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Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at least the most common problems here. Technical terminology searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to translators, and scientists who need to present their work in languages other than English.

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This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the 2021 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE 2021), held in Beijing, China, on October 29–31, 2021. Presenting the latest developments and technical solutions in Intelligent Transportation engineering, it covers a variety of topics, such as intelligent transportation, traffic control, road networking, intelligent automobile and vehicle operation & management. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate and postgraduate audiences, researchers and engineers, working in Intelligent Transportation Engineering.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Research and Development's Track and Structures Program sponsored a study for developing and testing a rail defect detection system based on ultrasonic guided waves and non-contact probing. Current rail defect detection systems based on ultrasonic testing have limitations in terms of reliability of defect detection, inspection speed, and other drawbacks associated with the requirement for contact between the ultrasonic probes and the rail surface. More importantly, conventional ultrasonic testing of rails has serious difficulties detecting internal defects in the presence of surface shelling. The rail defect detection technique that is being funded is based on fundamentally new concepts in that 1) uses ultrasonic waves traveling along, rather than across the rail running direction, 2) uses non-contact means of generating and detecting the ultrasonic waves in the rail, and 3) uses advanced signal processing algorithms to de-noise the measurements and extract robust defect-sensitive information. A prototype is being assembled based on this technology and plans are in place to install and test the prototype in the FRA Research Car.