Technical Note—Rejoinder

A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation

This essay is meant for a reader who has attained a firm grasp of Bayes' Theorem. An introduction to Bayes' Theorem may be found in An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning (Yudkowsky 2003). You should easily recognize, and intuitively understand,

Technical Note

Real-time PCR analysis is a sensitive template DNA quantitation strategy that has recently gained considerable attention in the forensic community. However, the utility of real-time PCR methods extends beyond quantitation and allows for simultaneous evaluation of template DNA extraction quality. This study presents a computational method that allows analysts to identify problematic samples with...

Technical Reviews

Reviews of software work products were introduced by Fagan in the 1970s. A review can be applied to any kind of software work product. A Fagan-type inspection is carried out in a meeting of four or ve people who use checklists to help them locate problems in the product under review. Lately the e ectiveness of both inspection meetings and checklists has been questioned. We examine Fagan-type in...

Technical Education

Technical Comments

S. Gider et al. (1) studied classical and quantum magnetic phenomena in natural and artificial ferritin proteins. If the magnetic moment of the ferritin molecules is blocked below 5 K, as Gider et al. show in figures 1 and 2 of their report (1), then the observed resonance at 24.3 mK, shown in figure 3 of their report, cannot be attributed to quantum oscillations of the magnetic moment between ...