PSI: Two Unorthodox Studies

Laboratory Psi Effects May Be Put to Practical Use: Two Pilot Studies

I describe two studies that were designed to illustrate the potential applicability of laboratory-derived ESP effects in trying to predict events of practical consequence in the “real world.” Both studies attempt to predict the behavior of sets of fi nancial indices over a designated week in the future. The studies followed up on earlier work on the prediction of scoring direction and scoring e...

Unorthodox allergy procedures.

Unorthodox Methods in Scaphoid Fractures

Two Types of Fracture There' are roughly two main types of fracture of the waist of the carpal scaphoid. In type I there is a crack in the bone with negligible or no displacement, whilst in type II fractures there is an appreciable gap and some degree of displacement. The prognosis is best in type I and frequently the cartilage over the fracture line is intact. McLaughlin (1954) decided to trea...

$\psi$-Poisson, $q$-Cigler, $\psi$-Dobinski, $\psi$-Rota and $\psi$-coherent states

The Cigler simple derivation of the q-Carlitz-Dobinski formula is recalled and it is noticed that the formula may be interpreted as the average of powers of random variable X q with the q-Poisson distribution. In parallel new q-Cigler-Dobinski and psi-Carlitz-Dobinski formulas are introduced. At first let us anticipate with ψ-remark. ψ denotes an extension of 1 n! n≥0 sequence to quite arbitrar...

Unorthodox Optimal Foraging Theory

As the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB) eld continues to mature, it is essential that general methodological positions become elaborated into practical programmes of research. This paper describes how a particular avour of SAB modelling the use of genetic algorithms to design situated agent (animat) architectures-can eeec-tively complementòptimal foraging theory', as it is understood in t...