Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
Evoluzione 2013. 5th congress of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology, Italie, 28-30 août
Trento, Italy

hal-01627541
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01627541

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD BioMed Central
Résumé : International audience
Background: Two antifibrotic drugs, pirfenidone and nintedanib, are approved by the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). In this analysis, treatment patterns of European patients with IPF were investigated to understand antifibrotic prescribing and identify unmet needs in IPF treatment practice. Methods: Between February and March 2016, respiratory physicians from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK participated in an online questionnaire designed to collect information on IPF treatment patterns in patients under their care. Patients were categorized as treated (received approved antifibrotics) or untreated (did not receive approved antifibrotics, but may have received other unapproved therapies). Classification of IPF diagnosis (confirmed/suspected) and severity ('mild'/'moderate'/'severe') for each patient was based on the individual physician's report. Patients' perspectives were not recorded in this study. Results: In total, 290 physicians responded to the questionnaire. Overall, 54% of patients with IPF did not receive treatment with an approved antifibrotic. More patients had a confirmed IPF diagnosis in the treated (84%) versus the untreated (51%) population. Of patients with a confirmed diagnosis, 40% did not receive treatment. The treated population was younger than the untreated population (67 vs 70 years, respectively; p = 0.01), with more frequent multidisciplinary team evaluation (83% vs 57%, respectively; p = 0.01). A higher proportion of untreated patients had forced vital capacity > 80% at diagnosis versus treated patients. Of patients with 'mild' IPF, 71% did not receive an approved antifibrotic versus 41% and 60% of patients with 'moderate' and 'severe' IPF, respectively. Conclusions: Despite the availability of antifibrotic therapies, many European patients with confirmed IPF do not receive approved antifibrotic treatment. Importantly, there appears to be a reluctance to treat patients with 'mild' or 'stable' disease, and instead adopt a 'watch and wait' approach. More education is required to address diagnostic uncertainty, poor understanding of IPF and its treatments, and issues of treatment access. There is a need to increase physician awareness of the benefits associated with antifibrotic treatment across the spectrum of IPF severity.
ISSN: 1471-2466

hal-01616061
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01616061
DOI : 10.1186/s12890-017-0468-5
PUBMED : 28915874

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD IOS Press (Amsterdam)
Résumé : 6 pages, 7 embedded figures, LaTeX 2e using the ecai2006.cls document class and the algorithm2e.sty style file (+ standard packages like epsfig, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts...). Extends the short version contained in the ECAI 2006 proceedings.
International audience
Without prior knowledge, distinguishing different languages may be a hard task, especially when their borders are permeable. We develop an extension of spectral clustering -- a powerful unsupervised classification toolbox -- that is shown to resolve accurately the task of soft language distinction. At the heart of our approach, we replace the usual hard membership assignment of spectral clustering by a soft, probabilistic assignment, which also presents the advantage to bypass a well-known complexity bottleneck of the method. Furthermore, our approach relies on a novel, convenient construction of a Markov chain out of a corpus. Extensive experiments with a readily available system clearly display the potential of the method, which brings a visually appealing soft distinction of languages that may define altogether a whole corpus.
ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Riva del Garda, Italy

hal-00327782
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00327782
ARXIV : 0810.1261

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD G.M.P.C.a/Presses universitaires de Rennes
Résumé : Magnetic measurements (magnetic susceptibility at low and high frequency, isothermal and anhysteretic remanent magnetizations, magnetic susceptibility according to the temperature and hysteresis loop) were carried out on samples taken in the filling of Caverna delle Manie (Arma delle Manie) located in Ligurie, Italy. The filling of the site, dating from upper Pleistocene and Holocene, is characterized in its upper part by an alternance of carbonated concretions, stalagmitic floors and clays, and in its lower part by an sandy-silty-clay deposit. The results of the magnetic study reveal the abundance of magnetic grains of secondary origin (magnetite and maghemite), and more particularly in the upper part of the filling. The grains of superparamagnetic size (SP) dominate, followed by those of multi-domain (MD) and single-domain size (SD). The latter have a low coercitive force. Some hearths were located within the filling thanks to their color, with the presence of coal and the strong values of the various magnetic parameters.
Des mesures magnétiques (susceptibilité magnétique à basse et haute fréquence, aimantation rémanente isotherme et anhystérétique, susceptibilité magnétique en fonction de la température et cycle d'hystérésis) ont été réalisées sur des échantillons prélevés dans le remplissage de la Caverna delle Manie (Arma delle Manie) située en Ligurie Italienne. Le remplissage du site, d'âge Pléistocène supérieur et Holocène, se caractérise dans sa partie supérieure par l'alternance de concrétions carbonatées, de planchers stalagmitiques, et d'argiles; et dans sa partie inférieure par un dépôt sablo-limono-argileux. Les résultats de l'étude magnétique révèlent l'abondance de grains magnétiques d'origine secondaire (magnétite et maghémite). Cette abondance est plus marquée dans la partie supérieure du remplissage. Les grains de taille superparamagnétique (SP) dominent, suivi par ceux de taille poly-domaine (PD) et mono-domaine (MD). Ces derniers ont un champ coercitif faible. Quelques foyers ont été repérés au sein du remplissage grâce à leur couleur, à la présence de charbon et aux fortes valeurs des différents paramètres magnétiques.
ISSN: 1960-1360

