C. Fernandez

Alternative efficiency measures for multiple-output production (2005)

This paper has two main purposes. Firstly, we develop various ways of defining efficiency in the case of multiple-output production. Our framework extends a previous model by allowing for...

Alternative efficiency measures for multiple-output production (2005)

This paper has two main purposes. Firstly, we develop various ways of defining efficiency in the case of multiple-output production. Our framework extends a previous model by allowing for...

Invariants couleur dédiés à la transparence de l'encre. Application à la segmentation de marquages (2005)

This paper has two main purposes. Firstly, we develop various ways of defining efficiency in the case of multiple-output production. Our framework extends a previous model by allowing for...

Gouiffès, M., Collewet, C., Fernandez, C., Trémeau, A., Loisel, P.

The ink reflectance strongly depends on its opacity and on the color of the body on which it is printed. In this paper, we focus on this problem, which is linked to ink transparency. We propose some...

Experience with the international testbed in the CrossGrid project. (2005)

Gomes, J., David, M., Martins, J., Bernardo, L., Garcia, A., Hardt, M., ...

Sloot, P.M.A. [Hrsg.]

Are stock assessment methods too complicated? A critical review central on North Sea demersal stocks. (2004)

Fernandez, C., Cotter, J., Burt, L., Paxton, C., Buckland, S.

This critical review argues that several methods for the estimation and prediction of numbers-at-age, fishing mortality coefficients F, and recruitment for a stock of fish are too hard to explain to...

First Prototype of the CrossGrid Testbed. (2004)

Gomes, J., David, M., Martins, J., Bernardo, L., Marco, J., Marco, R., ...

Rivera, F.F. [Hrsg.]

Deployment of an interactive physics analysis application in the CrossGrid project testbed. (2004)

Martinez-Rivero, C., Marco, J., Rodriguez, D., Marco, R., Gonzales, I., Cano, D., ...

Case Studies on Grid Applications in Conjunction with GGF 10, Berlin, March 13, 2004

Use of a Total Mixed Ration with Three Sources of Protein as an Alternative Feeding for Dairy Goats on Southeast of Spain (2003)

C. Fernandez, P. Sanchez-Seiquer, A. Sanchez

Voluntary intake, apparent total tract digestibility milk yield and composition was determined in a total mixed ration offered with three different sources of protein; soybean meal, sunflower meal...

Feed Intake and Digestibility of Total Mixed Ration fed Murciano-Granadina Dairy Goats (2003)

C. Fernandez, P. Sanchez-Seiquer

A digestibility trial was carried out in order to determine the quality of a commercial total mixed ration offered to lactating dairy goats. Three, 3 years old Murciano-Granadina goats at mid...

Quality analysis of blue-veined cheeses by MRI: a preliminary study (2003)

Onea, A., Collewet, G., Fernandez, C., Vertan, C., Richard, N., Mariette, F.

This paper describes a preliminary study aimed at improving the quality of soft-blue veined cheeses by the use of magnetic resonance images analysis. MRI measurements were performed on thirty-two...

Drop out monotonic rules for sequencing situations (2002)

Fernandez, C., Borm, P., Hendrickx, R., Tijs, S.

Multiple output production with undesirable outputs: an application to nitrogen surplus in agriculture (2002)

Multiple output production with undesirable outputs: an application to nitrogen surplus in agriculture (2002)

Many production processes yield both good outputs and undesirable ones (e.g., pollutants). In this article we develop a generalization of a stochastic frontier model that is appropriate for such...

The presence of putative sulphur-oxidizing bacteria colonizing the periostracal secretion in the endosymbiont-bearing bivalve Loripes lucinalis (2001)

Many production processes yield both good outputs and undesirable ones (e.g., pollutants). In this article we develop a generalization of a stochastic frontier model that is appropriate for such...

Demographic structure suggests migration of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in a coastal lagoon (2001)

Loripes lucinalis. a small bivalve belonging to the Lucinacea superfamily living in reducing coastal sediments, possesses chemoautotrophic sulphur-oxidizing bacteria in its gill. Here, a population...

Fernandez, C., Caltagirone, A., Johnson, M.

The demographic structure of a population of Paracentrotus lividus living in a coastal Mediterranean lagoon was studied in 1990. Analysis of this structure revealed that the population examined was...

Bacterial symbiosis in Loripes lucinalis (Mollusca : Bivalvia)with comments on reproductive strategy (2001)

The presence of putative sulphur-oxidizing bacteria colonizing the periostracal secretion in the endosymbiont-bearing bivalve Loripes lucinalis (2001)

Loripes lucinalis. a littoral bivalve harbouring endocellular sulphur-oxidizing bacteria within its gills, was studied between September 1991 and September 1992 at the Moulin Blanc beach (Brittany,...

Demographic structure suggests migration of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in a coastal lagoon (2001)

Loripes lucinalis. a small bivalve belonging to the Lucinacea superfamily living in reducing coastal sediments, possesses chemoautotrophic sulphur-oxidizing bacteria in its gill. Here, a population...

Fernandez, C., Caltagirone, A., Johnson, M.

The demographic structure of a population of Paracentrotus lividus living in a coastal Mediterranean lagoon was studied in 1990. Analysis of this structure revealed that the population examined was...

