Parapsychology is the study of the evidence of mental awareness or influence of external objects without interaction from known physical means. Most objects of study fall within the realm of "mind-to-mind" influence (such as extra-sensory perception and telepathy), "mind-to-environment" influence (such as psychokinesis) and "environment-to-mind" (such as hauntings). The premiere professional organization, the Parapsychological Association (PA), is a member in good standing of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science ...

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Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology Parapsychology - Status of the field Parapsychology - How science views the field Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology Parapsychology - History and evaluation Parapsychology - Trivia Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists Parapsychology - Claimed psychics Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology Parapsychology - Psychic investigations
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Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Psychic investigations, Parapsychology - General organizations, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links

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The phenomena in question fall into two broad groups. Extra-sensory perception (ESP) is also known as anomalous cognition, and includes telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairalience, clairgustance, clairsentience, precognition, postcognition, psychometry, and dream transference. Anomalous operation includes psychokinesis (in the past referred to as telekinesis), out-of-body experiences, astral projection, near-death experiences, mediumship, and reincarnation. The general term "psi phenomena" (or the somewhat older term, "psychic phenomena," which was said to be the "psi ...

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Parapsychology, Parapsychology - Types of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Status of the field, Parapsychology - How science views the field, Parapsychology - Interpretation of the evidence, Parapsychology - Criticisms of parapsychological research, Parapsychology - Responses from parapsychologists to criticisms, Parapsychology - Early Scientific American challenge, Parapsychology - Other objections to parapsychology, Parapsychology - History and evaluation, Parapsychology - Trivia, Parapsychology - Famous parapsychologists, Parapsychology - Well-known psychic mediums, Parapsychology - Other claimed psychics, Parapsychology - Critics of parapsychology, Parapsychology - Independent research organizations, Parapsychology - University research organizations, Parapsychology - External links

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Supernatural phenomena are still being dismissed by the academic community. Influenced by recent breaktroughs leading to an explanation of some mysteries, they have come to the conclusion that science will explain all eventually.

Scientists, who would not dare to trespass in fields outside their speciality for fear of being torn apart by fellow academics, feel free to make all sorts of pronouncements in the media on subjects in the domain of parapsychological research, of which they have no knowledge whatsoever. Like in all other areas of science, parapsychology has narrowed down its research to specialist sectors, hardly anyone daring to voice an opinion on general issues.

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Evaluation is the systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance. Evaluation also means determining the value of an expression (mathematics) or expression (programming). Evaluation describes the process of examining information about an evaluand. Evaluation is often used in an educational context, but applies to many other areas, such as computer science, business, health interventions and engineering. Often evaluation is confused with assessment. However, evaluation is broader tha ...

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With the scientific revolution, and led by the British Royal Society, a distinction came to be made between "natural philosophers" (later to be termed scientists in 1834) and other philosophers. Many of the natural philosophers, including Newton, were adherents of Renaissance magic (alchemy and the like). The period known as the Enlightenment followed the Scientific Revolution, with its apex in the 18th century, and featured the ideas that life should be lead by reason as opposed to dogma or tradition, and the universe as a mechanisti ...

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History of parapsychology, History of parapsychology - The dawn of science, History of parapsychology - Scientific investigation of psychic phenomena, History of parapsychology - Government investigations into parapsychology

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The idea for a learned, scientific society to study psychic phenomena seems to have originated with the spiritualist E. Dawson Rogers, who hoped to gain a new kind of respectability for spiritualism. The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London in 1882, and by 1887 eight members of the British Royal Society served on its council. Soon after its founding many spiritualists left the SPR due to differing priorities and skeptical attitudes within the SPR to some prominent mediums. However the SPR continued work on its research ...

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History of parapsychology, History of parapsychology - The dawn of science, History of parapsychology - Scientific investigation of psychic phenomena, History of parapsychology - Government investigations into parapsychology

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In strict evaluation, the arguments to a function are always evaluated completely before the function is applied. Under church encoding, eager evaluation of operators maps to strict evaluation of functions; for this reason, strict evaluation is sometimes called "eager". Most existing programming languages use strict evaluation for functions (and, correspondingly, eager evaluation for mathematical operators). Evaluation strategy - Applicative order. See applicative-order evaluation. < ...

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Evaluation strategy, Evaluation strategy - Strict evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Applicative order, Evaluation strategy - Call by value, Evaluation strategy - Leftmost innermost, Evaluation strategy - Call by reference, Evaluation strategy - Call by copy-restore, Evaluation strategy - Partial evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Non-strict evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Normal order, Evaluation strategy - Leftmost outermost, Evaluation strategy - Call by name, Evaluation strategy - Call by need, Evaluation strategy - Call by macro expansion, Evaluation strategy - Nondeterministic strategies, Evaluation strategy - Full β-reduction, Evaluation strategy - Call by future, Evaluation strategy - Optimistic evaluation

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In non-strict evaluation, arguments to a function are not evaluated unless they are actually used in the evaluation of the function body. Under church encoding, lazy evaluation of operators maps to non-strict evaluation of functions; for this reason, non-strict evaluation is sometimes referred to as "lazy". Boolean expressions in many languages use lazy evaluation; in this context it is often called short circuiting. Conditional statements almost always use lazy evaluation -- programmers would be quite surprised if both branches of an "if" were evaluated before one was selected. ...

