Confusion network decoding has proven to be one of the most successful approaches to machine translation system combination. The hypothesis alignment algorithm is a crucial part of building the confusion networks and many alternatives have been proposed in the literature. This paper describes a systematic comparison of five well known hypothesis alignment algorithms for MT system combination vi...

Strategic technology planning is a core competency of companies using technological capabilities for competitive advantage. It is also a competency with which many large companies struggle due to the cross-functional knowledge that needs to be shared, the varying perspectives that must to be aligned, the complicated network of dependencies that need to be understood and the high-degree of uncer...

Tactical Satellite 3 is an Air Force Research Laboratory Science and Technology (S&T) initiative that explores the capability and technological maturity of small, low-cost satellites. It features a low cost "plug and play" modular bus and low cost militarily significant payloads a Raytheon developed Hyperspectral imager and secondary payload data exfiltration provided by the Office of Naval Res...

J. Lunine (LPL), D. Matson (JPL), K. Reh (JPL), P. Beauchamp (JPL), J.M Charbonnier (CNES, Toulouse), L. Bruzzone (Univ. Trento), M.-T. Capria (IFSI, Rome), A. Coates (MSSL, Univ. College London), C. Hansen (JPL), R. Jaumann (DLR, Berlin), J.P Lebreton (ESA/ESTEC), R. Lopes (JPL), R. Lorenz (APL), I. Mueller-Wodarg (Imp. College, London), F. Raulin (Univ. Paris 12), E. Sittler (NASA/GSFC), J. S...

In random graph models, the degree distribution of an individual node should be distinguished from the (empirical) degree distribution of the graph that records the fractions of nodes with given degree. We introduce a general framework to explore when these two degree distributions coincide asymptotically in large homogeneous random networks. The discussion is carried under three basic statisti...

We study the learnability of several fundamental concept classes in the agnostic learning framework of Haussler [Hau92] and Kearns et al. [KSS94]. We show that under the uniform distribution, agnostically learning parities reduces to learning parities with random classification noise, commonly referred to as the noisy parity problem. Together with the parity learning algorithm of Blum et al. [B...

enzyme preparations cannot be aged and reactivated in a convincing way (Williams and McIntyre, J. Biol. Chem., 217, 467, 1955). The action of certain of these factors such as adenosine and glucose is now regarded as a membrane effect (Trudinger, Australian J. Exptl. Biol. Med. Sci., 33, 67, 1955; and Smith and Lichstein, Proc. Soc. Exptl. Biol. Med., 86, 586, 1954). The mode of action of biotin...

Raytheon Systems Company is a defense electronics company that has been actively engaged in a software process improvement effort at the organizational and program levels for over a decade. The company uses the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) as a basis for their improvement efforts and has been formally assessed at level 3 (defined). The project is a real...

Methyl green has frequently been used for histochemical and in vitro demonstration of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). I t has been reported that this color or staining reaction requires the presence of highly polymeric DNA (1) and that its molecular size influences the extent of the reaction. Thus, as the DNA is broken down by deoxyribonuclease (DNase), there is a corresponding decrease in the bin...

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