What difference would it make if cancer were eradicated? An examination of the taeuber paradox

What would you do if it were your kid?

What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing objects arise; (ii) if self-replication is inhibited, self-maintaining organizations arise; and (iii) ...

It Would Be Much Easier If WENT Were GOED

The paper proposes a paradigmatic approach to morphological knowledge acquisition. It addresses the problem of learning from examples rules for word-forms analysis and synthesis. These rules, established by generalizing the training data sets, are effectively used by a built-in interpreter which acts consequent ly as a morphological processor within the architecture of a natural language questi...

If DSME Were a Pill, Would You Prescribe It?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This address was delivered by Margaret A. Powers, PhD, RD, CDE, President, Health Care & Education, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), at the ADA's 76th Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, La., on 11 June 2016. Dr. Powers conducts research and has a clinical practice as a registered dietitian and diabetes educator at the International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet in ...

Surgical debulking of ovarian cancer: what difference does it make?

Three-quarters of women who are newly diagnosed with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer present with stage III to IV disease. Recent data on the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy have served to challenge the conventional dogma that the preferred initial treatment is surgical debulking. Most of these patients will achieve remission regardless of initial treatment, but 80% to 90% of patients w...