Browsing by Subject "translation"

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Bezinteresowni pasjonaci czy destrukcyjni amatorzy? Charakterystyka polskiej »sceny napisowej«
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Łuczaj, Kamil; Hoły-Łuczaj, Magdalena
The article presents the results of research into one of the newest phenomena within popular culture, which is the »subtitles scene«. This term refers to creating free subtitles for foreign films and TV series that Poles download from the Internet. We investigated a community, which is engaged in this activity. Research carried out by an online survey in the beginning of 2013 showed, as it was cxpected, that it is a group of well-to-do, relatively young people, who have a good educational background and are associated with big cities. However, contrary to common intuitions, it turned out, that these people did not have linguistic education (the community of translators is dominated by people with technical education) and do not work in the creative industries. The other interesting issue is the complex system of motivation, which drive them to make Polish-language subtitles for free.
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Dimension of the intersection of certain Cantor sets in the plane
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Pedersen, Steen; Shaw, Vincent T.
In this paper we consider a retained digits Cantor set $T$ based on digit expansions with Gaussian integer base. Let $F$ be the set all $x$ such that the intersection of $T$ with its translate by $x$ is non-empty and let $F_{\beta}$ be the subset of $F$ consisting of all $x$ such that the dimension of the intersection of $T$ with its translate by $x$ is $\beta$ times the dimension of $T$. We find conditions on the retained digits sets under which $F_{\beta}$ is dense in $F$ for all $0\leq\beta\leq 1$. The main novelty in this paper is that multiplication the Gaussian integer base corresponds to an irrational (in fact transcendental) rotation in the complex plane.
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Disability, representation and translation: how can sociology move beyond the social model?
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Rudnicki, Seweryn
The aim of this article is to propose a new conceptual tool and an inspiration for sociological analysis of disability as an alternative to the predominant social model. It first discusses the social model and argues that in spite of its numerous merits it may be regarded as a manifestation of sociological reductionism of the actual complexity of disability. The notions of representation and translation are then contrasted, the former being the core of the social constructionist accounts and the latter being deeply rooted in a post‑constructivist perspective of actor‑network theory. Next, examples of translation, related to data visualization, disability simulation technologies and disability certification schemas are presented and discussed, emphasizing the action possibilities they enable by this impacting both the situation of people with disabilities and policy‑making processes. Finally, it is argued that sociology could engage in not only the examination but also the development of translational tools, which could be an important and welcome contribution of the discipline to disability policies.
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On intersections of Cantor sets - Hausdorff measure
(2013) Pedersen, Steen; Phillips, Jason D.
We establish formulas for bounds on the Haudorff measure of the intersection of certain Cantor sets with their translates. As a consequence we obtain a formula for the Hausdorff dimensions of these intersections.
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Rozwój Geoinformatycznego Słownika PAU
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2006) Jachimski, Józef; Mikrut, Sławomir; Majewski, Michał
The paper summarizes five years of activities concerning the construction of Multilangual Interdisciplinary Terminological Dictionary and Lexicon for Geoinformatics of Polish Academy of Science and Arts. In the frames of this activities some 500 entries concerning photogrammetry and remote sensing, spatial information systems, and cartography, were produced. The dictionary editorial software got also some new functions. Beside the earlier existing functions, the new ones, such as function for the mass editorial data import, are described. Actually, the Dictionary provides very easy way of editing of new terms, and also very user friendly way of searching for a needed term. All works concerning the dictionary were initiated and are executed under auspices of the Geoinformatics Commission of The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. That activities cover the inventory of the terminology concerning geoinformatics, and are executed with participation of many scientific centers in Poland, with the leading activity of specialists of the AGH Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Informatics. Such wide participation of various specialists allows not only for deep trace of the word formation trends, which exist separately in various disciplines of science and technology, which use geoinformatics, but also some terminological unification can be expected with the passing time of the editorial cooperation.