Douglas C Youvan

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Olanzapine alternative for major depression?

Patient diagnosed with intractable major depression. Olanzapine treatment caused severe drug-induced Parkinsonian symptoms. Olanzapine discontinued 18 months ago and patient recovered from DIP....

16 July 2020 1,954 7 View

The length of non-stop nsDNA is about 5 to 10 times longer in communal bacteria than pathogens. Half the nsDNA is paired. Have I missed a reference?

I have an observation and a correlation that is strong enough to present in a preliminary and semi-quantitative form before the full study ends. If one calculates the distance in nucleotides...

21 August 2015 3,016 2 View

To what extent is RAM shared in large parallel computers?

It would be nice to hear answers that talk about physical limitations as well as answers that discuss how efficiently low-level software anticipates memory allocation.

29 November 2014 1,583 4 View

Is there a restriction in PvNP to 0's, 1's, and NAND?

If I am not mistaken, anything we can compute in a Turing Machine is reducible to 1's, 0's, and only one logical operation: NAND. I can't see how cycles can be counted any other way. Is that a...

19 November 2014 8,592 11 View

How rare is it for a sparse rectangular matrix to have an exact solution?

By "solution", I mean a PseudoInverse. By "exact", I mean a formula, not a fit (such as SVD) or a decomposition.

09 November 2014 926 3 View

What company has the best megabase sequencing for the money?

All I would be doing is supplying the sample. They can do the extraction and cloning too. This would be an environmental microbiome.

24 September 2014 6,368 1 View

Is anyone aware of any electromagnetic field equations that would generate an image such as this?

This is a mechanical tracing of a squashed diamond read by a stylus and transferred to a circular saw blade. The link requires Mathematica to open.

11 September 2014 9,937 2 View

What is the best clinical measurement for risk of thrombosis?

Currently, Percent Cell Volume (PCV) is used. That seems rather primitive compared to our knowledge of clotting pathways and advances in cellular and molecular biology. Wouldn't a specific cell or...

08 September 2014 7,755 14 View

Would you consider the synthesis of proteins with no apparent function to be storage of Prigogine negentropy?

Such proteins have various oxidation states of Nitrogen and Carbon within prefabricated amino acids - a survival advantage for times when negentropy, favorable redox potentials, and energy are not...

07 September 2014 1,519 1 View