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Spouses show consistent similarities across nine psychiatric disorders over generations

A multinational collaboration of researchers report that psychiatric spousal resemblance across nine psychiatric disorders appears consistent and persists across birth cohorts for roughly 90 years in a sample of over 14 million.

Previous small-scale marriage registry studies have reported spousal similarities for several disorders and related psychiatric traits. A larger, population-based comparison across cultures and generations was needed to assess how widespread the phenomenon extends.

In the study, “Spousal correlations for nine are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations,” published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers performed a large-scale analysis to quantify spousal correlations across nine psychiatric disorders and to test cultural and generational stability.

Canada Is at Risk: Scientists Uncover Hidden Megathrust That Could Trigger Massive Earthquakes

Scientists used advanced hydrophone technology to image the Queen Charlotte fault, confirming its potential for destructive megathrust earthquakes. New research on the Queen Charlotte fault system has produced the first images of its subsurface structure off the coast of Haida Gwaii, confirming t

GeoDa: Einführung in die räumliche Datenwissenschaft

All diejenigen, die aus den Geodaten neben der klassischen Visualisierung, Abfrage und einfachen Analyse viel mehr Erkenntnisse ziehen und sich den Daten eher wissenschaftlich annähern wollen, sei ein Blick auf GeoDa [1] empfohlen. Dort heiß es:

GeoDa ist ein kostenloses Open-Source-Softwaretool, das als Einführung in die räumliche Datenwissenschaft dient. Es ist darauf ausgelegt, neue Erkenntnisse aus der Datenanalyse zu erleichtern, indem räumliche Muster erkundet und modelliert werden. …

Das Programm bietet eine benutzerfreundliche und grafische Oberfläche für Methoden der explorativen räumlichen Datenanalyse (ESDA), wie räumliche Autokorrelationsstatistiken für aggregierte Daten (mehrere tausend Datensätze) und grundlegende räumliche Regressionsanalyse für Punkt-und Polygondaten (Zehntausende von Datensätzen). [1].

Shaping future electronics with light: Experiment demonstrates ultrafast light control of ferroelectric properties

Ferroelectrics are seen as promising candidates for the electronics of tomorrow. An experiment at the world’s largest X-ray laser—the European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg—now shows that their properties can be controlled with high precision at ultrafast time scales—using light.

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