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  • abbreviation especially

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  • Extrasensory perception, coined by researcher J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance. In 1940, Rhine, J.G. Pratt, and others at Duke authored a review of all card-guessing experiments conducted internationally since 1882. "Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years" has become recognised as the first meta-analysis in science.

    October 12, 2008

  • In e-mail marketing, e-mail service provider.

    March 27, 2009