39 research outputs found
Relationship between oceanographic variables and extreme albacore yield (Thunnus alalunga) of Spanish troll fishery in Northeast Atlantic
No full textUsing cloud-free Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature (SST) and daily set longline fishery data, we studied the relationship between albacore (ALB) fishing grounds and thermal conditions in the southern Indian Ocean. SST and Jensen–Shannon divergence (JSD) maps with a daily spatiotemporal resolution were related to sites with high catches per unit effort (CPUE) (>11 fish/103 hooks). A high JSD is considered to be an index of a SST front. In winter, high CPUE occurred in the vicinity of the North Subtropical Front (Belkin and Gordon, 1996), where SST was 15–19 °C and JSD was 0.3–0.9. Histograms of the high CPUE plotted against SST and JSD indicated that 95% of the high CPUEs were in the 16–18.5 °C SST range and 97% were in the 0.4–0.9 JSD range. These ranges of SST and JSD are optimum ranges. These cloud-free SST/JSD analyses clearly demonstrate the seasonal north–south movement of the optimum SST and JSD band, which corresponds to the North Subtropical Front in the southern Indian Ocean. Monthly maps of joint probability density (JPD) with the optimum ranges of SST and JSD revealed that high CPUEs are located in the narrow bands with high JPD (>50%)
Relationship between oceanographic variables and extreme albacore yield (Thunnus alalunga) of Spanish troll fishery in Northeast Atlantic
No full textUsing cloud-free Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature (SST) and daily set longline fishery data, we studied the relationship between albacore (ALB) fishing grounds and thermal conditions in the southern Indian Ocean. SST and Jensen–Shannon divergence (JSD) maps with a daily spatiotemporal resolution were related to sites with high catches per unit effort (CPUE) (>11 fish/103 hooks). A high JSD is considered to be an index of a SST front. In winter, high CPUE occurred in the vicinity of the North Subtropical Front (Belkin and Gordon, 1996), where SST was 15–19 °C and JSD was 0.3–0.9. Histograms of the high CPUE plotted against SST and JSD indicated that 95% of the high CPUEs were in the 16–18.5 °C SST range and 97% were in the 0.4–0.9 JSD range. These ranges of SST and JSD are optimum ranges. These cloud-free SST/JSD analyses clearly demonstrate the seasonal north–south movement of the optimum SST and JSD band, which corresponds to the North Subtropical Front in the southern Indian Ocean. Monthly maps of joint probability density (JPD) with the optimum ranges of SST and JSD revealed that high CPUEs are located in the narrow bands with high JPD (>50%).S
Jensen–Shannon Distance-Based Filter and Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Polarimetric Weather Radar Processing
No full textAn effective filtering technique is required for rainfall rate measurement by weather radar. A Jensen–Shannon distance (JSD)-based thresholding filter is proposed to mitigate nonmeteorological signals, either in clear air or rain situations. This algorithm classifies range-Doppler bins into two classes, hydrometeors and nonhydrometeors, based on spectral polarimetric variable features. The result is a mask to be applied on the spectrograms. The variable selected here is the spectral co-polar correlation coefficient, available in dual-polarization and full polarimetric radars. The algorithm first does global thresholding by finding an optimized threshold value based on the averaged clear-air spectral polarimetric variable distribution. Next, classical filtering steps are carried out like a ground clutter notch filter around 0 ms−1, a mathematical morphology to fill gaps in the hydrometeor areas, and a removal of narrow Doppler power spectra. The second part of this article is the assessment of filtering techniques without ground truth. An assessment without ground truth is useful to select optimal algorithm configurations from a large solution space. Criteria of good filtering are defined both in the spectral and time domain. Based on those criteria, subjective and objective unsupervised evaluation metrics are derived, with a focus on the objective ones. Data, including clear air and rain collected from a full polarimetric Doppler X-band radar in the urban area, are used. With the proposed unsupervised evaluation metrics, the JSD-based thresholding filter is compared to two spectral polarimetric filters. Overall, the JSD-based filter performs very well considering both the subjective and the objective evaluation metrics.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Atmospheric Remote SensingMicrowave Sensing, Signals & System
Ana A. Jovanović, Osnovi teorije prevođenja [‘Basics of Translation Theory’], Factum izdavaštvo/Plejada. Beograd/ Zagreb, 2015.
