blrds, and likewise the Polychsetes, or bristle^orms, which live in the sand or slime on the bed of the sea or tidal rivers, provide food for vast numbers of fish, these worms indeed being s?nietimes used as baits by fishermen. And j^ore directly than this, man sometimes uses hese creatures for food; Professor Percy Moore Pennsylvania University has informed us hat he has seen Italians engaged ...

Marc Colombel *, Mark Soloway , Hideyuki Akaza , Andreas Böhle , Joan Palou , Roger Buckley , Donald Lamm, Maurizio Brausi , J. Alfred Witjes , Raj Persad j Department of Urology, Claude Bernard University, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France Department of Urology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA Department of Urology, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Departme...

Chain graphs {CGs) give a natural unifying point of view on Markov and Bayesian net­ works and enlarge the potential of graphi­ cal models for description of conditional in­ dependence structures. In the paper a di­ rect graphical separation criterion for CGs which generalizes the d-separation criteri­ on for Bayesian networks is introduced (re­ called). It is equivalent to the classic mo _ r­ ...

The discovery of a Hematodinium-like dinoflagellate infecting Nephrops norvegicus has led to a pathological investigation into the effects on the host and the apparent progression of the disease syndrome The parasite is systemic, invading the haemocoel and the connective tissues of most organs via the haemal spaces. An increase in the combined number of parasites and haemocytes in the haemolymp...

I he purpose of this paper is to discuss and compare t w o types o f methods fo r reasoning w i t h i n c o n s i s t e n t be l i e f bases coherence based approaches to non monolonic entailment based on the se lec t ion and management of consistent subbascs and argumentation systems based on the construction and selection of arguments in favor of a conc lus ion we present several argumentatio...

We present the notion of Ranking for evaluation of two-class classifiers. Ranking is based on using the ordering information contained in the output of a scoring model, rather than just setting a classification threshold. Using this ordering information, we can evaluate the model's performance with regard to complex goal functions, such as the cor rect identification of the k most likely and/or...

Raj Persad *, Donald Lamm, Maurizio Brausi , Mark Soloway , Joan Palou , Andreas Böhle , Marc Colombel , Hideyuki Akaza , Roger Buckley , J. Alfred Witjes j Department of Urology/Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Urological Institute, Bristol, United Kingdom Department of Surgery, University of Arizona; BCG Oncology, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Department of Urology, AUSL Modena Estense an...

A unlt-hnked hfe insurance contract ~s a contract where the insurance benefits depend on the price of some specific traded stocks We consider a model describing the uncertainty of the financial market and a portfoho of insured individuals simultaneously. Due to incompleteness the insurance claims cannot be hedged completely by trading stocks and bonds only, leawng some risk to the insurer. The ...

UNIX system security today often relies on cor rect operation of numerous privileged subsystems and careful attention by expert system administra tors In the context of global and possibly hostile networks these traditional UNIX weaknesses raise a legitimate question about whether UNIX systems are appropriate platforms for processing and safe guarding important information resources Domain and ...

This paper describes PWLFIT+, an extension to the frequency domain of PWLFIT, a new paradigm in time-domain macromodeling for linear multiport systems, based on piecewise-linear (PWL) behavioral representation S-parameters step response. While impulse response each S-parameter is approximated as sum delayed rectangles (rect) functions, its spectrum interpolated corresponding cardinal sine (sinc...