This work aims at assessing the performances of four models for their relative merits in estimating diffuse solar radiation on tilted planes for a southern location (Reunion Island). This comparative study benefits from a sound and consistent experimental set-up and is more detailed than the previous research works as 14 inclined planes are available for testing.

BACKGROUND Visual inspection of cervix with acetic acid (VIA) is offered at 252 centers in 64 districts of Bangladesh. VIA+ve women are managed at colposcopy clinics of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and 14 Medical College Hospitals (MCHs). This research work has been supported by 'UICC Cancer Prevention Campaign' programme. OBJECTIVES This study explored the role of prin...

Advertising campaigns are closely linked to elements that capture the consumer's attention by using symbols, drawings, photos, and colors in a purposeful combination of image constituents. Therefore, textual genre advertisement associates several modules for achievement its communicative purpose. In this perspective, study proved construction visual texts advertisements magazine Revista Espaço ...

As part of our efforts to complete the software CODYRUN validation, we chose as test building a block of flats constructed in Reunion Island, which has a humid tropical climate. The sensitivity analysis allowed us to study the effects of both diffuse and direct solar radiation on our model of this building. With regard to the choice and location of sensors, this stage of the study also led us t...

and the controversy raging round this problem. Brooke (1937) of the 'Excision of Patella' fame recently followed up 54 of his cases treated 5 to 15 years previously. His faith in the efficiency of this operation was reiterated and reinforced as the result of this follow-up. An immediate controversy followed the appearance of this paper in which Max Page (1946), Bankart (1946), Tippett (1946)" a...

This paper presents initial values of global and diffuse luminous efficacy at Saint-Pierre (Reunion Island). Firstly, data used were measured for a period of 6 months, from February to June 2008. During this period, all defined day-types have been studied (clear, cloudy and intermediate). Generally, the meteorological database of Reunion does not contain information for illuminance values. On t...

The advertisement placement problem deals with space and time sharing by advertisements on the Internet. Consider a Web page containing a rectangular display area (e.g., a banner) in which advertisements may appear. The display area can be utilized eeciently by allowing several small ads to appear simultaneously side by side, as well as by cycling through a schedule of ads, allowing diierent ad...

We adapt a probabilistic latent variable model, namely GaP (Gamma-Poisson) [6], to ad targeting in the contexts of sponsored search (SS) and behaviorally targeted (BT) display advertising. We also approach the important problem of ad positional bias by formulating a one-latent-dimension GaP factorization. Learning from click-through data is intrinsically large scale, even more so for ads. We sc...