The latter half of the 1990s saw much of French political debate focusing on a series of issues arising from the development and implementation of the PACS (Pacte civil de solidarité) legislation. Opponents and proponents clashed over questions related to the potential impact the PACS was perceived as having on family structures, filiation, and citizenship of the contemporary métropole. It is t...

Two approaches are employed to deal with false sharing in software DSMs. Although single-writer is simple, it causes the ping-pong effect of the data page thrashing. In other hand, multiple-writer approach, which is eeective in re-duing the amount of page transfer, suuers from the high cost. This paper proposes a new approach to handle multiple writers in software DSMs called limited multiple-w...

In this communication we propose an approach for the writer verification task. The difficulty of this task lies first, in the decision making between the two assumptions which model the problem: "Do the two writings come from the same writer ?" or "Do the two writings come from different writers?" and second, in the evaluation of the error risk associated to this decision. We have called upon a...

anton pavlovich chekhov is a russian writer and playwright with considerable contribution in the expansion of world literature including iran. many theater critics and directors believe that akbar radi was influenced by anton chekhov's works, and by using chekhov's achievements and expanding them he has written his own unique and noble plays. this study investigates general properties...

participants in the workshop where this chapter was first presented and workshops at GATE-CNRS (Lyon) and LEST-CNRS (Aix-en-Provence) for their comments on earlier versions. If, despite all this help, mistakes remain, they are entirely my responsibility. Abstract According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds:...

JAYASHREE SUBRAHMONIA IBM T.J. Watson Research, P.O. Box 218 / Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, U. S. A. E-mail: [email protected] This paper addresses the problem of improving the performance of an online, writer-independent, large-vocabulary, unconstrained, handwriting recognition system by clustering writers with similar writing styles. Recognition performance is enhanced by identify...