An important challenge to statistical machine translation (SMT) is the lack of parallel data for many language pairs. One common solution is to pivot through a third language for which there exist parallel corpora with the source and target languages. Although pivoting is a robust technique, it introduces some low quality translations. In this paper, we present two language-independent features...

Instrumental voting models predict that turnout depends on the chance of casting a pivotal vote, which is typically extremely low in large elections. Evidence from psychology and behavioral economics suggests that misperceptions of extremely unlikely events are common and subject to systematic biases, sometimes called the non-belief in the law of large numbers. We provide a model of voting when...

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The description of the pivot shift test and its modifications is for the most part based on clinical observations. We wished to precisely determine the knee motions and medial-lateral tibiofemoral compartment subluxations that examiners induce in the knee joint to produce the pivot shift phenomenon. Eleven skilled knee surgeons performed the pivot shift test on an instrumented cadaveric lower l...

The new dual-pivot Quicksort by Vladimir Yaroslavskiy — used in Oracle’s Java runtime library since version 7 — features intriguing asymmetries in its behavior. They were shown to cause a basic variant of this algorithm to use less comparisons than classic single-pivot Quicksort implementations. In this paper, we extend the analysis to the case where the two pivots are chosen as fixed order sta...

This paper proposes an approach for the minimum time swing upof a rotary inverted pendulum. Our rotary inverted pendulum is supported bya pivot arm. The pivot arm rotates in a horizontal plane by means of a servomotor. The opposite end of the arm is instrumented with a joint whose axisis along the radial direction of the motor. A pendulum is suspended at thejoint. The task is to design a contro...

A class of simplex methods for solving linear programming (LP) problems, with cosine pivot rule, have been presented in some recent papers. In this paper we show that the cosine rule used in this class is equivalent to the mostobtuse-angle pivot rule, proposed by Pan (1990). The relation between the direct method for LP and the most-obtuse-angle rule is discussed.

The results of the long awaited Prostate Cancer Intervention versus Observation Trial (PIVOT) have been recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (1). The primary outcome of the trial was overall survival in men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or observation for clinically localized prostate cancer detected with PSA screening. Seven hundred thirty one US veterans were ra...