There is an increasing emphasis across the fields of medicine on managing individual patients in ways that are tailored to the patient’s unique characteristics—an approach termed personalized or individualized medicine. Although these terms are relatively new, the concept of personalized medicine has a long history, with Sir William Osler (1849– 1919) famously quoted as saying that “the good ph...

I study dynamic games where players may be unaware of some fundamentals of the game itself, such as actions or players, and such unawareness may be lifted by other players’ actions during the play. Based on Li (2006a, 2006b), I propose a framework to deal with such games using standard tools of game theory. I construct examples to show that unawareness is distinctly different from assigning zer...

The medial-axis transform, also called skeleton, is a shape abstraction proposed by computer vision. The concept is closely related to cyclographic maps, a tool developed by descriptive geometry to investigate distance functions, and to the solu tion of the eikonal equation. We discuss these connections and their implications on techniques for computing the skeleton.

OBJECTIVE To identify the main characteristics of classic migraine, with specific regard to diagnostic criteria for manual therapy practitioners, including chiropractors and osteopaths. METHOD Ten case studies on migraine were reviewed for the symptoms and clinical features. RESULTS The majority of cases reviewed as classic migraines were in reality not correct diagnoses in accordance with ...