In this paper we introduce a number of new features for quality estimation in machine translation that were developed for the WMT 2012 quality estimation shared task. We find that very simple features such as indicators of certain characters are able to outperform complex features that aim to model the connection between two languages.

Issues regarding healthcare disparity continue to increase in connection with access to quality care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), even though the case-fatality rate (CFR) continues to decrease. We explored regional variation in AMI CFRs and examined whether the variation was due to disparities in access to quality medical services

The CM-2 is an example of a connection machine. The strengths and problems of this implementation are considered. Then important issues in the architecture and programming environment of connection machines in general are considered. These are contrasted with the same issues in MD multiprocessors and multicomputers.

At this conference many interesting talks were presented on the plausible existence of Quark Stars. Other talks dealt with the exotic new phases of quark matter at very high density. Here, I show how combining these two elements might offer a new way of tackling the Gamma Ray Burst puzzle.

The anticipation for the demand from low bandwidth to high bandwidth application leads to multiple-user class in mobile communication networks. In this paper, the connection admission control problem for multiple-user class with user mobility in mobile communication networks has been investigated. The user mobility and multimedia traffic are important factors in mobile communication networks. T...

We propose a “Step-Function” method to detect network attackers from using a long connection chain to hide their identities when they launch attacks. The objective of the method is to estimate the length of a connection chain based on the changes in packet round trip times. The key point to compute the round trip time of a connection chain is to match a Send and its corresponding Echo packet. W...

Computations in geographic space are necessarily based on discrete versions of space, but much of the existing work on the foundations of GIS assumes a continuous infinitely divisible space. This is true both of quantitative approaches, using R, and qualitative approaches using systems such as the Region-Connection Calculus (RCC). This paper shows how the RCC can be modified so as to permit dis...

We propose a novel way of reducing the number of parameters in the storage-hungry fully connected layers of a neural network by using pre-defined sparsity, where the majority of connections are absent prior to starting training. Our results indicate that convolutional neural networks can operate without any loss of accuracy at less than half percent classification layer connection density, or l...

With the help of prioritised polling token and a local synchronisation scheme, this study proposes a quality of service (QoS)-guaranteed scheduling algorithm. It works based on distributed intelligence and schedules both intra-cluster and intercluster connections in a cluster-based multihop wireless ad hoc sensor network. Theoretical analyses are employed to derive the bounds for the jitter and...

Fine timescale simulation and analysis are combined with coarse timescale simulation in the design and performance evaluation of connection admission control (CAC) techniques applied to connections that utilize the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Adaptation Layer Type 2 (AAL2). Fine timescale (packet-level) simulation and then analytical modeling are used to determine the AAL2-level connection...