Parker cautions that the monkeys were free to move their hands during the study, which may have activated the AIP region somewhat as well, but he found the experiments persuasive nonetheless: "If this research holds up, it will cause me to change my views on depth perception".
While physicists who were present at the often contentious session found the Stanford experiment persuasive, they say it does not definitively rule out the possibility that the competing group, based at the University of Rome, has made what would rank among the most important of all discoveries in cosmology and physics if true.
In order to minimize the detrimental influences of adhesion layer and still can identify molecular species, our experiments provided a persuasive evidence that thinner adhesive layer was more favorable to the SERS enhancement factor, we suggested that an appropriate thickness of the Ti adhesive layer below 5 nm; however, Cr should be used below 2 nm.
But some of these experiments are less than persuasive.
This small, local experiment is not all that persuasive by itself.
Boron deprivation experiments with humans have yielded some persuasive findings for the hypothesis that boron is an essential nutrient.
The fly-in was an experiment meant to test not only his persuasive powers, but also, more vitally, his intuition that his isolated listeners might constitute an invisible tribe.
Dr. Hauser is a fluent and persuasive writer, and his undoing seems to have been his experiments, many of which depended on videotaping cotton-topped tamarin monkeys and noting their responses.
As with many worthy experiments, the results are mixed; some sections are vividly persuasive, others cursory or too speculative.
It is a remarkable experiment in form by a stylish writer, a persuasive and inspiring work that pays close attention to sources but takes the imaginative freedom to suggest what the poet's inner world might have been like.
