Listen to your drummer.

Child sexual abuse. What parents need to know.

1. Talking to your child before an assault happens is the best prevention: • Children are best protected by giving them the knowledge and skills necessary for their safety. • Let your child know that safety rules apply to all adults including family members. • Encourage your child to tell someone about secrets that are making her/him feel bad. • Let your child know that you are available to tal...

A Jazz Session System for Interplay Among All Players - VirJa Session (Virtual Jazz Session System)

This paper presents a jazz session system in which each player is independent and can interplay with all other players. In most previous systems, computer players only reacted to human player’s performance with a fixed leader-follower relationship. Our system enables computer players to listen to other computer players’ performances as well as human’s performance and to interact with each other...

Listen to Your Data: Econometric Model Specification through Sonification

Imitating the Groove: Making Drum Machines more Human

Current music production software allows rapid programming of drum patterns, but programmed patterns often lack the groove that a human drummer will provide, both in terms of being rhythmically too rigid and having no variation for longer periods of time. We have implemented an artificial software drummer that learns drum patterns by extracting user specific variations played by a human drummer...

Stimulants for paediatricians.

D oes your paediatrician have difficulty concentrating during lectures, particularly those on molecular biology and healthcare planning? When taking a history, does your paediatrician not listen properly and keep asking the same questions? Is your paediatrician too busy to spend any time with his or her own children? These are all signs of ADHD(P), a newly described phenotype of attention defic...