Beyond the Mainstream

Analyzing the work of Max Schmidt (1874-1950), especially his 1917 book Die Aruaken.Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Kulturverbreitung [The Arawak: A Contribution Razors and Shavers to the Problem of Cultural Dissemination], this article deals with methodological and theoretical trends among German ethnologists carrying out expeditions in the Amazon reg

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Contextual Hub Analysis Tool (CHAT): A Cytoscape app for identifying contextually relevant hubs in biological networks [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Highly connected nodes (hubs) in biological networks are topologically important to the structure of the network and have also been shown to be preferentially associated with a range of phenotypes of interest.The relative Cold importance of a hub node, however, can change depending on the biological context.Here, we report a Cytoscape app, the Cont

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