User attitudes towards a hospital virtual nurse agent are described, as evaluated in a randomized clinical trial involving 764 hospital patients. Patients talked to the agent for an average of 29 minutes while in their hospital beds, receiving their customized hospital discharge instructions from the agent and a printed booklet. Patients reported very high levels of satisfaction with and trust ...

In 1984 Scarsini introduced a set of axioms for measures of concordance of ordered pairs of continuous random variables. We exhibit an extension of these axioms to ordered n-tuples of continuous random variables, n ≥ 2. We derive simple properties of such measures, give examples, and discuss the relation of the extended axioms to multivariate measures of concordance previously discussed in the ...

Cette belle edition bilingue d’un manuscrit compose entre 1905 et 1913 permet de decouvrir la vie l’œuvre du paysan barde breton Julien Godest (1849-1933). On peut faire un parallele ce texte – son auteur Jean-Marie Deguignet (1834-1905), dont le Histoire ma vie, ecrit 1898 1905, a connu immense succes lorsqu’il ete publie en 1998 sous titre Memoires bas-breton. Les deux hommes ont grandi dans ...

Catalogue bilingue francais-persan de 114 objets, designes globalement comme aegyptiaca conserves dans les musees Teheran (71), Persepolis (18) et Suse (25). Le corpus rassemble des objets varies, certains deja bien connus mais surtout nombreux inedits sortis reserves ces musees, reunis en quatre categories, chacune introduite par une presentation qui s’averera particulierement utile pour l’ira...

Davis showed that the topological concordance class of a link in the 3-sphere is uniquely determined by its Alexander polynomial for 2-component links with Alexander polynomial one. A similar result for knots with Alexander polynomial one was shown earlier by Freedman. We prove that these two cases are the only exceptional cases, by showing that the link concordance class is not determined by t...

We give necessary conditions of a surface-knot to be ribbon concordant to another, by introducing a new variant of the cocycle invariant of surface-knots in addition to using the invariant already known. We demonstrate that twist-spins of some torus knots are not ribbon concordant to their orientation reversed images.

We study the eta-invariants of links and show that in many cases they form link concordance invariants, in particular that many eta-invariants vanish for slice links. This result contains and generalizes previous invariants by Smolinsky and Cha–Ko. We give a formula for the eta-invariant for boundary links. In several intersting cases this allows us to show that a given link is not slice. We sh...

Cette publication est un dictionnaire bilingue mano–français, avec une esquisse de phonologie et grammaire du mano, index français–mano. Le se base principalement sur les données dialecte maa la Guinée. Il contient plus 3200 mots expressions en mano traduits français, des variantes dialectales, formes grammaticales irregulières, exemples illustratifs, collocations, idiomatiques. Avec déviations...

Dans les écoles situées en réseau d’éducation prioritaire, l’association AFaLaC crée un espace interculturel, où familles se retrouvent autour d’albums traduits dans leurs langues. À partir de l’analyse empirique quatre entretiens réalisés auprès des parents, nous discuterons enjeux cet investi psychologiquement par qui l...