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Terminology for Translators — an Implementation of ISO 12620

As far as translators are concerned, terminology is primarily an ad hoc affair, more a matter of filling in the blanks in their knowledge than systematically studying a constellation of terms in a given universe of discourse. This article sketches the historical background of terminology and discusses the importance of terminology management for translators. More specifically, it outlines a method by which translators can make use of the data categories discussed in ISO 12620 in their daily work. A specific implementation of these data categories, using off-the-shelf software, is presented.
College Choice Mechanism: The Respect of the Vagueness of Choices

Taking as a starting point the theory of matching applied in the case of a problem of college admissions, where one is interested only to strict preference profiles for students and colleges, a part of the literature has been oriented towards profiles of priorities for colleges. In this paper we will assume that students have also their own priorities to which is associated some 'fuzzy'. This vagueness designates the preference of an individual (resp. college) for a college relative to parameters that characterize the latter one (resp. individual). Thus, we talk about fuzzy priorities. Our purpose is to analyze this aspect and to propose a real-life mechanism which will take into consideration the fuzzy priority profiles of both students and colleges, in order to achieve the best possible matching that is stable, strategy-proof, Pareto efficient and fair.
Adaptive prescribed performance control of nonlinear systems with unknown dead zone

An alternative adaptive control with prescribed performance is proposed to address the output tracking of nonlinear systems with a nonlinear dead zone input. An appropriate function that characterizes the convergence rate, maximum overshoot, and steady‐state error is adopted and incorporated into an output error transformation, and thus the stabilization of the transformed system is sufficient to achieve original tracking control with prescribed performance. The nonlinear dead zone is represented as a time‐varying system and Nussbaum‐type functions are utilized to deal with the unknown control gain dynamics. A novel high‐order neural network with a scalar adaptive weight is developed to approximate unknown nonlinearities, thus the computational costs can be diminished dramatically. Some restrictive assumptions on the system dynamics and the dead‐zone are circumvented. Simulations are included to validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Semiparametric Efficient Distribution Free Estimation of Panel Models

This article generalizes results from Park et al. (1998) and Adams et al. (1999) on semiparametric efficient estimation of panel models. The form of semiparametric efficient estimators depends on the statistical assumptions imposed. Normality assumptions on the transitory error are sometimes inappropriate. We relax the normality assumption used in the articles above to derive more general semiparametric efficient estimators. These estimators are illustrated in a Monte Carlo simulation and an analysis of banking productivity.
Solution of Large-Scale Transportation Problems Through Aggregation

From a large-scale transportation problem I a smaller one II is derived by the aggregation of origins destinations. A procedure is given to find an optimal solution X to problem I, starting from an optimal solution Y to problem II, and considering at each step only a small part of the orginal problem's data. While the proposed method is applicable to any transportation problem, its efficiency increases with a the size of the problem, and b the unevenness of the territorial distribution of origins destinations.
Simplicity of Skew Group Rings of Abelian Groups

Necessary and sufficient conditions for simplicity of a general skew group ring A ⋊σ G are not known. In this article, we show that a skew group ring A ⋊σ G, of an abelian group G, is simple if and only if its centre is a field and A is G-simple. As an application, we show that a transformation group (X, G), where X is a compact Hausdorff space acted upon by an abelian group G, is minimal and faithful if and only if its associated skew group algebra C(X) ⋊σ G is simple.
GENERAL MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF LEAST SQUARES 3D SURFACE MATCHING AND ITS APPLICATION OF STRIP ADJUSTMENT

Systematic errors in point clouds acquired by airborne laser scanners, photogrammetric methods or other 3D measurement techniques need to be estimated and removed by adjustment procedures. The proposed method estimates the transformation parameters between reference surface and registration surface using a mathematical adjustment model. 3D surface matching is an extension of 2D least squares image matching. The estimation model is a typical Gauss-Markoff model and the goal is minimizing the sum of squares of the Euclidean distances between the contiguous surfaces. Besides the generic mathematical model, we also propose a concept of conjugate points rules which are suitable for special registering applications, and compare it to three typical conjugate points rules. Finally, we explain how this method can be used for the co-registration of real 3D point sets and show co-registration results based on airborne laser scanner data. Concluding results of our experiment suggest that the proposed method has a good performance of 3D surface matching, and the least normal distance rule returns the best result for the strip adjustment of airborne laser altimetry data.
Cross-Layer Design for Packet Retransmission Control Based on Superposition Modulation with Soft Combining

