For brevity, we summarize the essentials of Delphy’s operation here; full details are provided in the Supplementary Information. EMATs Delphy represents trees internally as a collection of explicitly timed nodes and a reference sequence. Each non-root node points to an earlier parent, and each inner node to two later children. Every instant in the tree
Study population and ethics declaration The MCPS is a prospective cohort of over 150,000 adult participants from Mexico City3,4. The baseline survey took place between 14 April 1998 and 28 September 2004 and focused on households in two urban districts, Coyoacán and Iztapalapa. Residents aged 35 years or older were invited to participate in the study. Of
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda is famous for the endangered mountain gorillas that inhabit its lush, misty highlands. It’s also home to around 120 other species of mammal, 350 types of bird and hundreds of plant varieties — and, on its borders, people and livestock. That’s a recipe for what epidemiologists call spillover,
A paramedic moves a person to an ambulance in Spain during a 2022 heatwave that killed more than 300 people in five days. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty Extreme heat is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year — and the annual toll is growing. An estimated 210,000 more people died of heat-related causes each year
