We have used the PIBETA detector at the PSI for a precise measurement of rare pion and muon weak decays. We have collected a large statistical sample of (1) π

We have used the PIBETA detector at the PSI for a precise measurement of rare pion and muon weak decays. We have collected a large statistical sample of (1) π

The BLAST programs are widely used tools for searching protein and DNA databases for sequence similarities. For protein comparisons, a variety of definitional, algorithmic and statistical refinements described here permits the execution time of the BLAST programs to be decreased substantially while enhancing their sensitivity to weak similarities. A new criterion for triggering the extension of...

PII: S0962-8924(99)01711-0 [PSI] was originally described in 1965 by Cox as a translation infidelity factor (Fig. 1)1. In [PSI] strains, a weak suppressor tRNA produced detectable nonsense suppression (stop-codon readthrough; see Box 1), whereas in [psi] strains the same tRNA suppressor appeared to be inactive1,2. Later experiments revealed that [PSI] was not required for suppressor tRNA functi...

Does psi exist? D. J. Bem (2011) conducted 9 studies with over 1,000 participants in an attempt to demonstrate that future events retroactively affect people's responses. Here we discuss several limitations of Bem's experiments on psi; in particular, we show that the data analysis was partly exploratory and that one-sided p values may overstate the statistical evidence against the null hypothes...