Over the Century, 1918-2018, Masterpieces of Tapestry

Cancer nursing: weaving the tapestry for our second century.

It is an honour and a privilege to have been invited to give the closing address for your twelfth annual national conference on “Weaving the new tapestry for oncology nurses: Our future is now.” I am sure each of us has a mental picture of a tapestry. I think of the many beautiful tapestries, truly works of art, in museums around the world, tapestries of heavy cloth woven with rich, varicolored...

The 1918 influenza pandemic: insights for the 21st century.

The 1918-1919 H1N1 influenza pandemic was among the most deadly events in recorded human history, killing an estimated 50-100 million persons. Because recent H5N1 avian epizootics have been associated with sporadic human fatalities, concern has been raised that a new pandemic, as fatal as the pandemic of 1918, or more so, could be developing. Understanding the events and experiences of 1918 is ...

The Analysis of Monthly moisture advection changes in Iran’s atmosphere over the recent half-century

Digital Tapestry

This paper addresses the novel problem of automatically synthesizing an output image from a large collection of different input images. The synthesized image, called a digital tapestry, can be viewed as a visual summary or a virtual ’thumbnail’ of all the images in the input collection. The problem of creating the tapestry is cast as a multi-class labeling problem such that each region in the t...

The trophic tapestry of the sea.

O ceanic ecosystems are the largest habitats on Earth, and living biomass in these systems is dominated by planktonic microorganisms. Microbial ecologists have long sought to understand the role of environmental selection in shaping the diversity of planktonic microorganisms. The oceans have proven a dauntingly complex arena to conduct such studies. Marine ecosystems are immense and remote and ...