Sexual Minority: Who They Are and What They Need

Energy healers: who they are and what they do.

This paper surveys the landscape of energy healing, offering a taxonomy and conceptual overview of the work of practitioners. First, systems of energy healing are classified under four categories: an East Asian tradition, a Western professional tradition, a bioenergy tradition, and a contemporary metaphysical tradition. Examples of each are provided. Second, the possibility of core concepts in ...

Bayes Factors: What They Are and What They Are Not

Bayes factors have been ooered by Bayesians as alternatives to P-values (or significance probabilities) for testing hypotheses and for quantifying the degree to which observed data support or connict with a hypothesis. Schervish (1996) showed how the interpretation of P-values as measures of support suuers a certain logical aw. In this paper, we show how Bayes factors suuer that same aw. We inv...

Who do they think they are?

Membrane Aerated Biofilms: Who is There, What are They Doing, and Why are They Beneficial

Membrane aerated biofilms (MABs) are an emerging technology for wastewater treatment. Several bench scale and pilot scale studies have help to highlight the benefits of this technology. This paper will discuss experiments that examined the impact of oxygen gradients and the impact of BOD gradients on the performance of MABs, and discusses how an MAB compares to a conventional biofilm.

Dendritic Spines: What Are They? What Are They For?

machinery is also identified in spines, within specialized subdomains (88, 102). In addition, polyribosomes and protein translational machinery are often anchored at the base of spines (80). Thus increasing evidence suggests that individual spines represent partially autonomous compartments, having their own regulated membrane-trafficking events that shuttle components into and out of the spine...