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Enunciative Narratology : a French Speciality

This essay is intended as an introduction to “French enunciative narratology” or the theory thus termed on the basis of a certain number of criteria presented in the introduction: the fact that it is produced by linguists; the fact that it aims to remedy the shortcomings of Genettian narratology in the domain of linguistics; the fact that it refers to the work of enunciative linguistics, applie...

Adoption: a forgotten paediatric speciality.

OBJECTIVE To study the medical, emotional, and developmental profile of children being considered for permanent substitute care. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of 100 adoption/permanency medicals. SETTING All children considered by the adoption and permanency panel in Greenwich, south east London, between 1994 and 1998. OUTCOME MEASURES Analysis of medical reports completed using the Bri...

A new speciality is being born.

Corner validation based on extracted corner properties

We developed a method to validate and filter a large set of previously obtained corner points. We derived the necessary relationships between image derivatives and estimates of corner angle, orientation and contrast. Commonly used cornerness measures of the autocorrelation matrix estimates of image derivatives are expressed in terms of these estimated corner properties. A candidate corner is va...

Recommendations on sub-speciality accreditation in cardiology: The Coordination Task Force on Sub-speciality Accreditation of the European Board for the Speciality of Cardiology.

Authors/Task Force Members, Jose Lopez-Sendon, Task Force Chairperson (Spain)*, Peter Mills, EBSC Chairperson (UK), Heinz Weber, EBSC Co-Chairperson (Austria), Rolf Michels, EBSC PastChairperson (The Netherlands), Carlo Di Mario, European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention (EAPCI) Member (UK), Gerasimos S. Filippatos (Greece), Magda Heras (Spain), Members of ESC Working Gr...