Implications of natural history traits to system-level dynamics: comparisons of a grassland and a forest

This book offers a multidimensional, multidisciplinary perspective on the challenging problem of uncertainty in medicine. Adopting a textbook approach to the problem, it analyzes the nature, etiology, natural history, and management of medical uncertainty. It draws on insights from a wide range of fields—including clinical medicine as well as anthropology, behavioral economics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology—to develop a set of conceptual frameworks that provide a new way of thinking about medical uncertainty and approaching its management. It makes the case that uncertainty is an essential form of knowledge that should be maintained rather than eliminated, and that the goal of managing uncertainty is to promote uncertainty tolerance among clinicians and patients. The book identifies system-level strategies that can help make uncertainty tolerance a more central focus of medical care.

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Evolution at the system level: the natural history of protein interaction networks

Trends in Ecology & Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.tree.2007.04.004 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (7) ◽

pp. 366-373 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

M STUMPF ◽

W KELLY ◽

T THORNE ◽

C WIUF

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Protein Interaction ◽

Protein Interaction Networks ◽

Interaction Networks ◽

System Level ◽

History Of

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How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Hannes Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Intentional Stance ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Shared Intentionality ◽

History Of ◽

Group Thinking ◽

Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

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On the assembly and structural modulation of lens fiber junctions

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100110805 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 110-113

Author(s):

E.L. Benedetti ◽

I. Dunia ◽

Do Ngoc Lien ◽

O. Vallon ◽

D. Louvard ◽

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Keyword(s):

Molecular Weight ◽

Natural History ◽

Intercellular Junctions ◽

Eye Lens ◽

Membrane Domains ◽

Functional Polymorphism ◽

Lens Fiber ◽

The Past ◽

Structural Modulation ◽

Biochemical Difference

In the eye lens emerging molecular and structural patterns apparently cohabit with the remnants of the past. The lens in a rather puzzling fashion sums up its own natural history and even transient steps of the differentiation are memorized. A prototype of this situation is well outlined by the study of the lenticular intercellular junctions. These membrane domains exhibit structural, biochemical and perhaps functional polymorphism reflecting throughout life the multiple steps of the differentiation of the epithelium into fibers and of the ageing process of the lenticular cells.The most striking biochemical difference between the membrane derived from the epithelium and from the fibers respectively, concerns the presence of the 26,000 molecular weight polypeptide (MP26) in the latter membranes.

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