Robustness of a Class of Partial Diallel Cross Designs to the Unavailability of a Complete Block of Observations

Complete and partial diallel cross designs are examined as to their construction and robustness against the loss of a block of observations. A simple generalized inverse is found for the information matrix of the line effects, which allows evaluation of expressions for the variances of the line-effect differences with and without the missing block. A-efficiencies, based on average variances of the elementary contrasts of the line-effects, suggest that these designs are fairly robust. The loss of efficiency is generally less than 10%, but it is shown that specific comparisons might suffer a loss of efficiency of as much as 40%.     

英语引申意境的探析

英语中的引申是一种普遍现象。英译汉时不仅有时词义要引申。词组、分句或句子的含义有时也要引申,英语引申的意境,可以从褒与贬、抽象与具体、词义搭配、概念大小、逻辑修辞、引申层次和引申范围七个不同方面来探析。     

“方块布依字”及其在布依族宗教典籍传承过程中的作用

“方块布依字”是布依族民间流传的一种仿汉字的记音符号 ,主要通行于宗教职业者群体。布依族宗教经文手抄本中的用字和造字方法主要有四种 ,或用与布依语相同或相近的音来记录该语音 ,或根据布依语词义、用汉语方块字的字符重新造字 ,或用与布依语同义的词来记录 ,或直接用汉字本身来记录。“方块布依字”在布依族宗教典籍及传统文化的传承过程中具有重要的作用。     

On Block Updating in Markov Random Field Models for Disease Mapping

Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) models are commonly used to model spatial correlation in disease mapping applications. For Bayesian inference by MCMC, so far mainly single-site updating algorithms have been considered. However, convergence and mixing properties of such algorithms can be extremely poor due to strong dependencies of parameters in the posterior distribution. In this paper, we propose various block sampling algorithms in order to improve the MCMC performance. The methodology is rather general, allows for non-standard full conditionals, and can be applied in a modular fashion in a large number of different scenarios. For illustration we consider three different applications: two formulations for spatial modelling of a single disease (with and without additional unstructured parameters respectively), and one formulation for the joint analysis of two diseases. The results indicate that the largest benefits are obtained if parameters and the corresponding hyperparameter are updated jointly in one large block. Implementation of such block algorithms is relatively easy using methods for fast sampling of Gaussian Markov random fields ( Rue, 2001 ). By comparison, Monte Carlo estimates based on single-site updating can be rather misleading, even for very long runs. Our results may have wider relevance for efficient MCMC simulation in hierarchical models with Markov random field components.     

浅谈大学英语的翻译教学

近年来英语专业本科生的翻译能力普遍低下 ,本文通过英语翻译教学中学生译文暴露的几类问题 ,提出加强大学英语翻译教学、培养本科生翻译能力 ,应从英汉语言和文化的对比以及语言能力的提高两方面进行。翻译教学模式应从以教师为中心转向以学生为中心 ,培养学生负责任、独立工作的能力。     

中西典型思维方式与汉英文字音形意关联

文章指出文字与民族思维方式跨文化研究中的不足 ,扼要分析了潜在的成因 ,着重探讨比较了中西民族典型思维 (西方二元分析思维与汉民族整体思维 )在西方字母文字 (以英文为例 )与汉字音、形两大物质特性与意义概念结合上的反映 ,认为正确对待文字与思维之间的客观关联 ,不仅能从新的角度审视文字功能 ,而且有利于我们从中认识和挖掘各民族历史文化的深厚积淀 ,促进跨文化交流的全面开展     

英语被动句的翻译

为测试考生对英语书面材料的确切理解能力以及汉语的表达能力 ,在四级考试和考研试题中均采用了英译汉这一题型。由于英汉两种语言在表达方式上存在着极大的差异 ,因此准确地译出符合汉语习惯的句子成了考生的一大难题。本文就英语被动句的翻译问题作了简单的归纳     

试论戏剧翻译的标准

译文的使用目的决定了不同体裁文体的翻译应遵循不同的翻译标准。本文分析了戏剧翻译的特点,提出戏剧翻译应以功能对等为原则,以原语和译语观众能获得大体相同的反应为标准,并探讨了为达到功能对等需对译文进行调整。     

矩阵非奇异性判定

本文利用矩阵块对角占优的性质,给出矩阵非奇异的一个判定条件     

对参加“步步高杯“全国女排联赛运动队拦网状况的比较研究

通过对2004~2005和2005~2006两个赛季的女子“步步高杯”全国联赛中的拦网状况分析和研究,指出了栏网存在的主要问题,并提出了合理化的建议。