Since the advent of the law 86/14 concerning the exploitation of the national territory by foreign companies in partnership with the Algerian oil and gas company, the problem of hydrocarbons metering in the sharing production come out. More generally, good management counting hydrocarbons can provide data on the production wells, the field and the reservoir for medium and long term planning, pa...

We are currently exploring relaying navigational information (e.g., obstacles, terrain, depth) to a visually impaired person using a tactile glove we have developed. The glove consists of a collection of vibrating motors. The collective patterns of motor activity are used for conveying the navigational information which is mapped from an artificial perception system derived from a wearable came...

International human rights law affirms that everyone has a right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States that are parties to human rights treaties are obliged under international law to observe these rights. Australia has ratified all international human rights law instruments in which the right to health is enshrined, and so is obliged to ensur...

The traditional class of elliptical distributions is extended to allow for asymmetries. A completely robust dispersion matrix estimator (the ‘spectral estimator’) for the new class of ‘generalized elliptical distributions’ is presented. It is shown that the spectral estimator corresponds to an M-estimator proposed by Tyler (1983) in the context of elliptical distributions. Both the generalizati...