hal-00653405
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00653405

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Résumé : During the 1982-1984 bradyseismic crises in the Campi Flegrei area (Italy), the University of Wisconsin deployed a network of seismological stations to record local earthquakes. In order to analyse the potential of the recorded data in terms of tomographic imaging, a blind test was recently set up and carried out in the framework of a research project. A model representing a hypothetical 3D structure of the area containing the Campi Flegrei caldera was also set up, and a synthetic dataset of time arrivals was in turn computed. The synthetic dataset consists of several thousand P- and S-time arrivals, computed at about fourteen stations. The tomographic inversion was performed by four independent teams using different methods. The teams had no knowledge of either the input velocity model or the earthquake hypocenters used to create the synthetic dataset. The results obtained by the different groups were compared and analysed in light of the true model. This work provides a thorough analysis of the earthquake tomography potential of the dataset recording the seismic activity at Campi Flegrei in the 1982-1984 period. It shows that all the tested earthquake tomography methods provide reliable low-resolution images of the background velocity field of the Campi Flegrei area, but with some differences. However, none of them succeeds in detecting the hypothetical structure details (i.e. with a size smaller than about 1.5-2 km), such as a magmatic chamber 4 km deep and especially the smaller, isolated bodies, which represent possible magmatic chimneys and intrusions.
ISSN: 1687-885X

hal-00795584
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00795584
DOI : 10.1155/2012/505286

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
The advent of pen-based interfaces has led to the development of many applications concerning the analysis of a drawn shape. But a drawing is not only a shape. It is also all the gestures which constitutes the drawing activity, as well as their planning. Pen-based interfaces give us the possibility to analyze this dimension of sketching. We call this kind of analysis: procedural analysis. In this article, we will show how to identify the privileged drawing procedures of users by identifying a constant pattern despite a huge within-drawer variability in drawing procedures. After stating how to extract this constant pattern, we shall show how we can use those results into a drawing-based user identification method.
ICFHR 2012 - International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Bari, Italy

hal-00708708
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00708708

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Geological Society
Résumé : International audience
Deformation mechanisms, long-term kinematics and evolution of fold and thrust belts subjected to erosion are studied through 2D analogue experiments involving large convergence. First-order parameters tested include (1) décollements and/or plastic layers interbedded at different locations within analogue materials and (2) synconvergence surface erosion. Weak layers, depending on their location in the model, favour deformation partitioning characterized by the simultaneous development of underplating domains in the inner part of the wedge (basal accretion) and frontal accretion where the wedge grows forward. Interaction between tectonics and surface processes influences this behaviour. Development of antiformal thrust stacks controlled by underplating shows small- and large-scale cyclicity. Thin plastic layers induce folding processes, which are studied at wedge scale. Recumbent and overturned folds, with large inverted limbs, develop in a shear-induced asymmetric deformation regime via progressive unrolling of synclinal hinges. Surface erosion and underplating at depth induce further rotation (passive tilting) and horizontalization of fold limbs. Model results give insights to discuss the mechanisms responsible for the large-scale structures (i.e. antiformal nappe stacks, klippen and kilometre-scale recumbent fold-nappes) encountered in several mountain belts such as the Montagne Noire (French Massif Central), the Galicia Variscan belt (Spain) and the northern Apennines (Italy).
ISSN: 0016-7649

hal-00937644
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00937644
DOI : 10.1144/jgs2013-012

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag (Germany)
Résumé : We present a detailed rock-magnetic and archaeomagnetic study of two brick kilns, named OSA and OSB, discovered at the location of Osterietta, in northern Italy. The magnetic properties of representative samples have been investigated to identify the nature of the magnetic carriers, their domain state and thermal stability, and investigate their suitability for archaeomagnetic determinations. Thermally stable, mainly pseudosingle domain (PSD) magnetite is identified as the main magnetic carrier. The full geomagnetic field vector has been determined for the two kilns, including directional and intensity analysis. Archaeointensities have been recovered with both the classical Thellier and the multi-specimen protocols. The multi-specimen procedure was performed with a very fast-heating oven developed at Montpellier, France. A Matlab® code for anisotropy correction during the Thellier experiment is provided. The archaeointensity results obtained from both techniques for the OSA kiln are of high quality and in good mutual agreement. For the OSB kiln, Thellier results are characterized by large standard deviation and the multi-specimen (MSP) technique was not successful. The obtained full geomagnetic field vector (declination, inclination and intensity) has been used for the archaeomagnetic dating of the two structures suggesting that the OSA kiln was for the last time used between 1761?1841 A.D. and the OSB kiln between 1752?1831 A.D., at 95% probability. This study shows that intensity determinations do not restrict the dating results when referring to the last few centuries, as this period is characterized by very small intensity variations.
ISSN: 0039-3169

hal-01236052
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01236052
DOI : 10.1007/s11200-015-0413-0

