Encore quelques Violariées nouvelles d'Extrême-Orient

Résultats actuels d'une étude sérologique de quelques virus de type O apparus au Moyen-orient et en Europe

Nouvelles perspectives en extraction d'information

Les techniques dites d'extraction d'information (EI) ont connu un essor considérable ces dix dernières années. L'EI consiste à extraire de documents des informations précises et à les structurer sous une forme prédéfinie. Il s'agit en général de remplir des formulaires donnant certaines caractéristiques concernant des entités ou des événements évoqués dans les textes ainsi que des relations ent...

Interactive Construction of EnCOrE

One of the major challenges of current ITS research is scaling up to real world learning scenarios. Another one, strictly interwoven, is to integrate human learning with other human activities, such as constructing theories or performing experiments, as it is the case in e-Science. The paper describes the results of the first phase of an ambitious project: EnCOrE for building and using an Encyc...

EnCoRe: Ensuring Consent and Revocation

We introduce refinement checking for privacy policies expressed in P3P and XACML. Our method involves a translation of privacy policies to a set of process specifications in CSP, which describe how the privacy policy is enforced. The technique is described through an example involving medical data collected by a biobank.

FDA Reform: Déjà Vu Encore

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) creates the climate for the development of new drugs and clinical research. A 30 year struggle to bring drugs to the market more rapidly culminated in the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). While drug review times have shortened, concerns about drug safety possibly associated with more rapid reviews have led FDA and Congress to tighten safety req...