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Synthesis of linear, double chain, ladder polymers from substituted tetraphosphonitriles Quarterly progress report, Sep. - Nov. 1966
Synthesis of linear, double chain, ladder polymers from substituted tetraphosphonitrile
Synthesis of linear, double chain, ladder polymers from substituted tetraphosphonitriles Quarterly report, Sep. - Nov. 1966
Synthesis of linear, double chain ladder polymers from substituted tetraphosphonitrile
Exploring the role of contactins across psychological, psychiatric and cardiometabolic traits within uk biobank
Individuals with severe mental illness have an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases compared to the general population. Shared risk factors and medication effects explain part of this excess risk; however, there is growing evidence to suggest that shared biology (including genetic variation) is likely to contribute to comorbidity between mental and physical illness. Contactins are a family of genes involved in development of the nervous system and implicated, though genome-wide association studies, in a wide range of psychological, psychiatric and cardiometabolic conditions. Contactins are plausible candidates for shared pathology between mental and physical health. We used data from UK Biobank to systematically assess how genetic variation in contactin genes was associated with a wide range of psychological, psychiatric and cardiometabolic conditions. We also investigated whether associations for cardiometabolic and psychological traits represented the same or distinct signals and how the genetic variation might influence the measured traits. We identified: A novel genetic association between variation in CNTN1 and current smoking; two independent signals in CNTN4 for BMI; and demonstrated that associations between CNTN5 and neuroticism were distinct from those between CNTN5 and blood pressure/HbA1c. There was no evidence that the contactin genes contributed to shared aetiology between physical and mental illness
Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income
This Colloquium reviews statistical models for money, wealth, and income
distributions developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. By
analogy with the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution of energy in physics, it is shown
that the probability distribution of money is exponential for certain classes
of models with interacting economic agents. Alternative scenarios are also
reviewed. Data analysis of the empirical distributions of wealth and income
reveals a two-class distribution. The majority of the population belongs to the
lower class, characterized by the exponential ("thermal") distribution, whereas
a small fraction of the population in the upper class is characterized by the
power-law ("superthermal") distribution. The lower part is very stable,
stationary in time, whereas the upper part is highly dynamical and out of
equilibrium.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figures; v.2 - minor stylistic changes and updates of
references corresponding to the published versio
Discovery of the thallium, lead, bismuth, and polonium isotopes
Currently, forty-two thallium, forty-two lead, forty-one bismuth, and
forty-two polonium isotopes have so far been observed; the discovery of these
isotopes is discussed. For each isotope a brief summary of the first refereed
publication, including the production and identification method, is presented.Comment: to be published in At. Data Nucl. Data Table
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