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
In boundary lubrication regime, friction reduction and antiwear processes are associated to the presence of additives in the lubricating oils or greases. These processes are due to the formation of protective tribofilms resulting from chemical reactions between the additives and the sliding surfaces, in the physico-chemical conditions of the sliding contact. Conventional antiwear additives mainly consist of transition metal organo phosphate or thiophosphates which present a remarkable efficiency in the case of contacts between ferrous alloys. In the case of non reacting surfaces, these additives become inactive. Recently developped lubrication strategies consist in the use of dispersion in oils of nano additives able to build the protective tribofilm in the sliding contact without reaction with the surfaces. Carbon fluorinated phases, due to their lamellar structure and their high chemical stability even at relatively high temperature (400°C) represent interesting candidates as lubricant nano-additives subjected to present friction reduction, anti wear and anti corrosion actions. This work presents the tribologic behaviour of some carbon fluorinated derivatives such as graphite fluorides, fluorinated carbon nanofibers, fluorinated carbon nanodiscs and fluorinated carbon blacks. The influence, on the tribologic performances, of the structure of the initial carbon phases, of the fluorination rate (0
World Tribology Congress 2013
Torino, Italy

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hal-00926514
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514/file/Delbe_9783.pdf
OATAO : 9783

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé :  
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Séminaire du "Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali"
Naples, Italy

hal-01032045
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01032045

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Awwa American Water Works Association
Résumé : International audience
A three-year study was conducted on the occurrence of disinfection by-products (DBPs) - trihalomethanes (THMs), haloacetic acids (HAAs), and haloacetonitriles - in drinking water of regions of Europe where epidemiology studies were being carried out. Thirteen systems in six countries (i.e., Italy, France, Greece, Lithuania, Spain, United Kingdom) were sampled. Typically chlorinated DBPs dominated. However, in most of Catalonia (Spain) and in Heraklion (Greece), brominated DBPs dominated. The degree of bromine incorporation into the DBP classes was in general similar among them. This is important, as brominated DBPs are a greater health concern. In parts of Catalonia, the reported levels of tribromoacetic acid were higher than in other parts of the world. In some regions, the levels of HAAs tended to be peaked in concentration in a different time period than when the levels of THMs peaked. In most epidemiology studies, THMs are used as a surrogate for other halogenated DBPs. This study provides exposure assessment information for epidemiology studies. © 2016 American Water Works Association.
ISSN: 0003-150X

hal-01406069
https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01406069
DOI : 10.5942/jawwa.2016.108.0152

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
The aim of this study is to perform a simulation of large scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) working on medical diagnosis. The main feature of this WSN is its density and the fact that all sensors are in the same radio range. Our approach helps medical staff to diagnose diseases in an automatic way. In this context, each patient is equipped to a set of sensors. Each sensor is connected to a transducer dedicated to measure a specific health parameter . This WSN will perform some computations and run an alarm when some diseases are suspected. This technique is based on the population protocol to handle data exchanged between sensors. This approach is in fact an efficient distributed algorithm which implies that the diagnose may be done by any sensor dealing with the disease detection. The main result of this paper is: the method supports large scalability which proves its practicability for real cases.
Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications.
Riccione, Italy

hal-00519595
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00519595

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD NRC Research Press
Résumé : Molecular, cytological, and morphological data support the existence of a hybrid population between Schoenus nigricans and Schoenus ferrugineus. This population was found in northeastern Italy, where S. nigricans is central with respect to its natural range and S. ferrugineus is marginal, being most common in the Alps and in central and northern Europe. Molecular marker data show that the putative hybrid population is genetically intermediate between nearby populations of the parent species. Cytological evidence confirmed the hybrid nature of this population, as does the almost complete sterility of plants within the population. Although no seeds were produced by the hybrid population, some possibly fertile pollen grains were produced; this suggests that the possibility of introgression between the two species through the hybrids cannot completely be excluded.
ISSN: 0831-2796

hal-01032047
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01032047
DOI : 10.1139/G01-138

