This paper discusses the acceptability of Near Human Quality machine translation. It defines Near Human Quality and provides examples of cases where Near Human Quality machine translation is acceptable. The paper assumes that there are programs capable of generating Near Human Quality output after some customization. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the acceptability of Near Human Qualit...

We analyze the effect of product quality on the output of a high-quality dominant firm facing a low-quality competitive fringe. Using a standard vertical differentiation model, we show that profit maximizing output decreases with product quality when the dominant firm’s marginal cost is lower than that of the fringe, is independent of quality when marginal cost is the same for all firms, and is...

| A novel approach for optimum cancellation of postcursors in reduced{state soft{ output trellis{based equalizers is presented. The newly introduced soft decision{feedback is optimum in terms of mean{squared error and enables signiicantly improved soft{output quality .

Siegman [Opt. Lett. 18, 675 (1993)] showed that binary-phase plates cannot improve laser beam quality. We demonstrate that continuous spiral phase elements can improve the quality of beams that originate from a laser operating with a pure high-order transverse mode. A theoretical analysis is presented, along with experimental results obtained with a CO(2) laser. The results reveal that a nearly...

Color image quality depends on many factors, such as the initial capture system and its color image processing, compression, transmission, the output device, media and associated viewing conditions. In this paper, we are primarily concerned with color image quality in relation to compression and transmission. We review the typical visual artifacts that occur due to high compression ratios and/o...

We analyze the effect of product quality on the output of a high-quality dominant firm facing a low-quality competitive fringe. Using a standard vertical differentiation model, we show that profit maximizing output decreases with product quality when the dominant firm’s marginal cost is lower than that of the fringe, is independent of quality when marginal cost is the same for all firms, and is...

The economic consequences of data quality are partly determined by the relationship between the quality of the input data and the quality of the information that an information system outputs. However, the relationship between an information system’s data accuracy and its output information accuracy is hard to assess. A popular belief on this issue is reflected by the saying “garbage in garbage...

We developed a high-power, double-intracavity-frequency, diode-side-pumped, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The thermal birefringence effect of crystal was compensated by quartz rotating mirror, and the stable cavity structure designed according to focal length single module. A 532 nm laser with maximum linearly polarized output power 96 W obtained at pumping 1300 repetition rate 10 kHz. pulse width 5...

A very crucial task of a Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network (WASN) is the wireless transmission of the acoustic signal to a central fusion node. The positioned microphones experience different radio channel qualities, since they may be, e.g., positioned at different distances to the fusion node. The design of the coding and modulation scheme is usually governed by the worst-case radio channel qua...

Lattice reduction algorithms have numerous applications in number theory, algebra, as well as in cryptanalysis. The most famous algorithm for lattice reduction is the LLL algorithm. In polynomial time it computes a reduced basis with provable output quality. One early improvement of the LLL algorithm was LLL with deep insertions (DeepLLL). The output of this version of LLL has higher quality in...