MASTER BUILDER TATEKAWA WASHIROU-TOMIMUNE AND HIS CONSTRUCTION TEAM

VILLIN2 Emerges as a Master Builder in Rice.

The architecture of a plant determines its ability to capture solar energy and thus has a striking effect on yield. Plant architecture is the product of coordinated patterns of cell division, expansion, and differentiation. Whereas the molecular mechanisms governing cell division are well established, those regulating cell expansion and differentiation are not. Studies indicate that the cytoske...

Geometry, Construction, and Intuition in Kant and His Successors

Master therapists' construction of the therapy relationship

Qualitative research methods were used to elicit master therapists' statements regarding their use and understanding of the therapy relationship. The master therapists were identified and recruited in a previous study (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999) through a procedure used to create a sample of information-rich cases. The result of the analysis is a Model of Relationship Stances. The Safe Relation...

Edge Detection Using SOPC Builder and DSP Builder Tool Flow

Introduction Video and image processing applications are typically very computationally intensive. Given the increasing processing demands, the parallel processing capabilities of Altera® programmable logic devices make them an attractive implementation option for highly repetitive tasks found in video and imaging functions. Instead of using multiple programmable digital signal processors, a si...

The Master Clinical Lexicon: Integrated Product Team Approach

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs established a vendor consortium to develop a clinical lexicon for use by all Department of Defense (DoD) health care services and systems. Commercial vendors of lexicon software and government team members participated in an Integrated Product Team (IPT) from September 1996 through March 1997 to develop a “proof of concept” dem...