Hand-made illustrations in scientific and technical textbooks commonly use internal and external labels or legends to establish co-referential relation between pictorial elements and textual expressions. By analyzing the most complex examples, we extracted several label layout styles and classified them. We propose a variety of real-time label layout algorithms that aim to produce nice and clea...

Arti cial life uses computer models to study the essential nature of the characteristic processes of complex adaptive systems| proceses such as self-organization, adaptation, and evolution. Work in the eld is guided by the working hypothesis that simple computer models can capture the essential nature of these processes. This hypothesis is illustrated by recent results with a simple population ...

Among the computationally intensive methods for fitting complex multilevel models, the Gibbs sampler is especially popular owing to its simplicity and power to effectively generate samples from a high-dimensional probability distribution. The Gibbs sampler, however, is often justifiably criticized for its sometimes slow convergence, especially when it is used to fit highly structured complex mo...

To cite: Ragupathi S, Reddy AK, Jayamohan AE, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014205743 DESCRIPTION A three-and-half-year-old child with developmental delay presented to the paediatric department with a 2-day history of high-grade fever with chills and rigours. There was associated weakness of the right upper and lower limbs with an episode...

Digital imaging can play an important role in helping to preserve brittle library and archival materials, especially those characterized by color and oversize illustrations, neither of which can be satisfactorily preserved by analog methods. Used together, film intermediaries can provide long-term stable copies while digital versions can provide improved scholarly access. Setting benchmarks for...

A hierarchical approach for designing continuous line illustrations, drawings that consist of a single line, is presented throughout this paper. Users specify a graph that will guide the overall shape of the line illustration, and proceed to assign a series of child graphs to many of its vertices. A line illustration can then be generated by taking all of these graphs into account, allowing us ...

a litre of water, given in doses of 60-120 c.c. per day. This will cure the acidosis, restore the blood chlorides to near normal and raise the CO2 combining power, but large doses of vitamin D and adequate amounts of dietary calcium must be ensured to replace the expended stores of calcium in the cases of osteomalacia. Once the osteomalacia is cured, the vitamin D dosage should be reduced, prov...