President’s Report / Rapport du président

Rapport technique du projet OGRE

This repport concerns automatic understanding of (french) iterative sentences, i.e. sentences where one single verb has to be interpreted by a more or less regular plurality of events. A linguistic analysis is proposed along an extension of Reichenbach's theory, several formal representations are considered and a corpus of 18000 newspaper extracts is described.

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Well-structured transition systems (WSTS's) are a general class of innnite state systems for which decidability results rely on the existence of a well-quasi-ordering between states that is compatible with the transitions. In this article, we provide an extensive treatment of the WSTS idea and show several new results. Our improved deenitions allow many examples of classical systems to be seen ...

Jean-Pierre Ramis, président,

rapport sur la realization du four a coke

le but etait de realiser un four pour pouvoir consommer, comme combustible, les debris du coke metallurgique de la siderurgie d'isphahan. ainsi, deux fours ont ete construits; l'un pour chauggage domestigue et l'autre, permettant d'atteindre une temperature plus elevee, pour les unites industrielles

Œdème aigue du poumon en rapport avec un myxome enclavé dans la valve mitrale

Left atrial myxomas are benign tumors are benign tumors that can be life-threatening depending on their location. We report the case of a 70 years old female patient, enrolled in our training program for the management of respiratory distress associated with acute hemodynamic pulmonary edema. Echocardiography objectified mitral valve myxoma associated with left atrial dilation and pulmonary art...