This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2015, held in London, UK, in June 2015. The 24 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers feature research that combines mathematics or computation with music theory, music analysis, composition, and performance. They are organized in topical sections on notation and representation, music generation, patterns, performance, similarity and contrast, post-tonal music analysis, geometric approaches, deep learning, and scales.

An inheritance at risk and the discovery of an extraordinary cache of old wines during Nashville's history-making flood leads to foul play and death in this Mark Rollins mystery adventure. The old man finished a glass of wine-his favorite claret-went to bed, and died. Now more than fifty years later, a stunningly beautiful Nashville attorney, Ann Sims, is preparing to auction off his estate-a derelict old mansion with its long-forgotten secret. Sims has lived with a secret of her own, a secret that could cost her the fortune she is in line to inherit and end her career. Beautiful women can make poor choices in men. She is no exception. Afraid, for good reason, of the possessive and greedy men in her life, she turns to Mark Rollins for protection. Rollins, the central character in Collins' mysteries, is a modern-day hero-a protector, problem solver, and crime fighter. His "superhero-like" powers are technology, extraordinary wealth, and friends in high places. This time his technology is failing him as he tries to keep Ann Sims alive-his efforts thwarted by Nashville's failing infrastructure in the wake of the massive storm and flood that provides cover for bad things.

This book is simple. It will help you start a conversation that can lead you and your team to greatness. It will give you the tools to empower others with the confidence to take the right action while they are on the front line?when they are confronted with a decision to make, a problem to solve, or an opportunity to pursue. You will be able to move the know-how for achieving excellence from the back of the brain to the front. You can make doing and saying the right things?making the right decisions and avoiding the wrong ones?a habit. It is the best gift one could give to a young professional. It can be invaluable to the entrepreneur starting a new business or seasoned executive frustrated by the difficulty of steering an unresponsive corporate ship.

This book is simple. It will help you start a conversation that can lead you and your team to greatness. It will give you the tools to empower others with the confidence to take the right action while they are on the front line?when they are confronted with a decision to make, a problem to solve, or an opportunity to pursue. You will be able to move the know-how for achieving excellence from the back of the brain to the front. You can make doing and saying the right things?making the right decisions and avoiding the wrong ones?a habit. It is the best gift one could give to a young professional. It can be invaluable to the entrepreneur starting a new business or seasoned executive frustrated by the difficulty of steering an unresponsive corporate ship.

Mark Rollins, a retired technology entrepreneur, has become the creator/owner of an exclusive fitness center catering to young trophy wives and socially elite wealthy women of Nashville. In Mark Rollins and the Rainmaker, the second book in the series, someone is trying to kill the husband of a fitness club member. Her much older husband is a prominent Nashville attorney the rainmaker for his law firm. Rollins sets out to unmask the villain before it is too late a task that proves dangerous, and the danger spreads as the diabolical killer 's targets expand. To pick up the killer 's trail, Rollins and his colorful MBA sidekick, Mariko Lee, pose as financial consultants hired by the law firm. Mariko discovers that the seeds causing many law firms to self-destruct and that in this case provide a motive for murder can be found in the numbers. As they close in on the villain 's identity, Rollins and his team race against the clock to unravel the killer 's final desperate plan.

An inheritance at risk and the discovery of an extraordinary cache of old wines during a history-making flood leads to foul play and death in this Mark Rollins mystery adventure. The old man finished a glass of wine-his favorite claret-went to bed, and died. Now more than fifty years later, a stunningly beautiful Nashville attorney, Ann Sims, is preparing to auction off his estate-a derelict old mansion with its long-forgotten secret. Sims has lived with a secret of her own, a secret that could cost her the fortune she is in line to inherit and end her career. Beautiful women can make poor choices in men. She is no exception. Afraid, for good reason, of the possessive and greedy men in her life, she turns to Mark Rollins for protection. Rollins, the central character in Collins' mysteries, is a modern-day hero-a protector, problem solver, and crime fighter. His "superhero-like" powers are technology, extraordinary wealth, and friends in high places. This time his technology is failing him as he tries to keep Ann Sims alive-his efforts thwarted by Nashville's failing infrastructure in the wake of the massive storm and flood that provides cover for bad things.

The Workplace Family: A Framework For Getting The Best From Your Employees by Tom Collins: Getting the best performance from employees is the key to success of any manager. Of all the motivational tools, both classic and newer fad approaches, immersing employees in an organizational environment that stimulates a sense of family is the most effective in motivating people to do their best. Permeating the organization with a set of positive informal values that characterize a family can create this family spirit. In this book the author defines the values that are most effective in stimulating feelings of family and describes how to instill them in your organization.

The most direct route to my sylvan destination was along one of the main streets; but, for reasons of my own, I dodged round by the back slums. Frankly, it is not a bit nice for a man of position to walk down a respectable thoroughfare, nodding to his acquaintances with dignified composure, when a backward glance has disclosed his kangaroo dog dawdling along at his heels, lithe, svelte and spirituelle, with about ten pounds of stolen sausages hanging festooned from his mouth, and tripping him up from time to time. But Pup couldn't eat the sausages without stopping; so, when we reached the outskirts of the town, I took them from him, and, sitting down on a stump, cut the isthmuses with my knife, in order to help him to them one by one. Then, after a mutual caress, we resumed our way to the romantic nook that I wotted of.

It's Nashville... an investment banker disappears. The clues suggest foul play, but Mark Rollins discovers that this moneyman is running for his life-and his hunters aren't far behind. Rollins with the aid of his loyal team of computer wizards sets out to solve the mystery. A move exposes him and his family to unexpected dangers that spread far beyond Nashville's city limits. Will his enormous wealth and access to powerful friends be enough to save him and protect those close to him?