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...

The physical and biological aspects of polonium-210, one of the most hazardous radioisotopes, are summarized. Although this radioisotope is naturally occurring and rare, it received quite a bit of attention after it was used in the 2006 assassination of former Russian Intelligence member Alexander Litvinenko in London. Recent reports on the suspected murder of Yasser Arafat with polonium-210 ar...

Murder-suicide (M-S) is a complex phenomenon that can involve a multifaceted set of interrelated biological and social factors. M-S is also sexed and gendered in that the perpetrators are most often male and their underpinning motives and actions link to masculinities in an array of diverse ways. With the overarching goal to describe connections between men, masculinities, and M-S, 296 newspape...

BACKGROUND: Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in children over the age of one year old. Children under the age of four have the highest unintentional injury related death rates (13.5 per 100,000), over twice that of children ages 5-14 (6.4 per 100,000). For every death from an injury, there are approximately 18 hospitalizations, 233 emergency department visits, many more visits...