This paper discusses a generic query tool that enables an end user to query a metadata store through filters that impose search criteria on attributes. The Metadata Query Tool (MQT) is generic in the sense that it dynamically creates its user interface, based on configuration files that define the metadata scheme and the query functionalities. Although the tool can in principle be used to query...

We relate factorization of bivariate polynomials to singularities of projective plane curves. We prove that adjoint polynomials of a polynomial F ∈ k[x, y] with coefficients in a field k permit to recombinations of the factors of F (0, y) induced by both the absolute and rational factorizations of F , and so without using Hensel lifting. We show in such a way that a fast computation of adjoint ...

Inaugurated in February 1919 to provide assistance to mothers and children from underprivileged social groups, the nearly century-old Maternidade Pro Matre maternity hospital was an initiative of physician and philanthropist Fernando Magalhães and of feminist Stella de Carvalho Guerra Duval, with the support of society women from Rio de Janeiro. Its creation was part of a mother-child assistanc...

Citation: Moreau K, Clemenceau A, Le Moing V, Messika-Zeitoun D, Andersen PS, Bruun NE, Skov RL, Couzon F, Bouchiat C, Erpelding ML, van Belkum A, Bossé Y, Duval X, Vandenesch F, the French VIRSTA-AEPEI, COFRASA Study Groups and the Danish DANSAB Study Group (2018) Human Genetic Susceptibility to Native Valve Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis in Patients With S. aureus Bacteremia: Genome-Wide ...

Geometrical optics is extended so as to provide a model for spinning light rays via the coadjoint orbits of the Euclidean group characterized by color and spin. This leads to a theory of “geometrical spinoptics” in refractive media. Symplectic scattering yields generalized Snell-Descartes laws that include the recently discovered optical Hall effect. MSC : 78A05; 37J15; 70H40 Preprint : CPT-200...

The 2-D pyramidal image decomposition has been widely used in various image processing applications [6]. In this paper, we introduce filter bank implementations of a nonlinear multiresolution image representation based on local contrast measure. Following the work of Duval-Destin [3, 1] for visual contrast sensitivity, we define multiscale contrast coefficients by scaling the wavelet transform ...

We present a version of the weighted cellular matrix-tree theorem that is suitable for calculating explicit generating functions for spanning trees of highly structured families of simplicial and cell complexes. We apply the result to give weighted generalizations of the tree enumeration formulas of Adin for complete colorful complexes, and of Duval, Klivans and Martin for skeleta of hypercubes...

The disrupt-then-reframe compliance gaining technique (DTR; Davis & Knowles, 1999) uses confusing language and then follows it with an additional reason to comply. The effectiveness of the DTR was meta-analyzed by calculating the weighted mean correlation coefficient (r1⁄4 .28) and the weighted mean odds ratio (OR1⁄4 3.47). Using the DTR in a sales context versus a nonprofit context was a moder...

Let X/T be a one parameter family of canonical 3-folds and let D be a Weil divisor on it flat over T . We study the problem of when the Dt-minimal models of Xt form a family and we obtain conditions for this to happen. As an application of this we classify terminal divisorial contractions E ⊂ Y −→ Γ ⊂ X contracting an irreducible surface E onto the smooth curve Γ, in the case when the general s...