The morphological Hit-or-Miss Transform (HMT) is a powerful tool for digital image analysis. Its recent extensions to grey level images have proven its ability to solve various template matching problems. In this paper we explore the capacity of various existing approaches to work in very noisy environments and discuss the generic methods used to improve their robustness to noise. We also propo...

In this note, we consider transitive permutation groups of degree 2p, where p is an odd prime, that admit blocks of imprimitivity of size 2 but no blocks of imprimitivity of size p. Primitive permutation groups of degree twice a prime were first considered by Wielandt [6], while more recently, imprimitive permutation groups of degree twice a prime were studied by Lefèvre [2], Marušič [3], and M...

Reading group: Jacques Bayssière (dentist, Montpellier, France) Jean-Pierre Bernard (stomatologist, Geneva, Switzerland) Jean-Loup Coudert (dentist, Lyons, France) Damien Duran (dentist, Toulouse, France) Ahmed Feki (dentist, Strasbourg, France) Jean-Christophe Fricain (dentist, Bordeaux, France) Patrick Girard (dentist, Paris, France) Jean-Claude Harnet (dentist, Strasbourg, France) Jacques Je...

New maps of martian water vapor and hydrogen peroxide have been obtained in November–December 2005, using the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) at the NASA Infra Red Telescope facility (IRTF) at Mauna Kea Observatory. The solar longitude Ls was 332◦ (end of southern summer). Data have been obtained at 1235–1243 cm−1, with a spectral resolution of 0.016 cm−1 (R = 8 × 104). The mea...

It is our pleasure to release this special issue in the honor of the “fourteenth Journées Montoises d’Informatique Théorique” which were held at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in September 2012. The conference welcomed more than 80 participants, and about forty speakers from several countries such as Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Marocco, Russ...

Ramondo A, Ussia GP, Ettori F, Poli A, Brambilla N, Saia F, De Marco F, Colombo A. Safety and efficacy of the subclavian approach for transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the CoreValve revalving system. Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2010;3:359–366. 29. Bapat V, Thomas M, Hancock J, Wilson K. First successful trans-catheter aortic valve implantation through ascending aorta using Edwards SAPIEN ...

Whereas neutrophil elastase, cathepsin G, and proteinase 3 have been known as granule-associated serine proteases of neutrophils for decades, a fourth member, called neutrophil serine protease 4 (NSP4), was just recently described and provisionally characterized. In this study, we identified NSP4 as a novel azurophil granule protein of neutrophils by Western blot analyses of subcellular fractio...

This article shows that IEEE-754 double-precision correct rounding of the most common elementary functions (exp/log, trigonometric and hyperbolic) is achievable on current processors using only double-double-extended arithmetic. This allows to improve by several orders of magnitude the worst case performance of a correctly-rounded mathematical library, compared to the current state of the art. ...

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context celiac disease (cd) is defined as a permanent intolerance to ingested gluten. the intolerance to gluten results in immune-mediated damage of small intestine mucosa manifested by villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasia. these abnormalities resolve with initiationa gluten-free diet. evidence acquisition pubmed, ovid, and google were searched for full text articles published between 1963 and...