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Notes by user Jerrald Rector (Radboud Univ.) for Dynamic Multi-System Resilience in Human Aging

Post-meeting Reflection

1+ paragraphs on any combination of the following:

  • Presentation highlights
  • Open questions that came up
  • How your perspective changed
  • Impact on your own work
  • e.g. the discussion on [A] that we are having reminds me of [B] conference/[C] initiative/[D] funding call-for-proposal/[E] research group

Highlights: In the first few presentations, I learned about modeling strategies that can be used to better understand potentially universal properties of damage and repair of the dynamic system. Some were compared to empirical data. Hormesis was introduced (in the context of bone health) as an important consideration in modeling resilience.

Open questions: Some patterns/observations obtained from simulations remain to be explored further (e.g., three 'trajectories': die, recover/die, & recover). I had already considered the life-course in outcomes in adults, but still don't have a good handle on how to actually incorporate or study this in an already aged population.

Change in perspective:

Impact on my work:

Reference material notes

Some examples:

  • Here is [A] database on [B] that I pull data from to do [C] analysis that might be of interest to this group (insert link).
  • Here is a free tool for calculating [ABC] (insert link)
  • This painting/sculpture/forms of artwork is emblematic to our discussion on [X]!
  • Schwartz et al. 2017 offers a review on [ABC] migration as relate to climatic factors (add the reference as well).

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