Dedication of the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, October 23, 1975

Margaret Chase Smith library

Isosurface Stuffing Improved (DRAFT: October 23, 2013)

We present two improvements to Labelle and Shewchuk’s isosurface stuffing algorithm for tetrahedral mesh generation. First, we use an acute tetrahedral lattice known as the A15 lattice in place of the original BCC lattice. In the uniform case, the higher-quality tetrahedra of A15 significantly improve the quality of the resulting mesh; BCC remains the best choice for adaptive meshes, as the A15...

Target frequencies and information content October 23

Given a query sequence, Q, of length m and a database, D, of length n, BLAST attempts to find all maximal segment pairs with statistically significant scores. Recall that a Maximal Segment Pair (MSP) is an ungapped local alignment whose score cannot be improved by extending or shortening the alignment. The data base is a series of concatenated amino acid sequences M1,M2, . . .Mj . . .. Figure 1...

Dedication of the Wangensteen Historical Library at the University of Minnesota

On Tuesday 21 November 1972 the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine was dedicated at the University of Minnesota. The dedication ceremony began at 3.30 p.m. with brief speeches by Dr. Leonard G. Wilson, professor of the history of medicine, Mr. Glenn Brudvig, Biomedical Librarian, Mr. John Yngve of the Board of Regents of the University, and Dr. Lyle French, vice-pres...

The Complications of Coronary Arteriography By DOUGLASS

A nationwide survey was undertaken to determine the rate of complications due to coronary arteriography during 1970-71. The responses from 173 hospitals-including a total of 46,904 coronary arteriograms-were analyzed in relationship to the technique employed and to the number of examinations performed at each hospital during the two-year period. The overall mortality rate was 0.45% (brachial 0....