Due to its wide range of applications, automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last decades. Nearly every day there is a new face recognition paper sent to a conference or a journal. Often, researchers provide results that rely on a hand-made non-standard evaluation protocol and that are, hence, inc...

The previously proposed cunning ant system (cAS), a variant of the ACO algorithm, worked well on the TSP and the results showed that the cAS could be one of the most promising ACO algorithms. In this paper, we apply cAS to solving QAP. We focus our main attention on the effects of applying local search and parallelization of the cAS. Results show promising performance of cAS on QAP.

Determination of vitamin B12 in all forms of infant, adult, and/ or pediatric formula (powders, ready-to-feed liquids, and liquid concentrates). For the purpose of this SMPR, vitamin B12 is defined as cobalt-containing corrinoids with the biological activity of cyanocobalamin such as cyanocobalamin (CAS 68-19-9), aquocobalamin (CAS 13422-52-1), hydroxycobalamin (CAS 13422-51-0), methylcobalamin...

A prop-03 de la tetanie de l'cnfant: presentation de quelques cas, reYue de la. litterature.  Parmi les diverses etiologies de la tetanie in­fantile, le rachitisme et la malabsorption sont les causes les plus frequentes en Iran.  La tetanie s'observe plus volontiers au debut du rachitisme et dans des stades avances. Un seul cas de tetanie fut obse:rve chez un enfant de trois mo:is, ancien pre...

Introduction: L'objectif de cette étude était de documenter le profil épidémiologique et histologique des métastases cutanées vues au laboratoire d'anatomie pathologique (LAP) de Lomé. Méthodes: Il s'agissait d'une étude descriptive et transversale portant sur des cas de métastases cutanées observées au LAP du CHU Sylvanus Olympio entre 2005 et 2014. Résultats: Au cours de cette période d'étude...

The aim of this study was to demonstrate that the addition of orbital magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can provide improvement in sensitivity of detection of active disease and the prediction of the response to intravenous glucocorticoid therapy (ivGC), over clinical activity score (CAS) alone. A prospective case series was studied at our institution. Forty eight patients were examined by CAS an...

As the safety and effectiveness of urgent carotid artery stenting (CAS) for neurologically progressing patients remain controversial, we retrospectively analyzed the outcome of urgent CAS based on the patients' pathophysiological condition and neuroimaging findings. We divided 71 patients who underwent CAS within 14 days of stroke onset into two groups. Group 1 (n = 35) was comprised of patient...

CONTEXT Although significant associations of childhood adversities (CAs) with adult mental disorders have been documented consistently in epidemiological surveys, these studies generally have examined only 1 CA per study. Because CAs are highly clustered, this approach results in overestimating the importance of individual CAs. Multivariate CA studies have been based on insufficiently complex m...

Sepsis is thought to result from an exaggerated innate immune response to microbial components such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), but the involvement of a specific mechanism(s) has not been identified. We studied the role of caspase 1 (Cas-1) in the murine innate immune response to infection with gram-negative bacteria and to nonlethal and lethal doses of LPS. cas-1(-/-) and Cas-1 inhibitor (Ac-...

La rupture prématurée des membranes (RPM) à terme survient dans 5 à 10% des grossesses. Elle rend compte d'une part importante de morbidité et de mortalité néonatales. Le but de cette étude est de déterminer les facteurs pronostiques maternels et obstétricaux ainsi que le devenir des nouveau-nés à terme issus d'une grossesse compliquée de rupture prématurée des membranes ayant été hospitalisés ...