F. Mason Sones, Jr.-Stormy petrel of cardiology

The Mathematics of F. J. Almgren Jr

Frederick Justin Almgren Jr., one of the world’s leading geometric analysts and a pioneer in the geometric calculus of variations, began his graduate work at Brown in 1958. It was a very exciting place and time for geometric measure theory. Wendell Fleming had just arrived and begun his collaboration with Herbert Federer, leading to their seminal paper “Normal and Integral Currents” in 1960 [19...

Kenneth F . Garrison , Jr . Mary - Michael Brown Christine

246 W ITH OVER 3 MILLION nurses nationwide (Health Resources and Services Administration, 2008), the potential of nurses to influence and shape health care is unparalleled. Yet, a 2010 survey of 1,504 opinion leaders from government, health services, industry, and education reminds us that, though highly trusted, nurses are not viewed as important decision makers or revenue generators, particul...

Hydrogen from Stormy Oceans

Block Mason

Hardware virtualization gives administrators the flexibility to rapidly create, destroy and relocate virtual machines across physical hosts. Unfortunately, the storage systems upon which these systems depend are not nearly as agile. To facilitate the rapid, safe development of block devices that can meet the needs of virtual machines, we present the Block Mason virtual block device framework. A...

A half century of selective coronary arteriography.

The first "selective" coronary arteriogram was made 50 years ago by Dr. F. Mason Sones at the Cleveland Clinic. Soon afterward coronary arteriography was developed as a diagnostic method suitable for widespread clinical application. This method has revolutionized our understanding of coronary artery disease and has become the basis for selecting and evaluating therapeutic interventions. This Vi...