The slaves' chorus in Petronius

A chorus learning support system using the chorus leader's expertise

The purpose of this study is to explore a chorus learning support environment based on the tutoring knowledge of the chorus leader. In general chorus practice, a chorus leader tends to instruct his chorus members based not on score information, but on a chorus leader's sense of value and/or his musical philosophy. We try to extract the tutoring knowledge necessary to evaluate/review a singing v...

MC generators in CHORUS

CHORUS is an experiment primarily designed to search for νμ → ντ oscillations in the CERN wide-band neutrino beam. It also aims to investigate a wide range of charm physics. In four years of exposure, more than 10 neutrino interactions have been accumulated in the emulsion target, out of which several thousands lead to the production of a charmed particle. Using its massive calorimeter as a tar...

slaves and households in the near east

Slaves to medicine.

In a provocative new book, 1 George Beauchamp, MD, claims that physicians are “slaves to medicine.” He explains that this is partly because “when most people go to see a doctor, both the services the doctor provides and the fees that insurance companies allow him to charge are largely predetermined by parties other than the patients and doctors.” Most patients, in turn, feel completely powerles...

Masters change, slaves remain.

Sex determination offers an opportunity to address many classic questions of developmental biology. In addition, because sex determination evolves rapidly, it offers an opportunity to investigate the evolution of genetic hierarchies. Sex determination in Drosophila melanogaster is controlled by the master regulatory gene, Sex lethal (Sxl). DmSxl controls the alternative splicing of a downstream...