Shostakovich spoke of the 15th Quartet in typically sardonic and paradoxical terms.
To put it in sharper, if seemingly paradoxical terms, if America tries to go it alone in the world without China, it will not be able to assert itself.
This paradoxical condition is termed 'malignant CTH' and is imminent if both CTH and TBF are high: in Fig. 2, this is observed at high TBF levels where oxygenation improves little with further TBF increases because physiological shunting is already high, even for negligible CTH.
The exact mechanism by which corticosteroids benefit these patients is unknown and somewhat paradoxical; long term use causes muscle wasting in most clinical populations except DMD.
However, 8%43%% of patients will experience paradoxical deterioration, termed tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) [ 3, 4].
To describe this kind of logic, the American military writer Edward Luttwak has used the term paradoxical.
Costly religious rituals such as male circumcision, food and water deprivation, and snake handling look paradoxical in evolutionary terms.
Rapid eye movement (REM; also termed paradoxical or active) sleep in the rat is characterized by tonic phenomena including desynchronization of the cortical electroencephalogram (EEG), prominent hippocampal theta activity and postural muscle atonia [1], [2].
Variable P2 means that pre-copulatory mate choice is somewhat paradoxical both in terms of direct fertility benefits and indirect "good genes" benefits.
Under this model, the seemingly paradoxical dual enriched terms of serine peptidase inhibitor and protease, can be explained by preferential exportation of peptidase inhibitors out of the cell.
In C. albicans and A. fumigatus, growth at high concentrations above the MIC of caspofungin, termed paradoxical growth, has been observed in vitro.