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Evaluation strategy, Evaluation strategy - Strict evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Applicative order, Evaluation strategy - Call by value, Evaluation strategy - Leftmost innermost, Evaluation strategy - Call by reference, Evaluation strategy - Call by copy-restore, Evaluation strategy - Partial evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Non-strict evaluation, Evaluation strategy - Normal order, Evaluation strategy - Leftmost outermost, Evaluation strategy - Call by name, Evaluation strategy - Call by need, Evaluation strategy - Call by macro expansion, Evaluation strategy - Nondeterministic strategies, Evaluation strategy - Full β-reduction, Evaluation strategy - Call by future, Evaluation strategy - Optimistic evaluation

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The scientific literature records very few scientific evaluations having been conducted into the effectiveness and theoretical basis of Dianetics. Professor John A. Lee states in his evaluation of Dianetics: Objective experimental verification of Hubbard's physiological and psychological doctrines is lacking. To date, no regular scientific agency has established the validity of his theories of prenatal perception and engrams, or cellular memory, or Dianetic reverie, or the effects of Scientology auditing routines. Existing knowl ...

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Dianetics, Dianetics - Definition and theoretical basis, Dianetics - Scientific evaluations, Dianetics - History, Dianetics - Origins, Dianetics - The emergence of Dianetics, Dianetics - Dianetics in print, Dianetics - Opposition to Dianetics, Dianetics - Fragmentation and transformation, Dianetics - Dianetics in Kansas, Dianetics - From Dianetics to Scientology, Dianetics - Notes

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Program evaluation is often divided into types of evaluation. Formative Evaluation occurs early in the program. The results are used to decide how the program is delivered, or what form the program will take. For example, an exercise program for elderly adults would seek to learn what activities are motivating and interesting to this group. These activities would then be included in the program. Process Evaluation is concerned with how the program is delivered. It deals with things such as when the program activit ...

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Program evaluation, Program evaluation - Types of evaluation, Program evaluation - CDC framework

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The first two Hummer models are large, heavy vehicles with large engines and complex drivelines. The third one, the H3, is smaller and geared more towards people who want an everyday SUV. They also feature aggressive styling and advertising, setting them apart from competing models. This has made them a target of criticism, as many people view Hummers as ill-suited for use as a passenger vehicle on public streets. As fuel prices have risen, detractors have also singled out the Hummer as an egregious waster of resources—a charge ...

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Hummer, Hummer - History, Hummer - Evaluation, Hummer - Models, Hummer - Licensing, Hummer - Famous owners

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Although the T-28 was rightly considered ineffective by 1941, it is worth remembering that when the Red Army was fielding the first T-28s in 1933, the French Army was still largely equipped with the FT-17, and the Wehrmacht had no tanks at all. No Army would have a series-production medium tank comparable to the T-28 for several years. The T-28 had a number of advanced features for the time, including radio (in all tanks) and anti-aircraft machinegun mounts. Just before the Second World War, many were upgraded with 80 mm of frontal armor and 50 mm of side armor, giving it firepower and protection ab ...

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T-28, T-28 - Production history, T-28 - Variants, T-28 - Combat history, T-28 - Evaluation

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Delayed evaluation is used particularly in functional languages. When using delayed evaluation, an expression is not evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable, but when the evaluator is forced to produce the expression's value. Some programming languages delay evaluation of expressions by default, and some others provide functions or special syntax to delay evaluation. In Miranda and Haskell, evaluation of function arguments is delayed by default. In many other languages, evaluation can be delayed by explicitly suspending the computation using special syntax (as with Scheme's "delay" and "force") or, ...

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Lazy evaluation, Lazy evaluation - Delayed evaluation

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Scientific method - Testing and improvements. The scientific process is iterative. At any stage it is possible that some consideration will lead the scientist to repeat an earlier part of the process. Failure to develop an interesting hypothesis may lead a scientist to re-define the subject they are considering. Failure of a hypothesis to produce interesting and testable predictions may lead to reconsideration of the hypothesis or of the definition of the subject. Failure of the experiment to produce interesting results may lead the scientist to reconsidering the exper ...

