Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

In their article, Chen and Fernandez (3) present a viewpoint in which they briefly consider the roles of the aging process, and risk factors associated with age-related degenerative diseases, in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The authors forward both the general perspective, and a specific mechanism which they suggest underlies most cases of AD. They propose that 1) “several know...

Suppose we want to minimize a polynomial p(x) = p(x1, . . . , xn), subject to some polynomial constraints q1(x), . . . , qm(x) ≥ 0, using the Sum-of-Squares (SOS) SDP hierarachy. Assume we are in the “explicitly bounded” (“Archimedean”) case where the constraints include xi ≤ 1 for all 1 ≤ i ≤ n. It is often stated that the degree-d version of the SOS hierarchy can be solved, to high accuracy, ...