The concept of multiple murders (mm) is as old as humanity itself but it has only become prevalent in academic thought within the last three decades. Over this period scholars have introduced two main attitudes regarding multiple murders. Some argue that multiple murders are, theoretically and empirically, one concept that includes different sub-types: mass murder, spree murder, and serial murd...

This chapter describes an experimental computer program that deduces the meaning of novel verbs from the context of story descriptions. The key idea is a variation on Winston's (Winston, 1975) program that learned the structural descriptions of block world scenes. Instead of learning descriptions of toy block assemblies like ARCH and TOWER, the word-learning program acquires frame-based descrip...

With neuroimmunology playing an ever greater role in child neurology, paraneoplastic syndromes--uncommon but often devastating complications of cancer--are in the forefront. Abnormalities of both humoral and cellular immunity support the immunological theory of causation. Through co-complicity of host and tumor factors, targets of immunologically mediated injury remote from the tumor may be dam...