General Science and Philosophy

1211 Submissions

[10] viXra:1211.0159 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-28 16:30:19

Judgements of Likelihood Under Hypoxic Conditions (Descriptive Statistics)

Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez [ed]
Comments: 4 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

Gilbey et al (2010) carried out a pilot study for ascertaining whether mild hypoxia led to more optimistic (or pessimistic) judgements about the likelihood of certain life events than otherwise. This article provides detailed descriptive information about the results of that research.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[9] viXra:1211.0136 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-23 07:40:52

pygrametl: A Powerful Programming Framework for Extract-Transform-Load Programmers; in Slides

Authors: Sari Haj Hussein
Comments: 48 Pages.

This is a slide presentation of the paper entitled "pygrametl: A Powerful Programming Framework for Extract-Transform-Load Programmers", which can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1651291.1651301.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[8] viXra:1211.0130 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-21 19:08:01

Judgements of Likelihood Under Hypoxic Conditions

Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez [ed]
Comments: 3 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

Gilbey et al (2010) carried out a pilot study for ascertaining whether mild hypoxia led to more optimistic (or pessimistic) judgements about the likelihood of life events than otherwise. Their results showed that a small group of participants did not change or only slightly changed their judgements about life events under normal and hypoxic conditions. That is, overall optimistic judgement did not change but remained slightly above average. Particular judgements did increase or decrease slightly depending on the condition, but perhaps not enough as for suggesting any sensible effect of mild hypoxia on judgement. Changes occurred in either direction, depending on the judgement, and so there was no tendency for just optimism (or pessimism) to appear more extreme under mildly hypoxic conditions than under normal conditions within this group.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[7] viXra:1211.0121 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-20 22:29:47

Combining Snacks for the Mind with Extracts from Other Vixra Postings

Authors: Rodney Bartlett
Comments: 9 Pages.

These are 6 short “Snacks for the Mind” combined with excerpts from “Intergalactic Plus Time Travel; Hyperspace and Space-Time’s Nature”, “Tomorrow’s Science Today”, “A New Earth And A New Universe”, etc. I’ve changed sentences here and there in the last 4, in an attempt to express my main thoughts (they were all very brief at first but #5 has become lengthy and #6 has had a long PS/PPS added to it – the PS talks about immortality while the PPS talks about Infinity, ESP, God and Satan the Devil). The first 2 are things I’ve been thinking about during the last week or two. Snack #1 - Cancer cells are incredibly difficult to eradicate completely. So let's take a lesson from the martial arts and use their own strength against them. Let them live - but only after they've been bioengineered to mutate back into healthy, functional cells and tissues that reproduce at a normal rate. Snack #2 - Can radio telescopes and infrared telescopes be adapted to allow amateur astronomers to view celestial phenomena through clouds and rain? Snack #3 - Reconciling the Dark Flow with the Poincare conjecture and Figure-8 Klein bottles to reinterpret parallel universes, cosmic strings and wormholes. Snack #4 - Cosmic-Quantum Unification and Einstein being centuries ahead of his time + Intergalactic and Time Travel Snack #5 - MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) that fits in your pocket or purse; De=Hv+G (Dark Energy = Hidden Variables + Gravitation) Snack #6 - God's existence proven by combining the inverse-square law with quantum entanglement! This Physics of the Impossible means evolution is not the Origin of Species - origin is due to a suprapantheistic unity of spacetime's spatial, temporal, hyperspatial, material, personality and mental parts; forming a union with humans in a cosmic unification (we know this as God). But "evolution" is still responsible for changes (adaptations) within species.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[6] viXra:1211.0103 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-20 01:14:14

Snacks for the Mind More Details at Http://vixra.org/author/rodney_bartlett

Authors: Rodney Bartlett
Comments: 3 Pages.