No full textBook Review
Although translation theory is important in education, especially in the education of future linguists, language teachers and high-school students who aspire to become translators, books on this subject have been scarce in the past two or three decades, with a few notable exceptions. Osnovi teorije prevođenja by Ana Jovanović is certainly going to bridge this gap. Furthermore, the book has two publishers, one from Belgrade, and the other from Zagreb, since it is intended for readers from both Serbia and Croatia and from other countries of the former Yugoslavia. The author decided to treat both Serbian and Croatian translations as parts of the same corpus due to the fact that they were written in two varieties of one and the same language, while both varieties are still mutually intelligible regardless of certain changes in both standards which have been introduced in the past two decades. Additionally, translations into both varieties were once part of the same market and many of them are still present as sole translations of certain works.
The book contains five chapters, appendices to the fifth chapter, a list of references, index of names, subject index, as well as the author’s preface, an afterword by Andy Jelčić, and a brief English summary of the book. Chapter one presents main issues in translation studies, the status of this discipline, translation unit, equivalence, and analyzes other issues in the domains of context and style and the two major strategies – free translation and literal translation. To further elaborate these issues and problems in translation theory the author cites various authors and summarizes their opinions on each subject in question. Finally, this chapter explains the terminology used in modern translation studies and thus helps the reader who is not well-acquainted with this field to better understand many important concepts. Chapter two is devoted to various literary theories of translation, which are primarily focused on esthetic and artistic aspects of this process. Chapter three is focused on translation criticism and evaluation. In this chapter, the author provides an overview of different approaches to these problems and states both strengths and weaknesses of each approach in question. Chapter four deals with re-translation, which is primarily focused on literary texts, and occurs due to various reasons, e.g. if the existing translation is now obsolete, if it lacks in quality etc. Chapter five has the narrowest focus, since it deals with grammatical and stylistic aspects of translations of Marcel Proust’s novels into Serbo-Croatian.
Since the author has a degree in French and is known as an excellent translator of major works written in this language, it is no wonder that most examples provided are from French. However, the author has managed to sufficiently explain every single example so as to allow the readers who are not proficient in French to clearly understand both the examples and their implications, which adds to the quality of this book. Works cited in the references section and in the book itself are dominantly written in French, although the author sufficiently utilizes theories developed in English-speaking and other countries, which provides an unbiased approach to major issues in translation studies. Furthermore, it is important to mention that major problems and concerns in translation are often exposed by providing comprehensive analyses of translations and/or contrasting two translations of the same text, which are efficient explanatory tools, most likely to be welcomed by every reader of this book, and particularly by students of foreign languages. The style in which the book was written can be described as very clear and concise, but at the same time, it is not oversimplified. Although the author focuses on literary translation, it can be said that many aspects that are important in literature can be applied in other kinds of translation despite the fact that non-literary translations usually have no artistic merits. The author’s comments and opinions are well-balanced and unbiased, which allows the reader to form an opinion about each theory or issue described by the author.
Although most of the major strengths of this book have been stated above, it is our opinion that it will certainly be welcomed by many readers in the former Yugoslavia, and particularly among fellow-translators, interpreters and students of foreign languages and literatures.Book Revie
THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ON LINEAR AND NONLINEAR MEASURES OF ACTIVITY IN STROKE SURVIVORS
No full textStroke survivors are less active than healthy age-matched individuals. Activity is tied to many serious health issues, so it is important that we develop a full understanding of how stroke survivors move to target the most effective rehabilitation strategy. Stroke survivors report that unfavorable weather is discouraging to activity because of the increased risk of falling. This study analyzed relationships between weather factors, such as season and precipitation, and nonlinear measures of the activity performed by individuals with stroke. As a part of a larger clinical trial, six days of step data from 142 stroke survivors was analyzed using Jensen-Shannon Divergence (JSD) and Lempel-Ziv Complexity (LZC) to determine how consistent an individual’s step counts were during the day, across days, and how “complex” their activity was by analyzing the number and recurrence of patterned changes between different levels of activity. Mean daily steps, JSD values, and daily LZC values were compared by season. The effect of precipitation was determined for total daily steps and daily LZC values. ANOVA tests showed higher LZC values in spring than winter. Therefore, activity was more complex during spring than during winter when activities may be restricted due to weather. This finding indicates that targeting a rehabilitation plan with a variety of activities, as to increase complexity, may help increase activity levels in stroke survivors more effectively than a goal to increase an overall daily step count, especially during times of unfavorable weather conditions
