H. van Gelder, Abraham Tuschinski

41-48 van Gelder Win 05

full moon, is part of the moon in a shadow? The most common answer, even among smart undergraduates at the best institutions, is something like this: Earth blocks light from the sun, causing a shadow, and the moon happens to sit on the boundary of that shadow; hence, part of the moon is lit up, while the rest is in darkness. This answer is, of course, wrong. It reflects a widely held misconcept...

Baiju Abraham

Following variables were selected Somatotype : Endomorph, Mesomorph and Ectomorph. Psychological Variables: Achievement motivation, Sports Competition anxiety and Sports Aggression. Fitness test: modified Canadian test Achievement Motivation was measured by Sports Achievement Motivation Test (SAMT). Sports Competition Anxiety was measured by Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT). The aggressio...

Reply to Vroomen and de Gelder.

from the sound source and the bias decreases , one may obtain a good fit by decreasing the visual support for the more distant location. The crucial point, however, is that the truth values are meaningless because there is no guarantee that there is a correspondence with the perceptual mechanisms that lead to these truth values. Thus, the fact that fuzzy sets of mathematics can describe aspects...

Abraham Wald

This paper grew out of a lecture presented at the 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute in Berlin, August 13 20, 2003, Schneeweiss (2003). It intends not only to outline the eventful life of Abraham Wald (1902 1950) in Austria and in the United States but also to present his extensive scientific work. In particular, the two main subjects, where he earned most of his fame, are ...

Abraham Robinson 1918 - 1974