Simplicity made difficult

Simplicity Made Difficult

In their new book Relativism and Monadic Truth, Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne seek to defend a " mainstream " view of the contents of thought and talk, which they call Simplicity, against recent " analytic relativist " here-says (including my own). Simplicity consists in five theses: T1 There are propositions and they instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth simpliciter and ...

Matrix Inversion Made Difficult

Difficult Diagnosis & Management of Tuberculosis Made Easy

Tuberculosis (TB) is a well-known public health priority, involving thousands of physicians and nurses all over the world in a difficult diagnostic and treatment process. While in high TB (and HIV) prevalence settings, the disease is well known by all health staff categories, in the low TB incidence countries of Europe tuberculosis is becoming less and less prevalent over the last decades. The ...

Mass spectrometry made easy: the quest for simplicity.

Mass spectrometry (MS) is generally viewed as a highly complex and demanding technique, full of difficulties and apprehensions. Ease and simplicity have been infrequently used descriptors of MS but a series of revolutionary developments is turning a complex technique into a model of simplicity, making MS easier than ever. Focusing on spray-based ambient desorption/ionization techniques, we disc...

Predicting drug absorption: how nature made it a difficult problem.

Significant recent work has focused on predicting drug absorption from structure. Several misperceptions regarding the nature of absorption seem to be common. Among these is that intestinal absorption, permeability, fraction absorbed, and, in some cases, even bioavailability, are equivalent properties and can be used interchangeably. A second common misperception is that absorption, permeabilit...