The 16th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) took place in San Francisco, USA at the end of January 2013. With a faculty of experts from across the world, this congress provided a wealth of insight into cutting-edge research and technological development. This review article intends to provide a highlight of what represented the most significan...

Graphical models with higher order factors are an important tool for pattern recognition that has recently attracted considerable attention. Inference based on such models is challenging both from the view point of software design and optimization theory. In this article, we use the new C++ template library OpenGM to empirically compare inference algorithms on a set of synthetic and real-world ...

In information retrieval on classical structured documents, one problem consists in browsing the result space using the structure of the documents. Taking into account other links between doxels increases this problem. In this article, we consider relative exhaustivity and relative specificity values computed on non compositional linked doxels to index the corpus ; adding this information to th...

This article intends to reflect the dynamism of the process of liberalization currently taking place in the Spanish and European electricity sector. It expresses the need for the utilization of an information system which may help companies in this sector make swifter purchases, sales and bids, study market trends, in addition to facilitating cost studies and forecasts for the distribution and ...

Growing demand of invisible braces byesthetically conscious patients has led to remarkable inventions in materials for esthetic labial archwires. Archwires with excellent optical clarity and mechanical properties comparable to conventional archwires have been manufactured by almost all the leading companies of orthodontic products in the past two decades, but their clinical use is still limited...

This paper proposes a modeling environment that intends to support service collaboration. In this platform, technology independence is a very important goal to be achieved. Model Driven Architecture and metamodels are some of the resources to provide such independence. Based on [1] and [2], this article offers a modified software development process that would leverage MDA, and studies a web ap...

The problem of Syndrome Decoding was proven to be NP-complete in 1978 and, since then, quite a few cryptographic applications have had their security rely on the (provable) difficulty of solving some instances of it. However, in most cases, the instances to be solved follow some specific constraint: the target weight is a function of the dimension and length of the code. In these cases, is the ...

This paper presents the evolution of the ideas contained in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and how these were captured in textual form in different drafts of the agreement. As a witness to this evolution, the author intends to present a description and interpretation from his perspective. This paper does not intend to reopen the discussion on matters already decided in the Paris Agreement.

Case reports describe a patient with unusual or unexpected features. They represent the oldest type of medical publication. They are about generating a new hypothesis and not about proving a hypothesis. Hence, despite being considered as the lowest level of evidence; they continue to be relevant for clinical practice, research and medical education. This article intends to provide guidance rega...