Desk Rejecting: A Better Use of Your Time

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Creating a Mathematical Museum on Your Desk

Travel is unnecessary to see certain objects of mathematical interest, as new technology makes it convenient to be a stay-at-home explorer of 3D mathematical models. With the right equipment, one can create and enjoy a mathematical museum collection without leaving ones office. Figure 1 shows an assortment of physical models on shelves of my office. New technologies—commercially available or un...

3D Photography on Your Desk

A simple and inexpensive approach for extracting the threedimensional shape of objects is presented. It is based on `weak structured lighting'; it di ers from other conventional structured lighting approaches in that it requires very little hardware besides the camera: a desk-lamp, a pencil and a checkerboard. The camera faces the object, which is illuminated by the desk-lamp. The user moves a ...

Reflective Middleware: From Your Desk to Your Hand

Communication middleware simplifies the construction of component-based distributed applications [1] [2]. However, the lack of flexibility in the construction of the middleware itself imposes limitations and is a major concern [3-7]. While applications can detect changes in their execution environment, they cannot customize the underlying middleware to better accommodate these changes. To solve...

Is Your Cough Getting Better?

203 Undoubtedly, cough is one of the most common symptoms that make people visit physicians for its treatment. It is also apparent that management of chronic cough is not so simple. Underlying causative diseases are diverse, pathogenic mechanism is not clear, and patients' complaints from personal subjective feelings often make physicians even more frustrated. Furthermore , some patients fail t...