For adaptive packet retransmission control, network coding (NC)-based schemes have been proposed to reduce the number of packet retransmissions. However, the NC-based schemes have two fundamental drawbacks; the need for a counterpart packet of member packets and an overhearing packet management method. To mitigate these problems, we propose a novel superposition modulation (SM)-based scheme based on cross-layer design. However, when the SM technique is introduced into the system, the bit error probability increases. Therefore, to decrease the bit error probability, we utilize the soft combining (SC) technique. The effectiveness of our scheme is demonstrated through computer simulations.
Integrability and symmetries for the Helmholtz oscillator with friction

This paper deals with the Helmholtz oscillator, which is a simple nonlinear oscillator whose equation presents a quadratic nonlinearity and the possibility of escape. When a periodic external force is introduced, the width of the stochastic layer, which is a region around the separatrix where orbits may exhibit transient chaos, is calculated. In the absence of friction and external force, it is well known that analytical solutions exist since it is completely integrable. When only friction is included, there is no analytical solution for all parameter values. However, by means of the Lie theory for differential equations we find a relation between parameters for which the oscillator is integrable. This is related to the fact that the system possesses a symmetry group and the corresponding symmetries are computed. Finally, the analytical explicit solutions are shown and related to the basins of attraction.
An entropy‐based measure of mixing at the tropopause

Qualitative analysis of tracer correlations is now a well established technique for investigating mixing in the tropopause transition layer. Generally, these studies rely on in situ data retrieved over short distances and time‐scales. Using satellite data from HALOE, we introduce a simple quantitative analysis technique, based on entropy, to provide a climatology of mixing, from H2O:O3 tracer correlations. Results compare well with previous studies using Lagrangian‐based estimates of effective diffusivity and equivalent lengths and also climatologies of tropopause folding. Further analysis techniques reveal characteristics of the transition layer, including its depth and position, leading to the distinction of three primary forms of mixing. Within our analysis domain, we estimate that half of total entropy can be attributed to subtropical ‘Rossby‐driven’ tropopause folding events. The majority of the remaining entropy is associated with tropical convective mixing and a third form, possibly linked to shear‐induced mixing at subtropical jet streaks. Copyright © 2006 Royal Meteorological Society
Study of the resistivity mapping in CdTe:Cl-correlation with annealing and Te-precipitates

The presence of defects in Cl-doped CdTe crystals influences the electrical properties and the homogeneity of the material. The aim of this paper is to study the effects of thermal treatment on the precipitates present in the volume of the material and thus on the uniformity of the material in regards to both resistivity and precipitate concentrations. The samples are annealed under argon pressure. The number of precipitates, generally of Te, is measured using infrared microscopy. In addition, a low-cost contactless measurement technique for resistivity mapping has been developed. This technique presents a good spatial resolution of approximately 1 mm and a resistivity range measurement of 10/sup 6/-10/sup 10/ /spl Omega/-cm. The relation between the number of Te-precipitates and the resistivity maps is investigated. A decrease in the number of Te-precipitates after sample annealing is observed. Furthermore, the resistivity decreases with an increase in the number of precipitates in the material. The uniformity of the annealed samples is discussed. The correlation of the resistivity maps and the Te-precipitates is also given, illustrated by comparison topography with resistivity and Te-precipitate concentrations. The contactless resistivity measurement technique is also described.
Suboptimal Soft Decision Decoding of Linear Codes

Suboptimal decoding of linear codes in "symmetric" memoryless channels is considered. For the q-ary codes of length n /spl rarr/ /spl infin/ and code rate R the number of decoding operations is upper bounded by the value q/sup n(c+o(1)), where o(1) /spl rarr/ 0 and c = min(R(1 - R), (1 - R)/2). The decoding error probability /spl epsi/ is upper bounded by the double error probability /spl epsi//sub e/ of maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, while /spl epsi/ /spl sim/ /spl epsi//sub e/, when n /spl rarr/ /spl infin/. For the channels with discrete (quantified) output the better estimate c = R(1 - R)/(1 + R) is obtained.
Likelihood Methods for Combining Tables of Data

Often times actuaries, health policy planners and managers must draw conclusions from several related sources of data. Particularly for actuaries, there is often a need to construct a table based on the experience of several blocks of business or on several different tables of data. Although sophisticated methods for using the resulting tables of data have been developed, often that table representing the information combined from several sources is constructed in a relatively ad hoc manner. This paper presents a likelihood method of combining tables of data from several sources. The methods are based on techniques dating at least back to the mid 1940's, but have been made more feasible with advances in computational power. The method presented allows for situations where the data sources have aggregated the data at different levels. In this case questions of estimability are examined using the implicit function theorem. The method is illustrated with an example.
Observations of water in comets with Odin

