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The Way Forward Is the Way Back

“T viewer should see the object as I saw it, but with a lot of room for his own interpretation....The painting is like a very clear mirror which is barely visible but unmistakably there,” reflects Spanish painter Antonio López García (b. 1936) (1). “I am nostalgic for an art of our times in which a greater number of people can participate” (1). Part of a contemporary movement rooted in the trad...

Along the Way Back from the Brink

An optimal control model of wildlife management is developed to analyze the transitory dynamics set forth by the reintroduction of animals that provide benefits but can also come into conflict with humans. The shadow price of these resources can be positive or negative, potentially creating a nonconvexity. The conditions under which reintroduction is not desirable are determined, and those char...

When two-dimensional structure led the way.

Get a Way Back: Evaluating Retrieval from History Lists

Many user interfaces include history lists that help users retrieve temporally ordered information such as previously visited web pages, email messages, and recently used files. Two main types of history lists are widely used. The first type, typified by Netscape Navigator’s history list, provides a linear temporally ordered list. The second type, typified by Microsoft Internet Explorer’s histo...

Surface Smoothing: A Way Back in Early Brain Morphogenesis

In this article we propose to investigate the analogy between early cortical folding process and cortical smoothing by mean curvature flow. First, we introduce a one-parameter model that is able to fit a developmental trajectory as represented in a Volume-Area plot and we propose an efficient optimization strategy for parameter estimation. Second, we validate the model on forty cortical surface...