The opera Death and the Powers by Tod Machover tells the story of a man, Simon Powers, who evades death by transferring his essence into his environment as his corporeal body dies. To realize the effect of the theatrical environment coming alive as the main character, the Opera of the Future research group at the MIT Media Lab developed new technologies and control systems for interactive robot...

We investigate known security flaws in the context of security ceremonies to gain an understanding of the ceremony analysis process. The term security ceremonies is used to describe a system of protocols and humans which interact for a specific purpose. Security ceremonies and ceremony analysis is an area of research in its infancy, and we explore the basic principles involved to better underst...

Lexical (and structural) ambiguities make language as expressive as it is. Computational lexicons thus have to cope with a large amount of polysemous words. Research in the last decade (e. g., Pustejovsky (1995), Kilgarriff and Gazdar (1995)) has aimed at identifying different types of polysemy in order to capture underlying regularities. This paper deals with a subtype of regular polysemy illu...

The CERN to Gran Sasso Neutrino beam (CNGS) was commissioned at CERN in early August 2006 and was first sent at low intensity to Gran Sasso on August 17, 2006. The Borexino, LVD and OPERA detectors continued the commissioning of their detectors and started taking data with practically no dead time. The CNGS operated smoothly with good quality. In a short time the 3 detectors collected several h...

The sensitivity of the present CNGS beam to the sub-dominant νμ ↔ νe oscillations in the region indicated by the atmospheric neutrino experiments is investigated. In particular, we present a revised analysis of the OPERA detector and discuss the sensitivity to θ13 of ICARUS and OPERA combined. We show that the CNGS beam optimised for ντ appearance, will improve significantly (about a factor 5) ...

BACKGROUND Interactions between the immune response and brain functions such as olfactory, auditory, and visual sensations are likely. This study investigated the effect of sounds on alloimmune responses in a murine model of cardiac allograft transplantation. METHODS Naïve CBA mice (H2k) underwent transplantation of a C57BL/6 (B6, H2b) heart and were exposed to one of three types of music--op...

The utilization of new IT technologies in the business processes has revolutionized the way management has been done traditionally. The modern management system has allowed businesses to approach Item Management in an efficient manner, increasing the information transparency and accuracy, making the access, review, categorize, package, and storage of items easier than before. The art of Chinese...

The present thesis explores factors and processes associated with the artistic profession and development of opera singers. The profession of opera singers has a long story deriving its origin in early 1600s in Italy. What is performed on opera stages today is written in the musical scores in the 18 and 19th century. The question arises how the modern opera singers live, learn and excel in thei...

The OPERA experiment has been designed to observe an unambiguous signal of νμ → ντ oscillation in the parameter region indicated by previous experiments in the atmospheric sector. It is based on the nuclear emulsion technique to directly observe among the neutrino interaction products the track of a τ lepton produced by a ντ appeared in a νμ beam. The OPERA detector is presently under construct...