This paper describes the German-English translation system developed by the ARK research group at Carnegie Mellon University for the Sixth Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT11). We present the results of several modeling and training improvements to our core hierarchical phrase-based translation system, including: feature engineering to improve modeling of the derivation structure of translat...

Many biodiversity researchers have responded to the financial constraints faced by policy makers to develop models based upon the “Noah’s Ark” metaphor, implying that society can save only a limited amount of biodiversity. Unfortunately, as Herman Daly (Land Economics, 1991) pointed out, such microeconomic rules can allow an ark to sink albeit in some optimal fashion. So, I step back to look at...

Ark is an implementation of a consensus algorithm similar to Paxos[7] and Raft[11], designed as an improvement over the existing consensus algorithm used by MongoDB R © and TokuMX. Ark was designed from first principles, improving on the election algorithm used by TokuMX, to fix deficiencies in MongoDB’s consensus algorithms that can cause data loss. It ultimately has many similarities with Raf...

Random walk graph kernel has been used as an important tool for various data mining tasks including classification and similarity computation. Despite its usefulness, however, it suffers from the expensive computational cost which is at least O(n) or O(m) for graphs with n nodes and m edges. In this paper, we propose Ark, a set of fast algorithms for random walk graph kernel computation. Ark is...

We present a power spectrum analysis of the long ASCA observation of Ark 564 in June/July 2001. The observed power spectrum covers a frequency range of ∼ 3.5 decades. We detect a high frequency break at ∼ 2 × 10 −3 Hz. The power spectrum has an rms of ∼ 30% and a slope of ∼ −1 and ∼ −2 below and above the break frequency. When combined with the results from a long RXTE observation (Pounds et al...

The ARK mobile robot project has designed and implemented a series of mobile robots capable of navigating within industrial environments without relying on arti cial landmarks or beacons. The ARK robots employ a novel sensor, Laser Eye, that combines vision and laser ranging to e ciently locate the robot in a map of its environment. Laser Eye allows self-location of the robot in both walled and...

G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs), such as rhodopsin kinase and beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK), are involved in mediating agonist-specific phosphorylation and desensitization of G protein-coupled receptors. GRK6 is the most recently identified member of the GRK family and displays higher homology with GRK5 (70.1% amino acid identity) and IT11 (68.5%) compared to beta ARK (37...

Earlier studies of Swedish populations of the marine snail Littorina fabalis show that snails from different microhabitats (with a greater and lesser exposure to wave action) have almost diagnostic differences in one allozyme locus (arginine kinase, Ark), and differ in adult size. Snails with ‘sheltered’ and ‘exposed’ Ark genotypes occur in sympatry in intermediary exposed sites and here adult ...

this ominous distinction. Elkhorn used to be the dominant species in shallow waters of the Caribbean, with a distribution range from Biscayne National Park, Florida, to the coast of Venezuela. Researchers believe that its abundance has been reduced by over 95% since 1980. Staghorn is the fastest-growing Western Atlantic coral and used to be found throughout the Caribbean. Its population has dec...

Remotely keyed encryption schemes (RKESs) support fast encryption and decryption using low-bandwidth devices, such as secure smartcards. The long-lived secret keys never leave the smartcard, but most of the encryption is done on a fast untrusted device, such as the smartcard’s host. This paper describes an new scheme, the length-preserving “accelerated remotely keyed” (ARK) encryption scheme an...