It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

Abstract Thanks to their absence of play, contact friction and possible monolithic fabrication, flexure pivots offer advantages over traditional bearings in small-scale, high accuracy applications environments where lubrication wear debris are proscribed. However, they typically present a parasitic center shift that deteriorates rotational guidance accuracy. Existing solutions addressing this i...

Agricultural irrigation is a primary user for freshwater withdrawal. Irrigation plays an important role in crop production, as it provides the benefit of reducing effects prolonged dryness and erratic precipitation. Center pivot system most common agriculture. As center ages, could develop leaking joint, clogged sprinklers, physical damage. This can cause areas non-uniformity that lead to under...

This paper presents two pivot strategies for statistical machine transliteration, namely system-based pivot strategy and model-based pivot strategy. Given two independent source-pivot and pivot-target name pair corpora, the model-based strategy learns a direct sourcetarget transliteration model while the system-based strategy learns a sourcepivot model and a pivot-target model, respectively. Ex...

Irrigation is indispensable in agriculture. Center pivot irrigation systems are popular means of since they water-efficient and labor-saving. Monitoring center provides important information for the understanding agricultural production, water resources consumption environmental change. Deep learning has become an effective approach object detection semantic segmentation. Recent studies have sh...

The aim of the present research was to analyze the body composition (BC) and the differences in BC among different playing position in professional basketball, handball and futsal players. BC was assessed in 70 professional indoor team sport players. Players were divided in 4 groups depending on the playing position: group 1, point guard, center/wings and defense; group 2, shooting guard/small ...

A 3D pendulum consists of a rigid body, supported at a fixed pivot, with three rotational degrees of freedom. The pendulum is acted on by a gravitational force. Symmetry assumptions are shown to lead to the planar 1D pendulum and to the spherical 2D pendulum models as special cases. The case where the rigid body is asymmetric and the center of mass is distinct from the pivot location leads to t...

This paper describes the design of an instrument guidance device for percutaneous interventions in closed bore magnetic resonance (MR) imaging systems. The device consists of a curved arm piece that travels around a circular base, and an additional needle holder that travels along the curved arm – thus providing two angular degrees of freedom that enable an ablation probe to pivot about a remot...

This paper implements and compares three different strategies to use English as pivot language for Chinese-Japanese patent translation: corpus enrichment, sentence pivot translation and phrase pivot translation. Our results show that both corpus enrichment and phrase pivot translation strategy outperform the baseline system, while the sentence pivot translation strategy failed to improve the sy...