description: person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
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by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Mar 2019 · 596pp · 163,351 words
excited about the unprecedented thing we’d discovered. But I didn’t want to be an academic. I really didn’t want to be an experimental subject. And I didn’t want to be stuck in the crowded Core. But I also really didn’t think they’d be letting me just
by Joseph Henrich · 27 Oct 2015 · 631pp · 177,227 words
whether we follow these rules, and react negatively to violations. • We infer that others care about whether we follow these rules. Figure 11.1. An experimental subject wagging his finger at Max the puppet, who is violating the rules for this context. As in the small-scale societies seen in earlier chapters
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payoff should contribute zero. However, most educated Westerners agree that—if asked—players should contribute all the money to the common project. Among the typical experimental subjects (undergraduates), the average contributions are commonly between 40% and 60%, with many people contributing either 100% (cooperators) or 0% (free riders).13 To examine whether
by Sally Adee · 27 Feb 2023 · 329pp · 101,233 words
at all. His focus on spectacle over basic science had misled him.17 So it came as no surprise to him that none of his experimental subjects—human or animal—were ever shocked back to life. Neither was such an outcome ever his goal for the hanged Forster. “Our object here was
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electrometer. After twenty more years of trying to find commensurate signatures in the brain, he finally got his hands on a string galvanometer. His first experimental subject was a seventeen-year-old college student named Zedel, who had been left with a large hole in his skull after the removal of a
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 Nov 2010 · 1,294pp · 210,361 words
women (the disease typically strikes men and women in their twenties and thirties) were often referred to the NCI as hopeless cases—and therefore ideal experimental subjects. In just three years, DeVita and Canellos thus accumulated cases at a furious clip, forty-three patients in all. Nine had been blasted with increasing
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words
”). Yanked off the ramps, the twins were marked by special tattoos, housed in separate blocks, and systematically victimized by Mengele and his assistants (ironically, as experimental subjects, twins were also more likely to survive the camp than nontwin children, who were more casually exterminated). Mengele obsessively measured their body parts to compare
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transformation, Money advocated “sexual reassignment,” the reorientation of sexual identity through behavioral and hormonal therapy—a decades-long process invented by him that allowed his experimental subjects to emerge with their identities sanguinely switched. Based on Money’s advice, “Brenda” was dressed and treated as a girl. Her hair was grown long
by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 25 Apr 2011 · 370pp · 112,602 words
, which are important in cognitive functioning; in particular, the prefrontal cortex is important in suppression of impulsive responses. It is therefore no surprise that when experimental subjects are artificially put under stressful conditions in the laboratory, they are less likely to make the economically rational decision when faced with choosing among different
by Charles Stross · 14 Jun 2006 · 443pp · 123,526 words
lot of nonplayer characters, zombies run by the Gamesmaster, and for much of the time you'll be interacting with these rather than with other experimental subjects. Everything's laid out in a collection of hab segments linked by gates so they feel like a single geographical continuum, just like a traditional
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's where Fiore and Yourdon and their crowd found most of us, by the way. A redaction clinic must be a great place to find experimental subjects who're healthy but who've forgotten everything they knew. People who've come adrift from the patterns of life, and who have minimal social
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biggest reason for wanting you to have undergone major memory erasure prior to injection into YFH-Polity is this: I suspect that when the incoming experimental subjects are issued with new bodies, they are filtered through an A-gate infected with a live, patched copy of Curious Yellow. Therefore preemptive memory redaction
by J. Craig Venter · 16 Oct 2013 · 285pp · 78,180 words
the DNA intact from these cells, so we looked elsewhere. The solution came from the more complex cellular world of the eukaryote and a favorite experimental subject of scientists around the world studying eukaryotic biology: brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. For centuries S. cerevisiae has been used for alcohol fermentation as well
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Prize for his efforts in 1935. With Hilde Mangold (1898–1924) he conducted the first nuclear-transfer experiments on the newt, which was an ideal experimental subject because of its large, easily manipulated eggs. In 1938 Spemann published the milestone text Embryonic Development and Induction, which described how his experiment rested on
by M. D. James le Fanu M. D. · 1 Jan 1999 · 564pp · 163,106 words
of disease, and so on – but the distinguishing feature of clinical science is that it is practised by doctors with a unique access to the ‘experimental subjects’ – patients with illnesses. Most clinical science involves observing or measuring in some way the phenomena of disease in a living person, rather than a dead
by Philip Ball · 22 Mar 2018 · 277pp · 87,082 words
each time. What might happen, then, if the photons in the flashes are placed in a superposition of states? How will that affect what the experimental subjects ‘see’? Would it set up some kind of superposition in the nerve impulse from the rod cell to the brain? Might it even create a
by Eben Kirksey · 10 Nov 2020 · 599pp · 98,564 words
by M. Mitchell Waldrop · 14 Apr 2001
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
by Roland Ennos · 18 Feb 2021
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
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by Adam L. Alter · 15 Feb 2017 · 331pp · 96,989 words
by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words
by Clay Shirky · 9 Jun 2010 · 236pp · 66,081 words
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