High-power diesel-based or grid-connected irrigation systems are being replaced by battery-free, high-power stand-alone Photovoltaic Irrigation Systems (PVIS) that reduce energy costs up to 80% and for which no experimental performance data available. The operation of PVIS is affected various factors, some unrelated the quality PV system itself, generate losses affect their performance: vary wi...

Pivot language is employed as a way to solve the data sparseness problem in machine translation, especially when the data for a particular language pair does not exist. The combination of source-to-pivot and pivot-to-target translation models can induce a new translation model through the pivot language. However, the errors in two models may compound as noise, and still, the combined model may ...

This paper describes a technique to exploit multiple pivot languages when using machine translation (MT) on language pairs with scarce bilingual resources, or where no translation system for a language pair is available. The principal idea is to generate intermediate translations in several pivot languages, translate them separately into the target language, and generate a consensus translation...

SSSAJ: Volume 71: Number 3 • May–June 2007 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:1020–1028 doi:10.2136/sssaj2006.0215 Received 8 June 2006. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America 677 S. Segoe Rd. Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, inclu...

We experimentally test competing theories of three-player majoritarian bargaining models with fixed, known reservation values. Subjects are randomly assigned to three roles: a proposer and two types of voters. Each role is randomly assigned a reservation value, i.e. a given amount of money he/she will receive if the proposal is rejected. These values are known to all players. Proposers then can...