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How to perform picture-perfect respiratory assessment.

Picture-perfect: imaging techniques in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a debilitating condition consisting of several categories of arthritis. Early detection, accurate diagnosis and monitoring of changes upon treatment are critical in order to minimize long-term sequelae. Imaging modalities, such as radiography, ultrasound and MRI are commonly employed to evaluate synovial inflammation, joint effusion, bone erosions and other dise...

Picture Perfect: Visualisation Techniques for Case-based Reasoning

Case-based reasoning systems solve new problems by retrieving and adapting the solutions to similar previously solved problems. The success and performance of any case-based reasoning system depends critically on its repository of prior problem solving experiences, the cases in its case-base. It is perhaps surprising then that the case-based reasoning community has only recently begun to invest...

Merging Science and Art: The Bigger Picture

It has been stated that artists comprehend and chronicle the completeness of the visible world (Wallach & Bret, 1987), defining Art as the creative expression of knowledge about the visual world. But to what extent does that awareness extend into a scientific appreciation of the world? The acronym STEAM is an abbreviation of Science, Technology, Electronics, Arts and Mathematics. Weaving intera...

Precision Science and Technology for Perfect Surfaces

Aspheric mirrors for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) at a wavelength of 13nm require surface figure accuracy approaching 0.10nm rms. A new type of interferometry, based on the fundamental process of diffraction, is described that has the intrinsically ability to achieve this accuracy on aspherical surfaces. However, care must be taken in the design and implementation of the optical syste...