In natural language generation using symbolic grammars, state-of-the-art realisation rankers use statistical models incorporating both language model and structural features. The rankers depend on multiple structures produced by the particular large-scale symbolic grammars to rank the output; for languages with smaller resources and in-development grammars, we look at the feasibility of an alte...

We consider continuous media in which contact edge forces are present. Introducing the notion of quasibalanced contact force distribution, we are able to prove the conjectures made in [Noll, 1990] concerning the representation of contact edge forces. We first generalise the Noll theorem on Cauchy postulate. Then we adapt the celebrated Cauchy tetrahedron construction to find a representation th...

Morphosyntactic lexicons and word vector representations have both proven useful for improving the accuracy of statistical part-of-speech taggers. Here we compare the performances of four systems on datasets covering 16 languages, two of these systems being feature-based (MEMMs and CRFs) and two of them being neural-based (bi-LSTMs). We show that, on average, all four approaches perform similar...

Body size may influence both adult fecundity and the probability of survival through each life stage. Previous studies of burying beetles (Nicrophorus, Coleoptera: Silphidae) have revealed reproductive advantages for larger adults and the role of parental care in determining larval size and number. In this study I measure the effect of size on survival over the winter period and the correlation...

We tested predictions concerning the significance of egg neglect for the burrow-nesting seabird Cassin’s auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus (Pallas, 1811)) at a colony where endemic Keen’s mice (Peromyscus keeni Merriam, 1897) depredate unattended eggs. A video-camera probe was used to monitor neglect and predation in 32 burrows, and mass loss of incubating adults was measured in 12 separate burro...

"Etude etiologique de la circulation ra.pide iutra-rena-le"  Le but de l'angiographle renale n'est pas '.seu­lement le controle anatomique de l'organe, une etude physiologique (Hemodynamique) doit toujours etre prise en consideration.  Le temps normal de la circulation intra-renale selon les differents auteurs varie entre 6 a 8, 8 a 10 et 10 a 12 secondes, mais le temps moyen est de 6 a 8 seco...

In many long-lived species such as Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), population growth rate is most sensitive to changes in adult survival probabilities. Understanding the factors that regulate adult survival in this species should provide insight into the population dynamics of this and other long-lived Arctic species. Using the program MARK, we analyzed 17 years of mark–recapture data to ...

μ being a nonnegative measure satisfying some Log-Sobolev inequality, we give conditions on F for the Boltzmann measure ν = eμ to also satisfy some Log-Sobolev inequality. This paper improves and completes the final section in [6]. A general sufficient condition and a general necessary condition are given and examples are explicitly studied. Résumé. μ étant une mesure positive satisfaisant une ...

La conjugaison des verbes en français exprimant un processus pose grand problème, du moins pour les apprenants dont la première langue acquise diffère fortement de celle qu’ils apprennent. Le -langue cible turcs- est une structure et famille sont entièrement différentes celles source, le turc, ce qui crée difficulté presque insurmontable concernant l’apprentissage verbes. En effet, se manifeste...

5 L e 27 novembre 2014, la Croix Bleue Medavie et l'Association pulmonaire du Canada ont annoncé une augmentation de l'accès aux services respiratoires essentiels pour les patients atteints d'une maladie pulmonaire obstructive chronique (MPOC) et d'asthme. Les patients pourront désormais s'aiguiller eux-mêmes vers des éducateurs certifiés et réadaptation respira-toire (ÉCR), y compris les inhal...