Disparate disciplines

High-throughput and affordable genomic technologies have spawned several large-scale genetic studies on human disease populations. What might have been disparate disciplines a decade ago, including clinical medicine, biology, and computer science, are now converging with the goal of understanding the complex basis of human disease.

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Writing development, then, is not complete at the end of university or even post- graduate work. An individual who writes on the job as a professional, even if it is but a part of his or her work, is preoccupied with what the text says in relation to what the writer already knows. Scientific writers, for example, must know “what problems the discipline has addressed, what the discipline has learned, where it is going, who the major actors are, and how all these things contribute” to the writer’s own project (Bazerman, 1988).

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Nutrigenomics, proteomics and metabolomics are three new disciplines that will contribute to the rapid development of functional foods. Bioinformatics is a new tool that uses computer database technology to integrate data from multiple, and sometimes disparate, disciplines. Already these disciplines and tools have improved our understanding of food science and human nutrition. Discoveries in genetics make it possible to understand the effects of nutrients in processes at the molecular level in the body and also the variable effects of dietary components on each individual.

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A corporation can be viewed as a nexus of contracts designed to minimize contracting costs (Coase 1937). Parties contracting with the firm desire information both about the firm’s ability to satisfy the terms of contracts and the firm’s ultimate compliance with its contractual obligations. Financial accounting information supplies a key quantitative representation of individual corporations that supports a wide range of contractual relationships.

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Before you start working your way through this book, you may ask yourself— Why analyze data? This is an important, basic question, and it has several compelling answers. The simplest need for data analysis arises most naturally in disciplines addressing phenomena that are, in all likelihood, inherently nondeterministic (e.g., feelings and psychology or stock market behavior). Since such fields of knowledge are not governed by known fundamental equations, the only way to generalize disparate observations into expanded knowledge is to analyze those observations.

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The story of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine is one of revitalization and success. Since 1999 the agency has been reenergized and refocused after years of poor performance that had undermined our credibility in the eyes of the legislature, health care professionals and the public. By every measure, the agency has earned a restoration of that lost credibility. 2004 continued the trend of improvement and innovation.

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The initial impetus for this book on fibers originated from a weeklong symposium where scientists of a variety of walks met to discuss their work on fibers with medical and specialty applications. Seeing the benefits of sharing information across disparate fields and disciplines of science we realized the potential for cross-fertilization of ideas between different area of fiber science. Thus, represented here are a variety of potential product lines under the cover of a single book, which for the imaginative scientist we hope will lead to some new food for thought....

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