Technical Language as Evidence of Expertise

In this paper, I focus on one argumentative Optical Cable strategy with which experts (or putative experts) in a particular field provide evidence of their expertise to a lay audience.The strategy consists in using technical vocabulary that the speaker knows the audience does not comprehend with the intention of getting the audience to infer that t

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Promoting Cooperation on Nontraditional Security Issues

[Nontraditional security issues such as food security, water scarcity, energy shortfalls and environmental degradation are the common challenges shared by China on one hand and members of SAARC on the other.Although noticeable progress has been made in Wall box poverty alleviation, on the back of fast paced economic growth, a sizeable chunk of popu

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A Novel Feature Extraction Method Based on Legendre Multi-Wavelet Transform and Auto-Encoder for Steel Surface Defect Classification

Effective steel surface defect classification with low computational cost is essential for online quality inspection.The challenge of this task is large intra-class differences and unclear inter-class distances shown in various surface defects.This paper proposes a novel feature extraction method based on Legendre multi-wavelet transform and Auto-E

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