… AO is a measure of the importance one places in appearance. … AO was similar to that of
community norms (mean scores … There was no change in AO at 1-4 years after surgery, with the …

Background Our understanding of the natural history of cystic fibrosis liver disease (CFLD)
is limited, leading to uncertainty for patients their families and clinicians when liver …

Background: Motivation for seeking obesity surgery has not been studied. The authors
explored the patient's motivation for selecting surgery and examined for a relationship between …

Background The relationship between depression and severe obesity is unclear. We examined
depression before and after surgically induced weight loss. Methods Beck Depression …

… The appearance orientation (AO) subscale assesses the importance an individual places
on … The level of AD is determined by calculating the difference between the AO and AE. …

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of the early Universe, but locating and
identifying very distant GRBs remain challenging. We report here the discovery of the K-band …

We report on XMM-Newton spectroscopic observations of the luminous radio-quiet quasar
PDS 456. The hard X-ray spectrum of PDS 456 shows a deep absorption trough (constituting …

This empirical analysis of the terrestrial ring current, as measured by Dst, uses conditional
probability density in Dst phase space to determine the evolution of the ring current. This …

Background Over the last decade, the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing
platforms has accelerated species description and assisted morphological classification …

GRB 051022 was undetected to deep limits in early optical observations, but precise
astrometry from radio and X-rays showed that it most likely originated in a galaxy at z≈ 0.8. We …