The Odin satellite, which can observe the 1 1 0 -1 0 1 rotational line at 557 GHz of ortho water with a high spectral resolution (80 m s - 1 ) and a spatial resolution of 2.1', is well suited for cometary studies. The intensity of this line provides an estimate of the water production rate. The line width gives a direct measure of the coma expansion velocity. The line centre position and shape are affected by the anisotropy of the outgassing and by optical depth effects. Comets observed with Odin up to now are C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) during the commissioning phase of the satellite, 19P/Borrelly at the time of the Deep Space 1 flyby, C/2000 WM 1 (LINEAR), and 153P/2002 Cl (Ikeya-Zhang). For this last comet, thorough observations were made at the moment of its closest approach to Earth at the end of April 2002. A deep integration resulted in the detection of the 1 1 0 -1 0 1 line of H 2 1 8 O at 548 GHz. No 1 6 O/ 1 8 O isotopic anomaly is found.
On dichotomy of Riesz products

Background. Riesz products are very useful for the construction of singular measures on compact, Abelian groups. Under some circumstances, two Riesz products are either equivalent or singular in the measure-theoretic sense. Exact knowledge of these circumstances has been of major interest ever since the 1930s, when Riesz's famous example (8) was recognized as a fertile source of examples of singular continuous measures. Zygmund(11) showed that any Riesz product over a Hadamard dissociate subset of ℕ is either a square integrable function or singular with respect to Lebesgue measure. Hewitt–Zuckerman(4) generalized these products to all compact, Abelian groups, introducing the notion of a dissociate subset. They extended Zygmund's result in certain cases. The next major step was taken by Brown–Moran(3) and Peyrière(6), (7), who showed that two Riesz products are mutually singular if The author (9) has improved another result of Brown–Moran (3) by showing that µa and µb are equivalent if
A new approach to multipath correction of constant modulus signals

An adaptive digital filtering algorithm that can compensate for both frequency-selective multipath and interference on constant envelope modulated signals is presented. The method exploits the fact that multipath reception and various interference sources generate incidental amplitude modulation on the received signal. A class of so-called constant modulus performance functions is developed which sense this AM term but are insensitive to the angle modulation. Simple adaptive algorithms for finite-impulse-response (FIR) digital filters are developed which employ a gradient search of the performance function. One of the resulting algorithms is simulated for the example of an FM signal degraded by specular multipath propagation. Substantial improvements in noise power ratio (NPR) are observed (e.g., 25 dB) with moderately rapid convergence time. These results are then extended to include tonal interference on a FM signal and intersymbol interference on a QPSK data signal.
Non‐convex dual forms based on exponential intervening variables, with application to weight minimization

We study the weight minimization problem in a dual setting. We propose new dual formulations for non‐linear multipoint approximations with diagonal approximate Hessian matrices, which derive from separable series expansions in terms of exponential intervening variables. These, generally, nonconvex approximations are formulated in terms of intervening variables with negative exponents, and are therefore applicable to the solution of the weight minimization problem in a sequential approximate optimization (SAO) framework.
A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries

We present a catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries. The catalogue is an updated version of the catalogue of van Paradijs (1995). This new catalogue contains 150 sources, 31 new low-mass X-ray binaries in addition to the 119 sources listed in van Paradijs' catalogue. The aim of this catalogue is to help the reader gain easy access to the recent literature (up to about August 2000) on individual sources, and to provide of some basic information on the X-ray sources and their counterparts in other wavelength ranges (UV, optical, IR, and radio). In cases where there is some doubt about the low-mass nature of the X-ray binary, this is mentioned. In an appendix we list the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs), which nowadays are no longer thought to be low-mass X-ray binaries.
Direct multichannel predictive deconvolution

The Levinson principle generally can be used to compute recursively the solution of linear equations. It can also be used to update the error terms directly. This is used to do single-channel deconvolution directly on seismic data without computing or applying a digital filter. Multichannel predictive deconvolution is used for seismic multiple attenuation. In a standard procedure, the prediction-error filter matrices are computed with a Levinson recursive algorithm, using a covariance matrix of the input data. The filtered output is the prediction errors or the nonpredictable part of the data. Starting with the classical Levinson recursion,wehave derived new algorithms for direct recursive calculationof the prediction errors without computing the data covariance-matrix or computing the prediction-error filters. One algorithm generates recursively the one-step forward and backward predic-tion errors and the L-step forward prediction error, computing only the filter matrices with the highest index. A numeri.
Effect of Local Impedance Variation and Non-Linearity on Multiple Tone Attenuation

