The percentage of participants in the Transcendental Meditation programme was found to be a reliable predictor of increased social order, as reflected by a decrease in crime rate, in cities of the Kansas City metropolitan area between 1974 and 1976. It was further found that crime rate began to decrease when numbers practising Transcendental Meditation reached one percent of a city's population...

Let b ≥ 2 be an integer. We prove that the b-ary expansion of every irrational algebraic number cannot have low complexity. Furthermore, we establish that irrational morphic numbers are transcendental, for a wide class of morphisms. In particular, irrational automatic numbers are transcendental. Our main tool is a new, combinatorial transcendence criterion.

Transcendental Brauer elements are notoriously difficult to compute. Work of Wittenberg, and later, Ieronymou, gives a method for computing 2-torsion transcendental classes on surfaces that have a genus 1 fibration with rational 2-torsion in the Jacobian fibration. We use ideas from a descent paper of Poonen and Schaefer to remove this assumption on the rational 2-torsion.

Zahavi claims that the predictive processing (PP) approach supports a radical neurorepresentationalism, “according to which the content of our conscious experiences is a neural construct, a brain-generated simulation” (Zahavi, 2017, p. 1). He claims that this is because, on the one hand, spontaneous human cognition becomes equated with the model of cognition developed by sciences, and on the ot...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of stress reduction via the Transcendental Meditation program on school rule infractions in adolescents. METHODS Forty-five African American adolescents (ages 15-18 years) with high normal systolic blood pressure were randomly assigned to either Transcendental Meditation (n = 25) or health education control (n = 20) groups. The ...

Computerized spectral analysis and qualitative reports determined distinctions among the EEG records during Transcendental Meditation, the different sleep stages, and waking in meditators and controls. Speculations were formulated concerning the possibility that the changes in consciousness induced during the process of Transcendental Meditation may carry over into waking, dreaming, and sleep s...

A transcendental polynomial which has all its roots lying in the left half-plane is called stable. In this paper, the stability of transcendental polynomials which are nearly as general as those discussed by L.S. Pontryagin are investigated through direct analytic method. For application of the method presented in this paper,the asymptotic stability of some diierential-diierence equations is in...

As advertised in its subtitle, Terence Cuneo’s rich new book, The Normative Web, puts forth an argument for moral realism. Moral realism, Cuneo argues, is on a par with epistemic realism—roughly, the view that there are genuine epistemic facts, facts such as that it is reasonable to believe that astrology is false. These two realist doctrines stand or fall together. But epistemic realism is tru...

Let K be a field and v a valuation on K. We discuss some properties of extensions w of v to the field K(X1, . . . , Xn) of rational functions in n variables over K, for which the residue field of w has transcendence degree n over the residue field of v. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 12J20, 12F20. 1.Introduction LetK be a field and v a valuation onK. Residual transcendental extensions...

To begin with, recall that a complex number α is said to be a root of a polynomial P (X) if P (α) = 0. A complex number α is said to be algebraic if there is a nonzero polynomial P (X), with integer coefficients, of which α is a root. The set of algebraic numbers is denoted by Q̄. A complex number α which is not algebraic is said to be transcendental. The following numbers are obviously algebrai...