Health Research Institutes. A history of ten years

Ten Years of Art Imaging Research

This paper describes a decade of work on digital imaging for museums. From 1989 to 1992, the visual arts system for archiving and retrieval of images (VASARI) project produced a digital-imaging system that made color-calibrated images of up to 20 000 20 000 pixels directly from paintings. It used seven colorseparation bands in the visible region, resulting in an average color error of around 1 ...

Ten Years of Podoconiosis Research in Ethiopia

Podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) is a non-infectious geochemical disease among barefoot subsistence farmers who have long-term contact with irritant red clay soil of volcanic origins. The disease causes progressive bilateral swelling of the lower legs [1,2]. Previous studies have documented the association between the disease and irritant red clay soils found in areas greater t...

Highlights in the History and Organization National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Nursing Research intramural research program and the development of the National Institutes of Health Symptom Science Model.

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) intramural research program conducts basic and biobehavioral symptom science research and provides training opportunities to the next generation of scientists. Recently, the NINR developed the Symptom Science Model to guide research. The model begins by identifying a complex symptom, which is then characterized into a phenotype with biological a...

The Monash University Museum of Computing History: Ten Years On

The Monash Museum of Computing History was established at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2001. This university museum has a growing collection of early computer equipment and a permanent exhibition tracing the development of computing technology within an Australian context and particularly related to computing at Monash University. The Museum has been evolving since its inception w...