Seeing the smaller picture

Super-resolution optical microscopy: Seeing the smaller picture.

Commentary: Smokeless tobacco: seeing the whole picture.

A window of opportunity? The tobacco industry, with chameleon like qualities, has continuously and successfully adapted to the changing policy environment. Witness, for example, how it has maintained a growth in profits in much of the developed world despite falling sales. With greater understanding of the hazards of second-hand smoke identified as long ago as the 1970s as ‘the most dangerous d...

Prescribing antibiotics: seeing the whole picture.

The editorial by Sargent1 warrants a rebuttal. First, as a pediatrician, the author’s sweeping views do not appear to be fully applicable to adults (which is the population in the study report).2 Second, the pejorative use of quotation marks— ”unnecessary”—is hardly balanced or evidence-based medicine. Using the term paternalistic to describe “the current approach to restricting antibiotic use”...

Seeing the picture through "lean thinking".

Structural Engineering: Seeing the Big Picture

The state-of-the-art of progress of structural engineering over the last 50 years is examined in three areas: (1) The spatial idealization of structural elements in the form of kinematical assumptions; (2) The constitutive idealization of materials in the form of generalized stresses and generalized strains relations; and (3) The computational implications of solution strategy in the form of cl...