"INQUESTS IN ROYAL PALACES."

Virtual Memory Palaces: Immersion aids Recall

Virtual reality displays, such as head-mounted displays (HMD) afford us a superior spatial awareness by leveraging our vestibular and proprioceptive senses. Since the classical times, people have used memory palaces as a spatial mnemonic to help remember information by organizing it spatially in an environment and associating it with salient features in that environment. In this paper, we explo...

Inquests into London and Middlesex Homicides, 1675-1782

Depositions for coroners' inquests on 377 deaths, nearly all of them homicides, were reviewed and analyzed for reported causes and circumstances of death. The role of coroner and surgeon and the emergence of the medicolegal autopsy are considered.

From Palaces to Yurts: Why Requirements Engineering Needs Design Thinking

T he German saying " von Palästen zu Zelten " compares different systems to different levels of flexibility and agility — that is, " from palaces to yurts. " Requirements engineering systems are geared for developing information system palaces and aren't what's needed for today's world of rapidly changing, app-enabled products. These Web and mobile apps are small, require rapid development, mus...

Royal women in Seleucid period

Getting away with murder? The suppression of coroners' inquests in early Victorian England and Wales.

Coroners’ records and newspaper reports of inquests are essential sources for local studies of homicide, suicide or fatal accidents, but in some parts of the country violent deaths that occurred in the 1840s and 1850s may be significantly under-recorded in this material. Historian and barrister J.D.J. Havard drew attention to the actions taken in this period by the magistrates of several counti...