Ode to Jackson Pollock

The Search for Stress-reducing Fractal Art: From Jackson Pollock to Frank Gehry

Can we use the Jackson and Pollock equations to predict body density/fat of obese individuals in the 21st century?

OBJECTIVE: Jackson and Pollock's (JP) ground-breaking research reporting generalized body density equations to estimate body fat was carried out in the late 1970s. Since then we have experienced an 'obesity epidemic'. Our aim was to examine whether the original quadratic equations established by Jackson and co-workers are valid in the 21st century. METHODS: Reanalyzing the original JP data, an ...

Ode to Professor Walmsley

Professor Thomas Walmsley was appointed to the chair of Anatomy at Queen's in 1919 and held the post until 1951. He graduated in Glasgow in 1912. While lecturing "he combined simplicity of presentation with impressiveness in delivery and held his class spellbound"'. It is said that he had great influence on staff and students alike and was respected by all who came in contact with him; in his t...

An Ode to Arrows

We study a number of embedded DSLs for autonomous ordinary differential equations (autonomous ODEs) in Haskell. A naive implementation based on the lazy tower of derivatives is straightforward but has serious time and space leaks due to the loss of sharing when handling cyclic and infinite data structures. In seeking a solution to fix this problem, we explore a number of DSLs ranging from shall...

Reply to Jackson.

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate Dr Jackson’s thoughtful comments regarding the diagnostic criteria for encephalitis proposed by the International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC) Working Group [1]. He raises concerns that (1) individual patients may have laboratory or pathologic evidence of encephalitis without meeting the clinical criteria specified in the IEC case definition, and (2) that patients w...