The Protozoa: An Impressionist Sketch

An Impressionist Sketch of an Advanced Database System Monet an Impressionist Sketch of an Advanced Database System

Monet is a customizable database system developed at CWI and University of Amsterdam, intended to be used as the database backend for widely varying application domains. It is designed to get maximum database performance out of today's workstations and multiprocessor systems. It has already achieved considerable success in supporting a Data Mining application 12, 13], and work is well under way...

Non-photorealistic image processing: an Impressionist rendering

The paper describes an image processing for a non-photorealistic rendering. The algorithm is based on a random choice of a set of pixels from those of the original image and substitution of them with colour spots. An iterative procedure is applied to cover, at a desired level, the canvas. The resulting effect mimics the impressionist painting and Pointillism.

Apolipoproteins in lipid transport, an impressionist view.

The major function of the lipoproteins is to provide the organism with a transport system for triacylglycerol and cholesterol. This system appears to be both highly effective and dynamic in normal subjects. While about 150 g of fat per day are fully absorbed from the gut, the plasma triglyceride pool in the blood is approximately 3 g in the fasting state and does not exceed 12 g in the postabso...

Cognitive Linguistics: An Introductory Sketch

It is probably no exaggeration to say that most contemporary grammatical frameworks take perception, thought, and language to be only tangentially, and not directly, related to one another. In the world view of such theories, these three pillars of the human mind constitute quite different types of knowledge and therefore belong, at least in theory, to distinct parts of our meticulously tidy co...

A Surgical Adventure: An Autobiographical Sketch