This paper presents an approach to human-agent mixed teams for distributed team training, demonstrated through the integration of the domain independent multiagent architecture CAST with the military command-andcontrol simulation software DDD (Distributed Dynamic Decision-making). We extend the CAST architecture in a way such that agents can replace any number of teammates on a DDD team. To cap...

although acrometastases are rare but clinically they are considered important. their etiology is quite different from the metastases to other sites; bronchogenic carcinoma is by far the most frequent case. the prognosis is always similar to metastatic bronchial cancer with an average survival of three months. treatment may involve distal digital amputation or antalgic radiotherapy. the main dif...

We study the well-posedness of initial value problems for scalar functional algebraic and differential functional equations of mixed type. We provide a practical way to determine whether such problems admit unique solutions that grow at a specified rate. In particular, we exploit the fact that the answer to such questions is encoded in an integer n. We show how this number can be tracked as a p...

In CG community, many kinds of physical-based (impulse-based) approaches such as Mirtich’s and Baraff’s ones have been proposed for showing dynamic animation. However, because they generate and calibrate only an impulsive force, i.e., an area of force distribution, the impulsive forces are not always precisely calibrated. Moreover, since they do not deal with any exact impulse (force distributi...

1Department of Internal Medicine and 2Department of Ophthalmology, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Descartes, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. Benjamin Terrier, MD; Achille Aouba, MD; Boris Bienvenu, MD, PhD; Coralie Bloch-Queyrat, MD, PhD; Emmanuelle Delair, MD; Jasmina Mallet, MD; Alfred Mahr, MD, PhD; Loïc Guillevin, MD. B. Terri...

We describe a case of a delayed presentation of a traumatic soft tissue mallet injury to the distal phalanx of the hallux in a teenager. Reports of this rare injury are sparse and there is no consensus in their treatment. This injury was treated with open repair of the tendon using a Mitek suture anchor, and stabilization with a 1.2-mm K-wire and extension splinting for 8 weeks. Following this ...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a simple and intuitive treatment method using an 18-gauge needle for mallet fractures that involve more than one-third of the articular surface. We performed a retrospective review of 17 patients who underwent closed reduction using an 18-gauge needle with transfixation of Kirschner wire between March 2007 and October 2013. According to the Wehbe and Sc...

Music conveys emotions by means of pitch, rhythm, loudness, and many other musical qualities. It was recently confirmed that timbre also has direct association with emotion, for example, that a horn is perceived as sad and a trumpet heroic in even isolated instrument tones. As previous work has mainly focused on sustaining instruments such as bowed strings and winds, this paper presents an expe...