Editorial NPL 1/2019

Machine translation at the NPL

A research project in Machine Translation (MT) from Russian into English was started at the National Physical Laboratory in 1960 and carried on until its conclusion in 1966. Over these years the project evolved from a simple ‘improved word for word translation’ into a more advanced stage of translation of sentences and phrases with a certain amount of syntactical analysis, and included also idi...

Gestaltung netzbasierter Planspiel-Lernarrangements (NPL)

An Introduction to NPL

Even in this Internet age, reading code is quite hard. Existing Program Visualisation systems could not make visualisation of code in existing languages any easier because the semantics of the languages were not designed with code visualisation in mind. NPL is an experimental procedural language designed to aid program visualisation and is based on a paradigm called ”Connect Oriented Paradigm” ...

Circumscribing China’s NPL "Puzzle"

The problem of the Chinese financial system with non performing loans is significant and murky. If China's non performing loan problem exists on a certain level of severity and is not trending toward a more manageable state, then China could be moving toward financial crisis. Empirical and theoretical studies in recent years have implied that this might be the case. It might be impossible to co...

Progress Report on Proton Dosimetry at NPL

A Strategic Research project was performed at NPL with the aim of investigating issues and potential improvements for light-ion dosimetry. The objectives of the project were: a literature survey, testing a number of dosimeters in the proton therapy beam of Clatterbridge Centre of Oncology (CCO), measurement of dose distributions, measurement and calculation of detector perturbations, explore th...