Does a society get the victims it deserves? Explorations in the sociology of victimization

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Adiabatic quantum search with atoms in a cavity driven by lasers

We propose an implementation of the quantum search algorithm of a marked item in an unsorted list of N items by adiabatic passage in a cavity-laser-atom system. We use an ensemble of N identical three-level atoms trapped in a single-mode cavity and driven by two lasers. In each atom, the same level represents a database entry. One of the atoms is marked by having an energy gap between its two ground states. Appropriate time delays between the two laser pulses allow one to populate the marked state starting from an initial entangled state within a decoherence-free adiabatic subspace. The time to achieve such a process is shown to exhibit the Grover speedup.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Spatial multipartite entanglement and localization of entanglement

We present a simple model together with its physical implementation which allows one to generate multipartite entanglement between several spatial modes of the electromagnetic field. It is based on parametric down-conversion with N pairs of symmetrically-tilted plane waves serving as a pump. The characteristics of this spatial entanglement are investigated in the cases of zero as well as nonzero phase mismatch. Furthermore, the phenomenon of entanglement localization in just two spatial modes is studied in detail and results in an enhancement of the entanglement by a factor square root of N.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

Two sides of the same coin : assessing translation quality in two steps through adequacy and acceptability error analysis

We propose facilitating the error annotation task of translation quality assessment by introducing an annotation process which consists of two separate steps that are similar to the ones required in the European Standard for translation companies EN 15038: an error analysis for errors relating to acceptability (where the target text as a whole is taken into account, as well as the target text in context), and one for errors relating to adequacy (where source segments are compared to target segments). We present a fine-grained error taxonomy suitable for a diagnostic and comparative analysis of machine translated texts, post-edited texts and human translations. Categories missing in existing metrics have been added, such as lexical issues, coherence issues, and text type-specific issues

Budgeting the non-profit organization: An agency theoretic approach

Agency Theory;Public Finance;Nonprofit Organizations;public economics

Translationese and post-editese : how comparable is comparable quality?

Whereas post-edited texts have been shown to be either of comparable quality to human translations or better, one study shows that people still seem to prefer human-translated texts. The idea of texts being inherently different despite being of high quality is not new. Translated texts, for example,are also different from original texts, a phenomenon referred to as ‘Translationese’. Research into Translationese has shown that, whereas humans cannot distinguish between translated and original text,computers have been trained to detect Translationesesuccessfully. It remains to be seen whether the same can be done for what we call Post-editese. We first establish whether humans are capable of distinguishing post-edited texts from human translations, and then establish whether it is possible to build a supervised machine-learning model that can distinguish between translated and post-edited text

Quantum search by parallel eigenvalue adiabatic passage

We propose a strategy to achieve the Grover search algorithm by adiabatic passage in a very efficient way. An adiabatic process can be characterized by the instantaneous eigenvalues of the pertaining Hamiltonian, some of which form a gap. The key to the efficiency is based on the use of parallel eigenvalues. This allows us to obtain non-adiabatic losses which are exponentially small, independently of the number of items in the database in which the search is performed.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure