A Fecund Imagination

Validating the imagination questionnaire

The purpose of the present study was to validate the Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire. The research method, correlation and statistical population of this study were all secondary school students in Ahvaz. 300 students (150 boys and 150 girls) were selected by multistage random sampling method. The Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire were used to measure imagina...

Estimating Trait Heritability in Highly Fecund Species

Increasingly, researchers are interested in estimating the heritability of traits for nonmodel organisms. However, estimating the heritability of these traits presents both experimental and statistical challenges, which typically arise from logistical difficulties associated with rearing large numbers of families independently in the field, a lack of known pedigree, the need to account for grou...

Imagination Amplification

54 January/February 2000 Michael F. Cohen Microsoft Research It would be easy to gaze into the distant future and speculate what image synthesis technology may be. Since Star Trek with its Holodeck has already done this far better than I can, prognosticating will not be my main focus here. Instead, I hope to relate some of my own inspiration for getting involved with computer graphics, an inspi...

Heart failure - or a failure of imagination?

Over ten years ago, Richard Lehman wrote an editorial in the BMJ proposing that we should abandon the term heart failure. Instead, he suggested, ‘it might be kinder, and more accurate, to start calling it cardiac impairment.’ As Lehman argued, the term heart failure covers a confusingly wide spectrum of illness ranging from asymptomatic systolic dysfunction to imminent death from pulmonary oede...

A Imagination is more important than knowledge