BACKGROUND Prior clinical trials suggest that the Transcendental Meditation technique may decrease blood pressure of normotensive and hypertensive individuals but study-quality issues have been raised. This study was designed to assess effects of Transcendental Meditation on blood pressure using objective quality assessments and meta-analyses. METHODS PubMed and Cochrane databases through Dec...

In this paper we show that there is a correspondence between some K3 surfaces with non-isometric transcendental lattices constructed as a twist of the transcendental lattice of the Jacobian of a generic genus 2 curve. Moreover, we show the existence of a correspondence between a general K3 surface with ρ = 17 and a Kummer surface having transcendental lattices Q-Hodge isomorphic.

Transcendental numbers play an important role in many areas of science. This paper contains a short survey on transcendental numbers and some relations among them. New inequalities for transcendental numbers are stated in Section 2 and proved in Section 4. Also, in relationship with these topics, we study the exponential function axioms related to the Yang-Baxter equation.

This paper introduces the notion of a transcendental problem motivated by the needs to engineer the system which can evolve as the situation changes. The problem is generally called transcendental if it addresses the solution adequacy of the system that is implemented without any provision for subsequent requirement changes. Subsequently, the transcendental problem evident in Turing’s test is a...

This paper explains the empirical markers by which Kant thinks that one can identify moral responsibility. After explaining the problem of discerning such markers within a Kantian framework I briefly explain Kant's empirical psychology. I then argue that Kant's empirical markers for moral responsibility--linked to higher faculties of cognition--are not sufficient conditions for moral responsibi...

Despite being dwarfed by “The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements” in both size and influence, “The Transcendental Doctrine of Method” is officially the second main part of the Critique of Pure Reason. It starts with an architectural metaphor: in the first part of the book, Kant says, we “made an estimate of the building materials and determined for what sort of edifice, with what height and st...