A graph on n vertices is -far from a property P if one has to add or delete from it at least n edges to get a graph satisfying P. A graph property P is strongly testable (in the dense model) if for every fixed > 0 it is possible to distinguish, with one-sided error, between graphs satisfying P and ones that are -far from P by inspecting the induced subgraph on a random subset of at most f( ) ve...

We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We show that while there is a large degree of ambiguity in temporal explicit discourse connectives, overall connectives are mostly unambiguous and allow high-accuracy prediction of discourse relation type. We achieve 93.0...

A target BW is often used to estimate sexual maturity in beef heifers. The target BW, a percentage of mature BW, is generally an average for the breed, herd, or both. Heifer development is done in groups or herds, and not all heifers respond similarly to the same development regimen. Generally, heifers fed at a higher plane of nutrition gain more BW and tend to have increased pregnancy rates, b...

For patients with suboptimal relief from lifestyle modifications, acid suppressive therapy remains a cornerstone of treatment for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). While a great deal of attention is focused on complications of GORD, adequate symptom relief remains an important and practical therapeutic goal. Adequate symptom relief is an achievable and easily measurable endpoint that bo...

We witnessed the low quality of IT solutions in Paris hospitals. The price paid to private companies for these solutions and the cost incurred from their inefficiency constitute a gross and appalling waste of public resources. We propose to bootstrap a change in IT policy by having heads of department hire IT workers ; we give advice to the central decision making body on how to incentivize the...

'Goal setting' is used in rehabilitation team management as a tool to improve the quality of the rehabilitation process. In general, goals must be relevant, expressing what should be accomplished, positively defined, put in behavioural terms, easily and clearly understood by all the team members, attainable, allow planning, and they must be measurable. Goals should be set in terms of activities...

A method is described for animating talking faces that approach both cosmetic and communicative realism. The animations can be driven directly from a small set of time-varying positions measured on the face. This method of animation provides distinct benefits for both industrial and behavioral research applications, because the kinematic control parameters are easily obtained and are highly cor...

The up-to-date views on the local interstellar medium adjacent to the Solar system, which forms the heliosphere, the latter being actively investigated by means of spacecrafts, are presented. The experimental methods to determine the parameters of local interstellar gas (bulk velocity, temperature, number density, chemical composition, etc.) are qualitatively described. The role of theoretical ...

This paper aims to provide foundations for games with unawareness by constructing a universal type space for beliefs and propositional unawareness, which nests the universal belief type space of Mertens and Zamir (1985). The type spaces are purely measurable, with no topological structure, but a topology can easily be added. Unawareness of agents and higher-order reasoning permits a similar con...