JNLII1Announcements

Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions February 2003 Vol II Nr 1

ANNOUNCEMENTS

INDEX

A. CONFERENCES

B. SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS AND RESEARCH LABS

C. RESEARCH PROPOSALS

D. DATABASES AND OTHER RESOURCES

CONFERENCES

1. First International Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing

2. Quantum Mind 2003: Consciousness, Quantum Physics and the Brain

3. 2003 International Conference on Science and Consciousness

4 International Conference on Biophotons and Biophotonics

5. The 8th symposium of the International Association for Biologically Closed Electric Circuits in

Biomedicine

6. Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies Conference

7. CASYS '03: Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

1. First International Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing

March 28-30, 2003 in Washington, DC

An interdisciplinary conference organized by leading scientists, engineers, physicians, and CAM practitioners

for:

· scientists, engineers, physicians, CAM practitioners

· the interested public

· NIH, NSF, DoD, DoE, HHS program managers

· Foundation, Federal agency, and Congressional staffers

Program Content

· Authoritative, up-to-date presentations by the world's leaders on the enormous scientific database

accumulated from data in each field - from fMRI on acupuncture, to psychic surgery in Brazil, to the role of

intention on inanimate and living systems

· Reports by current NIH, DoD, and private foundation (NFAM, Chopra Foundation, Samueli Institute,

Templeton Foundation) grantees for research in various CAM practices

· Data from worldwide research on outcomes from low-cost, low-tech healing practices

Among the Major Speakers

Jeanne Achterberg Alternative Therapies Iris Bell U. Arizona

John Bockris Texas A&M

Juliana Brooks Berkshire Labs

Larry Dossey Alternative Therapies

Hans-Peter Duerr Max Planck Inst

Henry Heimlich Heimlich Institute

Jack Houck Boeing Corp

Wayne Jonas Samueli Inst

Joie P. Jones U. California Irvine Konstantin Korotkov St. Petersburg U.

Candace Pert Georgetown U.

Rustum Roy Penn State U.

Marilyn Schlitz Inst of Noetic Sciences

David Simon Chopra Foundation

Gary Schwartz U. of Arizona

George Sudarshan U. Texas

William Tiller Stanford U.

For more information and registration, go to

http://www.wholepersonhealing.com

Email: info@wholepersonhealing.com

2. Quantum Mind 2003: Consciousness, Quantum Physics and the Brain

March 15-19, 2003,

Tucson Convention Center and Leo Rich Theater

The University of Arizona

www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2

Could quantum information be the key to understanding consciousness?

Will the study of consciousness enable quantum information technology?

The nature of consciousness and its place in the universe remain mysterious.

Classical models view consciousness as computation among the brain's neurons

but fail to address its enigmatic features. At the same time quantum processes

(superposition of states, nonlocality, entanglement,) also remain mysterious,

yet are being harnessed in revolutionary information technologies (quantum

computation, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.)

A relation between consciousness and quantum effects has been pondered for

nearly a century, and in the past decades quantum processes in the brain

have been invoked as explanations for consciousness and its enigmatic features.

Critics deride this comparison as a mere "minimization of mysteries" and

quickly point out that the brain is too warm for quantum computation, which

in the technological realm requires extreme cold to avoid "decoherence" (i.e.

the loss of seemingly delicate quantum states by interaction with the

environment.)

However quantum computation would surely be advantageous from an evolutionary

perspective, and biology has had 4 billion years to solve the decoherence

problem and evolve quantum mechanisms. Furthermore, recent experimental evidence

indicates quantum non-locality occurring in conscious and subconscious brain

function, and functional quantum processes in molecular biology are becoming

more and more apparent.

Much like study of the brain's synaptic connections promoted artificial neural

networks in the 1980's, appreciation of biological quantum information

processing may promote quantum information technology. Moreover, macroscopic quantum

processes are being proposed as intrinsic features in cosmology, evolution

and social interactions.

Following the first "Quantum Mind" conference held in Flagstaff at Northern

Arizona University in 1999, "Quantum Mind 2003" will update current status

and future directions, and provide dialog with skeptical criticism of the

proposed synthesis of quantum information science and the brain.

Confirmed speakers include:

Sir Roger Penrose, Paul Benioff, Henry Stapp, Guenter Mahler, Mae Wan Ho,

Paavo Pylkkanen, Harald Walach, Jiri Wackerman, Jack Tuszynski, Dick Bierman,

Koichiro Matsuno, Stuart Hameroff, Nancy Woolf, Scott Hagan, Paola Zizzi,

Alexander Wendt, Jeffrey Satinover, Roeland van Wijk, Guenter Albrecht-Buehler,

Ken Augustyn, Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos, Hartmann Roemer and E. Roy John

Submitted abstracts will be considered for Plenary Talks, Short Talks or

Posters. Deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002.

