If you are attending a broad-topic meeting, many of your poster-viewing audience may not be familiar with your field. The introduction section of your poster may actually be the most interesting to them. A simple figure that introduces the viewer to your system can go miles towards keeping your viewer’s interest and helping them understand the context of your experimental question. I made this figure to introduce the concept of cytoadherence of blood cells during cerebral malaria for a student working in the Aliberti Lab.
During cerebral malaria, infected blood cells start to adhere to the endothelial cells lining blood vessels in the brain. This disrupts normal blood flow and can lead to death of the patient. A simple figure like this costs $30 and adds life to your poster.
Here is how the whole poster came out:I have noticed a popular link on Social Media sites that leads to an interactive map. This map shows colorful circles over a world map. With link titles like, “One map sums up the damage caused by the anti-vaccination movement,”it gives the illusion that these explosive circles are the recent result of reduced vaccinations.
I am extremely pro-vaccine, but this is not the type of chart we should look at for the subject of vaccines and preventable dissease. Here are some of the key issues with this map:
“Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are expected to hold a media tele-briefing at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to address the recent spike in measles cases in the U.S. As of November 30, there have been 175 cases reported in 2013.”--WXYZ Deroit News
I believe that this is shown as a single dot in the center of the US, as if it was a single outbreak in Kansas.
“4 Measles cases confirmed in Orange County: Orange County Health Officials are warning about a measles epidemic that they say is putting everyone in Central Florida at risk.”--WKMG local 6 Orlando
I made my own chart to address the rates of vaccination and illness rates. I choose to use the US because I live here, and I choose the MMR vaccine because I think that Rubella, Measles, and Mumps are very serious diseases that should be eliminated. My mother contracted Rubella (German measles) while pregnant with my sister in the 1960’s, before the rubella vaccine was available. Beth Ann was born severely retarded, deaf, and nearly blind. This is an extremely serious disease that many young people haven’t even heard of.
For my graph, I used data collected by the CDC and WHO. I took into account the changing population of US by presenting the data as cases per million Americans. You can see my raw data and detailed list of sources here .
Click here to view a large PDF of this graph.
I have needed to calculate the area of a shape in order to determine the acreage of a perspective property plot, and to measure the length of a pen-tool-traced transgenic seedling root. Measuring area, perimeter, and length is not built into Illustrator, but there is an easy work around.
This technique should work for all recent (perhaps all) versions of Adobe Illustrator. Telegraphics makes a nice plug-in for finding area and lengthlength in Illustrator, but it doesn’t work for the lastest versions: Adobe Illustrator CS6 nor Adobe Illustrator CC. The technique I will describe here is just as easy to use, and more universal.
alert("Area & Length (inches)\nArea: " + (Math.abs(app.activeDocument.selection[0].area/5184).toFixed(3)) + "\nLength: " + (app.activeDocument.selection[0].length/72).toFixed(3));Save the file as AreaLength.JS
Then you might want this script to appear on the quick menu within illustrator so that you don’t have to navigate through your files every time you use it.
Here is where I put it on my PC to successfully make it show up in the menu:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC (64 Bit)\Presets\en_US\Scripts
This script rounds the decimal points to 3. If you want more or less, you can open AreaLength.JS in notepad/text editor and change “toFixed(3)” to a different number. I would like to thank the Adobe community for the tips on rounding.
Change the text in the file.
alert("Area & Length (centimeters)\nArea: " + (Math.abs(app.activeDocument.selection[0].area/803.521617).toFixed(3)) + "\nLength: " + (app.activeDocument.selection[0].length/28.346567).toFixed(3));
alert("Area & Length (millimeters)\nArea: " + (Math.abs(app.activeDocument.selection[0].area/8.03521617).toFixed(3)) + "\nLength: " + (app.activeDocument.selection[0].length/2.8346567).toFixed(3));
You can change it other units too. The default would give you the units in px, and there are 72 px per inch. Thus, in the ‘inch’ unit script we take the length is divided by 72, and the area is divided by 5184, which is 72 squared. If you make a new script, I recommend testing it on a shape of known size. You can do this by selecting the rectangle tool, single clicking once on the canvas. A dialog will pop up. Type in “1 cm” for width and “1 cm” for height (for example).
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