sodii
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
They are not definition. Maybe they were, when we didn't know about cytokines and immune cells.
Comment · 2 years ago
-itis refers to a specific physiological phenomenon: Inflammation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation)
swelling can happen without inflammaion, and mild inflammation may occur without noticable swelling.
-osis is a generic suffix for a process or condition: metamorphosis, scoliosis, hypnosis.
Comment · 3 years ago
Whether to take a cholesterol-reducing drug is pretty big decision, and no sane person would make such decision based on marketing materials.
the algorithms come from academic societies, and looks like this:
https://www.acc.org/~/media/Non-Clinical/Files-PDFs-Excel-MS...
Many marketing materials contain cheatsheets for such established decision algorithms, to encourage doctors keep the material around.
Comment · 3 years ago
'algorithm' in that context is not a computer program, but a flow chart or decision tree made by distilling the result of various medical trials.
Comment · 5 years ago
DNA methylation is required for this. The paper is about epigenetic memory being transferred by transplanting transcriptome, not about 'memory RNA'.
Comment · 6 years ago
Biochemical signal transduction networks, consisting of receptors and enzymes, are very similar to artificial neural networks, in terms of computational structure.
Comment · 7 years ago
Your argument makes sense when you view such transactions as a decision problem with a single actor and no temporal element.
But such transaction happens within a lifelong game with at least two players. Changing the rule of the game can influence their game tree and their behavior, far before they get into a situation where the change applies.
For the kidney trade, banning it might discourage potential organ-buyers from 'check-mating' people into selling their kidneys. It also might nudge parents to work harder since they have one less things to sell off.
I acutually have no opinion over banning organ trade. I'm just saying that it could make some sense.
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