Self-reference

Mateo, J. M. and Johnston, R. E. (2000) Kin recognition and the armpit effect evidence of self-referent phenotype matching. Proc. Biol. Sci. 267, 695-700. 

Aeschlimann, P.B., Haberli, M.A., Reusch, T.B.H., Boehm, T. and Milinski, M. (2003) Female sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculealus use self-reference to optimize MHC allele number during mate selection. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 54, 119-126. 

BROOK, Andrew and Richard C. DeVIDI (eds.) Self-reference and Self-awareness. 2001. 

VI. Buddhist methodology. The dialectic of knowledge, action and cure. The threefold relation to oneself self-reference, self-production and self-destruction... 

Glueck et al. assessed hypocholesterolemia in 203 patients hospitalized with affective disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder), 1595 self-referred subjects in an urban supermarket screening, and 11,864 subjects in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II (a national probability sample) [34], Low plasma cholesterol concentration (<160 mg/dL) was much more common in patients with affective disorders than in those found in urban supermarket screening subjects or in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II subjects. When paired with supermarket screening subjects by age and sex, patients with affective disorders had much lower TC, LDL, HDL, and higher TG concentrations. However, there was no evidence that low plasma cholesterol could cause or worsen affective disorders [34]. 

Is there a way to overcome this difficulty The way to get rid of this kind of inconsistency is to eliminate the self-reference. The sentence The sentence mentioned in the previous paragraph between saying and or is not in English is not inconsistent. Similarly, Bill is not speaking English now is not inconsistent. The reason why the objection turned out to be inconsistent is that we asserted of ourselves that we are brains in a vat. To avoid the inconsistency, we have to drop the first person idiom. We should suppose that they are brains in a vat. 

Patient self-refers for mental health care or comes to treatment via a referral. 

It is also important to consider the issue of patient decontamination. Many hospitals rely on local fire or HAZMAT resources to decontaminate patients prior to arrival at the emergency department. This model is almost always effective as the typical HAZMAT or chemical exposure is an isolated event in which a limited access/egress quarantine can be established, and in which patients can be controlled and decontaminated. However, as was demonstrated during the sarin gas attack in Tokyo, in a disaster, there is no control over the scene or scenes. Patients will self-refer to emergency departments without being decontaminated (Auf der Heide, 2006 Okumura, Suzuki, Fukuda, 1998 Okumura, Takasu, Ishimatsu, 1996). 

According to the surveys conducted by Eisenberg et al., alternative medicine users tend to be educated, younger to middle-aged, female, and have chronic medical conditions. They self-refer 90%i of the time, meaning that... 

Malt UF, Nerdrum P, Oppedal B, et al. 1997. Physical and mental problems attributed to dental amalgam fillings A descriptive study of 99 self-referred patients compared with 272 controls. Psychosom Med 59(1) 32-41. 

No matter how disorganized their lives have become, children on substances do not usually self-refer for help. Instead, they appear brazenly untroubled by their destructive use. Why The answer is denial. 

Criteria for job selection, breaking job into steps, identifying hazards, procedures to eliminate hazards, self-reference guides, new worker training, equipment safety maintenance checklists, and accident analysis. 

Zimmerman, R. E. (1991). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle Philosophical Implications of Self-Reference. In Steen, L. A., ed., Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays (pp. 15-53). New York Springer. 

There are finally many consequences that follow from the present formulation, i.e. fundamental symmetry violations, scale invariance and the non-probabilistic traits of evolution due to the regulation of self-reference [11]. In principle, the... 

These results are also relevant to the debate over whether self-referent phenotype matching occurs in mammals (Holmes Sherman, 1982 Holmes, 1986). Hamsters could not have used the odors from all their nest-mates to develop a family template because they... 

The memory elements are identified in the equations by characteristics common to all memory elements. The first criterion is that the loading of a value into a memory element must be controlled by the clock the second, that the element must retain its value when not clocked. Whether a node is controlled by the clock is easily determined in the node equation. The second criterion is true if the node equation contains a reference to the node itself, and this self reference is enabled by the clock. Having identified clocked memory elements, a partition of the net into memory elements and strictly combinational parts can be found. Prom this information, a description in PTL can easily be derived. 

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