There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

The Peace Corps is not a diplomatic or propaganda venture but a genuine experiment in international partnership.

We then outline the theory of the interaction of paramagnetic dipoles with nuclei and show that the theory is in excellent agreement with experiment.

If three dice are tossed, a trial is one toss of one die and the experiment is composed of three trials.

Or, what amounts to the same thing, if one die is tossed three times, each toss is a trial, and the three tosses form the experiment.

These examples are illustrative of the use of the words `` trial '' and `` experiment '' as they are used in this chapter, but they are quite flexible words and it is well not to restrict them too narrowly.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

Indeed, the experiment is better viewed as consisting of one binomial trial for the entire family.

The outcome of the experiment is X successes.

The several trials of a binomial experiment produce a new random variable X, the total number of successes, which is just the sum of the random variables associated with the single trials.

Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.

The first argument is thus an ideal experiment in which we use the method of difference.

The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

For you, readers, are an all-important part of the spiritual experiment that is Guideposts.

Still, the network's willingness to experiment in this musical field is to be commended, and future essays happily anticipated.

Which in itself is an immediate reward of the WBAI experiment ; ;

From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ( `` We get a rumble on every touchdown '' ), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations and is still growing.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

The collection is often the sample space of an experiment.

This randomization is objective and declared before the experiment is carried out.

For a randomized experiment, the assumption of unit-treatment additivity implies that the variance is constant for all treatments.

The School of Living was literally and figuratively the centerpiece of Borsodi's experiment in homesteading, headquartered at 21 Bayard Lane in 1938.

Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese.

The Chinese room is a thought experiment presented by John Searle.

Daniel Dennett has derisively referred to certain types of thought experiments such as the Chinese Room experiment as " intuition pumps ", claiming they are simply thinly veiled appeals to intuition which fail when carefully analyzed.

John Searle argued for this position with the Chinese room thought experiment, according to which no syntactic operations that occurred in a computer would provide it with semantic content.

Specifying Chinglish to mean " Chinese words literally translated into English ", an experiment in linguistic clarity found that mathematical terms are more readily understandable in Chinglish than English.

Consistently, Morris & Peng ( 1994 ) found from their fish behavior attribution experiment that more American than Chinese participants perceive the behavior ( e. g. an individual fish swimming in front of a group of fish ) as internally rather than externally caused.

The experiment is similar to the children's game Chinese whispers.

At the turn of the 20th century, Chinese students returning from abroad began to experiment with Western plays.

Exchanges were set up with groups of foreign artists, and Chinese artists began to experiment with new subjects and techniques.

* Searle has developed two arguments, the first ( well known through his Chinese room thought experiment ) is the ' syntax is not semantics ' argument — that a program is just syntax, while understanding requires semantics ; therefore programs ( hence cognitivism ) cannot explain understanding.

conducted an experiment to compare the reward allocation biases of Americans and Chinese in different group outcome conditions.

Shen, who never asserted that he was the first to experiment with camera obscura, hints in his writing that camera obscura was dealt with in the Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang written by Duan Chengshi ( d. 863 ) during the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ), in regards to the inverted image of a Chinese pagoda by a seashore.

It was used in a National Geographic article to describe an experiment in 2003, during which Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs.

But at the turn of the twentieth century, Chinese students returning from abroad began to experiment with Western plays.

Exchanges were set up with groups of foreign artists, and Chinese artists began to experiment with new subjects and techniques.

The experiment worked so well that the topic expanded from a single issue the first year ( prioritizing public works projects ) to the entire budget, and the Chinese are considering the process in other municipalities.

In Singaporean hawker stalls, for example, chefs of Chinese background influenced by Indian culture might experiment with condiments and ingredients such as tamarind, turmeric, and ghee, while an Indian chef might serve a fried noodle dish.

Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, criticized the 2010 experiment for allowing Jani to move out of a certain CCTV camera's field of view, meet devotees and leave the sealed test room to sunbathe.

In Jackson's mind experiment, he imagines a girl who grows up in a black-and-white room.

A simplified version of this is embodied in Einstein's elevator experiment, illustrated in the figure on the right: for an observer in a small enclosed room, it is impossible to decide, by mapping the trajectory of bodies such as a dropped ball, whether the room is at rest in a gravitational field, or in free space aboard an accelerating rocket generating a force equal to gravity.

There is a little-known coda to the Milgram Experiment, reported by Philip Zimbardo: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections, when Zimbardo asked him about that point.

* Mary's room, a philosophical thought experiment

At first, everyone in Technical Services tried it ; a typical experiment involved two people in a room where they observed each other for hours and took notes.

In a typical ganzfeld experiment, a " receiver " is placed in a room relaxing in a comfortable chair with halved ping-pong balls over the eyes, having a red light shone on them.

The name comes from a thought experiment described by James Clerk Maxwell in which a microscopic demon guards a gate between two halves of a room.

In this experiment, children were left in a room with a variety of toys, including a highly desirable toy steam-shovel ( or other toy ).

In this thought experiment, known as Mary's room, he asks us to consider a neuroscientist, Mary, who was born, and has lived all of her life, in a black and white room with a black and white television and computer monitor where she collects all the scientific data she possibly can

Schlesinger's hands-off attitude toward his animators allowed Freleng and his fellow directors almost complete creative control and room to experiment with cartoon comedy styles, which allowed the studio to keep pace with the Disney studio's technical superiority.

In particular he felt that Miller did not take enough care in guarding against thermal gradients in the room where the experiment took place, as, unlike most interferometry experiments, Miller conducted his in a room where the apparatus was deliberately left open to the elements to some degree.

An example of such confusion is the response to a recent experiment using magnetic resonance imaging which revealed that a woman diagnosed with PVS was able to activate predictable portions of her brain in response to the tester's requests that she imagine herself playing tennis or moving from room to room in her house.

In a 1968 experiment, Latane and Darley had men from Colombia University complete a questionnaire in a room either alone or with two strangers.

The importance of interpretations in determining the likelihood of bystander intervention is also illustrated in Latane and Darley ’ s smoke-filled room experiment.

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This measuring began in secret two weeks before moving the women to an experiment room and continued throughout the study.