Dowsing explained

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Dowsing: Domain-based Program Understanding

Program understanding relates a computer program to the goals and requirements it is designed to accomplish. Understanding techniques that rely only on source code analysis are limited in their ability to derive this relationship. Application-domain analysis is another source of information that can aid program understanding by guiding the source analysis and providing structure to its results....

Is Dowsing a Useful Tool for Serious Scientific Research?

It is well known that the act of observation can appear to affect the results of certain scientific experiments. However, some research techniques into the causes of this phenomenon have been branded as non-scientific due to the mind producing personal, un-metered, and seemingly inconsistent results. This research into the reasons for this variability has produced two important conclusions. Fir...

Nonuniversality explained

The Nonuniversality in Computation Theorem (NCT) states that no computer capable of a finite and fixed number of basic operations per time unit can be universal. This result, obtained in 2005, disproves major prevailing dogmas in computer science, on the strength of several counterexamples that differ significantly from one another. Thus, the NCT shows that the Church-Turing Thesis (CTT) is fal...

Genius explained

The physician's art is the catalogue of an exhibition of over 100 images and other objects from the collections of four North Carolina medical schools. In a finely-judged Preface, structured around specific examples shown, Martin Kemp points out some of the historical issues involved in the study of medical imagery and artifacts, beginning with the problem of what "realism" means in the context...