The present article reports a study carried out to investigate whether or not awareness of functional translation theories has any impact on the translation quality of translator trainees. 2oo Iranian undergraduate students took part in this study. They were divided into four groups -two- experimental and two control groups. After homogenizing the participants by a TOEFL test, a translation pre...

The combination of white light interferometry with hyperspectral imaging ("hyperspectral interferometry") is a recently proposed technique for single-shot measurement of 3D surface profiles. We consider for the first time its application to speckled wavefronts from optically rough surfaces. The intensity versus wavenumber signal at each pixel provides unambiguous range information despite the s...

In this paper we make two observations related to discrete torsion. First, we observe that an old obscure degree of freedom (momentum/translation shifts) in (symmetric) string orbifolds is related to discrete torsion. We point out how our previous derivation of discrete torsion from orbifold group actions on B fields includes these momentum lattice shift phases, and discuss how they are realize...

A problem of both theoretical and practical importance in image processing is to compare two color images, taking into account the eventual diversities due to translation, or color variations. The aim of this paper is to study the behavior of dissimilarity measures in different color spaces. Five color spaces (RGB, HSI, HSV, CIELab, CIELuv) are studied. Properties of the dissimilarity measures ...

Tuberculosis remains a major health problem due to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Some models have provided valuable information about drug resistance and efficacy; however, the translation of these results into effective human treatments has mostly proven unsuccessful. In this study, we adapted high-content screening (HCS) technology to investigate the a...

This paper presents a new scalable and highly flexible color image coder based on a Matching Pursuit expansion. The Matching Pursuit algorithm provides an intrinsically progressive stream and the proposed coder allows us to reconstruct color information from the first bit received. In order to efficiently capture edges in natural images, the dictionary of atoms is built by translation, rotation...

Extending semantic role labeling (SRL) to detect and recover non-local arguments continues to be a challenge. Our work is the first to address the detection of implicit roles from a multilingual perspective. We map predicate-argument structures across English and German sentences, and we develop a classifier that distinguishes implicit arguments from other translation shifts. Using a combinatio...

due to its specific characteristics, special theoretical principles are involved in translation of religious text. the texts of this genre are classified into two categories of divine and non-divine each with its own considerations in the act of translation. nahj-al-balaghah is one of the non-divine islamic texts. two of the well-known translations of it into persian are those by seyed jafar sh...