Topics:

* Quantum models of consciousness

* Quantum information science

* Decoherence, anti-decoherence and topological quantum error correction

* Cosmology and consciousness

* Protein, cytoskeletal and DNA dynamics

* Time: physics and perception

* Nonlocality and entanglement between macro-systems: experimental evidence

* Quantum mind and social science

* Skeptical criticism

For further information including abstract submission, registration and lodging

see www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum-mind2

Sponsored by

Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona;

The Fetzer Institute; The YeTaDeL Foundation;

The Samueli Institute for Information Biology;

School of Computational Science, George Mason University;

Mind Science Foundation

3. 2003 International Conference on Science and Consciousness

April 25 - 30, 2003, Albuquerque Hilton, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

Quantum physics has opened the door to the frontier where science and spirituality meet. Many people are

having experiences that cannot be explained by the old scientific paradigms, and we are called to reconsider

our cultural view of reality. Consequently, there is an increasing openness and curiosity about research in the

exploration of consciousness, from the perspectives of science and spirituality.

The International Conference on Science and Consciousness is a breakthrough forum of vanguard thinkers

from the fields of science and consciousness studies, joining together to inform and inspire all who attend.

Over 40 leading edge presenters include:

Michio Kaku, Ph.D., theoretical physicist, advisor to NASA, author: "Hyperspace: a scientific odyssey

through parallel universes, time warps and the 10th dimension"; "Beyond Einstein"; "Introduction to

superstrings"; "Quantum field theory"; "Quarks, symmetries and strings"

Peter Russell, DCS Computer Science, author, "The brain book"; "Waking up in time"; "The global brain

awakens"; "The consciousness revolution" and others

John Hagelin, PhD Physics, Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy

William Tiller, PhD, professor emeritus, Department of Materials Science, Stanford University; author,

"Science and human transformation: subtle energies, intentionality and consciousness"; "Conscious acts of

creation: the emergence of a new physics"

Ralph Abraham, PhD, editor, International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, author, "Chaos in

discrete dynamical sytems", "The evolutionary mind", "Dynamics - the geometry of behavior", "The chaos

avant-garde" and others

Story Musgrave, MD (NASA Astronaut: "Spaceflight - A Cognitive Psychology of Gravitational Orientation")

Larry Dossey, MD, author, "The Re-Invention of Medicine and Space"; "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"

John DeLuca, PhD, professor and former director, Neuropsychology Lab, Wayne State University School

of Medicine

Craig Webb, cofounder and director, Dreams Foundation, dream and lucid dream researcher, Stanford

University

Amit Goswami, PhD Physics, author "Quantum Mechanics, the self-aware universe: how consciousness

creates the material world"

Stanislav Grof, MD founding president of the International Transpersonal Association, author, "The

holotropic mind", "The cosmic game: explorations of the frontiers of human consciousness" and others

We invite you to expand your personal awareness and participate in the exploration of consciousness from

multiple perspectives.

For more information, contact The Message Company at 505-474-0998, marek@bizspirit.com, or

www.bizspirit.com.

4. International Conference on Biophotons and Biophotonics

October 12-16, 2003

Beijing, China

Organized by the Commission for Photobiophysics, the Biophysical Society of China and the International

Institute of Biophysics

The Scope of the Conference

The Conference will provide a forum for exchanging and discussing the all-important advances in the fields

of Biophoton and the photonics in biomedical science and engineering. The photons from biological system

could be spontaneous chemiluminescence, bioluminescence, fluorescence, and transmitted or scattered light

within or through biological systems. Emphasis will be put on various advances imaging technology, as well as

their scientific bases and biomedical applications. The imaging technology for observing molecular events in

single live cells and the noninvasive imaging and monitoring systems with high optical sensitivity and spatial

resolution will be the hot topics to be discussed. The conference would also provide a good atmosphere

for interaction among physicists, chemists, optical engineers, biologists and medical doctors.

The Program will embrace nine special topics:

1. The physical, chemical and biological properties of biophotons.

2. Diagnostic application of biophotons in Medical, Agricultural and environmental sciences.

3. Physics on photon diffusion, scattering and reflection in biological system.

4. Innovative methods for fluorescence labeling of macromolecules.

5. Clinical application of new optical approaches for Noninvasive diagnosis, localization and treatment of tumors.

6. Optical tomography, such as OCT and Endoscopy.

7. Functional molecular imaging at cellular and subcellular level, especially the application of GFP and other

fluorescence proteins.

