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...

in order to improve the efficiency of irrigation systems and investigate their impact on the pest population levels, furrow and sprinkler irrigation systems were compared in sugar beet fields. in this study, three different fields were chosen and irrigated by one of the furrow, classic and center pivot irrigation systems.  in each field, 20 plots were randomly selected of which 10 plots were ma...

Pivot translation allows for translation of language pairs with little or no parallel data by introducing a third language for which data exists. In particular, the triangulation method, which translates by combining source-pivot and pivot-target translation models into a source-target model, is known for its high translation accuracy. However, in the conventional triangulation method, informat...

Use of the double ring infiltrometer to measure soil water infiltration in center pivot irrigation systems isn’t an accurate approach because the real conditions of infiltration under center pivot sprinklers is different from what happens in the double ring. In this study the infiltration parameters were evaluated in real conditions of a center pivot system. For this purpose a single ring...

In recent years, nested dissection has grown in popularity as the method of choice for computing a pivot sequence for use with a sparse direct symmetric solver. This is particularly true for very large problems. For smaller problems, minimum degree based algorithms often produce orderings that lead to sparser matrix factors. Furthermore, minimum degree orderings are frequently significantly che...

QuickSort Hoare [1962] (A) Pick a pivot element from array (B) Split array into 3 subarrays: those smaller than pivot, those larger than pivot, and the pivot itself. (C) Recursively sort the subarrays, and concatenate them. Randomized QuickSort (A) Pick a pivot element uniformly at random from the array (B) Split array into 3 subarrays: those smaller than pivot, those larger than pivot, and the...

QuickSort Hoare [1962] (A) Pick a pivot element from array (B) Split array into 3 subarrays: those smaller than pivot, those larger than pivot, and the pivot itself. (C) Recursively sort the subarrays, and concatenate them. Randomized QuickSort (A) Pick a pivot element uniformly at random from the array (B) Split array into 3 subarrays: those smaller than pivot, those larger than pivot, and the...

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...

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...