Alphabetic confusion: A clarification

Clarification or confusion: response to Harwood

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Inositides--confusion and clarification in Shangri-La.

For the most memorable meetings there are fine venues, then outstanding venues, and finally those that transcend any previous experience. Somewhere, perhaps above all of those, is the veritable Shangri-La of the Orange County Resort, Coorg, located 4,000 feet above sea level in the forests of the Western Ghats in India. About 60 scientists gathered there for four days to address some of the maj...

A Clarification of Some Current Multiplicative Confusion Models

Consider the class of experimental situations where there are n possible stimulus presentations and n possible responses and there is an expelimenter-defined one-one stimulus-response mapping. Then a confusion matrix is a table with the following properties: The stimuli are given row identification such that the cell entries are conditional frequencies that the column response is made to the ro...

Beliefs about Consciousness and Reality: Clarification of the Confusion Concerning Consciousness

There is considerable confusion surrounding the notion of consciousness. This confusion can be partially resolved by clarifying the referents of the word Aconsciousness.@ Doing so, however, reveals a more insidious problem, namely, the role played by personal beliefs in understanding consciousness. In particular, as revealed by a comprehensive survey, such beliefs range along a material-transce...

Protein Structure Alphabetic Alignment