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Young, Tory

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“…Perhaps characteristically, the first person to realize the potential for measurement of physical properties using light was the great polymath of the age, Thomas Young. Having a primary profession as a medical doctor, Young invented a device around 1813 that he termed an "Eriometer", 1 and which was used to make the first measurements of the size of red blood cells. The device worked by measuring the angular extent of the scattering halo created by a screen of particles of unknown size, and using his eriometer Young recorded a diameter of 7.1 µm for red cells (quite close to the modern value of 7.8 µm), before going on to correctly identify various halos and "glories" as seen in nature around bright sources of light, such as the moon, as being due to the same basic physics.…”

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The unlikely rise of masking interferometry: leading the way with 19th century technology

Tuthill

2012

Optical and Infrared Interferometry III

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The exquisite precision delivered by interferometric techniques is rapidly being applied to more and more branches of optical astronomy. One particularly successful strategy to obtain structures at the scale of the diffraction limit is Aperture Masking Interferometry, which is presently experience a golden age with implementations at a host of large telescopes around the world. This startlingly durable technique, which turns 144 years old this year, presently sets the standard for the recovery of faint companions within a few resolution elements from the core of a stellar point spread function. This invited review will give a historical introduction and overview of the modern status of the technique, the science being delivered, and prospects for new advances and applications.

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The unlikely rise of masking interferometry: leading the way with 19th century technology

Tuthill

2012

Optical and Infrared Interferometry III

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Health of Indigenous Circumpolar Populations

Snodgrass

2013

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Indigenous circumpolar populations have experienced profound transitions in lifeways over the past half-century as a result of economic development. Although there have been positive aspects of this social transformation, most circumpolar groups today have a triple burden of disease, with a modestly elevated infectious disease level, an elevated and increasing burden of chronic conditions such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, and high rates of mental health-related challenges. The health of contemporary circumpolar populations is not easily characterized because of dramatic regional differences that stem from socioeconomic disparities among nonindigenous groups, individual population histories, lifestyle factors, environmental pollution, and underlying biological variation. Overall health and well-being range from excellent among the Sami of Sweden and Norway to extremely poor among marginalized native populations in northern Russia. Circumpolar groups today are not only threatened by continued regional economic development and pollution, but also uniquely vulnerable to global climate change.

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The unlikely rise of masking interferometry: leading the way with 19th century technology

The unlikely rise of masking interferometry: leading the way with 19th century technology

Health of Indigenous Circumpolar Populations

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