We developed a method to estimate genotype-specific average relative mortality risk, R, from genotype distributions in cross-sectional studies of people belonging to different age-groups, and applied the method to new data from a study of apolipoprotein E genotypes (apoE) in 177 Danish centenarians and data from a study of 40-year-old Danish men. Twenty-one percent of the centenarians were epsi...

Density gradients aligned at an angle to pressure result in baroclinic torque fluid flows, generating vorticity. In this work, we study the vorticity generated by exerted interaction of jumps across random two-dimensional shock waves with density gradients. A field has acoustic spectral energy scaling as {\epsilon}^{2/3}{\ell}^{-1/3}k^{-2} where k is wavenumber, {\epsilon} dissipation, and \ell...

We study oscillator chains of the form phi; (k) = omega(k) +K[Gamma( phi(k-1) - phi(k) )+Gamma( phi(k+1) - phi(k) )], where phi(k) epsilon[0,2pi) is the phase of oscillator k. In the thermodynamic limit where the number of oscillators goes to infinity, for suitable choices of Gamma(x), we prove that there is a critical coupling strength K(c), above which a stable frequency-entrained state exist...

The field theoretic renormalization group (RG) is applied to the problem of a passive scalar advected by the Gaussian self-similar velocity field with finite correlation time and in the presence of an imposed linear mean gradient. The energy spectrum in the inertial range has the form E(k) proportional to (1-epsilon), and the correlation time at the wave number k scales as k(-2+eta). It is show...

Genotoxic activities of a series of commercially purchased 1,N6-ethenoadenosine (epsilon-Ado) and epsilon-deoxyadenosine (epsilon-dAdo) derivatives were assessed using the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay in murine spleen lymphocytes in vitro. Of the epsilon-Ado adducts evaluated for SCE induction epsilon-ATP and epsilon-dATP were highly active (5x baseline) SCE inducers over a concentrati...

The powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction technique was used to study the thermal expansion behavior of the mixed valence layered compound, YbGa1.05Ge0.95 in the temperature range 3-1123 K. A surprising abrupt isosymmetric phase transition, accompanied by a dramatic volume increase (negative thermal expansion), was found at 5 K induced by a sudden Yb valence transition from +(2 + epsilon) toward...

We review the current status of calculations of the two pion decays of the kaon using the firstprinciples methods of lattice gauge theory and the significant challenges that these calculations pose. While a calculation with controlled errors at even the 10-20% level has not yet been performed, present results suggest that such a calculation of the real and imaginary parts of the ∆I = 3/2 amplit...

vspace{0.2cm}In this paper, we design a data structure for the following problem. Let $pi$ be an $x$-monotone trajectory with $n$ vertices in the plane and $epsilon >0$. We show how to preprocess $pi$ and $epsilon$ into a data structure such that for any horizontal query segment $Q$ in the plane, one can quickly determine the minimal continuous fraction of $pi$ whose Fr{'e}chet and Hausdo...

We show a certain kind of non-local operations can be simulated by sampling set local with quasi-probability distribution when the task quantum circuit is to evaluate an expectation value observables. Utilizing result, we describe strategy decompose two-qubit gate sequence single-qubit operations. Required are projective measurement qubit in Pauli basis, and $\pi/2$ rotation around x, y, z axes...