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In the early days of Ufology, researchers appeared too eager to verify sightings, which they then interpreted as evidence of 'nuts and bolts' spacecraft piloted by intelligent EBEs. Like numerous deities and other extraterrestrial visitors, EBEs are generally held to be concerned about human conduct. This concern was widely reported in the spate of UFO sightings after the Second World War and the beginnings of the nuclear age. Sensationalist reports merging with Hollywood fantasy led to a distancing of orthodox science from Ufology. Explanations offered by Ufologists frequently ignored Occam's razor, which is a rule against multiplying entities or - in general terms - a rule which says don't involve extraordinary hypotheses until the ordinary ones have been eliminated. The apparent resistance to falsification also contributed to Ufology's lack of credibility. However, modern Ufologists, such as Jenny Randles and Paul Fuller of the British Unidentified Flying Object Research Association (BUFORA), are strict adherents to Popperian-inspired scientific methodology, enthusiastically seeking to falsify EBE explanations and providing explanations which are acceptable to orthodox scientific opinion. In this respect the modern Ufologist is a debunker rather than a myth-spinning believer. Explanations in terms of atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations or hoaxes are generally expected from BUFORA publications. Over the years the BUFORA standpoint has been vindicated. So much 'confirmatory' evidence has been demonstrably unreliable. Photographs, which were once considered as hard evidence, are now held to have zero credibility because of the likelihood of fakes. With the advent of sophisticated image-manipulation computers whose work is undetectable, photographs unsupported by other reliable confirmatory evidence are unacceptable. Eye witness reports are also problematic as they are frequently influenced by psychological and cultural factors.

Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece the Decameron, is one of the greatest literary works that follows the tradition of the frame narrative. Some of the one hundred stories that Boccaccio gathered in his work originate in…

Textiles were some of the first goods to be manufactured through industrial production in England and the United States. "Typically requiring low initial capital investments and a large, low-wage workforce, industrial…

Cancer is a serious health issue which threatens millions of Americans. Women in particular are heavily affected by breast cancer which crosses racial and age borders (American Cancer Society, 2006).

The world we know today is the result of endless processes of change that emerged in antiquity and have yet to come to an end. These changes are obvious at all levels of the every day life and the most relevant examples…

The issue to be reviewed and critiqued in this paper has to do with perception and attention from several perspectives and points-of-view. To wit, what research can be located in scholarly journals that show…

¶ … PCB contamination of the Upper Hudson River. The General Electric Company's involvement in the pollution will be discussed, as well as the established clean up plans for the largest Superfund site in the country.

While many elements go into making a good movie, characterization may be the most important of those elements. Characterization is the way that the personality of a character is revealed in a movie, and involves many…

The purpose of the present paper is to review in depth Gerald R. McDermott's book "The Great Theologians, A brief guide." The first part states the author's basic thesis while analyzing the targeted audience.

This article discusses five key incorrect assumptions that management makes regarding its accounting information systems based on Ackoff's classical analysis of misinformation in management. The discussion also includes suggestion of three ways in which organizational performance may be improved when information is properly managed within a business system. The third part of the paper provides an evaluation of level of system security needed to ensure information integrity within automated business systems.