Current dogma suggests that aerobic exercise training has minimal effects on skeletal muscle size. We and others have demonstrated that aerobic exercise acutely and chronically alters protein metabolism and induces skeletal muscle hypertrophy. These findings promote an antithesis to the status quo by providing novel perspective on skeletal muscle mass regulation and insight into exercise counte...

To some, a tool for controlling cognitive inputs is anathema. The notion suggests control by exclusion of inputs – that is, ignoring relevant information and suppressing clinical judgment. The simplistic “cookbook medicine” of managed care and the more sophisticated “evidence-based medicine” of academia both involve these forms of control over cognitive inputs. What I advocate, however, is the ...

We propose a population-based optimization algorithm inspired by two main thinking modes in philosophy. Particles are regarded as thinkers and their locations are interpreted as the theses. Both thinking modes are based on the concept of dialectic and thesis-antithesis paradigm. Idealistic and materialistic antitheses are formulated as optimization models. Based on the models, the population is...

This paper presents a study of use the rhetorical figure antithesis and other contrastive relations in several modern-day environmental science policy journal articles on issues food security, climate change, water resource management. The present conflicting perspectives environmentalists engineers, i.e., view that nature should be preserved protected versus it engineered to solve human proble...