APPARATUS YOU MAY NEED

Parametric or Direct Modeling: why you may need both

A "KISS" EMR may be all you need.

The Obama Administration has continued where the previous one left off in advocating the widespread adoption of electronic (digital) medical records (EMRs). But an expensive EMR system loaded with bells and whistles that you don't really need, and requiring doctors to interact with computers, can cost you in terms of patient-care time as well as money. The Big Three (which can encompass dictati...

Why you may need parametric and direct 3D CAD

What you see is what you need.

We studied the role of attention and task demands for implicit change detection. Subjects engaged in an object sorting task performed in a virtual reality environment, where we changed the properties of an object while the subject was manipulating it. The task assures that subjects are looking at the changed object immediately before and after the change. Our results demonstrate that in this si...

Fish Need You

March 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 3 | e108 | e75 Any organism may be limited by some essential nutrient in short supply—nitrogen for a plant on poor soil, for instance, or iron for phytoplankton in the open ocean. For the long-lived tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi, what it needs most and has least is sulfi de. L. luymesi lives clustered around hydrocarbonreleasing ocean fl oor seeps in the Gulf of ...