Mobile mapping techniques represent an efficient way to supply the requirements imposed by the development of 3D GIS, urban digital models and their applications using virtual and augmented reality. The methods widely applied in this domain depend on the video and photogrammetric sensors which provide accurate results but with long time of post-processing. Hence, the integration of a terrestria...

Motivation Many DNA-binding proteins recognize their target sequences indirectly, by sensing DNA's response to mechanical distortion. ThreaDNA estimates this response based on high-resolution structures of the protein-DNA complex of interest. Implementing an efficient nanoscale modeling of DNA deformations involving essentially no adjustable parameters, it returns the profile of deformation ene...

Ochrobactrum anthropi is a Gram-negative bacillus widely distributed in nature. It is a low virulence and low pathogenic microorganism and human infection by this agent is considered rare. This microorganism can cause bacteremia and in some cases can lead to osteomyelitis and endocarditis. Included in Brucellaceae family, this bacterium is phenotypically and genetically closely related to the B...

We study the estimation of optimal portfolios for a Reserve Fund with an endof-period target, and when the returns of the assets that constitute the Reserve Fund portfolio follow two specifications. In the first one assets are split into short memory (bonds) and long memory (equity), and the optimality of the portfolio is based on maximizing the Sharpe ratio. In the second returns follow a cond...

In this paper, we consider both local and global convergence of the Newton algorithm to solve nonlinear problems when GMRES is used to invert the Jacobian at each Newton iteration. Under weak assumptions, we give a suucient condition for an inexact solution of GMRES to be a descent direction in order to apply a backtracking technique. Moreover, we extend this result to a nite diierence scheme c...

This work is about the reduction of the electrical consumption of the selection function in the polynomial{−3,−2,−1, 0, 1, 2, 3} evaluation algorithm known as the E-method and presented by M.D. Ercegovac in the 70s. A choice is possible when selecting the result digits in a redundant number representation, it allows a power consumption reduction. The statistical study of the possible gains has ...

In the context of registration between videos and geographic information system (GIS)-based 3D building models—for instance in augmented reality applications—we propose a solution to one of the most critical problems, namely the registration initialization. Successful automatic 2D/3D matching is achieved by combining two context-dependent improvements. On one hand, we associate semantic informa...

Using the method of Green’s functions within the framework of a Bethe-Salpeter formalism characterized by a pairwise qq interaction with a Lorentz-covariant 3D support to its kernel, the 4D BS wave function for a system of three identical relativistic spinless quarks is reconstructed from the corresponding 3D quantities which satisfy a fully connected 3D BSE. This result is a 3-body generalizat...

The need for on-demand QoS support for communications over satellite is of primary importance for distributed multimedia applications. This is particularly true for the return link which is often a bottleneck due to the large set of end-users accessing a very limited uplink resource. Facing this need, Demand Assignment Multiple Access (DAMA) is a classical technique that allows satellite operat...

Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPD) is a rare inherited autosomal recessive disease for which no prevalent data have been reported in China. We aimed to identify PPD based on clinical manifestations and imaging analysis of the bony skeleton and then to investigate gene mutations of Wnt1-inducible signaling pathway protein 3 (WISP3) in Chinese patients with PPD. Seven patients (aged 9-4...