75. Some Mexican Portrait Clay Figures.

3D Reconstruction for Clay Figures

1. Introduction The technique for 3-dimensional shape reconstruction is needed. It is needed not only in industrial fields, such as CAD, but in many fields, such as medical use, an apparel, civil engineering works, and also archaeology, CG work of a movie. Conventionally, hardware-approach is common to input the 3-dimensional shape , and 3-dimensional data was gained with the un-contacting or t...

Some Mexican Plants Used in Traditional Medicine

In Mexico, there is an area known as semiarid region that is located in northern Mexico, and this region is rich in biodiversity (endemic flora and fauna). In the semiarid region of Mexico are more than 3500 species of plants that have been identified and used as natural alternatives to treat different ailments (digestive ailments, kidney problems, skin conditions, etc.). The use of plants for ...

Portrait

Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

Some of the Great Historical Figures Associated with Moorfields.

Leprosy: A Review of Some Facts and Figures

Mr. President and Gentlemen,?When the Hon. Secretaries of this Society did me the honour to invite me, some time ago, to read a paper, it occurred to me that I could not choose a more suitable subject to bring before you than that of leprosy; for not only is the question of the spread of that disease now attracting considerable attention in medical circles, but I feel that no scientific body is...