Science in Qi

The Qi connection: A study in studying Qi

What Is Qi?

At a conference of practitioners and scholars of Chinese Medicine held in Australia recently, it was reported that China has, in recent decades, spent an inordinate amount of resources on experiments to determine the existence and nature of Qi. The nub of the report was that China is easing up on this research. The veracity of the claim that these experiments are slowing down for lack of concre...

The Minimum Quality Criteria Set (QI-MQCS) for critical appraisal: advancing the science of quality improvement

Objective Effective learning across related scientific investigations through evidence synthesis is critical to promoting evidence-based approaches to healthcare. Synthesis of findings from quality improvement intervention (QII) publications, however, poses challenges. We aimed to develop a critical appraisal instrument (the Minimum Quality Criteria Set or QI-MQCS) to promote identification, di...

Lu Qi-keng’s Problem

This survey article, intended to be accessible to students, discusses results about the presence or absence of zeroes of the Bergman kernel function of a bounded domain in C. Six open problems are stated.

Gih (Qi): Beyond Affordance

Ancient Eastern thought posited the ontological integration of the "mind-body world". The body-mind syncretism was a foundational precept in Eastern philosophy in which "Gih" ("Qi") was considered the basic entity of the universe and the human being. This study attempts to build a meta-theory and to demonstrate empirical designs for Gih, discussing the problems of the mind and body, or the subj...