This paper describes several scenarios for the management of digital media, focusing on electronic publishing from mobile environments. The solution proposed in those scenarios is based on MIPAMS (Multimedia Information Protection And Management System), a service-oriented Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform, which enables the creation, registration and distribution of multimedia content i...

In this article, we present a technique for self-calibration of a CCD camera with constant focal distance using a planar scene. The particularity of our technique is the use of triangle equilateral which two vertices are defined from the matches detected in images taken by the camera. Using these vertices to estimate all the projection matrices which are operated with homographies between the i...

This paper contributes to a new abstract domain that combines static numeric analysis and points-to analysis. One particularity of this abstract domain lies in its high degree of modularity, in the sense that the domain is constructed by reusing its combined components as black-boxes. This modularity dramatically eases the proof of its soundness and renders its algorithm intuitive. We have prot...

Methods dealing with bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora are often based on word co-occurrence observation and are by essence more effective when using large corpora. In most cases, specialized comparable corpora are of small size, and this particularity has a direct impact on bilingual terminology extraction results. In order to overcome insufficient data coverage and to make ...

Situs inversus totalis with dextrocardia is a rare congenital anomaly. This is a reverse isomeric form of the thoracic and abdominal viscera or the complete mirror image. Left atrial approach for mitral valve surgery is required particularity in the treatment. Herein, we present a case of situs inversus, dextrocardia, and rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Standing in the left side of the patient,...

We develop foundations for structuring behavioural specifications based on the logic tradition of hidden algebra. This includes an analysis of a number of important technical compositional properties for behavioural signatures, such as pushouts, inclusions and unions, as well as an investigation of algebraic rules for behavioural module composition. As a particularity of behavioural specificati...

History of mathematics occupies itself describing processes of growth and development, whereas philosophy of mathematics is concerned with questions of justification. Both play an essential role within the educational context. But there is a problem because genuine historical studies necessitate ever greater particularity whereas mathematics and philosophy require generality and abstraction. Th...

Since the mid 1990s, the youth transition from school to work for youth in Japan has been changing radically. Youth unemployment and the number of part-time employees are increasing rapidly, as is the participation rate in higher education. The transition process has been prolonged, and the pattern has become diverse and complicated. It seems that ‘youth’ is being restructured profoundly. The c...

We report the case of a 84-year-old admitted with symptoms of congestive heart failure. Ultrasonography revealed a hyperechoic nodule in the left lobe of the liver, with a peripheral hypoechoic rim, multiple irregular hypoechoic nodules in both hepatic lobes, portal vein, inferior vena cava, and right atrium thrombosis. On ultrasonographic and alpha-fetoprotein criteria the case was interpreted...