Stable isotopes in mammalian research: a beginner's guide

Stable isotopes in clinical research: safety reaffirmed.

Approaching half a century of stable-isotope usage in human metabolic studies has been without documented significant adverse effect. Side-effects with acute D dosing are transitory with no demonstrated evidence of permanent deleterious action. The threshold of D toxicity has been defined in animals and is far in excess of concentrations conceivably used in human studies. The possibility that D...

A Beginners Guide to Decentralised Data Fusion

A Beginners Guide to Dual-Quaternions

In this paper, we give a beginners guide to the practicality of using dual-quaternions to represent the rotations and translations in character-based hierarchies. Quaternions have proven themselves in many fields of science and computing as providing an unambiguous, un-cumbersome, computationally efficient method of representing rotational information. We hope after reading this paper the reade...

A Beginners Guide to UML Part I

This article will attempt to provide a fast track introduction for those that need to learn the UML basics and to begin to start understanding UML so that it can be incorporated into your development project. I shall begin by clarifying exactly what UML is and is not. Then question why we should use the UML at all. Then I will conclude part 1 of this article with a high-level tour of the UML mo...

Absolute Beginners Guide to Neuroimaging Methods : fMRI

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the primary means used to measure brain function non-invasively in humans, because of the advantages it offers in terms of high spatiotemporal resolution and localization as compared to other non-invasive modalities (e.g. EEG, MEG). Since its emergence about 20 years ago, it has rapidly evolved into the mainstay of functional neuroimaging for neur...