing data from a single
biopsy represent a snapshot of this process that can reveal the timing of specific genomic …

MCM-41 silica particles with several morphologies have been controllably synthesized with
a basic medium. Nanospherical MCM-41 silica with an average size of 110 nm was …

Information on the internal stresses/strains in the human foot and the pressure distribution at
the plantar support interface under loading is useful in enhancing knowledge on the …

We performed a genome-wide association study of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC)
by genotyping 1,077 individuals with ESCC and 1,733 control subjects of Chinese …

Background Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important regulatory roles in the development of
various cancers. However, biological functions and the underlying molecular mechanism of …

Theory predicts that the quality of a firm's information disclosure can affect the term structure
of its corporate bond yield spreads. Using cross-sectional regression and Nelson-Siegel …