The cusped NFW universal density profile suggested by typical CDM models has been challenged in recent years by the discoveries of the soft cores with finite central density for a broad range of masses from dwarf galaxies to clusters of galaxies. It is thus desirable that a new, analytic model would instead become available for virialized dark halos. One promising candidate is probably the empi...

The heritability of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) level is estimated at approximately 50%. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified genes involved in regulation of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels. The precise genetic profile determining heritability of HDL-C however are far from complete and there is substantial room for further characterization ...

Popular models for describing the luminosity–density profiles of dynamically hot stellar systems (e.g., Jaffe, Hernquist, Dehnen) were constructed with the desire to match the deprojected form of an R light–profile. Real galaxies, however, are now known to have a range of different light–profile shapes that scale with mass. Consequently, although highly useful, the above models have implicit li...