This article describes the participation of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva at the 2008 ImageCLEF image retrieval benchmark. We concentrated on the two tasks concerning medical imaging. The visual information analysis is based on the GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT). Other information such as textual information and aspect ratio are integrated to improve the results. T...

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

We test the value of unconditional non-monetary gifts as a way to improve health worker performance in a low income country health setting. We randomly assigned health workers to different gift treatments within a program that visited health workers, measured performance and encouraged them to provide high quality care for their patients. We show that unconditional non-monetary gifts improve pe...

Five studies examined whether the practice of regifting--a social taboo--is as offensive to the original givers as potential regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting a gift (receivers) thought that the original giver would be more offended than participants who imagined that their gifts were regifted (givers) reported feeling. Specifically, receivers viewed regifting as similar in ...

1-800-226-6113 to cover gifts from patients as well. There is no problem with taking the occasional plate of cookies or handknitted scarf from a grateful patient, but anything more elaborate or expensive should generally be subject to the same discrimination as gifts from employees. Occasionally, employees will innocently accept a gift that exceeds corporate gift limits because they are unfamil...

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

We propose a general technique to improve the key-guessing step of several attacks on block ciphers. This is achieved by defining and studying some new properties associated S-boxes representing them as special type decision trees that are crucial for finding fine-grained guessing strategies various attack vectors. have proposed implemented algorithm efficiently finds such trees, use it providi...

Growth of Red, GIFT and Supreme Nile tilapia strains were evaluated. Fish were cultivated in indoor recirculation systems in 0.5 m3 tanks with controlled temperatures of 22, 28 and 30°C. Random samples of 20 fish from each strain (10 fish tank) were weighed at day 7, 30, 60, 90 and 120. Exponential model (y=Ae) and Gompertz model (y = Aexp(-Be)) were fitted and the estimates parameters were obt...

The title of my lecture is “Nature’s gift to Science.” It is not a lecture about one scientific journal paying respects to another, but about how the great diversity of the living world can both inspire and serve innovation in biological research. Current ideas of the uses of Model Organisms spring from the exemplars of the past and choosing the right organism for one’s research is as important...

UNLABELLED A number of freely available text mining tools have been put together to extract highly reliable Drosophila gene interaction data from text. The system has been tested with The Interactive Fly, showing low recall (27-34%), but very high precision (93-97%). AVAILABILITY The extracted data and a web interface for submission of texts to GIFT analysis are available at http://gift.cryst...