Are All “Arterial Stiffening” Parameters Equal or Are Some More Equal Than Others?

When some are more equal than others.

All Premises Are Equal, but Some Are More Equal than Others

This paper proposes two adaptive approaches to inconsistent prioritized belief bases. Both approaches rely on a selection mechanism, that is not applied to the premises as they stand, but to the consequence sets of the belief levels. One is based on classical compatibility, the other on the modal logic T of Feys. For both approaches the two main strategies of inconsistency adaptive logics are f...

"all Antidepressants Are Created Equal" (some Are More Equal than Others)

"All antidepressants have a 60-70% response rate". "Nobody has ever proved that one antidepressant is better than another". How far are these statements true? Does this mean that antidepressants are interchangeable? All marketable drugs are categorized as belonging to a particular class depending upon specific biochemical or pharmacological properties. Grouping together drugs in this fashion ha...

All drug-eluting stents are equal, but some drug-eluting stents are more equal than others.

b t r t a s S g S d s b r a p a T v v p he first battle fought by drug-eluting stents (DES) was ith bare-metal stents. The 2 DES approved by the U.S. ood and Drug Administration, sirolimus drug-eluting tents (S-DES) and paclitaxel drug-eluting stents (P-DES), howed superiority in significantly reducing restenosis rates nd target lesion revascularization rates compared with are-metal stents in a...

All muscle satellite cells are equal, but are some more equal than others?

Skeletal muscle is an accessible adult stem-cell model in which differentiated myofibres are maintained and repaired by a self-renewing stem-cell compartment. These resident stem cells, which are known as satellite cells, lie on the surface of the muscle fibre, between the plasmalemma and overlying basal lamina. Although they are normally mitotically quiescent in adult muscle, satellite cells c...