Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

Collages have been a common form of artistic expression since their first appearance in China around 200 BC. Recently, with the advance of digital cameras and digital image editing tools, collages have gained popularity also as a summarization tool. This paper proposes an approach for automating collage construction, which is based on assembling regions of interest of arbitrary shape in a puzzl...

This paper presents a miniature wrist that can be integrated into needle-sized surgical instruments. The wrist consists of a nitinol tube with asymmetric cutouts that is actuated by a single tendon to provide high distal curvature. We derive and experimentally validate kinematic and static models for the wrist and describe several prototype wrists, illustrating the straightforward fabrication a...

The paper presents a new approach of optimized vectorization to generate stylized artifacts such as drawings with plotter or cutouts laser cutter. For this, we developed methodology for transformations between raster and vector space. More over, identify semiotic aspects Geometry-based Stylization Techniques (GSTs) the combination raster-based stylization techniques. Therefore, system enables a...

Abstract Targeted magnetic flux guidance in the rotor cross section of rotational electrical machines is crucial for machine’s efficiency. Cutouts steel sheets are integrated guidance. These cutouts create thin structures which limit maximum achievable speed under centrifugal forces and energy density rotating machine. In this paper, embossing-induced residual stress, employing magneto-mechanic...