From "American Beauty" (overrated) to "The Night of the Hunter" (masterpiece), this collection of Peter Rainer's film criticism spans the course of his illustrious 30-year career, which dates back to the early 1980s. It is drawn from a wide range of publications, including the "Christian Science Mon[...]

The enormous advances in digital signal processing (DSP) technology have contributed to the wide dissemination and success of speech communication devices - be it GSM and UMTS mobile telephones, digital hearing aids, or human-machine interfaces. Digital speech transmission techniques play an importa[...]

English summary: In these articles, colleagues, friends and students of Hans Stoll pay tribute to him on his 75th birthday. He is a scholar and teacher who in his studies of German, international and foreign private law was particularly instrumental in the development of the German law of obligation[...]