Many large cities worldwide are built on natural and engineered geological materials that are highly susceptible to liquefaction and associated ground failure in earthquakes. Constitutive equations describing relationships between sediment geotechnical characteristics, ...

Objectives: Traditionally, summarization of research themes and trends within a given discipline was accomplished by manual review of scientific works in the field. However, with the ushering in of the age of “big data”, new methods for discovery of such information bec...

Objective: To automatically recognize self-acknowledged limitations in clinical research publications to support efforts in improving research transparency. Materials and Methods: To develop our recognition methods, we used a set of 8,431 sentences from 1,197 PubMed Cen...

For over 10,000 years, black abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) were an important resource in southern California, first for coastal Native Americans, then beginning in the nineteenth century, as one of the state's first commercial shellfisheries. By 1993, after years of he...

Objectives: Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning approaches were used to build classifiers to identify genomic-related treatment changes in the free-text visit progress notes of cancer patients. Methods: We obtained 5,889 de-identified progress reports...

Objectives: To create test collections for evaluating clinical Information Retrieval (IR) systems and advancing clinical IR research. Materials and Methods: Electronic Health Records (EHR) data, including structured and free text data, from 45,000 patients who are a par...

Hundreds of scarlet macaw (Ara macao cyanoptera) skeletons have been recovered from archaeological contexts in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico (SW/NW). The location of these skeletons, >1,000 km outside their Neotropical endemic range, has sugg...

Colluvial deposits, as the correlate sediments of human induced soil erosion, depict an excellent archive of land use and landscape history as representatives of human-environment interactions. This study establishes a chronostratigraphy of colluvial deposits and recons...

Simultaneously analysing morphological, molecular and stratigraphic data suggests a potential resolution to a major remaining inconsistency in crocodylian evolution. The ancient, long-snouted thoracosaurs have always been placed near the Indian gharial Gavialis, but the...

Maintaining the accretion potential and three dimensional structure of coral reefs is a priority but reef-building scleractinian corals are highly threatened and retreating. Hence future reefs are predicted to be dominated by non-constructional taxa. Since the Late Tria...