We report an estimate of the Earth’s average land surface temperature for the period 1753
to 2011. To address issues of potential station selection bias, we used a larger sampling of …

Muller contentiously argues that our understanding of John Calvin's theology has been
fundamentally distorted by its use by dogmatic and systematic theologians since the beginning of …

Developmental brain plasticity in association with focal brain injury is dependent on a number
of factors, including age of the individual at the time of injury, size and topography of the …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a formidable challenge for psychiatry and
neuroscience because of their high prevalence, lifelong nature, complexity and substantial …

Impaired language is a prominent behavioral marker of autism spectrum disorders (ASD),
but its neurobiological underpinnings are incompletely understood. We studied letter and …

Based on evidence for thalamic abnormalities in autism, impairments of thalamocortical
pathways have been suspected. We examined the functional connectivity between thalamus …

China has recently made available hourly air pollution data from over 1500 sites, including
airborne particulate matter (PM), SO 2 , NO 2 , and O 3 . We apply Kriging interpolation to four …

A number of recent studies have examined functional connectivity in individuals with Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASD), generally converging on the finding of reduced interregional …

Background Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting sociocommunicative behavior,
but also sensorimotor skill learning, oculomotor control, and executive functioning. Some …

It is well known that the diversity of life appears to fluctuate during the course of the Phanerozoic,
the eon during which hard shells and skeletons left abundant fossils (0–542 million …