Thrown into the rose

Method to Identify and Score Darts thrown into Dartboard

The author examines the problem of scoring a game of darts by use of image processing techniques. Dart enthusiast today are forced to choose between playing on regulation equipment and manually keeping score, or to use inferior, nonregulation, electronic dartboards. This paper presents a novel method of using images gathered from a stationary camera to automatically segment the board into each ...

Gauntlet thrown on climate challenge

Given the complexity of climate change, researchers produced a remarkably slim summary last month. At just 23 pages, no policymaker can be excused from not knowing the facts ahead of the crucial meeting in Bali, Indonesia, this month. This is the key document on the current assessment of climate change. It is the tightly distilled, peer-reviewed work of several thousand researchers and endorsed...

[Rose is a rose is a rose].

Immunology: Why the baby isn't thrown out

The reason the maternal immune system does not reject a foetus may involve the downregulation of T-cell receptors specific for paternal antigens. A similar mechanism may help explain the remission seen in autoimmune patients during pregnancy.

A rose is a rose is a rose?

This young man presented initially and repeatedly over a period of twenty years with symptoms of irritability, depressed and withdrawn mood, impulsivity, out-of-control behavior, and suicidal ideation and behavior. These symptoms occurred with disabling intensity at ages 3 year, 6 1/2 years, and 8 1/2 years, when he had not yet been adequately diagnosed and treated with appropriate psychopharma...