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Peter J. Foster
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 60
Citations - 1900
Peter J. Foster is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microtubule & Population. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1618 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter J. Foster include University of Sheffield & University of Manchester.
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Saudi children and adolescents.
Mohammad I. El Mouzan,Peter J. Foster,Abdullah S. Al Herbish,Abdullah A. Al Salloum,Ahmad A. Al Omer,Mansour M. Qurachi,Tatjana Kecojevic +6 more
TL;DR: This report establishes baseline national prevalence rates for overweight, obesity and severe obesity in Saudi children and adolescents, indicating intermediate levels between developing and industrialized countries.
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Active contraction of microtubule networks
TL;DR: Foster et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a mathematical model based on an 'active fluid' theory to find out whether networks of microtubules can also spontaneously contract, and the model made predictions that agree very well with the experimental data.
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Standardized comparison of performance indicators in trauma: a new approach to case-mix variation
TL;DR: A new statistic is proposed, Ws, which is standardized with respect to injury severity mix, producing more accurate comparisons between different institutions, and its advantages are proposed.
A simple nonnegative boundary correction method for kernel density estimation
M. C. Jones,Peter J. Foster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a nonnegative boundary corrected estimator which is analogues of the wide class of simple, but possibly negative, boundary corrections based on generalized jacknifing.
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Lipopolysaccharide is transported to the cell surface by a membrane-to-membrane protein bridge
David J. Sherman,Ran Xie,Rebecca J. Taylor,Alexander H. George,Suguru Okuda,Peter J. Foster,Daniel J. Needleman,Daniel Kahne +7 more
TL;DR: Reconstitution of lipopolysaccharide transport shows that a protein bridge mediates membrane-to-membrane transport using adenosine triphosphate, and supports a model in which lipopoly Saccharide molecules are pushed one after the other in a PEZ dispenser–like manner across a protein Bridge that connects the inner and outer membranes.