This article looks at the relationship between Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès, and Dame Ethel Smyth how their knowledge of one another’s place in history informs our understanding compositional output. The canonic significance attributed to Schumann idea “the first woman compose large symphonic works” will be discussed relation modern writings on female canons creative writing. In addition, thi...

An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a targeted attack against a high-value asset or a physical system. Drawing from analogies in the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we illustrate potential strategies of deception and evasion available in this setting, and caution against overly narrow characterization of APTs.

In “Truth in Fiction,” David Lewis raises four objections to a Meinongian semantics of fiction. Lewis does not deny that a Meinongian logic of fiction could be made to work, but identifies disadvantages in Meinongian semantics as a reason for recommending his own possible worlds alternative. A Meinongian semantics proposes to explain meaning without ontological prejudice. It analyzes the meanin...

We will prove the presence of chaotic motion in the Lorenz five-component atmospheric system model using the Melnikov function method developed by Holmes and Marsden for Hamiltonian systems on Lie Groups.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 02.20.Sv; 02.30.Hg; 02.40.-k; 92.60.-e

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle contains many incidents of medical interest. While disorders of the cardiovascular system do not play an important role in these tales, there are, nevertheless, some illnesses that invite speculation. Eleven such incidents are reviewed and discussed in light of the times in which they occurred and in light of current medical knowledge.

"IA7E can truly say that Sherlock Holmes lived * * in Baker Street, and that he liked to show off his mental powers. We cannot truly say that he was a devoted family man, or that he worked in close cooperation with the police. It would be nice if we could take such descrip? tions of fictional characters at their face value, ascribing to them the same subject-predicate form as parallel descripti...

* The current article is dedicated to the memory of Carmel Staunton, who lost her life tragically in a road traffic accident in October 2003. Sections of the current article were published in the Irish Psychologist, in January 2004. Address all correspondence to Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Email: Dermo...

This paper presents a fuzzy controller to solve a master-slave chaos synchronization problem. At first, the method of traditional sliding mode control is considered, which utilizes the discontinuous sign function to make the system state reaching a sliding surface. Next, fuzzy rules are determined according to the Lyapunov theorem, and the fuzzy controller is designed for chaos synchronization....