Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...

A simulator is presented for computing the interconnect capacitances of ICs and PCBs using Green's functions. The capacitance simulator forms part of a simulation program [1] for a complete signal analysis of PCBs and ICs. The tool is suitable for computing discrete and coupling capacitances of arbitrary geometries. The model approximates the charge density of the conductors by dividing the sur...

A 3-D curvature contrast effect has been reported in shading-and-texture-defined (Curran & Johnson (1996). Vision Research 36, 3641-3653) and in stereoscopically defined (te Pas, Rogers, & Ledgeway (2000). Current Psychology Letters: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition 1, 117-126) stimuli. Our experiments show that a clear 3-D curvature contrast effect also occurs in motion-defined stimuli. The magn...

Wernicke's area is one of the most important language regions and has been widely studied in both basic research and clinical neurology. However, its exact anatomy has been controversial. In this study, we proposed to address the anatomy of Wernicke's area by investigating different connectivity profiles. First, the posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG), traditionally called "Wernicke's area"...

This paper reports the application of a two-dimensional (2D) depth-averaged model to dam break flows over alluvial sand beds with an initial bed step. The model applies the Finite Element Method to discretize the computational domain using an unstructured mesh made of triangular elements. Two downstream boundary conditions were tested: zero (dry) and non-zero (wet) initial water depths. The mod...

In the present paper, applicability of the modified fixed grid finite element method in solution of three dimensional elasticity problems of functionally graded materials is investigated. In the non-boundary-fitted meshes, the elements are not conforming to the domain boundaries and the boundary nodes which are used in the traditional finite element method for the application of boundary condit...

The classical error analysis for the Raviart-Thomas interpolation on triangular elements requires the so-called regularity of the elements, or equivalently, the minimum angle condition. However, in the lowest order case, optimal order error estimates have been obtained in [1] replacing the regularity hypothesis by the maximum angle condition, which was known to be sufficient to prove estimates ...