Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination. The latter, however, is largely overlooked as a genuine problem of its own. Both problems concern the doctrine of realism, but pull, quite curiously, into opposite directions. The measurement problem can ...

We have constructed a new speech data corpus, using the utterances of 100 elderly Japanese people, to improve speech recognition accuracy of the speech of older people. Humanoid robots are being developed for use in elder care nursing homes. Interaction with such robots is expected to help maintain the cognitive abilities of nursing home residents, as well as providing them with companionship. ...

Numerical solutions for Sommerfeld model in nonrelativistic case are presented for the scattering of a spinless extended charged body in a static Coulomb field of a fixed point charge. It is shown that differential cross section for extended body preserves the form of the Rutherford result with multiplier, not equal to one (as in classical case), but depending on the size of Sommerfeld particle...

It is known that geographical and climatic conditions influence the presence and prevalence of animal’s diseases worldwide. During a period of veterinary practice in Saudi Arabia, an intensive bibliographic search for local parrot’s diseases was performed, but no mention whatever was found. In an attempt to fill this lack, a retrospective analysis of 100 consecutive clinic cases examined in Jed...

we only advocate a penalty being put upon the practice of inoculation for small-pox in those localities where the efficacy of the vaccine prophylactic may be thoroughly depended upon, and where the system of supervision is complete. Otherwise, we would not oppose a well-ordered system of inoculation,? one in which the name of each inoculator was registered, and his work superintended. But we wo...

Läßt man in dem Gefäßpaar nur ein Gas entste­ hen, z. B. Kohlensäure, indem man aus den Birnen Säure in Bicarbonat einkippt, so muß der Versuch Xq2 = 0 ergeben; läßt man nur Sauerstoff entstehen, indem man aus den Birnen z. B. Katalase in Wasser­ stoffperoxyd einkippt, so muß der Versuch xco2 = 0 ergeben. Mit diesen beiden einfachen Kontrollen, bei denen immer die Einkippdrucke abzuziehen sind,...

The fifth version of the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM -5) was released in May 2013 after 14 years of development. Originally announced as an integrative version of the latest data in neuroscience, this manual should be more based on pathophysiology than the previous versions. Mixed dimensional and categorical mental disorder approach would also take the place of ca...

It is proved that in classical electrodynamics the uniform rectilinear motion of charged " rigid " sphere with self-action (Sommerfeld model) is stable. 03.50.De In classical electrodynamics long time ago in Sommerfeld works [1, see also 2] was derived the expression of self-force acting on " nonrelativistically rigid charged sphere " , i.e sphere with radius a, its center moving along trajecto...

An experiment was carried out to define the optimal rate of palm-press fibres in growing rabbits' diet. In total, 64 weaned rabbits (35 days old) of Beninese breed were divided in 16 groups of 4 rabbits (2 males and 2 females) each. During six weeks, rabbits were fed with 4 complete diets containing 0% (F0, control), 5% (F5), 10% (F10), and 15% (F15) of fibres from a palm oil industry. Results ...