‘You are afraid to die? Yes, everyone is!But to die as lovers may die—to die together,so that they may live together?’Carmilla is a ghost story for theatre, enmeshing spoken word and through composed music for live chamber orchestra. This adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s controversial 1872 gothic novella explores violence, transgressive sexuality and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.

A story about a single mother about to turn 40 who falls in love with someone unexpected. She just wanted to escape her abusive past and start over back in her hometown of Indiana. All she hoped for was to give her and her kids a better life. She never imagined it would end up the way it did, a drama filled romance of the ages, packed with secrets, lies and devastation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, ANNPR 2024, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during October 10–12, 2024.The 27 full papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The conference focuses on:learning algorithms and architectures; applications in medical and health sciences; applications in computer vision; applications in NLP, speech, and music; applica...

Most validated questionnaires that are widely used around the world are created in a non-native language. If such a questionnaire is to be used in a native-speaking population, it must first be validated. This book aims to be a useful guide for describing all the steps required for validating a questionnaire. This book also provided a standard checklist with 17 items that are recommended to serve as a useful guide for researchers conducting questionnaire validation research.