It's not just theologians who are morally troubled

Palliative care is not just for those who are dying.

And so at our next appointment we were greeted by two paediatricians who wanted to talk to us. They asked us what was going on. It felt natural to tell them our story. They listened intently, and I realised the purpose of this questioning much later: they wanted to get a sense of us first. “What would you like to happen?” I choked up in tears. I hadn’t told anyone about my wish to meet her, to ...

Edges Are Not Just Steps

Images contain step edges, line features and many feature types that are somewhere between the two. Traditional gradient based edge operators are tuned to detect step edges, and hence are unable to properly detect and localize other feature types. The Phase Congruency detector is used as a tool to identify the different feature types found in images. It is shown that there is a continuum of fea...

Jets are not just 4 - momenta !

Documents Are Not Just for Printing

Modern use has emphasized the written/printed nature of documents to the extent that today documents imply writing on paper. This trend is well reeected by document processing systems that can produce high quality paper output. The world of electronic documents currently abounds with a plethora of markup languages, document encodings and typesetting systems designed to facilitate the production...

Plant cells are not just green yeast.

Are plant cells just yeast cells with chloroplasts? Should plant cell biologists who don’t work on chloroplasts just switch to yeast to help solve the basic questions that are common to all eukaryotes? The recent completion of the sequencing of the entire yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) genome and the availability of hundreds of well-characterized mutants certainly make this a tempting proposi...