This paper presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and age of the categories in this free online encyclopedia, and the content coverage of its highly productive authors. The paper starts with an introduction of Wikipedia and a review of related work. We then int...

Cutaneous T-cell lymohomas (CTCLs) are rare, but potentially devastating malignancies, with Mycosis fungoides and Sézary Syndrome being the most common. In our previous study, we identified and described regions of geographic clustering of CTCL cases in Texas by analyzing ~1990 patients using two distinct cancer registries. In the current work, we describe in detail demographic patterns for thi...

The Editorial Board has had some good additions of hardworking colleagues and among the Deputy Editors we can now find Marilyn Tseng from California Polytechnic State University, USA, who has been with the journal for several years. Three recently added deputies are Dr Allison Hodge from University of Melbourne, Australia; Dr Irja Haapala, University of Eastern Finland; and Prof Geraldine McNei...

Cities in the northern Gulf of Mexico, such as Houston, have experienced one fastest rates subsidence, with groundwater/hydrocarbon withdrawal being considered primary cause. This work reports substantial ground subsidence a few parts Greater Houston and adjoining areas not reported before. Observation surface deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data obtained from...

Roles of cell protrusions as initial and dynamic mediators of cell–cell and cell–ECM interactions Filopodia have well-established roles in sampling the local environment and making initial cell–ECM contacts at the leading edge of many cell types. Filopodial-like structures, termed “epithelial zippers,” can mediate initial contacts between epithelial cells that culminate in assembly of cell–cell...

Surveillance of the tumor mutanome by T cells during progression from primary to 1 recurrent ovarian cancer 2 3 Authors 4 5 Darin A. Wick, 6 John R. Webb, 7 Julie S. Nielsen, 8 Spencer D. Martin, 9 David R. Kroeger, 10 Katy Milne, 11 Mauro Castellarin, 12 Kwame Twumasi-Boateng, 13 Peter H. Watson, 14 Rob A. Holt, 15 Brad H. Nelson, 16 17 Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, British Columbia C...

What is the value of the gray wolf and what might be the costs of including a tiny desert lizard on the list of endangered species? For decades, Congress has formally excluded questions about the economic value of species and the costs of their protection from agency decisions about whether a species should be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Recently, however, a number of federal legis...