Medical research charity unveils glass sculpture

Federal government unveils patient-oriented research strategy.

Picasso's Science and Charity: Paternalism Versus Humanism in Medical Practice

To those familiar only with Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) groundbreaking modernism for which he is renown, his early realistic paintings may seem surprising. Born in the Mediterranean harbor of Málaga, “Pablito” (as Picasso was called by his family) was raised in tight quarters by an incorrigibly optimistic and good humored mother and an unoriginal painter father who “had a twofold problem: the i...

Virtual Sculpture

We propose here a sculpture metaphor for rapid shape prototyping. This metaphor makes the underlying surface description transparent for the user, enabling him to focus only on the shape being modeled. Our approach is based on implicit surfaces defined as iso-surfaces over a discrete field.

Sculpture virtuelle

Résumé : Nous présentons ici une métaphore de sculpture destinée au prototypage rapide de formes 3D. La surface sculptée correspond à l’iso-valeur d’un champ potentiel scalaire échantillonné spatiallement. L’utilisateur peut déposer de la matière où il le désire dans l’espace puis itérativement affiner sa forme grâce à un outil servant à déposer, retirer, peindre ou lisser de la matière, comme ...

Charity ratings

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...