So far, I have argued for scrutability from PQT I and from its stripped-down cousin PQT I−, construed to include microphysical and phenomenal truths, a totality claim, and indexical truths. But if this is a scrutability base, it is almost certainly not a minimal scrutability base. Microphysical truths may well be scrutable from truths characterizing a network of entities in causal or nomic term...

The Eternal system is a CORBA 2.0-compliant system that provides, in addition to the location transparency and the interoperability inherent in the CORBA standard, support for replicated objects and thus fault tolerance. Eternal exploits the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) interface to ‘‘attach’’ itself transparently to objects operating over a commercial CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB). T...

The performance of music usually involves a great deal of interpretation by the musician. In classical music, the final ritardando is a good example of the expressive aspect of music performance. Even though expressive timing data is expected to have a strong component that is determined by the piece itself, in this paper we investigate to what degree individual performance style has an effect ...