Liposomes are a promising class of nanomedicine with the potential to provide site-specific
chemotherapy, thus improving the quality of cancer patient care. First-generation liposomes …

The purpose of this review is to present the most common and emerging DNA ‐based
methods used to generate data for biodiversity and biomonitoring studies. As environmental …

Major porphyry Cu–Au and Cu–Mo deposits are distributed across almost 5000 km across
central Eurasia, from the Urals Mountains in Russia in the west, to Inner Mongolia in north-…

This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses
the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to …

An essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900
explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the …

Well before the coronavirus pandemic, statisticians were debating how to prevent malpractice
such as p-hacking, particularly when it could influence policy 1. Now, computer modelling …

Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early
studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His …

Objectivity in science has normally been defined by scholars as almost synonymous with
realism. It may be advantageous to think of it instead in terms of impersonality, an ideal that …

Quantification is not merely a strategy for describing the social and natural worlds, but a
means of reconfiguring them. It entails the imposition of new meanings and the disappearance …

Conventional assessments of ecosystem sample composition are based on morphology-based
or DNA barcode identification of individuals. Both approaches are costly and time-…