Objective: To determine the magnitude and importance of the relation between smoking,
bone mineral density, and risk of hip fracture according to age. Design: Meta-analysis of 29 …

Cesarean delivery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the United States,
and cesarean rates are increasing. Working with 2009 data from 593 US hospitals …

Background: Many patients do not adhere to treatment because they cannot afford their
prescription medications, putting them at increased risk of adverse health outcomes. We …

… Blanc 20 , Michael R. Blanton 30 , Médéric Boquien 31 , Jura Borissova 32,33 , Jo Bovy
34,35 , WN Brandt 36,37,38 , Jonathan Brinkmann 28 , Joel … Lane 69,96 , David R. Law …

The levels of individual PBDE congeners were investigated in the invertebrate species whelk
(Buccinum undatum), seastar (Asterias rubens), and hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus), the …

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping
Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-…

Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) is an optical fiber-bundle
integral-field unit (IFU) spectroscopic survey that is one of three core programs in the fourth-…

Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) is an integral-field
spectroscopic survey that is one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky …

We describe the sample design for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey and present the final
properties of the main samples along with important considerations for using these samples for …

… For our Primary sample, the median r-band signal-to-noise ratio is∼ 70 per 1.4 Å pixel for
spectra stacked between 1R e and 1.5R e. Measurements of various galaxy properties from …