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MicroRNA-34a is a potent tumor suppressor molecule in vivo in neuroblastoma by Tivnan, Amanda, Tracey, Lorraine, Buckley, Patrick G, Alcock, Leah C, Davidoff, Andrew M, Stallings, Raymond L

“…Neuroblastoma is a paediatric cancer which originates from precursor cells of the sympathetic nervous system and accounts for 15% of childhood cancer…”
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Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Determination of Physical Properties of Eclipsing Binaries. I. The EBAI Project by Prša, A, Guinan, E. F, Devinney, E. J, DeGeorge, M, Bradstreet, D. H, Giammarco, J. M, Alcock, C. R, Engle, S. G

“…Achieving maximum scientific results from the overwhelming volume of astronomical data to be acquired over the next few decades demands novel, fully automatic…”
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Modulation of chemotherapeutic drug resistance in neuroblastoma SK‐N‐AS cells by the neural apoptosis inhibitory protein and miR‐520f by Harvey, Harry, Piskareva, Olga, Creevey, Laura, Alcock, Leah C., Buckley, Patrick G, O'Sullivan, Maureen J., Segura, Miguel F., Gallego, Soledad, Stallings, Raymond L., Bray, Isabella M.

“…The acquisition of multidrug resistance is a major impediment to the successful treatment of neuroblastoma, a clinically heterogeneous cancer accounting for…”
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The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of Large Magellanic Cloud Observations by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D. R, Axelrod, T. S, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Dalal, N, Drake, A. J, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Griest, K, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Minniti, D, Nelson, C. A, Peterson, B. A, Popowski, P, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Tomaney, A. B, Vandehei, T, Welch, D

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Pattern Recognition Using SVM for the Classification of the Size and Distance of Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by Serendipitous Stellar Occultations by Hernández-Valencia, B., Castro-Chacón, J. H., Reyes-Ruiz, M., Lehner, M. J., Guerrero, C. A., Silva, J. S., Hernández-Águila, J. B., Alvarez-Santana, F. I., Sánchez, E., Nuñez, J. M., Calvario-Velásquez, L. T., Figueroa, Liliana, Huang, C.-K., Wang, Shiang-Yu, Alcock, C., Chen, W.-P., Granados Contreras, Agueda Paula, Geary, J. C., Cook, K. H., Kavelaars, J. J., Norton, T., Szentgyorgyi, A., Yen, W.-L., Zhang, Z.-W., Olague, G.

“…Abstract We present a new pipeline based on the Support Vector Machine algorithm to confirm the detection and perform classification of small solar system…”
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MACHO Project Limits on Black Hole Dark Matter in the 1-30 M Range by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D. R, Axelrod, T. S, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Dalal, N, Drake, A. J, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Griest, K, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Minniti, D, Nelson, C. A, Peterson, B. A, Popowski, P, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Tomaney, A. B, Vandehei, T, Welch, D. L

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Occultations by Small Non-spherical Trans-Neptunian Objects. I. A New Event Simulator for TAOS II by Castro-Chacón, J. H., Reyes-Ruiz, M., Lehner, M. J., Zhang, Z.-W., Alcock, C., Guerrero, C. A., Hernández-Valencia, B., Hernández-Águila, J. B., Nuñez, J. M., Salinas-Luna, J., Silva, J. S., Alexandersen, M., Alvarez-Santana, F. I., Chen, W.-P., Chu, Y.-H., Cook, K. H., García-Díaz, Ma. T., Geary, J. C., Huang, C.-K., Kavelaars, Jj, Norton, T., Szentgyorgyi, A., Carvajal, J. C., Sánchez, E., Yen, W.-L.

“…We present a new occultation event simulator for the Trans-Neptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II). We have developed a method to compute occultation…”
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Microlensing Optical Depth toward the Galactic Bulge Using Clump Giants from the MACHO Survey by Popowski, P, Griest, K, Thomas, C. L, Cook, K. H, Bennett, D. P, Becker, A. C, Alves, D. R, Minniti, D, Drake, A. J, Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Axelrod, T. S, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Nelson, C. A, Peterson, B. A, Quinn, P. J, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Vandehei, T, Welch, D

“…Using 7 yr of MACHO survey data, we present a new determination of the optical depth to microlensing toward the Galactic bulge. We select the sample of 62…”
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Gravitational Microlensing Events Due to Stellar-Mass Black Holes by Bennett, D. P, Becker, A. C, Quinn, J. L, Tomaney, A. B, Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D. R, Axelrod, T. S, Calitz, J. J, Cook, K. H, Drake, A. J, Fragile, P. C, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Griest, K, Johnson, B. R, Keller, S. C, Laws, C, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Minniti, D, Nelson, C. A, Peterson, B. A, Popowski, P, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Rhie, S. H, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Vandehei, T, Welch, D

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The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D, Axelrod, T. S, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Freeman, K. C, Griest, K, Guern, J, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Peterson, B. A, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Rodgers, A. W, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Welch, D. L

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Finding outlier light curves in catalogues of periodic variable stars by Protopapas, P., Giammarco, J. M., Faccioli, L., Struble, M. F., Dave, R., Alcock, C.