8. New optical technology for visualization, measurement, analysis, and manipulation in biomedical science.

9. Other optical imaging technology

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Xun Shen (China)

Co-Chairman: Fritz-Albert Popp (Germany)

Secretary-General: Yaning Liu (China)

Members:

Hanben Niu (China) Liangbi Li (China) Jiin-Ju Chang (China) Jianhua Yang (China) Xiaolin Ynag (China)

Hui Ma (China) Da Xing( China) Qingming Luo (China) L. Beloussov (Russia) R. Van Wijk (Netherlands)

I. Makino (Japan) H. Hiruma (Japan)

Registration

Registration will entitle participants to attend the Scientific Meetings, Welcome Reception, Conference

Banquet, and to receive Conference materials.

Call for Papers/Posters

The participants wishing to attend the Conference and present Oral talk or poster are requested to fill the

appropriate bow in the attached Reply Form and send to Conference secretariat by January 30, 2003. The

deadline for abstract submission will be indicated in the Second Announcement. In order to be preferentially

selected as oral presentation, you are kindly requested to submit your abstract to the Conference Secretariat

before March 15.

For reply and questions:

Reply Form

E-mail: sb@sun5.ibp.ac.cn

Conference Secretariat, Mrs. Shunyi Wei

The Biophysical Society of China

15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100101, China

5. Call for papers--8th international IABC meeting in Greece

From: "Scott Hill

Date: Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:37 pm

From the IABC headquarters in Florida we have received this announcement of the upcoming 8th annual

meeting in Greece. I have previously posted in this forum the program for the 7th int'l conference in Helsingør,

Denmark, plus several supplementary reports on the EChT cancer therapy, Dr. Nordenstrøms work, and other

EM experimental therapy techniques. Please search the archives of "bioelectromagnetics" (under yahoogroups)

if you have not seen these articles.

Please send your abstracts and articles directly to the IABC, and not to us! However, we will be willing to

help European, Asian and African/South American authors who are weak in technical English to

help restructure their papers in English, and I hope that this time, we will be able to make the proceedings

available in electronic form.

Scott Hill

bioelectromagnetics group

Frontier Sciences European Network

info@frontiersciences.zzn.com

http://zap.to/frontiersciences

THE 8TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE IABC

Sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICALLY CLOSED

ELECTRIC CIRCUITS IN BIOMEDICINE

in cooperation with the Laboratory of Medical Physics of the Medical School, and Department of

Nuclear Technology of the Polytechnic School, Democritus University of Thrace; Alexandroupolis and

Xanthi Campuses

When: September 19 - 22, 2003

Where: Thraki Palace Hotel Alexandroupolis, Greece

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Symposium President: Professor Photios Anninos

Vice President Professor Nikolaos Tsagas

Vice President Dr. Adam Adamoupolis

Dr. Athanasia Kotini

Corresponding Secretary: Ms. Ionela Tranca

Dear IABC Associates and Friends,

The forthcoming IABC Symposium promises to be of vital interest to an ever widening group of attendees.

We anticipate a variety of alternative medical presentations from many parts of the globe, but

our primary focus will be on electrical and/or electromagnetically based medical innovations helpful particularly

to oncologists, ophthalmologists, and neurologists.

CANCER and EchT (Direct Current)

Oncologists attending their first IABC symposium can benefit from the fifteen years of experience our 300

Chinese associates have had with the application of electrochemical therapy (EchT) to many types of

cancer as well as hemangioma. Today literally thousands of cancer patients have been treated with EchT,

and the success rates achieved have been far higher than any reported in western medicine. Led by

Professor Xin Yu-Ling, EchT is now being taught to physicians in South Korea and other countries on the

Pacific Rim. EchT is also being used successfully at Klinik St. Georg, Bad Aibling, Germany and

in several other European clinics. Professor Bjorn E. W. Nordenstrøm discovered EchT and introduced

this technique to China in 1987 where it has now become fully accepted by the Chinese Medical Association.

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (Micro currents)

The leading cause of blindness in persons over the age of 65 is now being effectively treated by means of

micro currents of electricity. Several leading American researchers now preparing to introduce this

therapy into the medical mainstream will be offering presentations. In 1997 U.S. Golfing legend, the late

Sam Snead, was treated with MCS (micro current stimulation) and over a period of four days his vision

in the better eye improved from 20/100 to 20/30. This improvement is atypically high, but in the great majority

of ARMD cases there is either some improvement or a halt in the progressive degeneration.

MCS has also been proven efficacious in the treatment of retinitus pigmentosa.

We look forward to learning of the recent progress made applying MCS not only to vision problems, but

also to neuromuscular and other medical problems.

NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS (Weak Magnetic Fields)

Professors Photios Anninos, Nikolaos Tsagas, and their associates have been making medical history with the

application of weak magnetic fields to an array of medical disorders. For more than a decade Parkinson’s

Disease and epilepsy have been very successfully treated with extremely weak magnetic fields. Other

neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s Disease, and multiple sclerosis have also responded,

but not as remarkably as has PD or epilepsy.

