Rewriting Chaucer: Some Dimensions of Middle English – Modern English Translation

The paper analyses a modern English translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” to determine the major features of the Middle English text which justify diachronic translation and to define the lines along which the translator modernizes the text

An extreme event of enhanced Arctic Ocean export west of Greenland caused by the pronounced dynamic sea level drop in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in the mid-to-late 2010s

The North Atlantic subpolar gyre influences the climate in many different ways. Here, we identified that it is also responsible for a recent extreme event of Arctic Ocean freshwater export west of Greenland. A shift in climate regimes occurred in the mid-2000s, with a significant negative trend in the dynamic sea level in the subpolar gyre since then. We found that the dynamic sea level drop induced a strong increase in freshwater export west of Greenland, in particular from 2015 to 2017, when the sea level was close to the minimum. Sea ice melting and atmospheric variability in the Arctic had only a small contribution to this event. As the exported water from the Arctic Ocean has low salinity and constituents of chemical tracers very different from those in the North Atlantic, such events might have impacts on the North Atlantic ecosystem and the climate as well. Our study suggests that such events might be predictable if the subpolar gyre sea level has certain predictability

Simple algorithms to compute meridional overturning and barotropic streamfunctions on unstructured meshes

Abstract. Computation of barotropic and meridional overturning streamfunctions for models formulated on unstructured meshes is commonly preceded by interpolation to a regular mesh. This operation destroys the original conservation, which can be then artificially imposed to make the computation possible. An elementary method is proposed that avoids interpolation and preserves conservation in a strict model sense. The method is described as applied to the discretization of the Finite volumE Sea ice – Ocean Model (FESOM2) on triangular meshes. It, however, is generalizable to colocated vertex-based discretization on triangular meshes and to both triangular and hexagonal C-grid discretizations. </jats:p

Emotional intelligence and behavior styles of Russian middle managers in business communication

The study focuses on emotional intelligence and preferred negotiating styles of managers at work. There were 162 respondents (22 to 60 years old, MD=36.38) from a Russian food manufacturing company approached to study their negotiating experience with clients, customers, vendors, etc. The following methods were used: the Emotional Intelligence ("EQ") Test, the Emotional Intelligence ("EmIn") Test, negotiating style determination procedure, "Your Business Communication Style" test, the Conflict Mode Instrument, and authors' questionnaire. Data was processed with Pearson’s r correlation and regression coefficient and factor analysis (main component analysis). Results of the study revealed a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and the preferred negotiating styles. As a result, it was concluded that people-oriented interaction style correlates with developed interpersonal emotional intelligence; their relationship is indirect with other variables in between. Regression analysis revealed a relationship between emotional intelligence and process orientation in negotiations. This study was the first one to theoretically develop and empirically test the possibility of studying a relationship between the levels of emotional intellect and preferred negotiating styles.peer-reviewe

On the Damping Time Scale of EVP Sea Ice Dynamics

We propose to make the damping time scale, which governs the decay of pseudo-elastic waves in the Elastic Viscous Plastic (EVP) sea-ice solvers, independent of the external time step and large enough to warrant numerical stability for a moderate number of internal time steps. A necessary condition is that the forcing on sea ice varies slowly on the damping time scale, in which case an EVP solution may still approach a Viscous Plastic one, but on a time scale longer than a single external time step. In this case, the EVP method becomes very close to the recently proposed modified EVP (mEVP) method in terms of stability and simulated behavior. In a simple test case dealing with sea ice breaking under the forcing of a moving cyclone, the EVP method with an enlarged damping time scale can simulate linear kinematic features which are very similar to those from the traditional EVP implementation, although a much smaller number of internal time steps is used. There is more difference in sea-ice thickness and linear kinematic features simulated in a realistic Arctic configuration between using the traditional and our suggested choices of EVP damping time scales, but it is minor considering model uncertainties associated with choices of many other parameters in sea-ice models

Recursive Comparison as a Basis to Translation Equivalents Search in Agglutinative and Inflectional Languages

The study offers a developed algorithm, aimed to observe cognitive-communicative syntactic specifiers based on recursive comparison in the process of computer-aided translation of statements in agglutinating languages. The key method that enables fast and adequate search for translation equivalent in the languages with different structures is the multilevel recursive comparison of interim forms with dictionary equivalents, as well with contextual matches within the frameworks of prospective modelling in the course of an invariant thesaurus development according to dynamic complicated codes. The combination of cognitive-semantic and semantemic-morphological parallel comparison with spiral references will make it possible to create not only an equivalent version of the target text that meets the requirements of lexico-morphological correctness, but also to ensure the transfer of cognitive and consituational elements of the original utterance. The inclusion of cognitive-communicative syntactic samples in the recursive comparison algorithm during automatic processing of the utterance, as the final stage of generating the target utterance, is designed to solve the problem of polysemic, synonymous and homonymous barriers that arise at the stage of generating the target text. The described automated analysis algorithm is demonstrated on the utterances in languages with different structures (Turkish, Russian and English). The article also provides examples of the interaction of the invariant thesaurus of commonly used constructions with variant correspondences while connecting recursive comparison with elements of cognitive-communicative syntax

Multi-Agent Security System based on Neural Network Model of User's Behavior

It is proposed an agent approach for creation of intelligent intrusion detection system. The system allows detecting known type of attacks and anomalies in user activity and computer system behavior. The system includes different types of intelligent agents. The most important one is user agent based on neural network model of user behavior. Proposed approach is verified by experiments in real Intranet of Institute of Physics and Technologies of National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute”