This article summarizes the new 2011 report on dietary requirements for calcium and vitamin
D from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). An IOM Committee charged with determining the …

Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of
these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the …

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new
instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, …

A wide variety of systems requires reliable personal recognition schemes to either confirm
or determine the identity of an individual requesting their services. The purpose of such …

Biometric recognition, or simply Biometrics, is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging
from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. Biometric systems rely on …

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of
baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the …

We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined galaxy …

We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of
the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon …

INDEPTH geophysical and geological observations imply that a partially molten midcrustal
layer exists beneath southern Tibet. This partially molten layer has been produced by crustal …