In lamellar phases of ternary amphiphilic mixtures~ passages are tube-like connections of neighboring oil(or water-) layers. Passages form spontaneously due to the thermal fluctuations of the monolayers (or membranes), which separate oil and water. Analogous membrane conformations also exist in binary amphiphilic mixtures~ where the membranes are amphiphilic bilayers. We study the shape and the...

Testing the comprehension of spoken language is of primary importance. A lot of factors may affect the performance of EFL learners on listening comprehension tests, among which are the use of visual advance organizers, and types of listening passages (dialogues or monologues). As B-Ikeguchi (1997) states a few studies have been carried out on the effects of these factors on EFL learners’ listen...

background : telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein, which adds telomeric repeats onto the 3’ end of existing telomers at the end of chromosomes in eukaryotes. one hypothesis states that telomere length may function as a mitotic clock, therefore expression of telomerase activity in cancer cells may be a necessary and essential step for tumor development and progression. methods : the detectability o...

1 Overview For the 1998 round of TREC, the MDS group, long-term participants at the conference, jointly participated with newcomers CSIRO. Together we completed runs in three tracks: ad-hoc, interactive, and speech. 2 Ad-hoc task In TREC-5 we used document retrieval based on arbitrary passages 8, 9], or xed-length passages that could start at any word position. Although far from the best runs i...

This paper describes our participation to the Entrance Exams Task of CLEF 2014’s Question Answering Track. The goal is to answer multiple-choice questions on short texts. Our system first retrieves passages relevant to the question, through lexical expansion involving a structured use of the Simple English Wiktionary and WordNet. Then it extracts predicate-argument structures (PAS) from each an...

“Passages” is an immersive, multimodal, user-controlled artistic interface. The installation consists of a 3D interactive virtual environment, stereoscopic projection screen, and a specialized haptic interface device (vibrotactile dataglove). Both the glove and the users’ glasses are tracked by a long-range Polhemus electromagnetic sensor in real time, allowing kinesthetic exploration of the vi...