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Public Library of Science
Résumé : International audience
Patterns of connectivity and self-recruitment are recognized as key factors shaping the dynamics of marine populations. Connectivity is also essential for maintaining and restoring natural ecological processes with genetic diversity contributing to the adaptation and persistence of any species in the face of global disturbances. Estimates of connectivity are crucial to inform the design of both marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA networks. Among several approaches, genetic structure is frequently used as a proxy for patterns of connectivity. Using 8 microsatellite loci, we investigated genetic structure of the two-banded sea bream Diplodus vulgaris, a coastal fish that is both commercially and ecologically important. Adults were sampled in 7 locations (stretches of coastline approximately 8 km long) and juveniles in 14 sites (~100 to 200 m of coastline) along 200 km of the Apulian Adriatic coast (SW Adri-atic Sea), within and outside an MPA (Torre Guaceto MPA, Italy). Our study found similar genetic diversity indices for both the MPA and the surrounding fished areas. An overall lack of genetic structure among samples suggests high gene flow (i.e. connectivity) across a scale of at least 200 km. However, some local genetic divergences found in two locations demonstrate some heterogeneity in processes renewing the population along the Apulian Adriatic coast. Furthermore, two sites appeared genetically divergent, reinforcing our observations within the genetic makeup of adults and confirming heterogeneity in early stage genetics that can come from either different supply populations or from chaotic genetic patchiness occurring under temporal variation in recruitment and in the reproductive success. While the specific role of the MPA is not entirely known in this case, these results confirm the presence of regional processes and the key role of connectivity in maintaining the local population supply.
ISSN: 1932-6203

hal-01442055
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01442055
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01442055/document
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01442055/file/journal.pone.0167441.pdf
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0167441.s009

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
A key issue for any project that aims to study endangered animals is the counting process. In this work, we propose an algorithm for automatic counting of singing birds in their habitat by using wireless sensors fitted with microphone. Sensors are used to record audio samples of bird songs and samples are analyzed to extract fingerprints that permit to recognize bird species. This paper details the counting algorithm that uses graph theory and audio inputs comparison. Finally, we demonstrate our scheme efficiency through experimentations.
International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Lucca, Italy

hal-00618563
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618563
DOI : 10.1109/WoWMoM.2011.5986215

Éditeur(s) : Pêche thonière et dispositifs de concentration de poissons, Caribbean-Martinique, 15-19 Oct 1999
Résumé : In the Sicilian fisheries, the swordfish (Xiphias gladius, Linnaeus 1758), caught from March to December with several gears which vary according to season, represents one of the most important economic resources. The size composition changes depending on the gear used, the way it is operated, the fishing area and season. The gears used for swordfish fishing (long-lines "for swordfish", drift-nets, harpoons as operated by typical boats named "feluche") mainly catch adult specimens. From August to December, a high number of very young swordfish specimens (1.5 to 4.5 kg) is also caught as by-catch during the albacore (Thunnus alalunga, Bonnaterre 1788) fishing which is carried out by a special long line and hooks only 3 cm long. It was observed that in the same season, fishing areas and with boats of similar type, the fishing of dolphin-fish (Coryphaena hippurus, Linnaeus 1758), using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and purse seine, is hardly practised in spite of the resource availability swordfish. With the present work, which can be regarded as an initial approach to the problem of diversifying and managing fishing effort of swordfish, albacore and dolphin-fish, their fisheries are examined and discussed, not overlooking the economic aspect, by considering weather a reallocation of fishing effort among the previously said resources might avert the risk of swordfish stock depletion.

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00042/15299/12659.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00042/15299/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
ICPRAM
Rome, Italy

hal-01313380
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01313380

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Association for Computing Machinery
Résumé : International audience
WWW '15 Companion Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide WebPages 1415-1418
Florence, Italy

hal-01537736
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-01537736
DOI : 10.1145/2740908.2743048

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
9th International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Venise, Italy

lirmm-01381091
https://hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr/lirmm-01381091

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD IEEE
Résumé : Object classification is a challenging task in computer vision. Many approaches have been proposed to extract meaningful descriptors from images and classifying them in a supervised learning framework. In this paper, we revisit the classic k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classification rule, which has shown to be very effective when dealing with local image descriptors. However, k-NN still features some major drawbacks, mainly due to the uniform voting among the nearest prototypes in the feature space. In this paper, we propose a generalization of the classic k-NN rule in a supervised learning (boosting) framework. Namely, we redefine the voting rule as a strong classifier that linearly combines predictions from the k closest prototypes. To induce this classifier, we propose a novel learning algorithm, MLNN (Multiclass Leveraged Nearest Neighbors), which gives a simple procedure for performing prototype selection very efficiently. We tested our method on 12 categories of objects, and observed significant improvement over classic k-NN in terms of classification performances.
International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
Desenzano del Garda, Italy

hal-00481725
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00481725
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00481725/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00481725/file/pbnn_wiamis_10.pdf