CONGENITAL 11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE-DEFICIENCY ASSOCIATED WITH JUVENILE HYPERTENSION - CORTICOSTEROID METABOLITE PROFILES OF 4 PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
No full textFour children with 11 .beta.-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency are described. All patients had severe hypertension, hypokalemia, and low plasma aldosterone and renin activities. Two of the patients were siblings and 2 were unrelated. The most noticable biochemical feature of these individuals was the extremely low excretion of cortisol metabolites containing on 11-carbonyl group compared to the excretion of the 11 .beta.-hydroxyl containing metabolites. Although this condition is readily diagnosed in affected individuals by urinary steroid analysis, carriers of the defect do not differ from normal in their urinary steroids. Both parents of the affected siblings had normal 11-oxo-steroid/11 .beta.-hydroxysteroid ratios under baseline conditions and the lesions could not be revealed by ACTH administration
Testosterone and androstenedione concentrations in human testis and epididymis during the first two years of life
No full textTestosterone and androstenedione were measured in testicular and epididymal tissue of 37 previously healthy infants between 1 and 24 months of age who died suddenly. In half of the patients elevated plasma levels of cortisol and androstenedione suggested preterminal stress. Plasma testosterone levels, however, did not differ from those in healthy infants. Testicular testosterone concentrations were maximal in boys from 1-3 months of age (median, 36.6 ng/g; range, 7-380 ng/g) with peak values similar to those found in pubertal or even adult testes. Thereafter testicular testosterone concentrations decreased and after the age of 6 months all values were below 12.5 ng/g, which corresponds to the low normal range of older prepubertal boys. Plasma testosterone and testicular testosterone correlated significantly (P less than 0.001). On average the testicular concentrations were 36.4 times higher than the corresponding plasma concentrations. Testicular androstenedione was low but correlated significantly with testicular testosterone (P less than 0.001). Epididymal testosterone concentrations were surprisingly high (1-3 months: median, 10.3 ng/g; range, 4-42.7 ng/g) and averaged 30% of the testicular testosterone concentration. Thus, epididymal testosterone concentrations were significantly higher than the circulating plasma testosterone levels, indicating the capacity of the infant epididymis to accumulate androgens. These findings suggest that high local testosterone concentrations during early infancy are important not only for the testis itself but particularly for the developing epididymi
Contribution of the adrenal gland to the production of androstenedione and testosterone during the first two years of life
No full textAndrostenedione and testosterone were measured in whole adrenal glands of 56 previously healthy boys who died suddenly between birth and 2 yr of age. In each adrenal gland, the concentration of androstenedione considerably exceeded that of testosterone. The highest concentrations were found during the first week of life (median, 295 ng/g; range, 98- 320 ng/g). Thereafter, values decreased rapidly until the end of the first year of life (median, 10 ng/g; range, 4.4-22.7 ng/g). Adrenal testosterone concentrations averaged 15% of those of androstenedione in the same gland and similarly decreased until the end of the first year. The decrease of adrenal androgen concentrations paralleled the involution of the fetal adrenal zone. A close correlation existed between the concentration of androstenedione in adrenal tissue and plasma. However, no correlation existed between adrenal and plasma testosterone. When the adrenals and testes of the same infant were compared, there was 10 times more androstenedione in the adrenals than in the testes during the first 2 yr of life. The testes contained more testosterone than the adrenals only during the first 4 months. Thus, in infant boys the adrenals are the main source of androstenedione during the first 2 yr. After the sixth month of life, they also are the main source of testosterone
Prediction of Tourist Arrivals to the Island of Bali with Holt Method of Winter and Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA)
No full textThe tourism sector is one of the contributors of foreign exchange is quite influential in improving the economy of Indonesia. The development of this sector will have a positive impact, including employment opportunities and opportunities for entrepreneurship in various industries such as adventure tourism, craft or hospitality. The beauty and natural resources owned by Indonesia become a tourist attraction for domestic and foreign tourists. One of the many tourist destination is the island of Bali. The island of Bali is not only famous for its natural, cultural diversity and arts but there are also add the value of tourism. In 2015 the increase in the number of tourist arrivals amounted to 6.24% from the previous year. In improving the quality of services, facing a surge of visitors, or prepare a strategy in attracting tourists need a prediction of arrival so that planning can be more efficient and effective. This research used Holt Winter's method and Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) method to predict tourist arrivals. Based on data of foreign tourist arrivals who visited the Bali island in January 2007 until June 2016, the result of Holt Winter's method with parameter values α=0.1 ,β=0.1 ,γ=0.3 has an error MAPE is 6,171873. While the result of SARIMA method with (0,1,1)〖(1,0,0)〗12 model has an error MAPE is 5,788615 and it can be concluded that SARIMA method is better.Keywords: Foreign Tourist, Prediction, Bali Island, Holt-Winter's, SARIMA
Micropenis: an important early sign of congenital hypopituitarism
No full textMicropenis is an important sign in neonates, since it may be
the only clue to the diagnosis of panhypopituitarism, a potentially lethal but eminently treatable condition
