625 research outputs found
Contrôle Dynamique Multicritère des Résultats d'une Chaîne de TAL
No full text@inproceedings{CN-SMI-2006, author = {Grégory SMITS}, booktitle = {Actes de la 13e conférence sur le traitement automatique des langues (TALN06)}, editor = {UCL - Presses universitaires de Louvain}, keywords = {personal publications}, pages = {755-761}, title = {Contrôle Dynamique Multicritère des Résultats d'une Cha{î}ne de TAL}, volume = {2}, year = {2006} }National audienc
Supplementary_file_1.rjf_online_supp – Supplemental material for Implementing a Preeclampsia Prediction Model in Obstetrics: Cutoff Determination and Health Care Professionals’ Adherence
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_file_1.rjf_online_supp for Implementing a Preeclampsia Prediction Model in Obstetrics: Cutoff Determination and Health Care Professionals’ Adherence by Pim van Montfort, Luc J. M. Smits, Ivo M. A. van Dooren, Stephanie M. P. Lemmens, Maartje Zelis, Iris M. Zwaan, Marc E. A. Spaanderman and Hubertina C. J. Scheepers in Medical Decision Making</p
Supplementary_figure_s1.rjf_onine_supp – Supplemental material for Implementing a Preeclampsia Prediction Model in Obstetrics: Cutoff Determination and Health Care Professionals’ Adherence
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_figure_s1.rjf_onine_supp for Implementing a Preeclampsia Prediction Model in Obstetrics: Cutoff Determination and Health Care Professionals’ Adherence by Pim van Montfort, Luc J. M. Smits, Ivo M. A. van Dooren, Stephanie M. P. Lemmens, Maartje Zelis, Iris M. Zwaan, Marc E. A. Spaanderman and Hubertina C. J. Scheepers in Medical Decision Making</p
Combining Preferences to Control a Natural Language Processing Chain
No full text@inproceedings{AI-SMI-06, author = {Grégory SMITS, Christine CHARDENON}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Multidisciplinary ECAI'06 Workshop on Advances in Preferences Handling}, date-added = {2006-09-08 18:07:05 +0200}, date-modified = {2006-09-08 18:12:33 +0200}, editor = {ITC}, keywords = {personal publications}, pages = {128-134}, title = {Combining Preferences to Control a Natural Language Processing Chain}, year = {2006}, address = {Trento, Italy} }International audienc
Personal Semantic Indexation of Images using Textual Annotations
No full text@inproceedings{CI-SMI-06, author = {Grégory SMITS, Michel PLU, Pascal BELLEC}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the first international Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT'06)}, editor = {to appear}, keywords = {personal publications}, title = {Personal Semantic Indexation of Images using Textual Annotations}, address = {Greece}, year = {2006} }International audienc
On successful Legal Transplants in a Future Ius Commune Europaeum
No full textThe success of a transplant is measured by what it achieves, and this for Smits is uniformity. For Smits, the aim is to establish a new private law for Europe and the main role for comparative law is in the supplying of an answer as to how to establish this, which he sees as the main methodological question of European private law. This piece makes the claim that uniformity can be achieved in an organic bottom-up way by the competition of legal rules, transplanting rules through a 'market of legal culture', for which national courts should be responsible. According to Smits success is in organic growth. He challenges those who claim that legal transplants do not lead to uniformity, and assesses the internal and external factors influencing legal transplants. Like Nelken and Orucu, and also Foster and de Cruz, Smits discusses, compares and contrasts the views of Watson, Legrand and Teubner. The author claims that the use of legal transplants is the most promising way to build a European ius commune if national courts are allowed to choose the most suitable rules. However, diversity of law will remain in Europe and any centralist imposition will strangle diversity. This piece also paves the way for van Gerven's contribution.Smits is not so much interested in the process of, or the reason for, transplants, as in their results. He claims that past transplants have been successful and have led to uniform law and the future European ius commune will largely use legal transplants, which will again lead to uniform law. The contribution presents a programmatic approach to European private law and empirical evidence, through the areas of contract and property (trust), of successful legal transplants. Unlike Nelken and Orucu above, Smits' criterion for assessing the success of a transplant is the creation of some degree of uniformity between the laws of the importing and exporting countries. Mixed legal systems, for Smits, present the answer, a 'mix of national mentality and European uniformity'.He tests his ideas through commercial contract law and property law in Europe because transplants were successful, and no uniformity is seen in property law because there is a lack of successful legal transplants in this field. The acceptance of trust-like arrangements in civil law countries in recent years is, according to Smits, one result of the increasing globalization of world trade. This is also shown as an unsuccessful transplant, since the institution of the trust changed while it moved into the civil law countries from its common law environment. Here the reader might also like to consider the contribution by Raffenne. According to Smits, what is important, then, is the environment of the transplanted rule, international or national. He looks at South Africa and suggests that the transplanted law should be seen by the legal elite as suitable to the environment of the importing country.The environment into which the foreign legal rule is imported is the external factor. The internal factors are approached through the concept of 'path dependence'. The socio-economic environment (that is, the external factor) may favour legal transplants, but the type of rules (that is, the internal factor) may prevent the uniform law from materializing and vice versa.In this contribution legal transplantation is seen as the most promising way of establishing a European ius commune and the test of success is seen as uniformity and tension to be resolved by national courts. We must accept that diversity will remain. But is this indeed just as good as uniformity?
