82 research outputs found
Les reprises de sonorité
No full textLes reprises des sonorités C’est la répétition des mêmes syllabes ou des mêmes consonnes. L’assonance : la reprise du même son vocalique. Ex. le son [an] : « Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant ». (Verlaine) L’allitération : la reprise d’un son consonantique. Ex. le son [r] : « Tandis que les crachats rouges de la mitraille ». (Rimbaud). Lamartine regroupe habilement les ‘’s’’, ‘’r’’, et ‘’l’’ comme suit : Sur la plage sonore où la mer de Sorrent..
The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges
No full textVilhjalmsson H, Cantelmo N, Cassell J, Chafai NE, Kipp M, Kopp S. The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges. In: Proc. of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2007). LNAI. Vol 4722. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007: 99-111.Since the beginning of the SAIBA effort to unify key interfaces in the multi-modal behavior generation process, the Behavior Markup Language (BML) has both gained ground as an important component in many projects worldwide, and continues to undergo further refinement. This paper reports on the progress made in the last year in further developing BML. It discusses some of the key challenges identified that the effort is facing, and reviews a number of projects that already are making use of BML or support its use
Experimental and detailed DFT/MD simulation of α-aminophosphonates as promising corrosion inhibitor for XC48 carbon steel in HCl environment
No full textBackground: Corrosion is a pervasive issue in several industries, causing safety hazards and substantial economic losses. α-aminophosphonate substances have recently garnered attention for their ability to inhibit corrosion. In this study, two specific α-aminophosphonate molecules, namely diethyl(furan-2-yl(phenylamino)methyl) phosphonate (AMP1) and diethyl((2methoxyphenyl) amino) (thiophene-2-methyl) phosphonate (AMP2) were evaluated for their potential as anticorrosion agents for XC48 carbon steel under acidic conditions. Methods: Their corrosion inhibition was examined towards XC48 carbon steel under 1.0 M HCl solution utilizing the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), atomic force microscope (AFM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), contact angle, Density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics (MD), and atoms in molecule (AIM). Significant findings: Results showed that AMP1 and AMP2 had inhibition efficiencies of 83.34% and 63.82% for EIS and 82.70% and 74.57% for PDP, respectively. The inhibition mechanism involved adsorption of the additives onto the metal surface via Langmuir isotherm. The study also demonstrated the influence of temperature on inhibition efficiency, with nearly 70% inhibition observed at 298 to 323 K. AFM and SEM analyses revealed chemisorption coating formation inhibiting acid attack, and contact angle analyses showed the surface to be hydrophobic. Theoretical analyses using DFT, MD, and AIM were used to clarify the inhibitors' adsorption effect on XC48 steel, showing a high agreement with experimental findings
Glauber versus Kawasaki for spectral gap and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities of some unbounded conservative spin systems
No full textInternational audienceInspired by the recent results of C. Landim, G. Panizo and H.-T. Yau [LPY] on spectral gap and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for unbounded conservative spin systems, we study uniform bounds in these inequalities for Glauber dynamics of Hamiltonian of the form V(x_1) + ... + V(x_n) + V(M-x_1 -...-x_n), (x_1,...,x_n) in R^n Specifically, we examine the case V is strictly convex (or small perturbation of strictly convex) and, following [LPY], the case V is a bounded perturbation of a quadratic potential. By a simple path counting argument for the standard random walk, uniform bounds for the Glauber dynamics yields, in a transparent way, the classical L^{-2} decay for the Kawasaki dynamics on d-dimensional cubes of length L. The arguments of proofs however closely follow and make heavy use of the conservative approach and estimates of [LPY], relying in particular on the Lu-Yau martingale decomposition and clever partitionings of the conditional measure
The behavior markup language: Recent developments and challenges
No full textSince the beginning of the SAIBA effort to unify key interfaces in the multi-modal behavior generation process, the Behavior Markup Language (BML) has both gained ground as an important component in many projects worldwide, and continues to undergo further refinement. This paper reports on the progress made in the last year in further developing BML. It discusses some of the key challenges identified that the effort is facing, and reviews a number of projects that already are making use of BML or support its use. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Confidence Regions for the Multinomial Parameter With Small Sample Size
Get PDFConsider the observation of n iid realizations of an experiment with d >= 2 possible outcomes, which corresponds to a single observation of a multinomial distribution M_d(n; p) where p is an unknown discrete distribution on \{1,...,d\}. In many applications, the construction of a confidence region for p when n is small is crucial. This
concrete challenging problem has a long history. It is well known that the confidence regions built from asymptotic statistics do not have good coverage when n is small.
On the other hand, most available methods providing non-asymptotic regions with controlled coverage are limited to the binomial case d = 2. In the present work, we
propose a new method valid for any d >= 2. This method provides condence regions with controlled coverage and small volume, and consists in the inversion of the "cover-
ing collection" associated to level-sets of the likelihood. The behavior when d=n tends to infinity remains an interesting open problem beyond the scope of this work
The Behavior Markup Language: Recent Developments and Challenges
Get PDFSince the beginning of the SAIBA effort to unify key interfaces in the multi-modal behavior generation process, the Behavior Markup Language (BML) has both gained ground as an important component in many projects worldwide, and continues to undergo further refinement. This paper reports on the progress made in the last year in further developing BML. It discusses some of the key challenges identified that the effort is facing, and reviews a number of projects that already are making use of BML or support its use. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Die Bedeutung des intraoperativen Neuromonitorings des N. facialis für die faciale Reanimation durch ein mikroneurovaskulär reanastomosiertes Gracilis-Transplantat
No full textAt the edge of a one-dimensional jellium
No full textInternational audienceWe consider a one-dimensional classical Wigner jellium, not necessarily charge neutral, for which the electrons are allowed to exist beyond the support of the background charge. The model can be seen as a one-dimensional Coulomb gas in which the external field is generated by a smeared background on an interval. It is a true one-dimensional Coulomb gas and not a one-dimensional log-gas. We first observe that the system exists if and only if the total background charge is greater than the number of electrons minus one. Moreover we obtain a R\'enyi-type probabilistic representation for the order statistics of the particle system beyond the support of the background. Furthermore, for various backgrounds, we show convergence to point processes, at the edge of the support of the background. In particular, this provides asymptotic analysis of the fluctuations of the right-most particle. Our analysis reveals that these fluctuations are not universal, in the sense that depending on the background, the tails range anywhere from exponential to Gaussian-like behavior, including for instance Tracy-Widom-like behavior
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