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University of Colorado Boulder

EducationBoulder, Colorado, United States
About: University of Colorado Boulder is a education organization based out in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Galaxy. The organization has 48794 authors who have published 115151 publications receiving 5387328 citations. The organization is also known as: CU Boulder & UCB.
Topics: Population, Galaxy, Poison control, Solar wind, Stars


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TL;DR: The proposed structural change is compatible with the normal restrictions on bond lengths, angles, and non-bonded contacts, and maintenance of the hydrogen- bonded base pairs perpendicular to the axis of the molecule.

2,046 citations

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TL;DR: This study revealed that seemingly chaotic shifts in the microbiome are associated with life events; however, additional experiments ought to be conducted to assess how different infants respond to similar life events.
Abstract: The colonization process of the infant gut microbiome has been called chaotic, but this view could reflect insufficient documentation of the factors affecting the microbiome. We performed a 2.5-y case study of the assembly of the human infant gut microbiome, to relate life events to microbiome composition and function. Sixty fecal samples were collected from a healthy infant along with a diary of diet and health status. Analysis of >300,000 16S rRNA genes indicated that the phylogenetic diversity of the microbiome increased gradually over time and that changes in community composition conformed to a smooth temporal gradient. In contrast, major taxonomic groups showed abrupt shifts in abundance corresponding to changes in diet or health. Community assembly was nonrandom: we observed discrete steps of bacterial succession punctuated by life events. Furthermore, analysis of ≈500,000 DNA metagenomic reads from 12 fecal samples revealed that the earliest microbiome was enriched in genes facilitating lactate utilization, and that functional genes involved in plant polysaccharide metabolism were present before the introduction of solid food, priming the infant gut for an adult diet. However, ingestion of table foods caused a sustained increase in the abundance of Bacteroidetes, elevated fecal short chain fatty acid levels, enrichment of genes associated with carbohydrate utilization, vitamin biosynthesis, and xenobiotic degradation, and a more stable community composition, all of which are characteristic of the adult microbiome. This study revealed that seemingly chaotic shifts in the microbiome are associated with life events; however, additional experiments ought to be conducted to assess how different infants respond to similar life events.

2,038 citations

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TL;DR: Prevention and early detection of lung cancer with an emphasis on lung cancer screening is discussed, and the importance of smoking prevention and cessation is acknowledged.

2,027 citations

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TL;DR: The results suggest that the term inhibition has been overextended and that researchers need to be more specific when discussing and measuring inhibition-related functions.
Abstract: This study used data from 220 adults to examine the relations among 3 inhibition-related functions. Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that Prepotent Response Inhibition and Resistance to Distractor Interference were closely related, but both were unrelated to Resistance to Proactive Interference. Structural equation modeling, which combined Prepotent Response Inhibition and Resistance to Distractor Interference into a single latent variable, indicated that 1 aspect of random number generation performance, task-switching ability, and everyday cognitive failures were related to Response-Distractor Inhibition, whereas reading span recall and unwanted intrusive thoughts were related to Resistance to Proactive Interference. These results suggest that the term inhibition has been overextended and that researchers need to be more specific when discussing and measuring inhibition-related functions.

2,027 citations

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TL;DR: It is confirmed with actual sequence data that UniFrac values can be influenced by the number of sequences/sample, and sequence jackknifing is recommended to avoid this issue.
Abstract: UniFrac is a β-diversity measure that uses phylogenetic information to compare environmental samples. UniFrac, coupled with standard multivariate statistical techniques including principal coordinates analysis (PCoA), identifies factors explaining differences among microbial communities. A recent simulation study concluded that UniFrac is unsuitable as a distance metric and should not be used for multivariate analysis (Schloss, 2008). We counter this argument by reassessing the data that led to this conclusion and by providing a mathematical proof showing that UniFrac is a distance metric. However, we confirm with actual sequence data that UniFrac values can be influenced by the number of sequences/sample, and recommend sequence jackknifing (that is, determining how often the cluster results are recovered using random subsets of the data) to avoid this issue.

2,022 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Yi Chen2174342293080
Robert J. Lefkowitz214860147995
Rob Knight2011061253207
Charles A. Dinarello1901058139668
Jie Zhang1784857221720
David Haussler172488224960
Bradley Cox1692150156200
Gang Chen1673372149819
Rodney S. Ruoff164666194902
Menachem Elimelech15754795285
Jay Hauser1552145132683
Robert E. W. Hancock15277588481
Robert Plomin151110488588
Thomas E. Starzl150162591704
Rajesh Kumar1494439140830
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023164
2022779
20216,286
20206,493
20196,063
20185,522