A Tentative Study on the Translation Techniques of A Collection of Classic Ghost Stories Under Halliday’s Context Theory

In real life, contexts precede texts. According to Halliday’s theory, contexts can be divided into three branches, each one corresponding to a higher degree of complexity. In papers discussing translation and context in literary texts, much attention is paid to macroanalysis, however, techniques relating to the translation of specific words and sentences are seldom discussed. The author of this paper applies the Context Theory in the translation of the book A Collection of Classic Ghost Stories and poses seven different techniques to its translation.

Automatic grammar enhancement for virtual assistant

Grammar rule generation for virtual assistant applications is difficult to scale due to the need for manual labeling. This disclosure describes a scalable solution to automatically generate enhanced grammar rules in predefined verticals. The techniques enable incremental improvements to interpretations of voice commands by a virtual assistant application. Queries that have not already been processed for a target vertical are identified and extracted from a corpus of user queries, e.g., a time-limited corpus in a particular language. Queries are analyzed to discover arguments and patterns that are specific to the vertical. Grammar rules are generated based on the arguments and patterns

Overall and Sex-Specific Associations of Serum Lipid-Soluble Micronutrients with Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease among Adults in the United States

This study examined overall and sex-specific associations of serum lipid-soluble micronutrients including α- and γ-tocopherols, 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25(OH)D), retinol, and six major carotenoids with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic lever disease (MASLD) using the 2017–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. This analysis included 3956 adults (1991 men, 1965 women) aged ≥ 20 years. Steatotic liver disease was determined through transient elastography examination. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for MASLD associated with micronutrients were estimated using logistic regressions. Higher serum α-tocopherol (highest vs. lowest quartile: OR = 1.53, 95% CI = 1.05–2.22, p = 0.03) and γ-tocopherol (highest vs. lowest quartile: OR = 4.15, 95% CI = 3.00–5.74, p \u3c 0.0001) levels were associated with increased odds of MASLD. Higher serum 25(OH)D levels were associated with reduced odds of MASLD (highest vs. lowest quartile: OR = 0.41, 95% CI = 0.27–0.61, p = 0.0001). Inverse associations with the condition were also observed for carotenoids (α-carotene, β-carotene, α-cryptoxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, combined lutein and zeaxanthin, and lycopene) in the serum (Ps \u3c 0.05). The results were comparable between men and women, except for those on α-tocopherol, for which a positive association was only observed for men (p = 0.01). Our results suggest potential protective associations of serum 25(OH)D and carotenoids with MASLD. The positive associations between tocopherols and MASLD may reflect pathophysiological conditions associated with the condition

1999-2000 A Volunteer Treat with Misha Vitenson, Ying Chai and Tao Lin

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Accommodating the CDF WW-boson mass measurement in the beautiful mirror model

The W-boson mass measurement recently reported by the CDF-II experiment exhibits a significant deviation from both the Standard Model prediction and previous measurements. There is also a long-standing deviation between the Standard Model prediction of the forward-backward asymmetry of the bottom quark $(A_{FB}^{0,b})$ and its measurement at the LEP experiment. The beautiful mirror model, proposed to resolve the $A_{FB}^{0,b}$ discrepancy, introduces vectorlike quarks that modify the W-boson mass at the one-loop level. In this study, we find an interesting region in the model parameter space that could potentially explain both discrepancies, which puts the new quarks in the multi-TeV region. This region is mostly consistent with current LHC bounds from direct searches and Higgs coupling measurements, but will be thoroughly probed at the high-luminosity LHC. As such, the beautiful mirror model as an explanation of the $m_W$ and $A_{FB}^{0,b}$ discrepancies could be confirmed or falsified in the near future