Quality Bests Quantity

Quality and Quantity Competition

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Trading Quality for Quantity*

1. Some philosophical problems are decidedly esoteric. It might be thought that certain counterexamples Larry Temkin and Stuart Rachels have offered to the transitivity of the better-than relation are prime instances. For the most compelling of these putative counterexamples rely on our evaluative judgments concerning the quality of hypothetical lives that last an incredibly long time. And if t...

Quality Versus Quantity

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles are characterized by their heterogeneity in composition, structure, and biological properties. In addition to the major structural protein apolipoprotein A1, HDL proteomes and lipidomes show great diversity. Such constituents presumably carry out the multitude of HDL functions, for example, reverse cholesterol transport, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, a...

Quality Versus Quantity

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles are characterized by their heterogeneity in composition, structure, and biological properties. In addition to the major structural protein apolipoprotein A1, HDL proteomes and lipidomes show great diversity. Such constituents presumably carry out the multitude of HDL functions, for example, reverse cholesterol transport, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, a...