### activity | analysis | dialysis:

Kidney dialysis
* can also prompt an allergic reaction to the drug.
* depletes carnitine.

### activity | analysis | dialysis:

Peritoneal dialysis
* allows direct removal of salicylic acid from serum
  - patients to set their own dialysis schedule
* can improve the patient's quality of life.
* is the method used at home
  - most simple and frequently used form of dialysis
  - used often in patients with diabetes
  - when doctors put a plastic tube into the person 's abdomen
* process that uses a filter to clean the blood and remove extra fluids.
* requires the placement of a peritoneal catheter.
* type of dialysis procedure that is done at home by the patient.
* uses the inside lining of the abdomen to act like a natural filter.
* uses the lining of the abdomen as a filter
  - to filter blood
  - to filter the blood inside the body
* utilizes the peritoneal membrane, which is the lining of the abdominal cavity.
+ Kidney, Renal replacement, Kidney dialysis: Anatomy of the urinary system
  * Peritoneal dialysis is when doctors put a plastic tube into the person's abdomen. Every day the person fills the abdomen with fluid. The extra salts, waste, and water that the body does not need goes into the fluid. Then the fluid comes out and takes the wastes with it. This does part of the job that kidneys do.

Dimensional analysis
* future area of exploration for the translation of data.
* method of unit conversion.

### activity | analysis:

Discourse analysis
* examines linguistic structures that exist beyond the sentence level.
* involves the identification of such relationships between sentences and segments.
* is one form of structuralism - it observes patterns of discourse
  - related to text linguistics
  - second language research
  - the linguistic analysis of written or oral texts
* is the study of entire conversations or texts
  - message structure in communication
* refers to the transcription, coding and analysis of interactions.
+ Linguistics
  * Although linguistics is the scientific study of language, a number of other intellectual disciplines are relevant to language and intersect with it. Semiotics, for example, is the general study of signs and symbols both within language and without. Literary theorists study the use of language in literature. Linguistics additionally draws on and informs work from such diverse fields as acoustics, anthropology, biology, computer science, human anatomy, informatics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and speech-language pathology. Discourse analysis is the study of entire conversations or texts.
  * Discourse analysis is related to text linguistics. Discourse analysis studies this, and also how the discourse is connected to the context. This context includes who the people talking or writing are, the social and cultural context.

### activity | analysis:

Economic analysis
* Most economic analyses focus on income.
* assumes that economic agents are rational.
* has the task of studying the way an economy works.
* is also an important element of corporate decision-making.
* is based on models, which are simplifications of the real world
  - the fundamental notion of efficient use of available resources
  - concerned with the efficiencies and inefficiencies of systems
  - employed to view the economic motives of the firms involved
  - fundamental to the study of policy
  - fundamentally mathematical in nature
  - the foundation of much of public policy
  - used to examine the determinants and consequences of population change
* leads to explanations, predictions, and policy suggestions.
* shows that population control, in the long run, leads to more harm than benefits.
* suggests a number of ways of defining and measuring efficiency.

Financial analysis
* Financial analyses include income statements
* involves working with data in order to evaluate investments or financing sources.