tum and silk-worm gut sutures were introduced. I made 110 attempt to deal radically with the hydrocele which had been reduced (i.e., the fluid) previous to operation, and which has not since reappeared. The doughy swelling referred to was also untouched. From 16th May (operation) till 22nd all went well, then the temperature began to fluctuate, and the doughy swelling rapidly increased in size,...

In this position paper, we argue that an important piece of the system administration puzzle has largely been left untouched by researchers. This piece involves mechanisms and policies to identify as well as collect missing instrumentation data; the missing data is essential to generate the knowledge required to address certain administrative tasks satisfactorily and efficiently. We introduce t...

We look at the possibility of superinflationary behavior in a class of anisotropic Type-IIB superstring cosmologies in the context of Pre-big Bang scenario and find that there exists a rather narrow range of parameters for which these models inflate. We then show that, although in general this behavior is left untouched by the introduction of a Ramond-Ramond axion field through a SL(2,R) rotati...

Since the ancient Greeks, we have learned that the pathophysiology of the human diseases relies on blood-borne humoral factors. This was the case with the sepsis myocardial depression, whose associated morbidity and mortality remained untouched during the last decades. Despite the growing knowledge of the possible involved mechanisms, our understanding of this serious condition is still in its ...

A number of talks at this school have been dedicated to the density of topological defects formed at a phase transition. Here, I will mostly be concerned with the distribution of defects formed at a phase transition. I will start with a description of the usual procedure to study the formation of defects (focussing on the case of strings), point out some shortcomings, and then move on to descri...

This paper presents an unsupervised topic-based language model adaptation method which specializes the standard minimum information discrimination approach by identifying and combining topic-specific features. By acquiring a topic terminology from a thematically coherent corpus, language model adaptation is restrained to the sole probability re-estimation of n-grams ending with some topic-speci...

From a carrier perspective, the possibility of turning a permanent connection (PC) into a soft permanent connection (SPC) and vice versa, without actually affecting data plane traffic being carried over it, is a valuable option. In other terms, such operation can be seen as a way of transferring the ownership and control of an existing and in-use data plane connection between the management pla...