ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) represents a safe endoscopic procedure and serious complications (perforation, haemorrhage, and acute pancreatitis) are usually uncommon. We present the case of a 38-year-old patient with gallstones in the common biliary duct who developed acute pancreatitis after ERCP. One month later a huge fluid collection with necrotic tissue in the righ...

Preference learning has received increasing attention in both machine learning and information retrieval. The goal of preference learning is to automatically learn a model to rank entities (e.g., documents, webpages, products, music, etc.) according to their degrees of relevance. The particularity of preference learning might be that the training data is a set of pairwise preferences between en...

fMRI was used to investigate brain organization for reading in Chinese. Subjects were shown two-character Chinese words. A control task was used to eliminate the non-linguistic visual and motor confounds. Results show that naming of Chinese logographs is characterized by left-lateralized neuronal networks for the processing of orthographic, phonological, and semantic attributes. The orchestrati...

Energy security is an issue that many countries pay more attention to. Cooperation is a good way to solute it. According to the complex system theory, the regional energy cooperation means a state or process of balance system formed by the interaction and behavior coordination between agents. The features of the regional energy cooperation risk include: uncertainty, potential, fuzziness, divers...

The microelectronic department at LIRMM has developed, in the past few years, various types of MEMS sensors. The particularity of our group is to design MEMS that can be integrated either in a System on Chip (SoC) or in a System in Package (SiP) approaches. Therefore, the purpose of this demonstration is to show the feasibility of a silicon attitude sensor using 2 MEMS magnetometers, 2 MEMS the...

Due to recent breakthroughs in hash functions cryptanalysis, some new hash schemes have been proposed. GRINDAHL is a novel hash function, designed by Knudsen, Rechberger and Thomsen and published at FSE 2007. It has the particularity that it follows the RIJNDAEL design strategy, with an efficiency comparable to SHA-256. This paper provides the first cryptanalytic work on this new scheme. We sho...

A particular property of the matched desired impulse response receiver is introduced in this paper, namely, the fact that full exploitation of the diversity is obtained with multiple beamformers when the channel is spatially and timely dispersive. This particularity makes the receiver specially suitable for mobile and underwater communications. The new structure provides better performance than...

Arterial dissections are among the most frequent causes of stroke in young adults. Usually they are associated with trauma, but as the modern imaging tools are evolving, more dissections are being diagnosed and more etiologies are being described. Vertebral artery dissections (VADs) have the distinct particularity that they can cause ischemic stroke (in the brainstem, cerebellum or even the spi...