More recently weak magnetic fields have been successfully applied in the treatment of schizophrenia, autism,

and infertility. The limits of efficacy for this treatment have not yet been determined.

Our symposium president, Professor Anninos, will be pleased to share information on the numerous medical

achievements made by the department of medical physics.

Attendees will visit the department laboratory housed in the new University Hospital, the largest hospital in

the Balkans.

The Symposium Challenge

Physicians, but especially neurologists who wish to attend the symposium are invited to bring with them one

or two Parkinson’s patients from their country of origin. The PD patients must be ambulatory, and otherwise

in good health. The patients will be evaluated and treated during the course of the symposium.

A maximum of ten patients will be accepted for evaluation and treatment. For more information, please contact

Carl F. Firley, medical coordinator for "The Symposium Challenge."

Attendees can inspect the superconducting quantum interference device (or SQUID) and see for themselves

how the SQUID is used to evaluate the patient and thereafter, how weak magnetic fields

are applied in treating the patients.

If ten patients are involved, we predict that from 5 to 8 of the patients will clearly show improvement over

the duration of the symposium.

First Call for Papers

Complete information regarding the symposium will be sent to you shortly. This announcement is being

made in order to inform you of the symposium dates, and in the hope that you will reserve time for

the symposium on your calendar.

In Appreciation

The pioneering BCEC research of IABC founder Professor Bjørn E. W. Nordenstrøm ties these diverse

therapies together. It is with our profound gratitude to him and his associates at the Karolinska

Institut in Stockholm, Sweden, that we recognize the monumental contribution to medical science made

possible by Professor Nordenstrøm’s work.

Carl F. Firley

IABC Vice President and Secretary General

4976 SW Bimini Circle S.

Palm City, Florida 34990 U.S.A.

Phone: 772 283 2180 Fax: 772 283 9943

email: iabc@adelphia.net

6. Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies Conference

The Third European Energy Psychology & Energy Therapies conference will take place from

August 8 - 10 2003, in Brighton, the UKs premier city by the sea.

Proposals are being invited now - if you would like to join us for this extraordinary weekend

of friendship, learning, the exchange of ideas at the cutting edge of the field, and to experience

the depth of healing that is the unique feature of the revolutionary new Energy Psychology &

Energy Therapies approaches, please send your proposal immediately.

Click HERE for full instructions on how to submit.

7. CASYS '03: Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

Liège, Belgium, August 11-16, 2003

HEC· LIEGE, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Business School, 14 Rue Louvrex, B-4000 Liège

ORGANIZER: CHAOS, Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems,

asbl CHAOS, Institut de Mathématique, B37, Université de Liège,

Grande Traverse 12, B-4000 LIEGE 1, Belgium.

Tel. : + 32 (0)4 366 00 28 Fax: + 32 (0)4 366 94 89 E-mail: Daniel.Dubois@ulg.ac.be

CHAOS is a Member of IFSR, The International Federation for Systems Research

President: Daniel M. Dubois (Belgium)

Vice-President: Robert Vallée (France)

SPONSORS:

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS),

Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Hôtel de Ville de Liège,

Echevinat de la Culture, des Musées et du Tourisme de la Ville de Liège, HEC·

Liège, Euro View Services SA.

SPONSORSHIPS:

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC),

Systems Science European Union - Union Européenne de Systémique (UES),

Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS)

SCOPE of CASYS'03

The scope of CASYS'03 will be oriented to theoretical developments and applications in the

modelling and computing of anticipatory systems in any fields of natural and artificial systems.

A computing anticipatory system is a system which computes its current states in taking into

account its past and present states but also its potential future states.

Strong anticipation refers to an anticipation of events built by or embedded in a system.

Weak anticipation refers to an anticipation of events predicted or forecasted from a model of a system.

A class of computing anticipatory systems deals with the differential difference equation with

retardation and anticipation dx(t)/dt = F(x(t), x(t - tr), x(t + ta)), where t is the current time, tr a

delayed time and ta an advanced time, is a strong anticipatory system.

Another class of computing anticipatory systems deals with discrete incursive and hyperincursive

equations. An incursive equation is an inclusive or implicit recursive equation such as, for example,

x(t+1) := F(x(t), x*(t+1)), where each iterate x(t+1) is computed at each time step t = 1,2,3,... from a

function F of x(t) and x*(t+1), where x*(t+1) is the anticipation of x(t) at the next time step t + 1,

computed from the system itself or from a model. A hyperincursive equation is an incursive equation

which generates multiple iterates at each computing step.

References:

Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International

Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference

Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.

Copyright (2000) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in (Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and

Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory

Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by

The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.) and may be found at (http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/517.jsp).

Daniel M. Dubois, Theory of Incursive Synchronization and Application to the Anticipation of a Chaotic Epidemic. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, volume 10, pp. 3-18, 2001.

