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The basic question of reduction is whether the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from one scientific domain (typically at higher levels of organization) can be deduced from or explained by the properties, concepts, explanations, or methods from another domain of science (typically one about lower levels of organization).
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Although questions of reduction in philosophy of physics have largely diverged from those in philosophy of biology, some connections have been drawn.
As a consequence, "the gene" has become a hot topic in philosophy of science around which questions of reduction, emergence, or supervenience of concepts and theories (along with the epistemic entities they refer to) are lively debated.
If science is to provide (at least partial) answers to questions of reduction, such as whether the mental reduces to the neural, then we need to understand what reduction requires.
The recent increase in funding for diseases endemic in resource-poor countries has led to a progressive rise in the number of trials conducted in Africa for product development purposes or to answer important questions on reduction of disease burden.
In order to clearly answer the question of whether reduction in vancomycin usage results in a decrease of VRE colonization and disease, a significant decrease in vancomycin prescriptions should be the only variable introduced.
(It should be noted that 'quantum computing,' in the standard modern sense, is based on the predictability of the unitary evolution, and does not, as yet, go into the question of how reduction occurs).
This finding raises the question of what reduction in plasma HIV-1 levels would be required to reduce HIV-1 heterosexual transmission risk.
To address the question of whether reduction of PRL-3 by SAHA was mediated through proteasome degradation, MOLM-14 cells were treated with SAHA, MG-132, a proteasome inhibitor, or SAHA plus MG-132.
22 Very few studies have addressed the question of what reduction in AUC might be a clinically significant analgesic effect.
Few studies have addressed the question of what reduction in total morphine use after breast surgery might be clinically important.
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