Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California; Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California; City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California...

The Islamic world has a rich artistic tradition of creating highly geometric and symmetric ornamentation. Over the centuries, the process of creating Islamic tilings was refined from the 15th Century ornamentation in the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain to the exquisite tilings, which are seen in mosques, mausoleums and minarets throughout the world today. The contemporary mathematics of group...

Corrigendum to “The stability of centrality measures when networks are sampled” [Social Networks 25 (2003) 283–307] Elizabeth Costenbadera,∗, Thomas W. Valenteb,1 a Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA b Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medici...

There is a great interest in producing computer animation that looks like 2D classic animation. The flat shading, silhouettes and inside contour lines are all visual characteristics that, joined to flexible expressiveness, constitute the basic elements of 2D animation. We have developed methods for obtaining the silhouettes and interior curves from polygonal models. Virtual lights is a new meth...

in the alhambra (granada, spain), and in other moorish locations, several individuals of the original variety of myrtle, the emblematic plant of their gardens, have been identified and genetically authenticated. after microsatellite analysis, we differentiated between the wild form (myrtus communis l.) and two cultivated varieties: the one original to the alhambra, the moorish myrtle (subsp. ba...