Bacterial symbiosis in Loripes lucinalis (Mollusca : Bivalvia)with comments on reproductive strategy (2001)

Characterization of the methylation-sensitive promoter of the imprinted ZAC gene supports its role in transient neonatal diabetes mellitus (2001)

Loripes lucinalis. a littoral bivalve harbouring endocellular sulphur-oxidizing bacteria within its gills, was studied between September 1991 and September 1992 at the Moulin Blanc beach (Brittany,...

Varrault, A., Bilanges, B., Mackay, D.J., Basyuk, E., Ahr, B., Fernandez, C., ...

ZAC is a recently isolated zinc finger protein that induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. The corresponding gene is imprinted maternally through an unknown mechanism and maps to 6q24-q25, within...

Spin asymmetries A_{1} of the proton and the deuteron in the low x and low Q^{2} region from polarized high energy muon scattering (1999)

Adeva, B., Arik, E., Arvidson, A., Badalek, B., Baum, G., Berglund, P., ...

Multivariate Student-t regression models: Pitfalls and inference (1999)

Fernandez, C, Steel, MFJ

We consider likelihood-based inference from multivariate regression models with independent Student-t errors with unknown degrees of freedom. Some pitfalls are revealed of both Bayesian and maximum...

Screening bananas for root-knot (Meloidogyne spp.) and lesion nematode (Pratylenchus goodeyi) resistance for the Canary Islands (1998)

Jaizme, MD, Fernandez, C, Jaumot, M

Fifteen banana cultivars and accessions of interest to the Canary Islands were evaluated against Meloidogyne javanica, M. incognita and Pratylenchus goodeyi. Most were highly susceptible to both...

Germinal center formation following immunization with the polysaccharide dextran B512 is substantially increased by cholera toxin (1998)

Sverremark, E, Fernandez, C

Statistical modeling of fishing activities in the North Atlantic (1997)

Fernandez, C., Ley, E., Steel, M.F.J.

This paper deals with the issue of modeling daily catches of fishing boats in the Grand Bank fishing grounds. We have data on catches per species for a number of vessels collected by the European...

Reference priors for the general location-scale model (1997)

Reference priors for non-normal two-sample problems (1997)

The reference prior algorithm (Berger and Bernardo 1992) is applied to multivariate location-scale models with any regular sampling density, where we establish the irrelevance of the usual assumption...

On the dangers of modelling through continuous distributions : a Bayesian perspective (1997)

The reference prior algorithm (Berger and Bernardo, 1992) is applied to location- scale models with any regular sampling density. A number of two-sample problems is analyzed in this general context,...

Multivariate student-T regression models : pitfalls and inference (1997)

We point out that Bayesian inference on the basis of a given sample is not always possible with continuous sampling models, even under a proper prior. The reason for this paradoxical situation is...

Robust Bayesian inference on scale parameters (1996)

We consider likelihood-based inference from multivariate regression models with in- dependent Student-t errors. Some very intruiging pitfalls of both Bayesian and classical methods on the basis of...

On Bayesian modelling of fat tails and skewness (1996)

On the use of panel data in bayesian stochastic frontier models (1996)

We consider a Bayesian analysis of linear regression models that can account for skewed error distributions with fat tails. The latter two features are often observed characteristics of empirical...

Fernandez, C., Osiewalski, J., Steel, M.

We consider a Bayesian analysis of the stochastic frontier model with composed error. Under a commonly used class of (partly) noninformative prior distributions, the existence of the posterior...

On Bayesian inference under sampling from scale mixtures of normals (1996)

Fernandez, C., Steel, M.

This paper considers a Bayesian analysis of the linear regression model under independent sampling from general scale mixtures of Normals. Using a common reference prior, we investigate the validity...

Reference priors in non-normal location problems (1995)

Inference Robustness in Multivariate Models with a Scale Parameter (1995)

A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of mupirocin calcium ointment for eliminating nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus among hospital personnel (1995)

We formulate a general representation of points z 2 < n

Fernandez, C., Gaspar, C., Torrellas, A., Vindel, A., Saez-Nieto, J. A., Cruzet, F., ...

Sixty-eight health care workers were enrolled in a double-blind clinical trial and randomized to receive either mupirocin calcium ointment or placebo, intranasally bid for 5 days. Nasal cultures were...

Growth and nutritional response of Nemared peach rootstock infected with Pratylenchus vulnus and the mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae (1995)

Pinochet, J., Calvet, G., Camprubi, A., Fernandez, C.

Les effets de l'interaction entre Pratylenchus vulnus et le champignon mycorrhizien Glomus mosseae sur les porte-greffe de pêcher "Nemared" ont été étudiés en microparcelles pendant deux saisons...

Influence of temperature on in vitro reproduction of Pratylenchus coffeae, P. Goodey, and Radopholus similis (1995)

Pinochet, J., Fernandez, C., Sarah, J.L.

Sensitivity to Prior Independence via Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern Model (1994)

Horra, J. De La, Fernandez, C.

The Continuous Multivariate Location-Scale Model Revisited : A Tale of Robustness (1993)

Marginal Equivalence in v-Spherical Models (1993)