An iterative Finite Element Method (FEM) is introduced for prediction of attenuation in a duct in which acoustic lining impedance depends on local grazing flow Mach number and overall local sound pressure level. A general approach is described with emphasis on the case of a source spectrum that is dominated by several tones, where each is tone specified by its frequency, circumferential mode, and a statistically represented radial mode amplitude distribution. Lining impedance is computed locally by an iterative model imbedded in the FEM propagation code. For propagation in the duct, a rapidly convergent iteration is used in which the defined source spectrum initially determines local lining impedance. In successive iterations the local sound pressure level spectrum on the lining from the previous iteration determines the new local impedance. The iterative model is implemented to assess the attenuation performance of a two degree of freedom lining initially designed with impedance dependent only on the defined source spectrum. The effect of local non-linearity is to reduce realized attenuation in tones targeted in the lining design. In an additional step in the design process, spectrum levels used in the determination of lining parameters to achieve required impedances are adjusted to reflect the reduction of sound pressure level along the lining. This results in a reduction of sensitivity of lining attenuation performance to local non-linearity.
Selective focusing through inhomogeneous media: the DORT method

The DORT method (Decomposition de l'Operateur de Retournement Temporel) applies to ultrasonic detection and focusing with arrays of transducers. It is a signal analysis method based on the invariance of ultrasonic propagation under time reversal. It requires the measurement of the inter element impulse responses of the the propagating medium for all pair of elements in the array. A hermitian matrix called the time reversal operator is deduced from these responses and diagonalized. The eigenvectors are then used to perform selective focusing. This method is applied here to phase aberration correction. Experiments with weakly and strongly aberrating medium are shown.
A diversity antenna for external mounting on wireless handsets

In this paper we introduce an antenna that has two feed ports and is suitable for providing diversity signals in compact wireless communication handsets. The design is based on merging a monopole and a /spl lambda//4 slot antenna together to give a single compact antenna structure for external use on wireless handsets. Experimental results are presented for designs that operate at 2.4 GHz and include radiation patterns, S-parameters, and signal correlations between ports. It is demonstrated that signal cross correlations between the feed ports of less than 0.1 in typical wireless environments at the handset are possible.
Crystal excitation: survey of many-electron Hartree-Fock calculations of self-trapped excitons in insulating crystals

To model successfully the diversity of electronic structure exhibited by excitons in alkali halides and in oxide materials, it is necessary to use a variety or combination of theoretical methods. In this review we restrict our discussion to the results of embedded quantum cluster calculations. By considering the results of such studies, it is possible to recognize the general similarities and differences in detail between the various exciton models in these materials.
A joule-class, TEM00 spatial profile, narrow-linewidth laser system

A Joule-class, narrow-linewidth amplifier line delivering 20 ns pulses with a TEM00 spatial profile is presented. A Q-switched Nd:YAG oscillator with an intra-cavity volume Bragg grating (VBG) is used to seed the amplifier line. A series of flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG amplifiers consisting of a double-pass and two single-pass amplifiers boost the energy of the 21 ns pulses to 480 mJ. The presented amplifier line will be used for fundamental studies including remote Raman spectroscopy and ns filamentation.
Optimal guaranteed cost synchronization of coupled neural networks with Markovian jump and mode‐dependent mixed time‐delay

This paper is concerned with the optimal guaranteed cost synchronization problem for a class of coupled neural networks with Markovian jump parameters and mode‐dependent mixed time‐delay. The coupled neural networks contained N‐identical delayed neural nodes and M switch modes from one mode to another according to a Markovian chaining with known transition probability. All the coupled networks' parameters covering the coupled matrix and discrete and distributed time‐delay also depend on the Markovian jump mode. The associated optimal guaranteed cost function is a quadratic function; the activation function is supposed to satisfy sector‐bounded condition. By employing a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and some analytic skills, the sufficiency conditions of guaranteed cost synchronization are derived to ensure that coupling neural network is asymptotically synchronized for related cost function in mean square. The exported sufficient condition is closely contacted with the distributed time‐delay, the mode transition probability, the discrete‐time delay, and the coupled structure of networks. The achieved conditions are given in the light of LMI that can be usefully solved by using the semi‐definite program scheme. Moreover, an LMI‐based approach to export the guaranteed cost synchronization controller is formulated to minimize the optimal guaranteed cost for closed‐loop dynamical networks. Numerical simulations are developed to further display the efficiency of the achieved theoretical results. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Visuomotor activity associated with conditioned hand movements in 2 premotor cortex of blindsight macaques 3 Abbreviated title : Role of premotor cortex in blindsight monkeys

1Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan 8 2Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 9 606-8501, Japan 10 3Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, 11 Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan. 12 4Human Brain Research Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 13 606-8397, Japan 14 5Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi), Kyoto University, 15 Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan 16 17 18