307 research outputs found
Entropy Production in Open Systems: The Predominant Role of Intra-Environment Correlations
We show that the entropy production in small open systems coupled to
environments made of extended baths is predominantly caused by the displacement
of the environment from equilibrium rather than, as often assumed, the mutual
information between the system and the environment. The latter contribution is
strongly bounded from above by the Araki-Lieb inequality, and therefore is not
time-extensive, in contrast to the entropy production itself. We confirm our
results with exact numerical calculations of the system-environment dynamics.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, with the Supplemental Materia
Lita Lundquist 2008. Navigating in Foreign Language Texts. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 148 pages, DKK 198.00. ISBN 978-87-5931-417-3
Checking Knowledge in Online Encyclopaedias: Towards a Behavioural Approach to Data Accessibility
This article outlines a new approach to data access in electronic encyclopaedias. Contrary to most of the existing research, which treats access as a lexicographer-dominated, structural concept, access is viewed here as a process which is essentially user-driven. The role of the lexicographer is to facilitate this process, so that it can become rapid and unimpeded, but their control of it should be reduced to a minimum. This can only be achieved if access to data is adjusted to the specific type of need for information. Accordingly, the article examines three forms of data access applicable in situations in which the user experiences the need for a finite, specific amount of information. The results of the examination confirm that access to data is indeed a process
whose success depends on the interaction between the user, the data, and the type of need for information which the given reference work aims to satisfy.
Keywords: Encyclopaedia, Electronic Lexicography, Access, Structure, Access Route, Simple Information Need, Complex Information Need, Knowledge Acquisitio
Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert Ilson 2009. The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. Your Guide to Collocations and Grammar. Third Edition revised by Robert Ilson. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-3261-8. EUR 24.00/USD 27.95
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