These are 6 short “Snacks for the Mind” (Food for Thought that I’ve written during the last 2 days). Actually, most of these snacks are from articles I posted to vixra months ago. I’ve only changed a few sentences here and there in the last 4, in an attempt to express my main thoughts very briefly (but still clearly). The first 2 are things I’ve been thinking about during the last week or two. Snack #1 - Cancer cells are incredibly difficult to eradicate completely. So let's take a lesson from the martial arts and use their own strength against them. Let them live - but only after they've been bioengineered to mutate back into healthy, functional cells and tissues that reproduce at a controlled rate. Snack #2 - Can radio telescopes and infrared telescopes be adapted to allow amateur astronomers to view celestial phenomena through clouds and rain? Snack #3 - Reconciling the Dark Flow with the Poincare conjecture and Figure-8 Klein bottles to reinterpret parallel universes, cosmic strings and wormholes. Snack #4 - Cosmic-Quantum Unification and Einstein being centuries ahead of his time + Intergalactic and Time Travel Snack #5 - MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) that fits in your pocket or purse; De=Hv+G (Dark Energy = Hidden Variables + Gravitation) Snack #6 - God's existence proven by combining the inverse-square law with quantum entanglement! This Physics of the Impossible means evolution is not the Origin of Species - origin is due to a suprapantheistic unity of spacetime's spatial, temporal, hyperspatial, material, personality and mental parts; forming a union with humans in a cosmic unification (we know this as God). But "evolution" is still responsible for changes (adaptations) within species.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[5] viXra:1211.0079 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-13 17:11:46

Simulation: Nutritional Balance of Breakfast Meals

Authors: Jose D Perezgonzalez
Comments: 3 pages, Journal of Knowledge Advancement & Integration (ISSN 1177-4576), Wiki of Science, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

This article presents the results of a simulation on the nutritional balance of breakfast meals, carried out as part of a research on the nutritional composition of breakfast in New Zealand. A breakfast meal is understood as a combination of breakfast cereals with water, milk, non-dairy milk or yogurt.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[4] viXra:1211.0043 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-08 10:29:40

The Trouble with Believing and a Possible Way Forward ...

Authors: Elemer E Rosinger
Comments: 13 Pages.

As suggested by the modern view and use of the "axiomatic method" in science, a view and use which has placed belief to a very simple deep level and thus far away from the "axioms", as similar approach is suggested in religions. This would create a joint framework upon which both science and religion be based, and could pursue their development in appropriate ways, including possible useful interaction. Within such a joint framework, science would focus on those Laws of Nature which act more or less instantly, while religion would - as has always done it - focus on the Laws of Nature which need not always manifest themselves immediately.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[3] viXra:1211.0036 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-07 09:36:50

John von Neumann and Self-Reference ...

Authors: Elemer E Rosinger
Comments: 12 Pages.

It is shown that the description as a "frog" of John von Neumann in a recent item by the Princeton celebrity physicist Freeman Dyson does among others miss completely on the immesnely important revolution of the so called "von Neumann architecture" of our modern electronic digital computers.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[2] viXra:1211.0026 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-05 16:07:20

A Scienceographic Comparison of Physics Papers from the arXiv and viXra Archives

Authors: David Kelk, David Devine
Comments: 9 Pages.

arXiv is an e-print repository of papers in physics, computer science, and biology, amongst others. viXra is a newer repository of e-prints on similar topics. Scienceography is the study of the writing of science. In this work we perform a scienceographic comparison of a selection of papers from the physics section of each archive. We provide the first study of the viXra archive and describe key differences on how science is written by these communities.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

[1] viXra:1211.0005 [pdf] submitted on 2012-11-02 14:52:30

Towards a Unified Model of Outdoor and Indoor Spaces; in a Poster

Authors: Sari Haj Hussein, Hua Lu, Torben Bach Pedersen
Comments: 1 Page.

This is a poster of the paper entitled "Towards a Unified Model of Outdoor and Indoor Spaces".
Category: General Science and Philosophy