BACKGROUND While the heritability of cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence (ND) is well-documented, the contribution of specific genetic variants to specific phenotypes has not been closely examined. The objectives of this study were to test the associations between 321 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that capture common genetic variation in 24 genes, and early smoking and ND...

Biases in incidental memory for self-referent adjectives and intentional memory were compared across nondysphoric (ND; n=48), experimentally induced dysphoric (EXP; n=49), and naturally dysphoric (NAT; n=48) individuals. Negative biases, "evenhandedness", and positive biases were demonstrated among NAT, EXP and ND participants, respectively, in terms of incidental memory. Correlation analyses s...

tourmalinization characterizes the most pervasive alteration type in the nezam abad ore deposit, west-central iran. it delineates high-temperature centers of mineralization and together with quartz and cassiterite form inner parts of the alteration halo. the composition of tourmalines plots mostly along and between the proton and alkali-deficient end members. tourmaline in quartzdioritic host i...

The device coupling between the stacked top/bottom field-effect transistors (FETs) in two types of monolithic 3D inverter (M3INV) with/without a metal layer in the bottom tier is investigated, and then the regime of the thickness TILD and dielectric constant εr of the inter-layer distance (ILD), the doping concentration Nd (Na), and length Lg of the channel, and the side-wall length LSW where t...

Fractional calculus; Conformable operators; Calculus on time scales Abstract A conformable time-scale fractional calculus of order a 2 0; 1 is introduced. The basic tools for fractional differentiation and fractional integration are then developed. The Hilger timescale calculus is obtained as a particular case, by choosing a 1⁄4 1. a 2015 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on ...

Well-aligned rectangular-shaped nanodiamond fibers (NDFs) with a length-to-width ratio of over 1000 were formed on a large-scale via a self-assembly process by drying acid-treated nanodiamonds of a uniform size ( 4 nm) from an aqueous solution. Nanodiamond thin films (NDTFs), instead of NDFs, have also been prepared by drying the aqueous ND dispersion at a sufficiently low temperature (< 70 C))...

Several recent studies have suggested that the dominant (D) and non-dominant (ND) hands have different specialization with respect to trajectory and endpoint location control (Sainburg 2002; Sainburg & Schaeffer 2004). In particular, the D hand is assumed to have a better interaction torque compensation. We hypothesize that the control mechanisms for the D and ND hands may differ in their more ...

the date of receipt and acceptance should be inserted later Dedicated to J. Zittartz on the occasion of his 60th birthday Abstract. In order to study the eeect of interaction and lattice distortion on quantum coherence in one-dimensional Fermi systems, we calculate the ground state energy and the phase sensitivity of a ring of interacting spinless fermions on a dimerized lattice. Our numerical ...