Seeing is understanding

Nanoscale Self-Assembly: Seeing Is Understanding.

In the midst of the second world war, Derjaguin and Landau in Russia and Verwey and Overbeek in The Netherlands arrived independently at a theory to explain the kinetic stability of colloidal dispersions. The celebrated DLVO theory combined two types of forceslong-ranged electrostatic repulsion and short-ranged van der Waals attractionto predict the rates at which nanoand microparticles aggre...

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Seeing Is Not Understanding

Impairments in social and emotional skills are a defining feature of autism spectrum disorder. Recent research shows that structural and functional abnormalities within the neural system that matches observation and execution of actions--the mirror neuron system--may explain the social aspects of the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder.

Seeing and Understanding People

This manuscript and associated talk gives an historical but not exhaustive overview of work in the Cognitive Vision Lab at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. Work concentrates on people, tracking or identifying their actions and interpreting the meaning of those actions. To do this we employ techniques from a variety of sources which include the use of Mu...

Late stent thrombosis after drug-eluting stent: seeing is understanding.

Following the inspiration of Dr S. Windecker, the team from Bern, Switzerland, has contributed 30 studies on drug-eluting stent efficacy and safety, several of which represent essential pieces in the puzzle. The article in this issue of Circulation by Cook et al1 belongs to that select group of key references. The series of robust and detailed reports on the Bern-Rotterdam cohort studies have c...

Seeing more is seeing better.