Daisies Vector

Daisies vector

The term “daisy” refers to a variety of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family. Commonly called daisies include the oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum xsuperbum) and English, or true, daisy (Bellis perennis).

Flowers in a daisy plant head are a composite of 15 to 30 white ray flowers surrounding a yellow center. The flower head is surrounded by spoon-shaped leaves and grows in a single stem near the ground, among short grass.

A daisy is a flowering plant of the aster family that is commonly used in landscaping. They have spoon-shaped leaves that form a rosette at the base of the plant and grow to about two feet tall.

Daisies also have petals that are formed in spirals, a feature of the Fibonacci sequence. Field daisies have 34 petals, but other members of the species can have 13, 21, 55 or even 89.

Daisy tea is a popular herbal remedy made from dried flowers of the daisy, chamomile, valerian root, and mint leaves. It is a mild laxative, stimulant of bile secretion and headache reliever.

The APS Enhanced Reading Group is working with the American Physical Society and DAISY to enable APS journals to be published in DAISY XML, making them accessible to people who are blind or have print disabilities. The APS XML articles are automatically transformed into DAISY using a simple XSLT (eXtensible Style Lan-guage Transform) utility made by Design Science, Inc.

A DAISY XML article can be read on any computer with a web browser and a screen reader that supports MathML and SVG. This process should only require negligible additional human labor, and will be cheaper than the current process for making PDF files available to APS journal subscribers.