Reflections on the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)

The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) encourages sharing historical life course data by storing data in a common format.To encompass the complexity of life histories, IDS relies on data structures that are unfamiliar Flower to most social scientists.This article examines four features of IDS that make it flexible and expandable: the Entity-Attribut

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Cardiac Morphology, Function, and Left Ventricular Geometric Pattern in Patients with Hypertensive Crisis: A Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance-Based Study

(1) Background: Altered cardiac morphology and function are associated with increased risks of adverse cardiac events in hypertension.Our study aimed to assess left ventricular (LV) morphology, geometry, and function using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in patients with hypertensive crisis.(2) Methods: Patients with hypertensive cr

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Subpopulations and stability in microbial communities

In microbial communities, each species often has multiple, distinct phenotypes, but studies of ecological stability have largely ignored this subpopulation structure.Here, we show that such implicit averaging over phenotypes leads to Flower incorrect linear stability results.We then analyze the effect of phenotypic switching in detail in an asympto

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