Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAbout Northrop GrummanRelly Victoria Petrescu, Raffaella Aversa, Bilal Akash et al.The Northrop Grumman (formerly Ryan Aeronautical) RQ-4 Global Hawk (known as Tier II+ during development) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Air Force and Navy and the German Air Force as a surveillance aircraft. The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (also known as the Stealth Bomber) is an American strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology … …Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 19 Aug 2017 · 9,176 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTesting by Non-Destructive ControlRelly Victoria Virgil Petrescu, Raffaella Aversa, Bilal Akash et al.This paper describes an application of industrial robots that gain ground mainly in the aerospace industry. It is a TTT manipulator whose task is to automatically position the end-effector, in this case a complex sensor system and a eddy-current probe in the position set by the software application for testing by non-destructive ultrasound control of tickets and bars of titanium, … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 5 Jun 2017 · 8,703 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractItalian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use ThemElmar SchafrothThe present article describes the objectives and methods for a learner-centered description of Italian idioms based on the theoretical principles of Construction Grammar (CxG). The aim of the underlying research project is to develop a new way of looking at idioms, taking into account all linguistic aspects that could help to fully understand and usethem in a formally and functionally … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 3 Sep 2015 · 9,094 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHow to Apply CxG to Phraseology: A Multilingual Research ProjectValentina Benigni, Paola Cotta Ramusino, Fabio Mollica, Elmar SchafrothIn the present research project, we will set out to design and populate a multilingual database which lists and describes Italian, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish phraseologisms. We firmly believe that the multilingual database will prove particularly useful in second language teaching. We will endorse the holistic perspective of Construction Grammar as our theoretical and applied framework … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 20 Aug 2015 · 9,499 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHow Trainee Translators Analyse Lexico-Grammatical PatternsChris Gledhill, Natalie KüblerIn this study, we examine the ability of advanced students of specialised translation to identify and analyse 'generic collocations' in a corpus of specialised multilingual texts (mostly technical or scientific texts in English, French and German). In general, we find that our students attach much importance to frequently-occurring 'clusters' or 'n-grams'. However the students find it difficult to see these … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 15 Jul 2015 · 8,556 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractThe Food Additives Nitrite and Nitrate and Microbiological Safety of Food ProductsStefanie Müller-Herbst, Anna Mühlig, Jan Kabisch et al.In Germany, raw sausages are typically produced according to a technology referred to as hurdle technology (Leistner, 2000). The combination of several stressful conditions should successfully inhibit growth and survival of pathogenic bacteria, which can be regularly found in raw pork or beef material (Mataragas et al., 2008; Rhoades et al., 2009). Hurdles applied during raw sausage fermentation are the … …Current Research in Microbiology, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 29 Jun 2015 · 10,382 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractPLANT STEROLS LOWER CHOLESTEROL, BUT INCREASE RISK FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASEZoë Harcombe, Julien S. BakerAssmann, G., P. Cullen, J. Erbey, D.R. Ramey and F. Kannenberg et al., 2006. Plasma sitosterol elevations are associated with an increased incidence of coronary events in men: Results of a nested case-control analysis of the Prospective Cardiovascular Munster (PROCAM) study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis., 16: 13-21. BfR, 2011. Addition of plant sterols and stanols to food: Assessment of a … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 3 · 21 Aug 2014 · 89,005 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractQArabPro: A Rule Based Question Answering System for Reading Comprehension Tests in ArabicMohammed Akour, Sameer Abufardeh, Kenneth Magel, Qasem Al-RadaidehProblem statement: Extensive research efforts in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) were focused on developing reading comprehension Question Answering systems (QA) for Latin based languages such as, English, French and German. Approach: However, little effort was directed towards the development of such systems for bidirectional languages such as Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. In general, QA systems are more … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 6 · 14 Jun 2011 · 7,704 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThai Speech Coding Based On Conjugate-Structure Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction AlgorithmSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: In mobile communication, speech coding aims at compressing the speech with lowest bitrate and highest quality for standard languages such as English, German and French. As for other languages with different uttering styles, the encoded speech quality is not guaranteed at the same bitrate. The appropriate evaluation should be performed to develop the speech quality by applying some … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 14 Jan 2011 · 7,361 accessesView PDFCite