Functional recovery of the paretic upper extremity eludes the majority of patients post stroke. Although many tasks require the coordinated participation of both hands, rehabilitation strategies for the most part have focused on the paretic limb. This article reviews the behavioral basis of bimanual coordination both in health and after stroke hemiparesis and reviews clinical research studies t...

We describe a synchronous parsing algorithm that is based on two successive monolingual parses of an input sentence pair. Although the worst-case complexity of this algorithm is and must be O(n) for binary SCFGs, its average-case run-time is far better. We demonstrate that for a number of common synchronous parsing problems, the two-parse algorithm substantially outperforms alternative synchron...

Motion blur is a smearing of the image due to a long aperture time. We show that when two motion-blurred images are available, having different blur directions, image restoration can be improved substantially. In particular, the direction of the motion blur and the PSF (Point Spread Function) of the blur can be computed robustly. 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc) present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an comparative study of systems aiming at normalizing the orthography of French SMS messages: after discussing the linguistic peculiarities of these messages, and possible approaches to their automatic normalization, we present, ...

T he Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) is composed of two areas of interest: noninvasive ventilation and acute critical care. Both of them are mainly focused on respiratory issues related to critically ill patients, aiming to promote the exchange of information between pneumonologists and intensivists, and to foster and encourage education, research a...

Diplochory is seed dispersal by a sequence of two or more steps or phases, each involving a different dispersal agent. Here, we describe five forms of diplochory and derive general characteristics of each phase of seed dispersal. The first and second phases of diplochory offer different benefits to plants. Phase one dispersal often results in escape from density-dependent seed and seedling mort...

The software industry continues to struggle with producing quality software in the most efficient manner. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of newer, innovative development methods, which embrace high levels of collaboration, may be a viable solution to this problem. While collaboration has always been used, these techniques emphasize high levels of interpersonal collaboration during the...

Bridging the gap between atlastin conformations M orin-Leisk et al. describe how a salt bridge drives a con-formational change in the atlas-tin GTPase to promote membrane fusion and ER branching. Atlastins are membrane-anchored members of the dynamin family of GTPases that tether and fuse ER tubules together in order to maintain the organelle's branched morphology. Crystal structures suggest th...