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What are Stem Cells?

  Stem cells are undifferentiated self regenerating multi potential cells. There are three types of stem cells categories by the ability to form after cells and correlated with the body’s development process. Totipotent: these stem cells can form an entire organism such as fertilized egg. Ploripotent: ploripotent cells are those that can form any cell in the body but cannot form an entire organ...

English Words Are Processed Like Objects

This experiment sought to explore the theory that familiar English words are processed similarly to objects. To do this, we looked for object-based attentional facilitation where cues in a different location to the target still facilitate target detection as long as they are inside the same object. Participants were shown two English words in an array, and cues and targets were embedded inside ...

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What are real DTDs like?

DTDs have proved important in a variety of areas: transformations between XML and databases, XML storage, XML publishing, consistency analysis of XML specifications, typechecking, and optimization of XML queries. Much of this work depends on certain assumptions about DTDs, e.g., the absence of recursion and non-determinism. With this comes the need to justify these assumptions against DTDs in t...

Use Your Words Carefully: What Is a Chronic Disease?

One important element of effective communication is having a shared language or at least a shared understanding of the meaning of the central words used in a conversation. One term that is often used in discussions between patients and medical providers, in the academic literature, and in policy discussions, is “chronic disease.” There is not only tremendous variation in the diseases that are i...