A way to a woman’s heart might be through her bones

COMMENTARY The way the world might be

Theoreticians are interested in the way the world might be, seeking theories of ‘elegant and economical...mathematical form, in the expectation that they will prove the ones realized in nature’ (Polkinghorne, 1983, p. 9–10). Empiricists, on the contrary, prefer to know ‘The Way the World Is’ (as in Polkinghorne’s title). Ideally, our understanding advances by an interplay between the two. As Da...

Knowing who would respond to a recruitment maneuver before actually doing it – this might be a way to go

Using recruitment manoeuvres in acute lung injury remains a controversial issue because no convincing outcome data support their general use, although many physiological studies have demonstrated beneficial effects on lung compliance, end-expiratory lung volume and gas exchange. One of the reasons why physiologically meaningful observations do not translate into clear clinical benefit could be ...

A NEW WAY TO EXTEND FUZZY IMPLICATIONS

The main purpose of this paper is to use a new way to extend fuzzy implications $I$ from a generalized sublattice $M$ to a bounded lattice $L$, such that the extended implications preserve many of the considered properties of fuzzy implications on $M$.Furthermore, as a special case, we investigate the extension of $(S,N)-$implications. Results indicate that the extended implications preserve ma...

Membrane reactors: A way to increase efficiency

Identitas: A Better Way To Be Meaningless

It is often recommended that identifiers for ontology terms should be semantics-free or meaningless. In practice, ontology developers tend to use numeric identifiers, starting at 1 and working upwards. Here we describe a number of significant flaws to this scheme, and the alternatives to them which we have implemented in our library,