Murder on the Dancefloor

Murder on the Internet

In this article we describe the design and testing process that resulted in the production of Un Meurtre à Cinet and Un Misterio en Toluca, two role-playing applications which ask students of French and Spanish to collaborate to solve a murder mystery using e-mail, a listserv, and a culturally rich web site. Using our own pedagogical philosophy and our own production experience as guides, we al...

Audio Resynthesis on the Dancefloor: A Music Structural Approach

This technical report improves and extends existing methods in the research area of audio resynthesis and retargeting and extends its usage scopes. The existing approach analyzes a musical piece for possible cut points that allow the resynthesis of a novel soundtrack by lining up the source segments according to specified rules. For the improvement of matching harmonic and rhythmic structures d...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Murder and the ICU.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a place of technology, unusual drug formularies and rapid decisionmaking, all designed to help critically ill patients get better. However, these same factors can create an environment where a healthcare worker might systematically harm a patient without fear of detection or punishment. Such allegations are difficult to substantiate because evidence is so diffic...

Mass murder: the Wagner case.