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Transient frailty induced by cell division. Observation, reasons and implications
Zengru Di, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Peter Richmond +2
We know that stress-factors, e.g. X-rays, have an effect on cells that is more lethal in rapid exponential growth than in stationary phase. It is this effect which makes radiothera…
Cliophysics: A scientific analysis of recurrent historical events
Yuji Aruka, Belal Baaquie, Xiasong Chen +6
Named after Clio, the Greek goddess of history, cliophysics is a daughter (and in a sense an extension) of econophysics. Like econophysics it relies on the methodology of experimen…
A joint explanation of infant and old age mortality
Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner
Infant deaths and old age deaths are very different. The former are mostly due to severe congenital malformations of one or a small number of specific organs. On the contrary, old…
Is there an infant mortality in bacteria?
Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner
This manuscript proposes a significant step in our long-run investigation of infant mortality across species. Since 2016 (Berrut et al. 2016) a succession of studies (Bois et al. 2…
Impact of personal income on mortality by age: biological versus socio-economic effects
Peter Richmond, Wonguk Cho, Beom Jun Kim +1
The influence of per capita income on life expectancy is well documented, mostly through studies of multinational samples. However, one expects fairly weak correlations at both end…
Magnitude and significance of the peak of early embryonic mortality
Qinghua Chen, Zengru Di, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger +3
Biologically, for any organism life does not start at birth but at fertilization of the embryo. Embryonic development is of great importance because it determines congenital anomal…