L’association fait le poison

Le hachage parfait fait-il un parfait test de sous-typage?

Subtype tests are an important issue in the implementation of object-oriented programming languages. Many techniques have been proposed but none of them perfectly fullfills the five requirements that we have identified: constant-time, linear-space, multiple inheritance, dynamic loading and inlining. In this paper, we propose to apply a well known technique, perfect hashing, and we show that it ...

Protocol for the Femoroacetabular Impingement Trial (FAIT)

AIMS Femoroacetabular Junction Impingement (FAI) describes abnormalities in the shape of the femoral head-neck junction, or abnormalities in the orientation of the acetabulum. In the short term, FAI can give rise to pain and disability, and in the long-term it significantly increases the risk of developing osteoarthritis. The Femoroacetabular Impingement Trial (FAIT) aims to determine whether o...

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Increasing cognitive dissonance by a fait accompli.

A RECENT theory by Festinger (1957) attempts to state the conditions under which discrepancies between cognitions produce "cognitive dissonance," a state of tension that motivates the individual to reduce or eliminate the discrepancies. One of the conditions that may be necessary for the creation of cognitive dissonance is that there be some element of volition. The theory states, for example, ...

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