présenté le 28 juin 2007, après avis des rapporteurs Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Miloš ERCEGOVAC, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Paul ZIMMERMANN, Directeur de Recherche, INRIA devant le jury composé de Jean-Claude BAJARD, Professeur, Université de Montpellier 2 Bernard GOOSSENS, Professeur, Université de Perpignan Peter MARKSTEIN, Senior Enginee...

It is with great sadness that we share that Jean St. Germain, our colleague, friend, and integral member of the Medical Physics Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for over 50 yr, passed away on December 7, 2017. She died peacefully and was with her brother, Amos, at the time. Following completion of graduate study at Rutgers University and a fellowship at Brookhaven Na...

Jean Dumas (Fig. 1) published his combustion method in Paris back in 1848. This makes the method considerably older than Kjeldahl digestion. While researching the composition of natural oils, Dumas tried combusting his samples, initially to analyse the carbon and hydrogen contained therein. Combustion therefore makes it possible to analyse multiple parameters, while Kjeldahl digestion is only s...

One of my early desires as a musician was to sculpt and organize directly the sound material, so as to extend compositional control to the sonic level to compose the sound itself, instead of merely composing with sounds. My use of the computer has focused mostly on this goal. I have been able to fullfill this desire to some extent by resorting to digital synthesis and also digital processing of...

Quarkonia are meson states whose constituents are a charm or bottom quark and its correspondingantiquark (QQ̄). The study of the production of such bound states in high-energy hadron collisions represents an important test for the Quantum Chromo-Dynamics. Despite the fact that the quarkonium saga has already a 40-year history, the quarkonium production mechanism is still an open issue. There...

underpinned publication” of this book, says Aitken. Most of the illustrations Aitken depicts show the artists’ love of detail: the structure of the veins of the leaf, the relation of the leaf to the stem and the arrangement of the seeds in the pod, and everything to do with the composition of the flower. From the subtitle of the book, you might expect a collection of anecdotes but the book is m...

Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and ...

The Game of Life cellular automaton is a classical example of a massively parallel collision-based computing device. The automaton exhibits mobile patterns, gliders, and generators of the mobile patterns, glider guns, in its evolution. We show how to construct basic logical operations, AND, OR, NOT in space-time configurations of the cellular automaton. Also decomposition of complicated Boolean...