Pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting: combating the real danger from fake drugs, by Mark Davison

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
Roy Fenoff
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Real Danger

The AI Delusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Smith
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Real ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
Real Danger ◽  
The Way

We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations. We are told that computers are smarter than humans and that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think. We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to make important decisions for us. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.

Misinformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-155
Author(s):  
Alberto Acerbi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Selective Advantage ◽  
The Real ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Real Danger

This chapter takes a broad view of misinformation: the spread of factually false claims is as old as cultural transmission itself, and to assess the real danger represented by social media we need to understand what kind of cognitive triggers are activated by successful information, online or offline. The chapter critically reviews some hypotheses for which digital media are especially suited for the spreading of misinformation, and then it explores in detail the idea that some cultural traits possess features that make them particularly well suited to be retained and transmitted, conferring on them a selective advantage relative to other traits. From this perspective, misinformation can be manufactured building on features that make it attractive in an almost unconstrained way, whereas true news cannot, simply because it needs to correspond to reality. Misinformation can be designed to spread more than real information does,—whether this is consciously planned or not.

II. Beyond Dissent: Reflections on the Possibilities of a Pastoral Magisterium in Today's Church

Horizons ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Richard Gaillardetz
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Real ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
The Church ◽  
Real Danger ◽  
Pope Pius Xii

Our roundtable wishes to explore the need for the church today to move beyond what we might call the orthodoxy/dissent binary, that is, the assumption of one narrowly construed orthodox position, over against which all other construals of the Christian faith are presented as heretical or at least dissenting positions. This binary presents, for many scholars today, insuperable difficulties. To begin with, it emphasizes doctrinal unity over theological diversity. It privileges office over charism, magisterium over the sense of the faithful, authoritative pronouncement over communal discovery. The dominance of the orthodoxy/dissent binary depends in turn on an account of doctrinal teaching authority still indebted to Pope Pius XII and his claim that when the ordinary papal magisterium has pronounced on a matter, it is no longer subject to open debate. The solution, in the minds of some, lies in dispelling dangerous notions of orthodoxy, heresy, and dissent as intrinsically hegemonic terms that mask politically oriented power regimes. I am not inclined to dismiss entirely, however, claims to doctrinal normativity, even as I acknowledge the real danger of abuse.

scholarly journals Sagittal fracture of the proximal phalanx in a horse complicated during induction of anesthesia by complete fragmentation of the bone: a case report

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 79-82
Author(s):  
Z. Zert ◽  
J. Mezerova ◽  
R. Kabes ◽  
S. Krisova
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Successful Treatment ◽  
Proximal Phalanx ◽  
The Real ◽  
Pelvic Limb ◽  
Lying Down ◽  
Primary Healing ◽  
Real Danger

The case of a sagittal fracture P1 in the pelvic limb that was complicated during the flexion of the limb by lying down at the beginning of anesthesia, by complete fragmentation of bone is presented. Fragments were not seriously dislocated, but there was no stabile strut between the metatarsophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints. The immediate fixation with lag screws and cast application resulted in complete primary healing and a successful return to training for flat racing. The real danger of complete fragmentation during the induction of anesthesia is documented in this case. For the prevention of such a complication it is recommended to put the horse into recumbence with the affected limb casted. The successful treatment of the comminuted P1 fracture by application of lag screws in the absence of a strut between both joints is described.

Boxing Pandora

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy William Waters
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Order ◽  
World War ◽  
The Real ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New States ◽  
Real Danger ◽  
National Borders

The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed borders create more problems than they solve, and what if permitting borders to change would create more stability and produce more just societies? This book examines this possibility, showing how we arrived at a system of rigidly bordered states and how the real danger to peace is not the desire of people to form new states but the capacity of existing states to resist that desire, even with violence. The book proposes a practical, democratically legitimate alternative: a right of secession. With crises ongoing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and many other regions, this reassessment of the foundations of our international order is more relevant than ever.

Hepatitis C: the real danger to surgeons

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 414-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander S Florman ◽  
Ronald Lee Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Danger

I. A Practical Approach

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1119-1126
Author(s):  
James E. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Practical Approach ◽  
Capital Equipment ◽  
The Real ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Real Danger ◽  
At Home

America has triumphed in the greatest war in all history, but we have yet to face the major enemy at home—unemployment and all the tragic waste and misery occasioned by it. By now it is hardly necessary to stress the grim fact that unemployment is a real threat. We have seen the first impact of demobilization and reconversion in many areas of the nation, especially in communities where aircraft and shipbuilding industries boomed in wartime. Some measures have been taken to cope with these short-run difficulties, and others are now under consideration. But the real danger lies beyond the present demobilization period. Fear has been creeping into the heart of all America—our returning soldiers, our war workers, our young graduates facing an uncertain future, our older and handicapped workers—a fear that relates to what will happen as things get back to “normal.” The dread lies in the word “normal.”We know, of course, and we are constantly being reminded, that for a while one may expect activity of boom proportions—that those who have saved during the war will be purchasing the cars and radios and refrigerators that they have gone without for years, that agricultural and other exports to the devastated world abroad will be at a record peacetime high, that producers will be spending feverishly to restock inventories and replace worn-out capital equipment. However, these are temporary factors which will end all too soon. Nobody has forgotten that they quickly petered out after the last war. When backlogs at home and abroad have been filled, the postwar bubble will burst.

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