Institutional legitimacy is essential for democracies, yet public trust and confidence in the United States Congress are at an all-time low. A significant predictor of attitudes toward Congress is ...

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Most of the research papers in random graph theory concern the Erdős–Rényi model 𝒢p, in which each edge is independently chosen with probability p for some given p > 0 (see ref. 3). In such random ...

Open in Viewer Evolution of atmospheric CO 2 (a), methane (b), and nitrous oxide (c), and sampling intervals (d) over the past 20,000 years. The gray bar denotes the range of the preindustrial, ...

the cause of later adult disease, and it does not always accompany the types of exposure that lead to adult disease. The programming of adult obesity by intrauterine food restriction without ...

In this report we address the molecular mechanisms by which elevated eIF2 phosphorylation controls mouse ATF4 expression. We find that the two uORFs contribute differentially to ATF4 translation.

Open in Viewer RoBMA PSMA model-averaged posterior mean effect size estimates with 95% credible intervals and Bayes factors for the absence of the effect for the combined sample or split by either the ...

Current efforts to reconstruct the tree of life and histories of multigene families demand the inference of phylogenies consisting of thousands of gene sequences. However, for such large data sets ...

Gene expression is a stochastic, or “noisy,” process. This noise comes about in two ways. The inherent stochasticity of biochemical processes such as transcription and translation generates “intrinsic ...