Recently developed time-independent bound-state perturbation theory is extended to treat the scattering domain.The changes in the partial wave phase shifts are derived explicitly and the results are compared with those of other methods.

Inhibitors of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) are a novel class of antidiabetes drugs, and members of this class are under various stages of clinical development for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). It is widely accepted that SGLT2 is responsible for >80% of the reabsorption of the renal filtered glucose load. However, maximal doses of SGLT2 inhibitors fail to inhibit >...

While it is known that European mortality rates from heart disease have substantially decreased within all age groups, it has been assumed that this decline might not be seen in younger adults. In younger people, the benefits from reduced smoking might be offset by increases in obesity, diabetes, and other potential risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Nichols et al. mortality data provided...

In this month's editorial, PLOS Medicine Editorial Board member Rachel Jewkes identifies challenges that the violence prevention research community faces in substantially reducing violence against women and girls over the next 30 years. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

Alternative splicing plays an important role in regulating gene expression. Currently, most efficient methods use expressed sequence tags or microarray analysis for large-scale detection of alternative splicing. However, it is difficult to detect all alternative splice events with them because of their inherent limitations. Previous computational methods for alternative splicing prediction coul...

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