Fraying tapestry

Digital Tapestry

This paper addresses the novel problem of automatically synthesizing an output image from a large collection of different input images. The synthesized image, called a digital tapestry, can be viewed as a visual summary or a virtual ’thumbnail’ of all the images in the input collection. The problem of creating the tapestry is cast as a multi-class labeling problem such that each region in the t...

Surgical Travellers: Tapestry to Bayeux

The planning for surgery in war was revisited in 1937 when Ian Fraser was elected a member of the Surgical Travellers. At their 1938 Surgical Travellers meeting in Vienna, Ian and Eleanor Fraser were evicted from their hotel room by the Nazis. The 1939 meeting in Belfast discussed the organization of surgery and the conduct of Emergency Medical Service Hospitals in the United Kingdom; the vast ...

Ethnic Separatism in Southern Thailand: Kingdom Fraying at the Edge?

Fraying and electron autodetachment dynamics of trapped gas phase oligonucleotides.

Sensitive methods recently developed to measure laser-induced fluorescence from trapped ions have been applied to study the dynamics of double- and single-stranded oligonucleotides. In this paper, the fraying of duplex terminal base pairs has been identified by measuring the donor fluorescence as a function of temperature from an oligonucleotide duplex labeled with a pair of FRET dyes. Comparis...

Tier 4 drugs and the fraying of the social compact.

333 mechanisms of disease can lead to innovative treatments that turn fatal conditions into chronic disorders. But recent headlines about their high costs — often $50,000 to $100,000 per year — serve as warnings about the financial and ethical challenges we will increasingly encounter throughout medicine. Because of the rising number of such high-priced medications, some insurers have begun to ...