Interpreting ambiguous situations is not a purely data-driven process but can be biased towards positive interpretations by top-down influences. The present study tries to identify the underlying processes of these top-down influences. There are two separable types of processes that can be influenced by motivational biases: A perceptual bias affects information uptake whereas a judgmental bias ...

Everyone is aware of the special relationship that man has with the coast; from the beginning of mankind, humans have been attracted to the littoral zone for the construction of settlements and the use of its resources. Subsequently, humans have evolved, leaving an increasingly large footprint on this medium. Hence, there is a need to deepen our knowledge to protect against the threat that we o...

The authors propose to define the epileptic syndromes with continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWS) as a cognitive or behavioral impairment acquired during childhood, associated with a strong activation of the interictal epileptiform discharges during NREM sleep--whatever focal or generalized--and not related to another factor than the presence of CSWS. The type of syndrome will be ...

Models of the fit of IT systems to their organization are predominantly static contingency models. A rational, top-down dynamic is assumed: first from strategy to structure, then to IT, management processes mid work roles and skills. Recent research has presented "deviant" pathways to fit as a challenge to this rational view of dynamics. This paper extends our understanding of dynamics by expos...

Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue sarcoma and the most common sarcoma of childhood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution of age and sex of patients, pathological subtypes and to determine the role of staging and classification of RMS on treatment outcome. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included patients who diagnosed with RMS ...

We classify weighted forests up to the blowing-up and blowing-down operations which are relevant for the study of algebraic surfaces. The word “graph” in this text means a finite undirected graph such that no edge connects a vertex to itself and at most one edge joins any given pair of vertices. A weighted graph is a graph in which each vertex is assigned an integer (called its weight). Two ope...

A graph is said to be symmetric if its automorphism group is transitive on its arcs. A complete classification is given of pentavalent symmetric graphs of order 24p for each prime p. It is shown that a connected pentavalent symmetric graph of order 24p exists if and only if p=2, 3, 5, 11 or 17, and up to isomorphism, there are only eleven such graphs.

In fractal compression technique, an image is partitioned into sub blocks called range blocks, each of which is encoded by matching it (after an appropriate affine transformation) with a block chosen from a large pool of domain blocks, which is constructed from the image itself. The problem is that the encoding is very time consuming because of the need to search in a very large domain pool. Ou...

Information retrieval is an important task that requires specific attention in the biomedical domain where controlled vocabularies are available to characterize and organize textual content. A recent article published in Bioinformatics (Trieschnigg et al., 2009) confirms that there is a continued interest in the community to address this problem and achieve ‘improved document retrieval’. As sho...