On successful Legal Transplants in a Future Ius Commune Europaeum
No full textThe success of a transplant is measured by what it achieves, and this for Smits is uniformity. For Smits, the aim is to establish a new private law for Europe and the main role for comparative law is in the supplying of an answer as to how to establish this, which he sees as the main methodological question of European private law. This piece makes the claim that uniformity can be achieved in an organic bottom-up way by the competition of legal rules, transplanting rules through a 'market of legal culture', for which national courts should be responsible. According to Smits success is in organic growth. He challenges those who claim that legal transplants do not lead to uniformity, and assesses the internal and external factors influencing legal transplants. Like Nelken and Orucu, and also Foster and de Cruz, Smits discusses, compares and contrasts the views of Watson, Legrand and Teubner. The author claims that the use of legal transplants is the most promising way to build a European ius commune if national courts are allowed to choose the most suitable rules. However, diversity of law will remain in Europe and any centralist imposition will strangle diversity. This piece also paves the way for van Gerven's contribution.Smits is not so much interested in the process of, or the reason for, transplants, as in their results. He claims that past transplants have been successful and have led to uniform law and the future European ius commune will largely use legal transplants, which will again lead to uniform law. The contribution presents a programmatic approach to European private law and empirical evidence, through the areas of contract and property (trust), of successful legal transplants. Unlike Nelken and Orucu above, Smits' criterion for assessing the success of a transplant is the creation of some degree of uniformity between the laws of the importing and exporting countries. Mixed legal systems, for Smits, present the answer, a 'mix of national mentality and European uniformity'.He tests his ideas through commercial contract law and property law in Europe because transplants were successful, and no uniformity is seen in property law because there is a lack of successful legal transplants in this field. The acceptance of trust-like arrangements in civil law countries in recent years is, according to Smits, one result of the increasing globalization of world trade. This is also shown as an unsuccessful transplant, since the institution of the trust changed while it moved into the civil law countries from its common law environment. Here the reader might also like to consider the contribution by Raffenne. According to Smits, what is important, then, is the environment of the transplanted rule, international or national. He looks at South Africa and suggests that the transplanted law should be seen by the legal elite as suitable to the environment of the importing country.The environment into which the foreign legal rule is imported is the external factor. The internal factors are approached through the concept of 'path dependence'. The socio-economic environment (that is, the external factor) may favour legal transplants, but the type of rules (that is, the internal factor) may prevent the uniform law from materializing and vice versa.In this contribution legal transplantation is seen as the most promising way of establishing a European ius commune and the test of success is seen as uniformity and tension to be resolved by national courts. We must accept that diversity will remain. But is this indeed just as good as uniformity?
High pressure phase behavior of binary water - light organic and ternary water – light organic - salt systems: A literature review, and a theoretical treatment of the salt effect
No full textIn order to develop Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) processes for the destruction of ChloroFluoroCarbohydrates (CFC's), more experimental data on the phase behavior of water-CFC and water-CFC-salt systems is needed. First a general review is given of high pressure phase equilibria, according to the classification of van Konynenburg and Scott. A general description of waterhydrocarbon mixtures will follow that. Since no data were found on water-CFC and water-CFC-salt systems at near critical conditions of water, the attention was focused on water-organic and waterorganic-salt systems with light organic compounds. For this purpose the phase behavior of binary water mixtures of methane, ethane and carbon dioxide are investigated at near critical conditions. For these binary systems the location of the critical curve is described, as well as other characteristic aspects of these systems. The location of the three phase curve and the upper critical endpoint are also discussed, for the mixtures containing ethane and carbon dioxide. In the water-methane system no three phase curve, and consequently no upper critical endpoint, are present. The phase behavior of ternary water mixtures with methane and sodium chloride, methane and calcium chloride, ethane and sodium chloride, and carbon dioxide and sodium chloride are discussed. For these ternary systems the effect of salt on the resulting phase behavior is described. Finally an extensive treatment of the salt effect is given.Applied SciencesChemical Engineering and Materials ScienceApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
Changing role of Hispanic women
No full textExecutive producer, Radamés Soto, Richard Perin ; producer, Francisco Ramirez ; writer, Jerry Scmetterer. Hosts, Jimmy Smits, Hector Elizondo. Videographer, Tony Cacciavillani ; editor, Aleida Sandoval ; music, John Bickerton.In this program, several prominent Latina women, including author Isabel Allende and actress Jennifer Lopez, discuss their changing role within the context of Hispanic family values, male machismo, and the traditional role of females as the center of family and community life. Also examines the issue from the male perspective. Originally broadcast in 1995 as a segment from the television program: Hispanic Americans : the new frontier
High pressure fluid phase behavior of the systems CF4 - H2O and CF4 - H2O - NaCl
No full textSupercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) is a highly efficient method to destruct all kinds of toxic wastes, such as explosives and freons. Destruction efficiencies of 99.9 % can be reached. In order to study model systems for SCWO processes, high pressure phase equilibria of CF 4 - H2O and CF 4 - H2O - NaCl mixtures have been measured in the pressure range from 20 to 200 MPa and in the temperature range from 580 to 673 K. The measurements were performed in a high-pressure autoclave with sapphire windows and magnetic stirring, with visual observation of the bubble point...Applied SciencesChemical EngineeringApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
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