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January 2019

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Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Three-dimensional skull of BMT 1955.G35.1, Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis.

January 8, 2019

Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis

Representing one of the first times that medical imaging and three-dimensional reconstruction methods have been applied to a large skull of a marine reptile, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, England. The unusual three-dimensional preservation of the specimen permitted computed tomography (CT) scanning of individual braincase elements as well as the entire reassembled skull.

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January 9, 2019

A public database for the new MLST scheme for Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum: surveillance and epidemiology of the causative agent of syphilis

Linda Grillova, Keith Jolley, David Šmajs, Mathieu Picardeau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6182 PubMed 30643682

January 17, 2019

Seasonality and trend prediction of scarlet fever incidence in mainland China from 2004 to 2018 using a hybrid SARIMA-NARX model

Yongbin Wang, Chunjie Xu, Zhende Wang, Juxiang Yuan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6165 PubMed 30671295

January 4, 2019

Functional polymorphisms of the APOA1/C3/A4/A5-ZPR1-BUD13 gene cluster are associated with dyslipidemia in a sex-specific pattern

Wei Bai, Changgui Kou, Lili Zhang, Yueyue You, Weiying Yu, Wanqing Hua, Yuanyuan Li, Yaqin Yu, Tiancheng Zhao, Yanhua Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6175 PubMed 30631647

January 25, 2019

Nonconventional opponents: a review of malaria and leishmaniasis among United States Armed Forces

Kaylin J. Beiter, Zachariah J. Wentlent, Adrian R. Hamouda, Bolaji N. Thomas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6313 PubMed 30701136

January 9, 2019

Social network analysis for the assessment of pig, cattle and buffalo movement in Xayabouli, Lao PDR

Chaithep Poolkhet, Suwicha Kasemsuwan, Sithong Phiphakhavong, Intha Phouangsouvanh, Khamphouth Vongxay, Man Sub Shin, Wantanee Kalpravidh, Jan Hinrichs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6177 PubMed 30643681

January 28, 2019

Optimizing influenza vaccine policies for controlling 2009-like pandemics and regular outbreaks

Sheng-I Chen, Chia-Yuan Wu, Yu-Hsuan Wu, Min-Wei Hsieh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6340 PubMed 30713821

January 15, 2019

Serverless OpenHealth at data commons scale—traversing the 20 million patient records of New York’s SPARCS dataset in real-time

Jonas S. Almeida, Janos Hajagos, Joel Saltz, Mary Saltz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6230 PubMed 30671301