Music therapy is often used as a complementary therapy in the hospice to allow for a more holistic care. Despite clinical observations on the effectiveness of music therapy, there has been a paucity of formal research in the Asian setting concerning the experience of patients using music therapy. Hence, this research study aimed to uncover terminally ill patients' experiences of music therapy in a Singapore in-patient hospice. As music therapy is growing in its popularity as a form of complementary therapy used in the hospice, it is essential to understand the therapeutic modality from the patient's perspective. A qualitative approached was used to explore the human experience with music therapy. Data was analysed using Burnard's thematic analysis method. Four themes that have emerged from the study - Mirror of the inner feelings, Bridge of connection, Music as a therapeutic medium and Barriers to music therapy.

This brief presents characterizations of identification errors under a probabilistic framework when output sensors are binary, quantized, or regular. By considering both space complexity in terms of signal quantization and time complexity with respect to data window sizes, this study provides a new perspective to understand the fundamental relationship between probabilistic errors and resources, which may represent data sizes in computer usage, computational complexity in algorithms, sample sizes in statistical analysis and channel bandwidths in communications.