Machine Translation (MT) of natural human languages is not a subject about which most scholars feel neutral. This field has had a long, colorful career, and boasts no shortage of vociferous detractors and proponents alike. During its first decade in the 1950s, interest and support were fueled by visions of high-speed high-quality translation of arbitrary texts (especially those of interest to t...

For the next decade, the ‘‘support’’ that comes from Group Support Systems (GSS) will be increasingly directed towards culturally diversified groups. While there have been many GSS studies concerning culture and cultural differences, no dedicated review of GSS researches exists for the identification of current gaps and opportunities of doing cross-cultural GSS research. For this purpose, this ...

Klein of the Wharton School's Econometric Forecasting Associates expect GNP to increase about 7 per cent a year in current dollars, while the price level creeps up at only a noninflating 2.5 to 3 per cent a year. The unemployment rate, now close to the 6 per cent mark, should drop to 4.5 per cent by 1973 and stay close to that for the rest of the decade. "In human terms, this holds the promise ...

Two popular mounting positions of Doppler radar for human fall detection are in the ceiling center and at the torso level. This paper examines the fall signatures observed by a Doppler radar at the two positions and evaluates their consistencies with respect to the fall directions and locations. The complementary characteristics of the fall signatures motivate the integration of the features fr...

Dew is an essential water resource for the survival and reproduction of organisms in arid semi-arid regions. Yet estimating dew amount quantifying its long-term variation are challenging. In this study, we elucidate Kunes River Valley, Northwest China, based on measured daily reconstructed values (using meteorological data from 1980 to 2021), respectively. Four key results were found: (1) mean ...

Abstract. Rain-on-snow (ROS) events can accelerate the surface ablation of sea ice, thus greatly influencing ice–albedo feedback. However, variability ROS over Arctic Ocean is poorly understood due to limited historical station data in this region. In study early melt season were investigated based on four widely used reanalysis products (ERA-Interim, JRA-55, MERRA, and ERA5) conjunction with a...

A component of terrestrial water storage, vegetation is also an influential driver changes in storage. In the context warming on Tibetan Plateau, it essential to explore relationship between storage and this region understand further role systems alpine mountains. Our study combines anomalies data indices determine how their interact. The results indicate a rate 0.44°C/decade ( p <0.01) ...

Drought severity still remains a serious concern across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to its destructive impact on multiple sectors of society. In this study, the interannual variability and trends in changes self-calibrating Palmer Severity Index (scPDSI) based Penman–Monteith (scPDSIPM) Thornthwaite (scPDSITH) methods for measuring potential evapotranspiration (PET), precipitation (P), normali...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a breast clinic on a specific target population and evaluate early diagnosis performance indicators for breast cancer in the presence of a self referral policy. DESIGN Women living in Florence between 1980 and 1989 who had undergone mammography at a self referral breast clinic were studied. Main outcome measures were the use of mammography in relation t...