ISSN 1373-5411, ISBN 2-9600262-3-3. Published by asbl CHAOS, Belgium.

Copyright (2001) CHAOS asbl. This paper may be downloaded for personal use only.

Any other use requires prior permission of the author and CHAOS asbl.

CALL FOR PAPER CASYS'03

Potential authors are invited to submit a paper, related to the topics detailed below,

for presentation at CASYS'03.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR THE FULL DRAFT PAPER: APRIL 30, 2003.

Notification of acceptance of the paper to be published in the proceedings: 1 month after receiving

the draft paper.

Final paper will be due on October 2003, after the conference.

Tentative Topics :

Anticipatory systems, Strong and Weak anticipation, Incursive and Hyperincursive Systems,

Systems with retardation and anticipation, Differential difference equation systems, Anticipatory synchronization, Self-referential Systems, Cybernetics, feedback, feedforward, General systems,

Predicting and Forecasting systems, Holistic Systems and Reductionism, Epistemology,

Mathematical systems, Differential systems, Discrete systems, Differential functional equations,

Delayed, Advanced, Neutral, Mixed equations, Dynamical systems, Chaos Theory, Fractal maps,

Category Theory, Catastrophe Theory,

Modelling of systems, Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of systems,

Physical systems, Fluid mechanics, Wave equations, Advanced-retarded waves, Electromagnetism, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, Quantum Mechanics, E.P.R. Non-locality, Aharanov-Bohm potential,

Computing Quantum systems, Relativity, Berry's phase, Faster than light, Tachyons, Gravitation,

Computing systems, Automata, Networks (web), Recursive Systems, Software and Hardware, User

modeling, agent-based systems, evolutionary and adaptive computation, Algorithms for simulation,

implicit algorithms, predictor-corrector algorithms, Crisp and Soft Computing, Logical systems, Fuzzy

logic, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational intelligence, Artificial Intelligence,

Artificial Language, Music, Image, Artificial Life,

Cognitive systems, Neuronal brain, Neuro-psychanalysis, Psychology, Intention, Free will, Mind and Consciousness,

Biological systems, Ecosystems, development, evolution, adaptation, emergence,

Economical and Social systems, Management, Decision-making, Planning, Discrete event dynamic

systems, Information Systems, Operation research, Statistics, Probability theory, mono- and

multi-criteria analysis,

Engineering systems, Control Theory, Predictive and adaptive control, Robotics, Multi-agents,

manufactoring systems, Aesthetics and Architecture.

PRE-REGISTRATION AT CASYS'03 : CLICK HERE

All participants and authors of papers are asked to register to the conference CASYS'03 in filling

this form:

REGISTRATION FORM ON LINE: CLICK HERE

LOCATION OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be held at

HEC - LIEGE Business School,

rue Louvrex, 14, B-4000 Liège, Belgium - http://www.hec.be/

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS AND RESEARCH LABS

1.NIH Human Frontier Science Program

http://www.hfsp.org/

The aim of the HFSP is to support basic research focused on complex

mechanisms of living organisms; fields supported range from brain functions to biological functions at the molecular level. Particular emphasis is now placed on bringing scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering together with biologists to open up new approaches to understanding complex biological systems.

HFSP previously supported 2 scientific programs focused on neuroscience and molecular biology. With the dissolving of boundaries separating traditional biological fields, and the need to involve disciplines outside biology in life science research, these separate programs have been unified into asingle scientific program by the HFSP Board of Trustees. Henceforth, a single committee will review all grant applications, while a second committee will review all long-term fellowship applications. Both committees are composed of leading international scientists.

Research Grants are awarded for projects that involve extensive collaboration among teams of scientists working in different countries. Emphasis is on novel collaborations that bring together scientists from different disciplines.

more details

Fellowships are available to scientists who wish to work in foreign laboratories, with emphasis on individuals early in their careers.

more details

2. National Science Foundation: "Crosscutting Interdisciplinary Programs" and

"Physics Frontiers Centers"

