The aim of the study is to analyse how English form address you translated into Polish in subtitles. investigation embedded framework (im)politeness theory. data used for comprise two types non-professional renderings: amateur subtitles (fansubbing) and written by sophomore students Philology. proves that fansubbers’ have a tendency foreignise translation ignoring sociocultural norms terms addr...

Background Increasing the x-ray film to focus distance (FFD), has been recommended as a practical dose optimization tool for patients undergoing conventional radiological procedures. In the previous study, we demonstrated a 32% reduction in absorbed dose is achievable due to increasing the FFD from 100 to 130 cm during pediatric chest radiography. The aim of this study was to examine whether in...

Despite an ostensible purpose of connecting networks, the Internet itself has, over the course of the past decade or more, become systemically fragmented. There are many causes of fragmentation, including middleboxes, incomplete peering, and the structure of Internet governance. While fragmentation may be desirable in certain circumstances and for various reasons, it can also be problematic, vi...

Solution to the safe and collision-free trajectory of the wheeled mobile robot in cluttered environments containing the static and/or dynamic obstacle has become a very popular and challenging research topic in the last decade. Notwithstanding of the amount of publications dealing with the different aspects of this field, the ongoing efforts to address the more effective and creative methods is...

The present corpus-based lexical study reports the development of a Pharmacy Academic Word List (PAWL); a list of the most frequent words from a corpus of 3,458,445 tokens made up of 800 most recent pharmacy texts including research articles, review articles, and short communications in four sub-disciplines of pharmacy. WordSmith (Scott, 2017) and AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) were used to sc...

We describe an alternative approach to handling mutable references (aka. pointers) within a gradually typed language that has different efficiency characteristics than the prior approach of Herman et al. [2010]. In particular, we hope to reduce the costs of reading and writing through references in statically typed regions of code. We would like the costs to be the same as they would in a stati...