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The duties of the president of the polish energy regulatory office in the context of implementing the third energy package
This article presents the duties and powers of the President of the Energy Regulatory Office as the national regulatory authority of Poland within the scope of implementing the Third Energy Package. The article closely examines the changes and omissions connected with implementing the regulations of the Third Liberalization Package. Such implementation has not been fully executed. The biggest shortages are visible in two fields: the realization of the aims of Articles 35 and 37 of Directive 2009/72/EC. Concerning Article 35 of the Directive, the changes to the legal position of the President of URE (i.e., loosening his ties with the sphere of governmental administration, something strongly advocated by negative developments which have taken place in the legal and constitutional status of the authority over the last six years) have not been implemented.energy law, national regulatory authority, energy market, EU law, Third Energy Package, President of the Energy Regulatory Office
Fine-grained human evaluation of neural versus phrase-based machine translation
We compare three approaches to statistical machine translation (pure
phrase-based, factored phrase-based and neural) by performing a fine-grained
manual evaluation via error annotation of the systems' outputs. The error types
in our annotation are compliant with the multidimensional quality metrics
(MQM), and the annotation is performed by two annotators. Inter-annotator
agreement is high for such a task, and results show that the best performing
system (neural) reduces the errors produced by the worst system (phrase-based)
by 54%.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistic
Fitting State Space Models with EViews
This paper demonstrates how state space models can be fitted in EViews. We first briefly introduce EViews as an econometric software package. Next we fit a local level model to the Nile data. We then show how a multivariate âÂÂlatent riskâ model can be developed, making use of the EViews programming environment. We conclude by summarizing the possibilities and limitations of the software package when it comes to state space modeling.
Deterministic implementation of weak quantum cubic nonlinearity
We propose a deterministic implementation of weak cubic nonlinearity, which
is a basic building block of a full scale CV quantum computation. Our proposal
relies on preparation of a specific ancillary state and transferring its
nonlinear properties onto the desired target by means of deterministic Gaussian
operations and feed-forward. We show that, despite the imperfections arising
from the deterministic nature of the operation, the weak quantum nonlinearity
can be implemented and verified with the current level of technology.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Model-Free Estimation of Large Variance Matrices
This paper introduces a new method for estimating large variance matrices. Starting from the orthogonal decomposition of the sample variance matrix, we exploit the fact that orthogonal matrices are never ill-conditioned and therefore focus on improving the estimation of the eigenvalues. We estimate the eigenvectors from just a fraction of the data, then use them to transform the data into approximately orthogonal series that we use to estimate a well-conditioned matrix of eigenvalues. Our estimator is model-free: we make no assumptions on the distribution of the random sample or on any parametric structure the variance matrix may have. By design, it delivers well-conditioned estimates regardless of the dimension of problem and the number of observations available. Simulation evidence show that the new estimator outperforms the usual sample variance matrix, not only by achieving a substantial improvement in the condition number (as expected), but also by much lower error norms that measure its deviation from the true variance.variance matrices, ill-conditioning, mean squared error, mean absolute deviations, resampling
Continuous-variable quantum non-demolishing interaction at a distance
A feasible setup of continuous-variable (CV) quantum non-demolishing (QND)
interaction at a distance is proposed. If two distant experimentalists are able
to locally perform identical QND interactions then the proposed realization
requires only a single quantum channel and classical communication between
them. A possible implementation of the proposed setup in recent quantum optical
laboratories is discussed and an influence of Gaussian noise in the quantum
channel on a quality of the implementation is analyzed. An efficient
realization of the QND interaction at a distance can be a basic step to
possible distributed quantum CV experiments between the distant laboratories.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
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