The European project NewsReader develops advanced technology to process daily news streams in 4 languages, extracting what happened, when and where it happened and who was involved. NewsReader reads massive amounts of news coming from thousands of sources. It compares the results across sources to complement information and determine where the different sources disagree. Furthermore, it merges ...

A multivariate PLS-QSAR study with a data set of 31 cinnamoyl pyrrolidine derivatives described as type 2 matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2) inhibitors is presented in this paper. The variable selection was performed with the Ordered Predictors Selection (OPS) algorithm. The PLS model presented six descriptors and three Latent Variables (LV) that cumulated 71.845% of variance. Leave-N-out (LNO) ...

In this paper, we focus on real-time relative hand depth estimation with cluttered backgrounds and variable illumination for a target application to hand pushing and pulling detection. The task is characterized by a lack of consistent internal contrast in the hand combined with the complex background. We adopt a detection-and-registration strategy to predict frame-toframe scaling factor and mak...

This paper presents the performance of DSP, image and 3D applications on recent general-purpose microprocessors using streaming SIMD ISA extensions (integer and oating point). The 9 benchmarks benchmark we use for this evaluation have been optimized for DLP and caches use with SIMD extensions and data prefetch. The result of these cumulated optimizations is a speedup that ranges from 1.9 to 7.1...

The acoustic emission of fracture precursors is measured in heterogeneous materials. The statistical behaviour of these precursors is studied as a function of the load features and the geometry. We find that the time interval δt between events (precursors) and events energies ε are power law distributed and that the exponents of these power laws depend on the load history and on the material. I...

This article first introduces an extension of the classical cumulative constraint: each task is no more a rectangle but rather a sequence of contiguous trapezoid sub-tasks with variable duration and heights. The resource function is no more constant but is a positive or negative piecewise linear function of time. Finally, a task is no more pre-assigned to one resource, but to a task corresponds...

AIM The assessment of links of accumulated traumatic events of a sexual nature, recollected from the past, with the current functioning of the patients in the area of sexual life and relationship. MATERIAL AND METHODS Comorbidity of memories of traumatic sexual events from childhood and puberty in patients with the features of their current partner relationships and sexual life were analyzed ...

Pyrethroids are a class of insecticides used widely for vector control programs. Acute pyrethroid poisoning is rare, but well documented, whereas effects of cumulative exposure are insufficiently described, including possible negative effect on glucose regulation. The objective of this study was to investigate an association between exposure to pyrethroids and abnormal glucose regulation (predi...