THE MOSLEM'S VIEWPOINT

Consanguinity and fetal growth in Pakistani Moslems.

There is conflicting evidence about the effect of parental consanguinity on fetal growth. Previous studies have not always allowed for other factors that are known to affect birth weight, in particular, gestational age, parity, and maternal height. We have therefore studied this question in the Pakistani Moslem population in Birmingham. Babies born to parents who were first cousins were on aver...

Viewpoint Selection using Viewpoint Entropy

Computation of good viewpoints is important in several fields: computational geometry, visual servoing, robot motion, graph drawing, etc. In addition, selection of good views is rapidly becoming a key issue in computer graphics due to the new techniques of Image Based Rendering. Although there is no consensus about what a good view means in Computer Graphics, the quality of a viewpoint is intui...

The Social Workers' Viewpoint

Introducing the Viewpoint

With the publication of the article by Benoit Roux and colleagues in this issue (Vargas et al.), the JGP introduces a new type of article, the Viewpoint. A Viewpoint shares features with two other article types, Perspectives and Reviews, but is distinct from them. Like the Perspective, a Viewpoint will present a summary and critical analysis of a scientific issue of strong current interest to t...

Viewpoint The Twins of

Thermal convection in a fluid layer heated from below (Rayleigh-Bénard layer) and flows between coaxial differentially rotating cylinders (Taylor-Couette system) have been investigated for more than a century, experimentally as well as theoretically. Both are attractive systems for laboratory investigations of fluid turbulence because visualizations and data gathering are easier than in experim...