FISH AS AN INVALID DIET.

Invalid Recipes

Fish oils and human diet.

Trends in global fish catches are described together with fish landings and fish consumption in the UK. The importance of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as essential constituents of human diets is considered and the role of oily fish as a dietary source of the long-chain n-3 polyunsaturates, docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid, is emphasized. The origin of n-3 polyunsaturate...

Diet, Dermatology and Rotten Fish

Frederick Parkes Weber died in 1962 at the age of 99, having worked as a physician at the German hospital in Queen Square, London until the age of 80 (1). He published over 1000 papers and his name has of course been attached as an eponym to several diseases, notably the Sturge-Weber and the Osler-Weber-Rendu syndromes. He was fascinated by rare skin diseases, and some idea of his prodigious kn...

Invalid measurement validity.

Concurrence looks at how a measure relates to a gold standard. If, as frequently occurs, there isn’t one, the next best is the correlation with other established measures. This assumes that the latter are themselves valid, which may not be true, and risks stifling innovation, a source of concern if a paper is criticized on this ground. More straightforwardly, concurrence also means that a test ...

Representing "Just Invalid" Knowledge

Data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as “items”. Items contain two types of acceptability measures that measure the invalidity of item instances. Objects are item building operators that also contain two types of acceptability measures. These acceptability measures define a graduated acceptability region for data, information and knowledge. This region repre...