Senegal: A Typically African Country?

The young nation of West Africa, part of the former French colonial system, has a long history showing a clear integration within the context of the Sahel region.After independence, it followed a particular evolution: though its economic and social development was not free of the contradictions and the failures so characteristic for former Games co

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Roof Reconstruction from Point Clouds using Importance Sampling

We propose a novel fully automatic technique for roof fitting Belts in 3D point clouds based on sequential importance sampling (SIS).Our approach makes no assumption of the nature (sparse, dense) or origin (LIDAR, image matching) of the point clouds and further distinguishes, automatically, between different basic roof types based on model selectio

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How many individuals share a mitochondrial genome?

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is useful to assist with identification of the source of a biological sample, or to confirm matrilineal relatedness.Although the autosomal genome is much larger, mtDNA has an advantage for forensic applications of multiple copy number per cell, allowing better recovery of sequence information from degraded samples.In addit

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