www.nsf.org

www.nsf.gov/mps/divisions/phy/about/c_facilities.htm

3. Foundation for the Future: "Future of Humanity Research Programs"

www.futurefoundation.org

www.futurefoundation.org/grants/grant_categories.html

4. California Institute for Human Science

www.cihs.edu/whatsnew/research.asp

5. James S. McDonnell Foundation: "21st Century Science Initiative"

www.jsmf.org

www.jsmf.org/pages/programs/21stCenturyScience.htm

6. Fetzer Institute

www.fetzer.org

7. Burroughs Wellcome Fund: "Interfaces in Science"

www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/index.html

8. Research Corporation: Special Opportunities in Science Awards

www.rescorp.org

www.rescorp.org/sos.htm

9. The Arlington Institute

http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/

10. Samueli Institute

http://www.siib.org/

11. John Templeton Foundation

www.templeton.org

12. Samueli Institute

http://www.siib.org/

13. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

www.sloan.org

14. The Mind Science Foundation

http://www.mindscience.org/index.html

15. Institute of Noetic Sciences

URL: http://www.noetic.org

16. International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS)

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/islis/

17. International Institute of Biophysics

URL: http://www.datadiwan.de/iib/ib_000e_.htm

18. Laboratories for Fundamental Research

http://www.lfr.org

19. Consciousness Research Laboratory

URL: http://www.psiresearch.org

20. Boundary Institute

www.boundaryinstitute.org

21. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/index.html

22. The Global Consciousness Project

http://noosphere.princeton.edu

23. Rhine Research Center

www.rhine.org

24. University of Utrecht Parapsychology Laboratory

http://www.psy.uva.nl/resedu/pn/res/ANOMALOUSCOGNITION/anomal.shtml

25. The RetroPsychoKinesis Project

URL: http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/proposal.html

26. NIH: DEVELOPMENTAL /PILOT PROJECTS IN CANCER COMPLEMENTARY

AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)

This Program Announcement expires on October 22, 2003, unless reissued. Release Date: December 17, 2001 PA NUMBER: PAR-02-040 National Cancer Institute (http://cancer.gov/) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (http://nccam.nih.gov/) PURPOSE The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) invite research grant applications from interested investigators to conduct innovative developmental pilot research investigating Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in cancer. The intent of this initiative is to encourage and support the development of basic and clinical CAM cancer research and to provide the basis for more extended research projects by establishing the methodological feasibility and strengthening the scientific rationale for these projects. This announcement is also intended to stimulate and facilitate the entry of promising investigators into cancer CAM research through a program of exploratory investigator-initiated R21 grants. The exploratory/developmental (R21) grant mechanism is used for pilot projects or feasibility studies to support the exploration of feasibility, as well as the development, of projects investigating CAM in cancer and for the generation of preliminary data. The R21 mechanism is specifically intended to support innovative ideas where preliminary data are sparse or do not exist. The R21 supported projects are intended to serve as a foundation for planning and developing future research projects (R01s). The objective of this Program Announcement (PA) is to encourage applications from individuals who are interested in testing novel or conceptually creative ideas that may produce innovative advances in the understanding and use of CAM in cancer. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES [...]

There is a paucity of R01 funded research grants in the field of cancer CAM. Therefore, to increase the number and quality of investigator-initiated R01 research grants on cancer CAM, the NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine and NCCAM developed this PA for Developmental/Pilot Projects in Cancer CAM. Applications will undergo competitive review organized by the NCCAM in collaboration with the NCI. The intent of this initiative is to encourage and support the development of basic, and clinical (prevention, therapeutic and palliative) CAM cancer research. Another goal of this initiative is to facilitate communication and collaboration between the CAM practitioner and the conventional cancer research communities. For the purpose of this PA, applicants must include modalities from the following broad program areas in CAM: Alternative Medical Systems (e.g., oriental medicine, Ayurvedic, homeopathy, naturopathy); Manipulative and Body-based Systems (e.g., chiropractic, osteopathic, massage therapy or unconventional applications of integrated conventional and physical therapies); Energy Therapies. These approaches focus either on energy fields purported to originate within or be conducted through the body (e.g., external qi gong, therapeutic touch, Reiki, intentional effects on living systems); or those from other sources [e.g., therapeutic application of electromagnetic (EM) fields including pulsed EM fields, magnetic fields, Direct Current (DC) fields]. Pharmacological or Biologically based Therapies (e.g., metabolic therapies and immunoaugmentative therapies as used by CAM practitioners or the public such as Coley's toxin, Enzyme therapies, the Livingston-Wheeler system, the Revici system, or 714-X ) Herbal Medicine (Note: This category includes studies of whole plant products or extracts and does not include the study or isolation of active ingredients from herbal preparations except where identification and standardization of optimal whole product are the specific aim -- e.g. optimal ratio of glycosides and terpenoids in Ginkgo biloba -- or comparisons are being made to the whole product); Orthomolecular Medicine - This category includes the use of nutritional and food supplements, Co-enzyme Q10, carnitine, melatonin, vitamins) for therapeutic or preventive purposes. These products are usually used in combinations and at very high doses (5-10 fold) well above the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) when such RDAs have been defined. Mind-Body Medicine: Concept proposals in this category will be considered only if they are limited to those mind-body approaches that are used by the public or practitioners outside of a conventional medicine setting (e.g., transcendental meditation, imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, music therapy, yoga, relaxation, spirituality, biological effects of consciousness). Mind-body approaches that are relatively integrated into conventional medicine (e.g., patient education, psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, etc.) will NOT be considered unless physiologic endpoints (e.g., immune parameters) or disease parameters (response rate to conventional therapy, disease-free survival, overall survival) are the primary outcome measures; Applications may also focus on interactions between these modalities and non-CAM cancer treatment and therapies (e.g. Drug Interactions: studies to evaluate the potential interaction of antioxidant compounds and conventional chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applications may be submitted by foreign and domestic, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, laboratories, units of State and local governments, and eligible agencies of the Federal government. Racial/ethnic minority individuals, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply as principal investigators. Direct inquiries regarding programmatic issues to: Wendy B. Smith, Ph.D. Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Cancer Institute Executive Plaza North 6130 Executive Blvd Suite #102, MSC 7302 Bethesda, MD 20892-7302 Telephone: (301) 435-7980 FAX: (301) 480-0075 Email: smithwe@mail.nih.gov Mary Ann Richardson, DrPH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 102 Bethesda, MD 20892-5475 Telephone: (301) 402-1272 FAX: (301) 480-3621 Email: marich@mail.nih.gov

RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Looking for Partners in Promotion of Innovation

Any company, academic institution or university in Europe, USA,

Canada or Japan

The basically new Hierarchic Theory of Matter and Field has been elaborated and quantitatively verified on examples of water and ice by computer simulations. Corresponding computer program (copyright 1997, Kaivarainen): "Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP)" makes it possible to evaluate about

300 physical parameters of any liquid and solid. The idea of new optoacoustic device with similar name -

CAMP, described below, is based on Hierarchic theory and computer program.

The market for Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP) is free and due to its unique

informational potential could be even bigger than that for IR, Raman or Brillouin spectrometers.

I propose to my potential partner collaboration in building of CAMP prototype,

its patenting, manufacturing and marketing

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYZER OF MATTER PROPERTIES (CAMP)

by: Alex Kaivarainen

H2o@karelia.ru

http://www.karelia.ru/~alexk

The new physical device named: Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP) with novel and wide possibilities for fundamental study of condensed matter (liquid and solid), monitoring of different process in pharmaceutics, beverage and paper technology, chemical and polymer technology, biotechnology and

technology of real materials has been proposed. This device is based on the new Hierarchic Theory of Matter

and related computer program (CAMP)", developed by A. Kaivarainen (copyright 1997).

Theory has been published in my books:

- "Mesoscopic theory of condensed matter and its interaction with light", University of Turku, Finland, 1992;

- "Hierarchic Concept of Matter and Field. Water, biosystems and elementary particles", New York , 1995.

Corresponding series of articles is presented at the web site and are available on-line:

http://www.karelia.ru/~alexk[New articles] and at the Archives of Los-Alamos:

http://arXiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Kaivarainen/0/1/0/all/0/1

The results of calculations of lot of parameters for water and ice, using our computer program (CAMP), are

very close to available experimental data. This fact confirms the correctness of new theory.

Quantum Hierarchic theory is a first one general for liquids and solids. Our theory unify and extends strongly

the Einstein and Debye models. It considers the condensed matter as a "gas" of different kinds of three-dimensional (3D) standing waves:

- de Broglie waves, related to molecular translations (tr) and librations (lb);

- IR photons, corresponding to intermolecular (tr) and (lb) modes;

- thermal phonons.

The hierarchical model, describing virtually all the properties of condensed matter, is a result of superposition

of four new basic types of quasiparticles (collective excitations): Effectons, Convertons, Transitons and

Deformons, which are strongly interrelated with each other.

EFFECTONS are three-dimensional (3D) superposition of standing de Broglie waves of molecules or ions,

related to their translations and librations. The thermal in-phase (acoustic, a) or counter phase (optic, b)

oscillations of particles in the volume of effectons are coherent. In general case the EFFECTONS represent coherent clusters, resulted from high temperature molecular Bose condensation, as it shown in our computer simulations;

CONVERTONS [tr/lb] are responsible for interconversions between translational and librational types of the effectons;

TRANSITONS are related with (a - b) quantum transitions - quantum beats between acoustic and optic anharmonic modes of the effectons. They can radiate and absorb coherent IR photons or thermal

phonons;

DEFORMONS: primary (electromagnetic) and secondary (acoustic) represent a 3D superposition -

interception of standing photons and phonons, correspondingly, radiated by TRANSITONS.

All possible combinations of the above listed four basic excitations lead to HIERARCHIC SYSTEM of 4!=24 quasiparticles, making it possible the comprehensive quantitative description of any kind of condensed matter.

Hierarchic theory is quantitatively confirmed already on the examples of water and ice in books, mentioned above. It is a new convenient bridge for unification of Micro - and Macro - Word in terms of quantum physics, making it possible to get a qualitatively and quantitatively new information about liquids and solids.

