The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

The study of magnetic fields originating in biological systems, particularly the human body,
has important implications for diverse areas of biological research, medicine, physiology, …

Intellectual disability (ID), also referred to as mental retardation (MR), is frequently the result
of genetic mutation. Where ID is present together with additional clinical symptoms or …

A new regression technique based on Vapnik's concept of support vectors is introduced. We
compare support vector regression (SVR) with a committee regression technique (bagging) …

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made
more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. …

Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a T-cell–mediated autoimmune disease that leads
to a major loss of insulin-secreting beta cells. The further decline of beta-cell function after …

Positron emission tomography (PET)—still in its research stages—is a technique that promises
to open new medical frontiers by enabling physicians to study the metabolic activity of the …

The coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos off nuclei has eluded detection for four decades,
even though its predicted cross section is by far the largest of all low-energy neutrino …

Today, we have the ability to utilize scalable, distributed computing environments within the
confines of the Internet, a practice known as cloud computing. In this new world of computing…

For a century, two new viruses per year have spilled from their natural hosts into humans (1).
The MERS, SARS, and 2009 H1N1 epidemics, and the HIV and coronavirus disease 2019 (…