195 research outputs found
Research on Translation of English Film Titles into Chinese From the Cultural Perspective
With the increasing development of globalization, films become a significant medium of cultural exchange among different countries. The film title, a key component of a film, plays an essential role in the propaganda of the film. Therefore, the translation of the film titles is critically important. This paper discusses the functions of film titles, analyzes the basic principles of English film title translation and cultural differences between China and western countries influencing the translation of English film titles, and then puts forward some translation strategies, including literal translation and transliteration, literal translation plus explanatory words and transliteration plus explanatory words, liberal translation, and creative translation, in the hope that these strategies to some extent can give some enlightenment to translators when English film titles are translated
Use of Additives in Bioremediation of Contaminated Groundwater and Soil
This chapter reviews the application of additives used in bioremediation of chlorinated solvents and fuels for groundwater and soil remediation. Soluble carbon substrates are applicable to most site conditions except aquifers with very high or very low groundwater flow. Slow-release and solid substrates are intended to be long-lasting in supplying carbon for microbial growth thereby minimizing operation and maintenance requirements. Microbes as special additives can be used to enhance bioremediation (bioaugmentation) where such microbes are lacking. Oxygen gas can be added to increase aerobic biodegradation, and nutrients addition may be needed to stimulate and maintain sufficient microbial population. pH modifiers to control acidity for optimal microbial growth and degradation can also be added. Delivery of additives to the subsurface can be accomplished through permanent injection wells, direct-push methods, or permeable reactive barriers (biowall). Potential issues with additive use include biofouling, stalling, short circuiting, displacement, reduced hydraulic conductivity, and secondary water quality deterioration. Methods and techniques to deal with these issues are provided and future research needs are identified
Consistency Regularization for Generalizable Source-free Domain Adaptation
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to adapt a well-trained source
model to an unlabelled target domain without accessing the source dataset,
making it applicable in a variety of real-world scenarios. Existing SFDA
methods ONLY assess their adapted models on the target training set, neglecting
the data from unseen but identically distributed testing sets. This oversight
leads to overfitting issues and constrains the model's generalization ability.
In this paper, we propose a consistency regularization framework to develop a
more generalizable SFDA method, which simultaneously boosts model performance
on both target training and testing datasets. Our method leverages soft
pseudo-labels generated from weakly augmented images to supervise strongly
augmented images, facilitating the model training process and enhancing the
generalization ability of the adapted model. To leverage more potentially
useful supervision, we present a sampling-based pseudo-label selection
strategy, taking samples with severer domain shift into consideration.
Moreover, global-oriented calibration methods are introduced to exploit global
class distribution and feature cluster information, further improving the
adaptation process. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method achieves
state-of-the-art performance on several SFDA benchmarks, and exhibits
robustness on unseen testing datasets.Comment: Accepted by ICCV 2023 worksho
Towards Realizing the Value of Labeled Target Samples: a Two-Stage Approach for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation
Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation (SSDA) is a recently emerging research
topic that extends from the widely-investigated Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
(UDA) by further having a few target samples labeled, i.e., the model is
trained with labeled source samples, unlabeled target samples as well as a few
labeled target samples. Compared with UDA, the key to SSDA lies how to most
effectively utilize the few labeled target samples. Existing SSDA approaches
simply merge the few precious labeled target samples into vast labeled source
samples or further align them, which dilutes the value of labeled target
samples and thus still obtains a biased model. To remedy this, in this paper,
we propose to decouple SSDA as an UDA problem and a semi-supervised learning
problem where we first learn an UDA model using labeled source and unlabeled
target samples and then adapt the learned UDA model in a semi-supervised way
using labeled and unlabeled target samples. By utilizing the labeled source
samples and target samples separately, the bias problem can be well mitigated.
We further propose a consistency learning based mean teacher model to
effectively adapt the learned UDA model using labeled and unlabeled target
samples. Experiments show our approach outperforms existing methods
Validation and interpretation of three-dimensional configuration of a magnetic cloud flux rope
One "strong" magnetic cloud (MC) with the magnetic field magnitude reaching
40 nT at 1 au during 2012 June 16-17 is examined in association with a
pre-existing magnetic flux rope (MFR) identified on the Sun. The MC is
characterized by a quasi-three dimensional (3D) flux rope model based on in
situ measurements from the Wind spacecraft. The magnetic flux contents and
other parameters are quantified. In addition, a correlative study with the
corresponding measurements of the same structure crossed by the Venus Express
(VEX) spacecraft at a heliocentric distance 0.7 au and with an angular
separation in longitude is performed to validate the MC modeling
results. The spatial variation between the Wind and VEX magnetic field
measurements is attributed to the 3D configuration of the structure as featured
by a knotted bundle of flux. The comparison of the magnetic flux contents
between the MC and the source region on the Sun indicates that the 3D
reconnection process accompanying an M1.9 flare may correspond to the magnetic
reconnection between the field lines of the pre-existing MFR rooted in the
opposite polarity footpoints. Such a process reduces the amount of the axial
magnetic flux in the erupted flux rope, by approximately 50\%, in this case.Comment: Submitted to Ap
Non-Interactive and Information-Theoretic Secure Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing
A publicly verifiable secret sharing scheme is more applicable
than a verifiable secret sharing because of the property that the
validity of the shares distributed by the dealer can be verified
by any party. In this paper, we construct a non-interactive and
information-theoretic publicly verifiable secret sharing by a
computationally binding and unconditionally hiding commitment
scheme and zero-knowledge proof of knowledge
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