Existing multimedia document models like HTML, MHEG, SMIL, and HyTime lack appropriate modeling primitives to fit the needs of next generation multimedia applications which bring up requirements like reusability of multimedia content in different presentations and contexts, and adaptation to user preferences. In this paper, we motivate and present new requirements stemming from advanced multime...

In the last years, the maIn onentatlOn of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has turned from mathematics towards computer science. This article provides a review of this new orientation and analyzes why and how FCA and computer science attracted each other. It discusses FCA as a knowledge representation formalism using five knowledge representation principles provided by Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits...

Humans intensely use southern California rocky shores for recreational activities such as fishing, exploration, wallung, enjoyment of the out-of-doors, and educational field trips. People also collect intertidal organisms for consumption, fish bait, home aquariums, and other purposes. In Orange County, visitors concentrate their activities on a few rocky headlands and reefs. Many of these shore...

In this study, we used orthomosaics and a digital surface model (DSM) generated from drone surveys to (1) characterize the distribution of mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) aggregations at high resolution (centimeters), (2) evaluate role topographic features, intertidal height, slope, orientation angle in determining on two rocky shores oriented differently both sides beach French Brittany coa...

In preparing for today’s address, I have been spending quite some time reflecting on the unusual trials and triumphs that have characterized the history of laparoscopic surgery. Through these ruminations, it was with special gratitude that I reflected upon SLS, recalling how, even when the role of operative laparoscopy had yet to be clearly defined, let alone fully accepted, SLS stood as anunwa...

In this paper, we prove a conjecture, which was proposed by Frank Stenger in 1997, concerning the localization of eigenvalues of the Sinc matrix I(−1), a problem that is important in both the theory and the practice of Sinc methods. In 2003, Iyad Abu-Jeib and Thomas Shores established a partial answer to this unsolved problem. The techniques they have developed, however, turn out to be the key ...