NIH needs a makeover.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Setting the American Dream’s Homeownerships Standard of Living and its Costs

This article discusses how the Extreme Makeover: HomeEditionUStelevision reality program, which focuses on rebuilding houses for those in need,sets unrealistic boundaries for the American Dream’s standard of living oflow-income homeowners in the United States. Passing through economic hardshipin the past several years, it is important to study how this program can meet thereal expectations of t...

The Avatar: 3-D Face reconstruction from two orthogonal pictures with application to facial makeover

In this report an algorithm for the fast reconstruction of a textured 3-D face model of the given individual from his two orthogonal pictures – a frontal view and a profile view is presented. Then a possible application to the facial makeover of the individual is also conceptualized. The algorithm needs minimal human intervention for construction and does not need any special setup, or the came...

Summary of an NIH workshop to identify research needs to improve the monitoring of iodine status in the United States and to inform the DRI.

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the NIH sponsored a workshop on May 12-13, 2011, to bring together representatives from various NIH institutes and centers as a first step in developing an NIH iodine research initiative. The workshop also provided an opportunity to identify research needs that would inform the dietary reference intakes for iodine, which were last revised in 2001. Iodi...

Extreme makeover for Hartford's print shop.

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