The set of formulae obtained in our theory allows to calculate about 300 parameters of any condensed matter. Most of them are hidden, i.e. inaccessible for direct experimental measurements.

Simulations evaluation of these parameters can be done using our computer program: CAMP (copyright

1997, Kaivarainen) and the following

experimental methods:

1. Far/middle IR spectroscopy for determination the positions of translational or librational bands: (30-2500) cm-1;

2. Sound velocimetry;

3.Dilatometry, for molar volume or density registration;

4.Refractometry.

These data should be obtained simultaneously at the same temperature and pressure from the SAME

SAMPLE in ideal case. Among the parameters of matter evaluated are so important as: internal energy, heat capacity, thermal conductivity, viscosity, coefficient of self-diffusion, surface tension, solvent activity, vapor pressure, internal pressure, parameters of all types of quasiparticles (concentration, volume, dimensions, energy, probability of excitation, life-time) and many others.

The combination of equipment listed above (1-4) in one unit (CAMP) - makes it possible to conduct such

kind of measurements and corresponding computer simulations.

The most complicated and expensive component of CAMP is FT-IR spectrometer for far and middle region.

The most sensitive parameter is sound velocity. The less sensitive and stable parameter is molar volume or density.

One of possible CAMP configuration should include special attachment to FT-IR spectrometer, making it possible the simultaneous registration of reflection spectra in far/middle IR region and refraction index. Such approach allows to study the properties of samples with strong IR absorption (i.e. aqueous systems) and non transparent mediums.

The combination of such modified FT-IR spectrometer with another device for simultaneous measurement of matter density and sound velocity will provide 4 parameters, listed above, to run our computer (copyright,

1997, Kaivarainen).

The sample cell for liquids and solids should have a shape, allowing to make all these measurements simultaneously. The interface of CAMP's registration techniques with personal computer makes it possible a monitoring of very different dynamic physical process in real time.

The another configuration of CAMP may include as a basic device the Brillouin light scattering spectrometer. It makes possible simultaneous measurement of sound velocity (from the Doppler shift of side bands of Brillouin spectra) and positions of intermolecular bands [tr and lb] in oscillatory spectra in the far IR. Our hierarchic

theory of Brillouin light scattering gives much more information about condensed matter properties than conventional one.

Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP) represents a basically new type of scientific

equipment, allowing to get incomparable big amount of information concerning physics of liquids or solids. It

can be very useful for fundamental study of dynamics, thermodynamics and mesoscopic structure of pure

matter, solid and liquid solutions, the colloid systems and host-guest systems.

CAMP may be very useful for monitoring of physical parameters of drinking water, drug solutions, pulp in

paper technology. In biotechnology CAMP can be used for elucidation of mechanism of the antifreeze and ice nucleation proteins action on water dynamic structure and thermodynamics.

In biophysics CAMP may provide the crucial information about the role of water in biosystems, water

mediated distant interactions between biopolimers in a course of their conformational change.

Study of influence of electromagnetic and acoustic fields on aqueous systems and water - dependent process is possible using CAMP. The monitoring of crystal growth and new materials production is possible also.

CAMP allows to get very detailed information about following processes: temperature and pressure induced

first and second order phase transitions, self-organization in water-polymer and biological systems, liquid crystals, perturbations of matter stimulated by external physical fields, etc.

Such complicated phenomena as the turbulence, superfluity and superconductivity can be quantitatively analyzed and elucidated. CAMP can be used also for understanding the mechanism of turbulence and ways of its regulation by physical fields. It's a matter of big scientific and practical importance. For this end a special cuvette with circulating liquid can be constructed.

CAMP will be useful in a lot of research laboratories, studying condensed matter physics as well as in INDUSTRY of chemical technology and nanotechnology, for monitoring the processes of crystallization, polymerization, chemical reactions and the final properties of real materials.

Configuration of CAMP, based on micro IR-spectroscopy or confocal Brillouin microspectrometry could allow thecomprehensive analysis of matter properties in microvolumes.

Demonstrational version of CAMP computer program is located at URL: http://www.karelia.ru/~alexk/demo.zip

Theoretical background is presented in series of papers at Archive of Los-Alamos:

http://arXiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Kaivarainen/0/1/0/all/0/1

The market for Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP) is free and due to its unique informational potential could be much bigger than that for IR, Raman or Brillouin spectrometers.

Searching for optimal configuration ofComprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP).

Evaluation of CAMP-project expenses and CAMP applications

By:Alex Kaivarainen

During preliminary investigation of CAMP-project, the following tasks have been accomplished:

-The number of International companies, producing equipment, which could be used for Comprehensive Analyzer of Matter Properties (CAMP) assembly, has been contacted;

-After getting the information requested, the optimal configuration of CAMP was chosen. It is presented in form of block-scheme below.