Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates

Marin Advocates for Transit

Marin Advocates for Transit is very supportive of MTC's mission of regional coordination, and well recognizes the importance of this task. In furtherance of that mission, we offer the following comments on the draft Regional Transportation Plan EIR. We hope that these comments will help focus the RTP and its EIR on a full range of policy options to optimize the environmental and social conditio...

Pharmacology – Prep Manual for Undergraduates

Forensic Corpora : A Challenge for Forensic Research

Research in the field of computer forensics is hobbled by the lack of realistic data. Academics are not developing automated techniques and tools because they lack the raw data necessary to develop and validate algorithms. Investigators that have access to real data operate under legal and practical restraints that prevent the data from being used in research. To make progress, we must “prime t...

Preparing for TreeTorika: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Mao’s oratory

This paper examines computer-assisted analysis techniques in extracting musical features from a recording of a speech by Mao Zedong. The data was used to prepare compositional material such as global form, melody, harmony and rhythm for TreeTorika for chamber orchestra. The text focuses on large-scale segmentation, melody transcription, quantification and quantization. It touches upon orchestra...

The Ten Commandments for Advocates: How Advocates Can Improve the Labor Arbitration Process

First, I want you to know that the exact title of this afternoon's subject was chosen not by me, but by the Program Committee Chair. I mention that because the first half of the title is delusive. It asserts that 10 is the sacred number of commandments for advocates and suggests that I am qualified to play God. There is also a satanic touch to putting this topic on the program at all, since the...