Résumé. Les systèmes d’informations géographiques (SIG) sont utilisés pour améliorer l’efficacité des entreprises et des services publics, en associant méthodes d’optimisation et prise en compte de la dimension géographique. Cependant, les bases de données géographiques (BDG) stockées dans les SIG sont restreintes à l’application pour laquelle elles ont été conçues. Souvent, les utilisateurs de...

Based on rapid development of laparoscopic techniques and instruments, single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is expected to be the next step of "more" minimally invasive surgery. A few institutions gradually started to report their experience of single incision gastrectomy (SIG) for gastric cancer, but it is still difficult to accept that SIG can be performed as a popular procedure becaus...

We performed an empirical study of the relation between technical quality of software products and the defect resolution performance of their maintainers. In particular, we tested the hypothesis that ratings for source code maintainability, as employed by the SIG quality model, are correlated with ratings for defect resolution speed. This study revealed that all but one of the metrics of the SI...

Since the adoption of a Proposed Standard for RSA signatures in the DNS (Domain Name Space), advances in hashing have been made. A new DNS signature algorithm is defined to make these advances available in SIG RRs. The use of the previously specified weaker mechanism is deprecated. The algorithm number of the RSA KEY RR is changed to correspond to this new SIG algorithm. No other changes are ma...

BACKGROUND Prescribers' inappropriate use of the free-text Notes field in new electronic prescriptions can create confusion and workflow disruptions at receiving pharmacies that often necessitates contact with prescribers for clarification. The inclusion of inappropriate patient direction (Sig) information in the Notes field is particularly problematic. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effect of a ...

This paper presents emerging Good Practices for Translatability Assessment (TA) of Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures. The ISOQOL Translation and Cultural Adaptation Special Interest Group (TCA-SIG) undertook the review of several TA approaches, with the collaboration of organizations who are involved in conducting TA, and members of the TCA-SIG. The effort led to agreement by the writing ...

This report summarizes the proceedings of the "Metagenomics, Metadata and Meta-analysis" (M3) Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting held at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2009 conference. The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) hosted this meeting to explore the bottlenecks and emerging solutions for obtaining biological insights through large-scale comparative analysis of metageno...

In this paper we study, in the framework of mathematical logic, L(SBTA) i.e. the class of languages accepted by Systolic Binary Tree Automata. We set a correspondence (in the style of B uchi Theorem for regular languages) between L(SBTA) and MSOSig], i.e. a decid-able Monadic Second Order logic over a suitable innnite signature Sig. We also introduce a natural subclass of L(SBTA) which still pr...

Most bioscientists need to report mean values, yet many have little idea of how many digits are significant, and at what point further digits are mere random junk. Thus a recent report that the mean of 17 values was 3.863 with a standard error of the mean (SEM) of 2.162 revealed only that none of the seven authors understood the limitations of their work. The simple rule derived here by experim...