Fancies and Good Nights: A Shakespearean Journey

Shakespearean spatial rules

Many games and simulations utilize modularized low-level code to move characters about in an environment. This requires extensive technical skill to translate basic high-level actions, as well as extensive time to write code, which includes very detailed instructions on what and when actions will occur across all agents. Other options exist such as mocap files; however, most are not highly dyna...

From Hopeless to Good Prognosis: Journey of a Failing Tooth

Chronic periodontitis, along with associated clinical findings such as pathologic tooth migration, diastema, functional and aesthetic aberrations, poses an immense challenge to a dental professional. These findings convert clinical decision making into a daunting task and adversely affect the prognosis and the treatment plan for the presenting clinical problem. An interdisciplinary approach aim...

Food Fads, Facts, and Fancies

THE MEDICAL or food quack is one of the most pernicious influences scientific nutrition has to meet. The food quack today uses many of the same devices, modernized, that the patent-medicine vendor used a generation ago. The quack of former days was so crude in his statements that the modern consumer wonders how people ever could have believed such buncombe. Even today there is plenty of flagran...

Facts and Fancies in Orthopaedics

niost suitable, in the light of present experience, for providing the best mechanical properties, resistance to corrosion, and physiological compatibility with living tissues. In the case of implants made of metal, it is important to ensure that the components are made of material of the same composition. The ideal material has yet to be found. It should be electrolytically inert in the body, f...

Facts and Fancies in Crime Prevention