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How to handle .xtm files with OS X

rakasax — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:12:27 +0000

Nowadays, computer science abounds in esoteric applications, with formats quite as esoteric, to manage merge and split of files. Among these, the .xtm extension often causes troubles to mac os x user because UnRarX doesn’t manage it. In most cases, unrar an .xtm with UnRarX results on a CRC file error. After some research, i found a little application named XTMMerge that solve the problem.

It’s time to work…

rakasax — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:04:26 +0000

Generating medical documents from models of clinical pathways

rakasax — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:08:17 +0000

As part of my last year in computer science studies, my master’s thesis is concerned with the generating medical documents from models of clinical pathways. A clinical pathways is defined as a list of task to do allowing to guide the care of patient affected by a pathology. It can be represented by graph with boxes (the tasks) link together by arrows defining the sequence in which the tasks happened.

From this clinical pathways, some information will be extract to supply a medical document bound to different kind of stakeholders (patient, doctor, physician, hospital attendant, …). The specificity of this generating process is that the extracted information will be fitted to each class of stakeholder. So a lot of complex filtration mechanisms will be defined to do this job. In order to closely specify these mechanisms, we need to prepare and practice some interviews of the stakeholders. For this master’s thesis these interviews will be practice in cooperation with the service of radiotherapy of St Luc (UCL) and the general hospital of Peltzer (Verviers) .

The main part of the work will consist in specification and designing of such a generator.

Dizzy Gillespie And The United Nation Orchestra

rakasax — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:48 +0000

One of the famous live i’ve listened until now. This live takes place at The Royal Festival Hall, London and Dizzy. This is a prime example of Gillespie in his element. Formed in 1988, his United Nations Orchestra was an eclectic multi-cultural collection of some of the best and brightest jazz musicians the world had to offer. Many, if not all, of the personnel were already recognized masters in the genre while some of the younger players have used the ensemble as a springboard to successful solo careers.