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The data, Grimmer continued, point to two important and undeniable facts. First, analyses focused on vote choice alone cannot tell us where candidates receive support. We must know the size of groups and who turns out to vote. And we cannot confuse candidates’ rhetoric with the voters who support them, because voters might support the candidate despite the rhetoric, not because of it.From their research pre-print Measuring the contribution of voting blocs to election outcomes, they calculate the normalised size of voting blocs (groups) using the ks R package. Other media coverage of this research is listed on William Marble's website.
The research journal Science reports on the early stages of the Covid-19 epidemic in The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic:
Worobey et al. amassed the variety of evidence from the City of Wuhan, China, where the first human infections were reported. These reports confirm that most of the earliest human cases centered around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Within the market, the data statistically located the earliest human cases to one section where vendors of live wild animals congregated and where virus-positive environmental samples concentratedThe authors used my ks R package to produce the heat maps in this article, such as their Figure 2 reproduced on the left. The acknowledgment to the ks package is made explicit in the Supplementary material.
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We can't imagine the incredible traffic that exists inside a living cell. Proteins, chemical messengers vie for space between the different workshops inside the cellular factory. The proteins required for an organism are continuously manufactured in compartments like the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus or endosomes. Under the action of biological micro-motors, these basic building blocks move from one compartment to another via microscopic tracks or microtubles. In order to function, this machinery requires energy, which is supplied by countless mitochrondria. The regulation of this traffic is like a jigsaw puzzle, which is all the more complex since the components change in shape and in space. A team from the Curie Institute, headed by Bruno Goud, has just solved part of the mystery in creating "global maps of all the cellular compartments and the relationships between them". According to the authors, in research published in Nature Methods confirm that it is possible to analyse globally the distruption of cellular compartments in pathological cases. In other words, certain illnesses, probably the consequence of a disfunction in the circulation of cellular components, could be explained by this new schema. The researchers have used a trick to solve this puzzle. The test cells were adhered to a support medium and their external exchanges were analysed using imaging techniques. This work is being continued for tumour cells, because these Parisian scientists suspect that the change in "certain master proteins in this arrangement are involved in tumorigenesis."