No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country

Scene Text Recognition: No Country for Old Men?

It is a generally accepted fact that Off-the-shelf OCR engines do not perform well in unconstrained scenarios like natural scene imagery, where text appears among the clutter of the scene. However, recent research demonstrates that a conventional shape-based OCR engine would be able to produce competitive results in the end-to-end scene text recognition task when provided with a conveniently pr...

No Country for Fat Men

Visual analytics is gaining importance due to the explosion of data availability and processing capabilities. This growing field has the potential to inform a wide array of disciplines. In this article, we demonstrate a social science application of the data visualization software Tableau by performing an analysis of obesity in California. Extensive research has documented the increasing levels...

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No Country for Old Men (or Women) -- Do State Tax Policies Drive Away the Elderly?

Over the last forty years, state income tax breaks targeting the elderly have grown, often justified by arguments that the elderly move across state lines in response. Using three complementary sources of elderly migration data and several measures of elderly income tax breaks, we investigate the relationship between these tax breaks and migration. We employ different empirical methodologies th...

No country for old men: on mentoring in medicine, by David Loxterkamp.

When I entered family practice in the 1980s my concept of “the work of medicine” was exactly like my father’s. The science of medicine had advanced well beyond sulfa, penicillin, and the Salk vaccine, but I too worked generally alone, on intuition and the fumes of exhaustion, and for my patients’ gratitude and the community’s respect. We felt as though we could handle almost all problems that c...