Copper: one man's meat is another man's poison.

Transcultural Perspectives on Eating Disorders

I t is commonplace that one man's meat is another man's poison. Since the fact of cultural variability is well known, this paper will not attempt to catalogue the range of eating phenomena that illustrate the diversity of human experience. Rather, we will focus on three seemingly bizarre and to us almost unthinkable phenomena and attempt to illuminate the human function of each. We will conside...

Aspirin and food dye reactions.

FOOD reactions as a cause of illness were recognized as early as the first century B.C. by Lucretius, who observed that "one man's meat is another man's poison." Over the subsequent years it has become obvious that this poison may take the form of infection, toxic reaction, pharmacologic (as in the "Chinese restaurant syndrome" due to monosodium glutamate), enzyme deficiencies (such as lactase)...

One man's poison ... [is another's unfurrowed brow].

MultiStage Cascading of Multiple Classifiers: One Man's Noise is Another Man's Data

For building implementable and industryvaluable classification solutions, machine learning methods must focus not only on accuracy but also on computational and space complexity. We discuss a multistage method, namely cascading, where there is a sequence of classifiers ordered in terms of increasing complexity and specificity such that early classifiers are simple and general whereas later ones...

Genetically engineered phytoremediation: one man's trash is another man's transgene.

Plant-based environmental remediation, or phytoremediation, has been widely pursued in recent years as a favorable clean-up technology and is an area of intensive scientific investigation. For the vast majority of field applications, vegetative 'phyto-crops' are selected specifically for their capacity for site decontamination and not for additional concurrent or post-remediation utility. By co...