In a previous paper, [S2], we described six families of K3-surfaces with Picardnumber 19, and we identified surfaces with Picard-number 20. In these notes we classify some of the surfaces by computing their transcendental lattices. Moreover we show that the surfaces with Picard-number 19 are birational to a Kummer surface which is the quotient of a non-product type abelian surface by an involut...

Unlike younger women, the risk of cardiovascular disease in older women matches or exceeds that of men. Excessive cortisol may play a role in this increased risk. Here we explore the possibility that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program may reduce the cortisol response to a metabolic stressor as a way of reducing disease risk in older women. Data from 16 women who were long-term practitio...

In his two well known 1968 papers “Contributions to the theory of transcendental numbers”, K. Ramachandra proved several results showing that, in certain explicit sets {x1, . . . , xn} of complex numbers, one element at least is transcendental. In specific cases the number n of elements in the set was 2 and the two numbers x1, x2 were both real. He then noticed that the conclusion is equivalent...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the Transcendental Meditation technique on a psychological measure of anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-State scale). The anxiety scale was initially administered to eight experimental subjects and nine control subjects two days before the experimental subjects began the Transcendental Meditation technique. Six weeks later subject...

The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on learning ability and retention (acquisition and recall). The experiment was composed of three sessions of paired-associate anticipation learning and recall, each spaced one week apart. Ten subjects who were experienced with the Transcendental Meditation technique (mean experience = 28 mo...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible enhancement of conceptual organization of thought (secondary organization) by the Transcendental Meditation program. A sample was divided into a Transcendental Meditation group (N = 60) who practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique twice a day and a nonmeditation group (N = 60) who rested twice a day with eyes closed as a control...

Abstract Transcendental Hénon maps are the natural extensions of well investigated complex polynomial to much larger class holomorphic automorphisms. We prove here that transcendental always have non-trivial dynamical behavior, namely they admit both periodic and escaping orbits, their Julia sets non-empty perfect.