The PRISMA statement is a reporting guideline designed to improve the completeness of
reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Authors have used this guideline …

Importance Many claims have been made regarding the superiority of one diet or another
for inducing weight loss. Which diet is best remains unclear. Objective To determine weight …

Data pre-processing is an essential part of chemometric data analysis, which aims to remove
unwanted variation (such as instrumental artifacts) and thereby focusing on the variation of …

Background & Aims Endoscopic trimodal imaging (ETMI) is a novel endoscopic technique
that combines high-resolution endoscopy (HRE), autofluorescence imaging (AFI), and narrow-…

Background Infected necrotising pancreatitis is a potentially lethal disease and an indication
for invasive intervention. The surgical step-up approach is the standard treatment. A …

Evidence-based health-care decision making requires comparisons of all relevant competing
interventions. In the absence of randomized, controlled trials involving a direct comparison …

Ocean acidification resulting from human emissions of carbon dioxide has already lowered
and will further lower surface ocean pH. The consequent decrease in calcium carbonate …

Evidence-based health care decision making requires comparison of all relevant competing
interventions. In the absence of randomized controlled trials involving a direct comparison of …

• DNA methylation can cause heritable phenotypic modifications in the absence of changes
in DNA sequence. Environmental stresses can trigger methylation changes and this may …

Motivation: Datasets resulting from metabolomics or metabolic profiling experiments are
becoming increasingly complex. Such datasets may contain underlying factors, such as time (…