Beware of the distorting interpreter

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Distorting the sarcomere

One of the goals of cardiovascular science is to create a mathematical model of the heart that can predict ven-tricular function in healthy and diseased states, and that can be used to help improve treatment options for patients with heart disease. To be clinically useful, the model will have to include structural information about the shapes of the chambers and the action of the valves, and ab...

Distorting Reason

Beware of the glycemia.

in both anterior choroidal artery territories that were compatible with acute ischemic stroke. On perfusion-weighted imaging, cerebral blood flow and volume were slightly increased ( fig. 1 a). There was no abnormality on the FLAIR images, nor was there any arterial occlusion visible on intracranial three-dimensional time-offlight MRI. However, glycemia was low at 2.06 mmol/l. The hypoglycemia ...

Beware of the DAG!

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) models are popular tools for describing causal relationships and for guiding attempts to learn them from data. In particular, they appear to supply a means of extracting causal conclusions from probabilistic conditional independence properties inferred from purely observational data. I take a critical look at this enterprise, and suggest that it is in need of more, ...