English summary Skeletons are shape descriptors that are of a lower dimensionality than the shape they describe. They are centered within the shape, capture the shape’s symmetry, and describe the topology and articulation of the shape in a compact manner. These qualities make skeletonization a desirable pre-processing step in a variety of applications ranging from shape segmentation and retriev...

Providing of additional resources to certain sensor nodes within the network has proved to improve network performance. To identify such nodes is a problem that exists in 3D topologies. To address this problem, skeleton extraction algorithm has been developed in an earlier work and the same is incorporated in this paper to optimize network performance in terms of network drop rate and sensor no...

Some skeleton based parallel programming models allow the programmer to use both data and stream parallel skeletons within the same program. It is known that particular skeleton nestings can be formally rewritten into diierent nestings that preserve the functional semantics. Indeed, the kind and possibly the amount of parallelism usefully exploitable may change while rewriting takes place. Here...

Nitrogen containing bisphosphonate (N-BP) therapy is used extensively to treat osteoporosis and osteolytic bone lesions. Recently, a special form of osteonecrosis limited to the maxillofacial skeleton has been discovered especially within those patients who are receiving either long-term N-BP therapy alone and/or associated with invasive dental procedure. Bisphosphonates accumulate almost exclu...

Object-oriented frameworks are often based on `skeleton' methods that determine the overall control ow and that carry around `contextual information'. Changing the signature of a skeleton method often induces a combinatorial explosion of changes to other methods spread over the di erent classes of the framework. Our work materialises these skeleton methods as that carry around monadic informati...