… Hwang is the recipient of a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health. The
results and conclusions are those of the author, and no official endorsement by the ministry is …

Background Inclusion health focuses on people in extremely poor health due to poverty,
marginalisation, and multimorbidity. We aimed to review morbidity and mortality data on four …

Background context The objective of the North American Spine Society's (NASS) Evidence-Based
Clinical Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation with …

A remarkable feature of modern silicon electronics is its ability to remain physically invariant,
almost indefinitely for practical purposes. Although this characteristic is a hallmark of …

The widespread use of thermoelectric technology is constrained by a relatively low conversion
efficiency of the bulk alloys, which is evaluated in terms of a dimensionless figure of merit (…

Mammals detect temperature with specialized neurons in the peripheral nervous system.
Four TRPV-class channels have been implicated in sensing heat, and one TRPM-class …

Six members of the mammalian transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels respond to
varied temperature thresholds. The natural compounds capsaicin and menthol activate …

Capsaicin, a pungent ingredient of hot peppers, causes excitation of small sensory neurons,
and thereby produces severe pain. A nonselective cation channel activated by capsaicin …

Arrays of electrodes for recording and stimulating the brain are used throughout clinical
medicine and basic neuroscience research, yet are unable to sample large areas of the brain …

The uniform growth of single-crystal graphene over wafer-scale areas remains a challenge
in the commercial-level manufacturability of various electronic, photonic, mechanical, and …