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Pattern of early human-to-human transmission of Wuhan 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), December 2019 to January 2020 by Riou, Julien, Althaus, Christian L

“…Since December 2019, China has been experiencing a large outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) which can cause respiratory disease and severe pneumonia…”
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Sparse and compositionally robust inference of microbial ecological networks by Kurtz, Zachary D, Müller, Christian L, Miraldi, Emily R, Littman, Dan R, Blaser, Martin J, Bonneau, Richard A

“…16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and other environmental sequencing techniques provide snapshots of microbial communities, revealing phylogeny and the abundances…”
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NetCoMi: network construction and comparison for microbiome data in R by Peschel, Stefanie, Müller, Christian L, von Mutius, Erika, Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, Depner, Martin

“…Abstract Motivation Estimating microbial association networks from high-throughput sequencing data is a common exploratory data analysis approach aiming at…”
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Impact of Ural Blocking on Winter Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasian Anomalies. Part I: Blocking-Induced Amplification by Luo, Dehai, Xiao, Yiqing, Yao, Yao, Dai, Aiguo, Simmonds, Ian, Franzke, Christian L. E.

“…In Part I of this study, the impact of Ural blocking (UB) on the warm Arctic–cold Eurasian (WACE) pattern associated with the winter (DJF) arctic sea ice loss…”
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Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: nanoscale sensors for physics and biology by Schirhagl, Romana, Chang, Kevin, Loretz, Michael, Degen, Christian L

“…Crystal defects in diamond have emerged as unique objects for a variety of applications, both because they are very stable and because they have interesting…”
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Selecting accreted populations: metallicity, elemental abundances, and ages of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus and Sequoia populations by Feuillet, Diane K, Sahlholdt, Christian L, Feltzing, Sofia, Casagrande, Luca

“…ABSTRACT Identifying stars found in the Milky Way as having formed in situ or accreted can be a complex and uncertain undertaking. We use Gaia kinematics and…”
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Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 mortality during the early stages of an epidemic: A modeling study in Hubei, China, and six regions in Europe by Hauser, Anthony, Counotte, Michel J, Margossian, Charles C, Konstantinoudis, Garyfallos, Low, Nicola, Althaus, Christian L, Riou, Julien

“…As of 16 May 2020, more than 4.5 million cases and more than 300,000 deaths from disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)…”
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Microbial Networks in SPRING - Semi-parametric Rank-Based Correlation and Partial Correlation Estimation for Quantitative Microbiome Data by Yoon, Grace, Gaynanova, Irina, Müller, Christian L

“…High-throughput microbial sequencing techniques, such as targeted amplicon-based and metagenomic profiling, provide low-cost genomic survey data of microbial…”
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Ebola: the real lessons from HIV scale-up by Althaus, Christian L

“…The estimated value of k, which is substantially smaller than 1, suggests that the distribution of the individual reproduction number is highly overdispersed.2…”
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The approximately universal shapes of epidemic curves in the Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model by Heng, Kevin, Althaus, Christian L.

“…Compartmental transmission models have become an invaluable tool to study the dynamics of infectious diseases. The Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model…”
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Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale by Lauber, Christian L, Hamady, Micah, Knight, Rob, Fierer, Noah

“…Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding…”
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The SkyMapper-Gaia RVS view of the Gaia–Enceladus–Sausage  – an investigation of the metallicity and mass of the Milky Way’s last major merger by Feuillet, Diane K, Feltzing, Sofia, Sahlholdt, Christian L, Casagrande, Luca

“…ABSTRACT We characterize the Gaia–Enceladus–Sausage kinematic structure recently discovered in the Galactic halo using photometric metallicities from the…”
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COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: on the importance of testing, contact tracing and isolation by Salathé, Marcel, Althaus, Christian L, Neher, Richard, Stringhini, Silvia, Hodcroft, Emma, Fellay, Jacques, Zwahlen, Marcel, Senti, Gabriela, Battegay, Manuel, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Eckerle, Isabella, Egger, Matthias, Low, Nicola

“…Switzerland is among the countries with the highest number of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) cases per capita in the world. There are likely many people…”
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Perspective functions: Proximal calculus and applications in high-dimensional statistics by Combettes, Patrick L., Müller, Christian L.

“…Perspective functions arise explicitly or implicitly in various forms in applied mathematics and in statistical data analysis. To date, no systematic strategy…”
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Metaphor-based metaheuristics, a call for action: the elephant in the room by Aranha, Claus, Camacho Villalón, Christian L., Campelo, Felipe, Dorigo, Marco, Ruiz, Rubén, Sevaux, Marc, Sörensen, Kenneth, Stützle, Thomas

“…Taking inspiration from natural behaviors to devise new optimization algorithms has played an important role in the history of the field of metaheuristics…”
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Tree-aggregated predictive modeling of microbiome data by Bien, Jacob, Yan, Xiaohan, Simpson, Léo, Müller, Christian L.

“…Modern high-throughput sequencing technologies provide low-cost microbiome survey data across all habitats of life at unprecedented scale. At the most granular…”
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An analysis of why cuckoo search does not bring any novel ideas to optimization by Camacho-Villalón, Christian L., Dorigo, Marco, Stützle, Thomas

“…It has been more than 10 years since the first version of cuckoo search was proposed by Yang and Deb and published in the proceedings of the World Congress on…”
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Mermin–Wagner fluctuations in 2D amorphous solids by Illing, Bernd, Fritschi, Sebastian, Kaiser, Herbert, Klix, Christian L., Maret, Georg, Keim, Peter

“…In a recent commentary, J. M. Kosterlitz described how D. Thouless and he got motivated to investigate melting and suprafluidity in two dimensions [Kosterlitz…”
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Body language signals for rodent social communication by Ebbesen, Christian L, Froemke, Robert C

“…Integration of social cues to initiate adaptive emotional and behavioral responses is a fundamental aspect of animal and human behavior. In humans, social…”
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2 + 2 Trapping of Acyloxy-1,2-cyclohexadienes with Styrenes and Electron-Deficient Olefins by Jankovic, Christian. L., West, F. G.

“…Oxygenated-1,2-cyclohexadienes and their unsubstituted counterpart can be generated under mild conditions by fluoride-induced desilylation and undergo…”
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