A biochemical mechanism for this was proposed by the medical researcher J. C. Callaway, who suggested in 1988 that DMT might be connected with visual dream phenomena: brain DMT levels would be periodically elevated to induce visual dreaming and possibly other natural states of mind.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

Heinlein Society member and researcher Robert James has noted that Heinlein wrote a letter in which he " firmly states " that Rod Walker is black.

A University of Chicago researcher Linda Waite Professor in Sociology, states " 16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar experiences.

" Autism researcher Mitzi Waltz states that there may be inherent dangers to these beliefs, leading parents to deny the existence of impairments, avoid proven treatments and spend considerable money on unhelpful interventions.

The researcher must decide which character states were present before the last common ancestor of the species group ( plesiomorphies ) and which were present in the last common ancestor ( synapomorphies ) and does so by comparison to one or more outgroups.

" Paranormal researcher Brian Dunning states that SHC stories " are simply the rare cases where a natural death in isolation has been followed by a slow combustion from some nearby source of ignition.

Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a researcher at Dartmouth College, states that " in screen-detected breast and prostate cancer survivors are more likely to have been overdiagnosed than actually helped by the test.

None of Yue Fei's biographies mention him learning boxing as a child, but martial researcher Stanley Henning states " almost certainly did practice some form of bare handed fighting as a basic foundation for use of weapons.

James Borg states that human communication consists of 93 percent body language and paralinguistic cues, while only 7 % of communication consists of words themselves ; however, Albert Mehrabian, the researcher whose 1960s work is the source of these statistics, has stated that this is a misunderstanding of the findings ( see Misinterpretation of Mehrabian's rule ).

Stanislav Grof ( born July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.

Dr. David Gorski, a breast cancer researcher at Wayne State University, states " Lots of good science and good scientists are going unfunded.

Richard Krejcir an avid researcher and youth pastor states, “ After a student leaves the safe and fun youth culture of a caring church, even a great one, there is a 70 %+ chance they will never come back to any church?

Unaipon was also a researcher and witness for the Bleakley Enquiry into Aboriginal Welfare and lobbied the Australian Government to take over responsibility for Aborigines from its constituent states.

To this end, there has been much recent work in what has become known as Friendliness Theory, which holds that, as advocate and AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky states, "... you ought to be able to reach into ' mind-design-space ' ( i. e. the hypothetical realm which contains all possible intelligent minds ) and pull out a mind ( design an intelligent machine ) such that afterwards, you're glad you made it real.

Psychonautics ( from the Greek ( " soul / spirit / mind ") and ( " sailor / navigator ") – a sailor of the mind / soul ) refers both to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by meditation or mind altering substances, and to a research paradigm in which the researcher voluntarily immerses him / herself into an altered state by means of such techniques, as a means to explore human experience and existence.

Music researcher Nicolás Puentes Macías from Zacatecas states that true jarabes are almost extinct in Mexico, found today only in small fractions of Zacatecas and Jalisco and that the jarabe tapatío is really a form of a dance called “ tonadilla .”

The origin of the quote is perhaps explained by The News Reporter which states, " N. C. State University researcher John A. McGeachy seems to have found it in his paper “ Travel on the Cape Fear River in the Colonial Period.

While at least one researcher claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

The " calculus of negligence " has less practical value for the lay researcher seeking to understand how the courts actually determine negligence cases in the United States than the jury instructions used by the courts in the individual states.

Scheuer states that he was not part of the analysis team that produced Iraqi Support for Terrorism, but that he was the main researcher reviewing the evidence and conclusions of that report.

He states that it wasn't until 1996 that a researcher conducted a study to assess the extent to which so called " atrocity tales " might be based on fact.

Swann does not identify himself as a " psychic ," preferring to describe himself as a " consciousness researcher " who had sometimes experienced " altered states of consciousness.

Covering an original area of, it is native to southern Brazil ( sometimes found in high-altitude areas of southern Minas Gerais, southern Rio de Janeiro and in the east and south of São Paulo, but more typically in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul ), according to a study made by the Brazilian researcher, Maack, the original area of occurrence represented 36. 67 % of the Paraná state (), 60. 13 % of the Santa Catarina state (), 21. 6 % of the São Paulo state () and 17. 38 % of the Rio Grande do Sul state (); it is also found in the northeast of Argentina ( Misiones and Corrientes ) and locally in Paraguay ( Alto Paraná ), growing in low mountains at altitudes of.

