274 Immune reactivity to neurofi lament proteins in the clinical staging of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis F Puentes, J Topping, J Kuhle, B J van der Star, A Douiri, G Giovannoni, D Baker, S Amor, A Malaspina Multiple sclerosis 279 Mycophenolate mofetil in multiple sclerosis: a multicentre retrospective study on 344 patients L Michel, S Vukusic, J De Seze, F Ducray, J C Ongagna, F Lefrère, M Jac...

In this study, we tackled the reduction of computational complexity by pruning the igo game tree using the potential model based on the knowledge expression of igo. The potential model considers go stones as potentials. Specific potential distributions on the go board result from each arrangement of the stones on the go board. Pruning using the potential model categorizes the legal moves into e...

This paper addresses the problem of generalizing temporal data based on calendar (date and time) attributes. The proposed method is based on a domain generalization graph, i.e., a lattice deening a partial order that represents a set of generalization relations for the attribute. We specify the components of a domain generalization graph suited to calendar attributes. We deene granularity, subs...

Recent DNN pruning algorithms have succeeded in reducing the number of parameters in fully connected layers, often with little or no drop in classification accuracy. However, most of the existing pruning schemes either have to be applied during training or require a costly retraining procedure after pruning to regain classification accuracy. We start by proposing a cheap pruning algorithm for f...

The logic programming community has a love{hate relationship with operators for pruning the search space of logic programs such as cut, commit, once, conditionals and variations on these. Pruning operators typically are not declarative, result in incom-pleteness and/or unsoundness, decrease readability and exibility of code and make program analysis and transformation more diicult. Despite this...

Zero-mode-waveguides (ZMWs) are subwavelength apertures on metal films. They are fabricated at the CNF with a lift-off process using electron-beam lithography (Figure 1). We further process these structures for biological studies by topping the surface with polyethylene glycol, and selectively coating the inside of the ZMWs with 2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP) functionalized polymer. Using fluorescence...

On a two-dimensional cake, there are m pairwise-disjoint toppings. It is required to cut the cake to m + b pieces, such that each topping is entirely contained in a unique piece, and the total number of empty pieces (b, ”blanks”) is minimized. The minimal number of blanks naturally depends on the geometric constraints of the cake and its pieces. I present tight bounds on the number of blanks wh...

In general, the quality of fruits depends on local conditions experienced by the fruit during its development. In cotton, fruit quality, and more specifically the quality of the fibre in the fruit, depends on interactions between fruit position in the plant architecture, temperature and agronomic practices, such as sowing time, mulching with plastic film and topping of the plant's main stem and...