Dr Timothy Bruce Nickels (1966–2010)

Strathpeffer Spa: Dr William Bruce and polymyalgia rheumatica.

The first description of polymyalgia rheumatica is attributed to Dr William Bruce working in Strathpeffer Spa, Scotland, in 1888. His career, the history of the spa, and the original article are briefly described.

A tribute to neuroepidemiologist Dr. Bruce Schoenberg 1942-1987.

Bruce S. Schoenberg, MD, PhD, 44, a dedicated and prolific neuroepidemiologist who was chief of the neuroepidemiology branch at the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS) until May, died July 14 of cancer. He left a generous scientific legacy, one that belies his relatively short life. Dr. Schoenberg was internationally respected for his singular cont...

Nickels and Hutchinson : Model - Based Tracking

Nickels and Hutchinson : Model - Based Tracking 101

| In this paper we present methods for tracking complex, articulated objects. We assume that an appearance model and the kinematic structure of the object to be tracked are given, leading to what is termed a model-based object tracker. At each time step, this tracker observes a new monocular grayscale image of the scene and combines information gathered from this image with knowledge of the pre...

Timothy Hall

The emergence of lexico-grammatical productivity has been a central issue in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Ellis (2002) proposed that formulaic chunks of language are one resource for the learner to develop such productivity. This exploratory study sought to determine whether formulaic language chunks were observed in the oral production of three adult beginner learners of Eng...