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Scientific method, Scientific method - Elements of scientific method, Scientific method - Characterizations, Scientific method - Hypotheses development, Scientific method - Predictions from the hypotheses, Scientific method - Experiments, Scientific method - Evaluations and iterations, Scientific method - Testing and improvements, Scientific method - Confirmations, Scientific method - Scope and goals, Scientific method - Scientific communities, Scientific method - Peer review evaluations, Scientific method - Reproduction and record-keeping, Scientific method - History, Scientific method - Philosophical issues, Scientific method - Scientific method and the practice of science, Scientific method - Formal approaches, Scientific method - Quotations, Scientific method - Notes, Scientific method - Historical references to scientific method

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NB: there is overlap between the two 'not submitted' groups. This arose from the history and has no other meaning. indispensable cryptographic techniques (not submitted to CRYPTREC): Public Key Algorithms (aka asymmetric key w/ public/private key property algorithms) authentication signature DSA (NIST Digital Signature Algorithm from the Digital Signature Standard FIPS Pub 186-2; ANSI X9.30, part 1) ECDSA (ANSI X9.62) (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm; ANSI X9.62, SEC1 ...

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CRYPTREC, CRYPTREC - Comparison with NESSIE, CRYPTREC - Background and sponsors, CRYPTREC - Responsibilities, CRYPTREC - Techniques evaluated, CRYPTREC - Evaluated techniques as of 2002, CRYPTREC - Recommended techniques as of Nov 2002 pub in Aug 2003 draft report

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Before surgery, the anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist will do a preanaesthetic evaluation to determine which drugs (including dosages), additional invasive monitors and/or analgesic therapies he or she will use. In this interview the anaesthesiologist will ask for the patient's age, weight, medical history, current medications, previous anesthetics, and other factors relevant to administering anesthesia. Often, the patient will fill in this information on a separate form when he comes to the hospital for his pre-operative evaluation. D ...

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General anaesthesia, General anaesthesia - Preanaesthetic Evaluation, General anaesthesia - Monitoring, General anaesthesia - Administration of General Anaesthetic, General anaesthesia - Muscle Relaxation, General anaesthesia - Airway management

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The Trial is a chilling story that maintains a constant, relentless atmosphere of unease, right up to the brutal ending. Superficially the subject matter is political; an illustration of a truly twisted brand of law enforcement. However, one of the strengths of the novel is in its description of the effect of these circumstances on the life and mind of Josef K. It presents the absurdity of human nature, of drudging along without direction, and without result. It can also be considered allegorically in a number of frameworks, for examp ...

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The Trial, The Trial - Plot Synopsis by Chapter, The Trial - The Arrest - Conversation with Frau Grubach then Fräulein Bürstner, The Trial - First Interrogation, The Trial - In the Empty Interrogation Chamber - The Student - The Offices, The Trial - Fräulein Bürstner's Friend, The Trial - The Whipper, The Trial - K.'s Uncle - Leni, The Trial - Advocate - Manufacturer - Painter, The Trial - The Commercial Traveller - Dismissal of the Advocate, The Trial - In The Cathedral, The Trial - The End, The Trial - Evaluation, The Trial - Comparisons with other works, The Trial - Relations between The Trial and Crime and Punishment, The Trial - Published editions

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The Trial is a chilling story that maintains a constant, relentless atmosphere of unease, right up to the brutal ending. Superficially the subject matter is political; an illustration of a truly twisted brand of law enforcement. However, one of the strengths of the novel is in its description of the effect of these circumstances on the life and mind of Josef K. It presents the absurdity of human nature, of drudging along without direction, and without result. It can also be considered allegorically in a number of frameworks, for examp ...

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The Trial, The Trial - Plot Synopsis by Chapter, The Trial - The Arrest - Conversation with Frau Grubach then Fräulein Bürstner, The Trial - First Interrogation, The Trial - In the Empty Interrogation Chamber - The Student - The Offices, The Trial - Fräulein Bürstner's Friend, The Trial - The Whipper, The Trial - K.'s Uncle - Leni, The Trial - Advocate - Manufacturer - Painter, The Trial - The Commercial Traveller - Dismissal of the Advocate, The Trial - In The Cathedral, The Trial - The End, The Trial - Evaluation, The Trial - Comparisons with other works, The Trial - Relations between The Trial and Crime and Punishment, The Trial - Published editions, The Trial - External link

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When the cause of hypoglycemia is not obvious, the most valuable diagnostic information is obtained from a blood sample drawn during the hypoglycemia. Detectable amounts of insulin are abnormal and indicate that hyperinsulinism is likely to be the cause. Inappropriately low levels of free fatty acids, beta-hydroxybutyrate and ketones provide additional evidence. In many cases the first evidence of hyperinsulinism is an usually high requirement for intravenous glucose. The minimum glucose required to maintain a plasma glucose above 70 mg/dl is referred to as the glucose infusion r ...

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Congenital hyperinsulinism, Congenital hyperinsulinism - Terminology, Congenital hyperinsulinism - Types of congenital hyperinsulinism, Congenital hyperinsulinism - Common presentations and natural history, Congenital hyperinsulinism - Diagnostic evaluation, Congenital hyperinsulinism - Treatment

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