The Silicon Drift Detectors will equip two of the six cylindrical layers of high precision position sensitive detectors in the ITS of the ALICE experiment at LHC. In this paper we report the beam test results of a SDD irradiated with 1 GeV electrons. The aim of this test was to verify the radiation tolerance of the device under an electron fluence equivalent to twice particle fluence expected d...

We present a method of extracting functional semantic knowledge from corpora of descriptions of visual scenes. Such knowledge is required for interpretation and generation of spatial descriptions in tasks such as visual search. We identify semantic classes of target and landmark objects related by each preposition by abstracting over WordNet taxonomy. The inclusion of such knowledge in visual s...

To the Editor: Review of undergraduate mental health education is timely, given the growing disease burden of mental disorders and the need to better equip doctors for their central role in treatment. Curricula should prepare all doctors with competencies in recognising and treating mental health problems,1 because these occur frequently in patients across all branches of medicine, leading to p...

Ambient intelligence is the driving force of the new digital world. The trend is to equip everyday life objects even inside home environment with intelligence, which will make our lives easier and more productive. Wireless mesh networking (WMN) has emerged as a promising concept to meet such challenges. This paper considers the problem of achieving QoS inside home networks relying on a wireless...

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We propose a numerical abstract domain based on parallelotopes. A parallelotope is a polyhedron whose constraint matrix is squared and invertible. The domain of parallelotopes is a fully relational abstraction of the Cousot and Halbwachs’ polyhedra abstract domain, and does not use templates. We equip the domain of parallelotopes with all the necessary operations for the analysis of imperative ...

Your submissions to this Special Issue "Food Microbiology and Safety" of Foods-a new open access journal-are welcome. We understand there are no foodborne illness-free zones in the world. Therefore, a proper understanding of foodborne pathogens and the factors that impact their growth, survival and pathogenesis would equip us with tools to ensure global food safety. This Special Issue publishes...

Proliferation of multiagent application in business domains prompts increasing studies in MIBIS (Multiagent-based Integrative Business Information Systems) development. Recently, MibML (Multiagent-based Integrative Business Modeling Language) has been proposed as a conceptual-modeling grammar for the MIBIS universe. In this paper, we investigate the MibML grammar from the perspective of the BWW...

Approaches to individual psychotherapy with incarcerated adolescents often discuss cognitive-behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods. The intention of this article is to promote a transpersonal approach to working with this population and to equip mental health professionals and interns with diverse psychotherapeutic methods that inform sound clinical practice. A transpersonal approach ...

Using maps due to Ozeki and Broué-Enguehard between graded spaces of invariants for certain finite groups and the algebra of modular forms of even weight we equip these invariants spaces with a differential operator which gives them the structure of a Rankin-Cohen algebra. A direct interpretation of the Rankin-Cohen bracket in terms of transvectant for the group SL(2,C) is given.