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Representation of NURBS surfaces by Controlled Iterated Functions System automata
2019
Iterated Function Systems (IFS) are a standard tool to generate fractal shapes. In a more general way, they can represent most of standard surfaces like Bézier or B-Spline surfaces known as self-similar surfaces. Controlled Iterated Function Systems (CIFS) are an extension of IFS based on automata. CIFS are basically multi-states IFS, they can handle all IFS shapes but can also manage multi self-similar shapes. For example CIFS can describe subdivision surfaces around extraordinary vertices whereas IFS cannot. Having a common CIFS formalism facilitates the development of generic methods to manage interactions (junctions, differences...) between objects of different natures.This work focuses…
Designer membraneless organelles enable codon reassignment of selected mRNAs in eukaryotes.
2019
How to make an organelle in eukaryotes A key step in the evolution of complex organisms like eukaryotes was the organization of specific tasks into organelles. Reinkemeier et al. designed an artificial, membraneless organelle into mammalian cells to perform orthogonal translation. In response to a specific codon in a selected messenger RNA, ribosomes confined to this organelle were able to introduce chemical functionalities site-specifically, expanding the canonical set of amino acids. This approach opens possibilities in synthetic cell engineering and biomedical research. Science , this issue p. eaaw2644
On the application of the generalized means to construct multiresolution schemes satisfying certain inequalities proving stability
2021
Multiresolution representations of data are known to be powerful tools in data analysis and processing, and they are particularly interesting for data compression. In order to obtain a proper definition of the edges, a good option is to use nonlinear reconstructions. These nonlinear reconstruction are the heart of the prediction processes which appear in the definition of the nonlinear subdivision and multiresolution schemes. We define and study some nonlinear reconstructions based on the use of nonlinear means, more in concrete the so-called Generalized means. These means have two interesting properties that will allow us to get associated reconstruction operators adapted to the presence o…
Partial volume correction for volume estimation of liver metastases and lymph nodes in CT scans using spatial subdivision
2010
In oncological therapy monitoring, the estimation of tumor growth from consecutive CT scans is an important aspect in deciding whether the given treatment is adequate for the patient. This can be done by measuring and comparing the volume of a lesion in the scans based on a segmentation. However, simply counting the voxels within the segmentation mask can lead to significant differences in the volume, if the lesion has been segmented slightly differently by various readers or in different scans, due to the limited spatial resolution of CT and due to partial volume effects. We present a novel algorithm for measuring the volume of liver metastases and lymph nodes which considers partial volum…
Contribution to variational analysis : stability of tangent and normal cones and convexity of Chebyshev sets
2014
The aim of this thesis is to study the following three problems: 1) We are concerned with the behavior of normal cones and subdifferentials with respect to two types of convergence of sets and functions: Mosco and Attouch-Wets convergences. Our analysis is devoted to proximal, Fréchet, and Mordukhovich limiting normal cones and subdifferentials. The results obtained can be seen as extensions of Attouch theorem to the context of non-convex functions on locally uniformly convex Banach space. 2) For a given bornology β on a Banach space X we are interested in the validity of the following "lim inf" formula (…).Here Tβ(C; x) and Tc(C; x) denote the β-tangent cone and the Clarke tangent cone to …
"Table 39" of "Energy dependence of event shapes and of alpha(s) at LEP-2."
1999
Distributions of the Jet Broadening Difference (BDIFF) at cm energies 133, 161 and 172 GeV.
"Table 40" of "Energy dependence of event shapes and of alpha(s) at LEP-2."
1999
Distribution of the Jet Broadening Difference (BDIFF) at cm energy 183 GeV.
Isolation and characterization of a cDNA encoding a potential morphogen from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium that is conserved in higher metazoans.
1998
Species belonging to the lowest metazoan phylum, the sponges (Porifera), exhibit a surprisingly complex and multifaceted Bauplan (body plan). Recently, key molecules have been isolated from sponges which demonstrate that the cells of these animals are provided with characteristic metazoan adhesion and signal transduction molecules, allowing tissue formation. In order to understand which factors control the spatial organization of these cells in the sponge body plan, we screened for a cDNA encoding a soluble modulator of the behaviour of endothelial cells. A cDNA encoding a putative protein, which is highly similar to the human and mouse endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide (EMAP) II …
A Graph Based Algorithm For Intersection Of Subdivision Surfaces
2003
Computing surface intersections is a fundamental problem in geometric modeling. Any boolean operation can be seen as an intersection calculation followed by a selection of the parts necessary for building the surface of the resulting object. A robust and efficient algorithm to compute intersection on subdivision surfaces (surfaces generated by the Loop scheme) is proposed here. This algorithm relies on the concept of a bipartite graph which allows the reduction of the number of faces intersection tests. Intersection computations are accelerated by the use of the bipartite graph and the neighborhood of intersecting faces at a given level of subdivision to deduce intersecting faces at the fol…
Weighted-Power p Nonlinear Subdivision Schemes
2012
In this paper we present and analyze a generalization of the Powerp subdivision schemes proposed in [3,12]. The Weighted-Powerp schemes are based on a harmonic weighted version of the Power<emp average considered in [12], and their development is motivated by the desire to generalize the nonlinear analysis in [3,5] to interpolatory subdivision schemes with higher than second order accuracy.