In 1983 he was the chairman for the Federation of Conservative Students, and was appointed as a director of public affairs at Extel Consultancy in 1984, before becoming a researcher for two years to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and MP for Bridgwater Tom King in 1985.

He is a keen researcher on World War I history, travelling and discovering Ireland, and is an honorary patron of Tilbury Football Club.

Vine's career at the BBC included reading the news on radio in Northern Ireland and working as a researcher on the BBC1 series Heart of the Matter.

After finishing his studies and getting the degree of Master of Education from the University of Oulu 1990 Mr. Vilén continued his academic career as researcher in Trinity College and as teacher in St Andrews College, Dublin, Ireland 1990 – 1991, as assistant in the University of Oulu 1991 – 1992, and as researcher on a grant from the Academy of Finland in Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium 1992-1994.

Colonel Edgar O ' Ballance ( 17 July 1918, Dublin, Ireland – 8 July 2009, Wakebridge, Derbyshire, England ) was a British military journalist, researcher, defence commentator and academic lecturer specialising in international relations and defence problems.

Frank McCoubrey is a Unionist politician and loyalist in Northern Ireland, as well as a community activist and researcher.

But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.

In fact, the noted psychologist and sex researcher, Dr. Albert Ellis, has declared flatly that women are `` sexually superior '' to men.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

Giulio Mauro Facchetti, a researcher who has dealt with both Etruscan and Minoan put forward again this hypothesis, comparing some of the Minoan words of known meaning with some similar Etruscan words.

However, certain conditions must be met before the replication of the experiment is commenced: the original research question has been published in a peer-reviewed journal or widely cited, the researcher is independent of the original experiment, the researcher must first try to replicate the original findings using the original data, and the write-up should state that the study conducted is a replication study that tried to follow the original study as strictly as possible.

Usually, a researcher has a certain theory regarding the topic under investigation.

Several researcher note that cannibalism — mainly on eggs — has been known to occur within hellbender populations, and one researcher claims that perhaps density is maintained — and density dependence in turn created — in part by intraspecific predation.

* A researcher from the University of Copenhagen pointed out that for years, IKEA has named their cheap rugs after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious furniture was named after Swedish places.

Mullis has been described as an " impatient and impulsive researcher " who avoids lab work and instead thinks about research topics while driving and surfing.

However, Roland Watson, a cryptozoologist and Loch Ness Monster researcher, has criticized this analysis, stating that the object in the image is very unlikely to be a bloom of algae and zooplankton, since algae needs sunlight to grow, and the waters of Loch Ness are very dark, and nearly devoid of sunlight, 75 feet down.

The images are enhanced to bring out features that the researcher wants to emphasize, but this also has the effect of supporting his conclusions.

However, the classification of these two forms has varied from researcher to researcher.

A preeminent sleep researcher, Dr. Stickgold has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and learning.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

Crocker has been a program manager at Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ), a senior researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute, founder and director of the Computer Science Laboratory at The Aerospace Corporation and a vice president at Trusted Information Systems.

Joseph Sheehan, a prominent researcher in the field, has described stuttering in terms of the well-known analogy to an iceberg, with the immediately visible and audible symptoms of stuttering above the waterline and a broader set of symptoms such as negative emotions hidden below the surface.

In an early and highly influential article, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, the psychologist George Miller suggested that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two and that that was well known at the time ( it seems to go back to the 19th-century researcher Wundt ).

The psychical researcher John Arthur Hill wrote regarding telepathy " No physical theory of telepathy has been worked out — there are no " brain-waves " known, and no receiving stations yet discovered inside our skulls.

An FBI researcher has suggested that voyeurs are likely to demonstrate some characteristics that are common, but not universal, among serious sexual offenders who invest considerable time and effort in the capturing of a victim ( or image of a victim ); careful, methodical planning devoted to the selection and preparation of equipment ; and often meticulous attention to detail.

Although combinatorial chemistry has only really been taken up by industry since the 1990s, its roots can be seen as far back as the 1960s when a researcher at Rockefeller University, Bruce Merrifield, started investigating the solid-phase synthesis of peptides.