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Your Mouth – Portal to Your Body

This paper discusses four aspects of systemic health and their association with periodontal disease. The conditions focused on are diabetes mellitus, heart disease, respiratory disease, and preterm low birth weight infants. The two-part article appeared originally in the CDHA journal, Probe (now the Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene), in the 2004 May/June and 2004 July/August issues (Vol. 38, ...

Quit Smoking, Close Your Mouth, Drop the Fork and Get off the Couch

In the beginning of the 21st century, chronic disease replaced infectious disease as health problems of concern. Chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), obesity, diabetes mellitus (DM), organ carcinoma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), arthritis, osteoporosis, inflammatory bowel disease and degenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS) are among the most co...

Natural language processing: put your model where your mouth is

Molecular mechanisms are often described using “word models”—phrases intended to capture the interactions in a biological process. In their recent work, Sorger and colleagues (Gyori et al, 2017) provide a framework for converting word models into computational structures that can be simulated and compared to experimental data. By codifying word-based descriptions of molecular phenomena, scienti...

University of Groningen Put Your Money Where Your Mouth

We present DIAL, a model of group dynamics and opinion dynamics. It features dialogues, in which agents gamble about reputation points. Intra-group radicalisation of opinions appears to be an emergent phenomenon. We position this model within the theoretical literature on opinion dynamics and social influence. Moreover, we investigate the effect of argumentation on group structure by simulation...