“…We present a methodology to discover outliers in catalogues of periodic light curves. We use a cross-correlation as the measure of ‘similarity’ between two…”
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The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory by Lehner, M. J., Wen, C.-Y., Wang, J.-H., Marshall, S. L., Schwamb, M. E., Zhang, Z.-W., Bianco, F. B., Giammarco, J., Porrata, R., Alcock, C., Axelrod, T., Byun, Y.-I., Chen, W. P., Cook, K. H., Dave, R., King, S.-K., Lee, T., Lin, H.-C., Wang, S.-Y., Rice, J. A., de Pater, I.

“…The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) operates four fully automatic telescopes to search for occultations of stars by Kuiper Belt Objects. It is a…”
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The MACHO Project: Microlensing Optical Depth toward the Galactic Bulge from Difference Image Analysis by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D. R, Axelrod, T. S, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Drake, A. J, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Griest, K, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Minniti, D, Nelson, C. A, Peterson, B. A, Popowski, P, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Tomaney, A. B, Vandehei, T, Welch, D. L

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First Results from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) by Zhang, Z.-W, Bianco, F. B, Lehner, M. J, Coehlo, N. K, Wang, J.-H, Mondal, S, Alcock, C, Axelrod, T, Byun, Y.-I, Chen, W. P, Cook, K. H, Dave, R, de Pater, I, Porrata, R, Kim, D.-W, King, S.-K, Lee, T, Lin, H.-C, Lissauer, J. J, Marshall, S. L, Protopapas, P, Rice, J. A, Schwamb, M. E, Wang, S.-Y, Wen, C.-Y

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Direct detection of a microlens in the Milky Way by Nelson, C. A, Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D. R, Axelrod, T. S, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Drake, A. J, Freeman, K. C, Geha, M, Griest, K, Keller, S. C, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Minniti, D, Peterson, B. A, Popowski, P, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Tomaney, A. B, Vandehei, T, Welch, D

“…The nature of dark matter remains mysterious, with luminous material accounting for at most ∼25 per cent of the baryons in the Universe. We accordingly…”
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The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. XI. Frequency Analysis of the Fundamental-Mode RR Lyrae Stars by Alcock, C, Alves, D. R, Becker, A, Bennett, D, Cook, K. H, Drake, A, Freeman, K, Geha, M, Griest, K, Kovács, G, Lehner, M, Marshall, S, Minniti, D, Nelson, C, Peterson, B, Popowski, P, Pratt, M, Quinn, P, Rodgers, A, Stubbs, C, Sutherland, W, Vandehei, T, Welch, D. L

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Identification and treatment of anaemia in patients awaiting hip replacement by Rogers, B A, Cowie, A, Alcock, C, Rosson, J W

“…The correction of anaemia prior to total hip arthroplasty reduces surgical risk, hospital stay and cost. This study considers the benefits of implementing a…”
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The TAOS Project: Statistical Analysis of Multi-Telescope Time Series Data by Lehner, M. J., Coehlo, N. K., Zhang, Z.-W., Bianco, F. B., Wang, J.-H., Rice, J. A., Protopapas, P., Alcock, C., Axelrod, T., Byun, Y.-I., Chen, W. P., Cook, K. H., de Pater, I., Kim, D.-W., King, S.-K., Lee, T., Marshall, S. L., Schwamb, M. E., Wang, S.-Y., Wen, C.-Y.

“…The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) monitors fields of up to∼1000 ∼ 1000 stars at 5 Hz simultaneously with four small telescopes to detect…”
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EROS and MACHO Combined Limits on Planetary-Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D, Ansari, R, Aubourg, É, Axelrod, T. S, Bareyre, P, Beaulieu, J.-Ph, Becker, A. C, Bennett, D. P, Brehin, S, Cavalier, F, Char, S, Cook, K. H, Ferlet, R, Fernandez, J, Freeman, K. C, Griest, K, Grison, Ph, Gros, M, Gry, C, Guibert, J, Lachièze-Rey, M, Laurent, B, Lehner, M. J, Lesquoy, É, Magneville, C, Marshall, S. L, Maurice, É, Milsztajn, A, Minniti, D, Moniez, M, Moreau, O, Moscoso, L, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Peterson, B. A, Pratt, M. R, Prévôt, L, Queinnec, F, Quinn, P. J, Renault, C, Rich, J, Spiro, M, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W, Tomaney, A, Vandehei, T, Vidal-Madjar, A, Vigroux, L, Zylberajch, S

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The Macho Project: 45 Candidate Microlensing Events from the First Year Galactic Bulge Data by Alcock, C, Allsman, R. A, Alves, D, Axelrod, T. S, Bennett, D. P, Cook, K. H, Freeman, K. C, Griest, K, Guern, J, Lehner, M. J, Marshall, S. L, Park, H.-S, Perlmutter, S, Peterson, B. A, Pratt, M. R, Quinn, P. J, Rodgers, A. W, Stubbs, C. W, Sutherland, W

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