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Russian term or phrase:исходные предпосылки (название раздела статьи)
English translation:Basic Concepts
Entered by: Andrei B
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19:12 May 26, 2011
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Science (general) / scientific writing
Russian term or phrase: исходные предпосылки
Это название одного из разделов научной статьи (между разделами Введение и Постановка задачи).
В ней вводится система координат, некоторые обозначения, выводятся формулы, на основании которых затем, в следующих разделах, ставится и решается задача.
Nik-On/Off
Ukraine
Local time: 06:56
Basic Concepts
Explanation:
Такое название соответствует описанию (обозначения, формулы, на основании которых... и т.п.)

В статьях по математике, физике - обычно второй раздел, после
1. Introduction
Реже - третий, после
2. [Historical] Background / State of the Art / Examples / и т .п.

Примеры - в ссылках
См. также
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigroup
Selected response from:

Andrei B
Local time: 07:56
Grading comment
Всем огромное спасибо!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2Basic ConceptsAndrei B
4 +2initial assumptions
Jack Doughty
4foundations
Kiwiland Bear
4(starting) premises
Michael Korovkin
3starting premises
Susan Welsh
3Model
Victoria Lubashenko
3assumptions or presuppositions
GaryG
3 -1background
rns


Discussion entries: 8





  

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assumptions or presuppositions


Explanation:
Depending on the nature of the article. The former would more likely apply if there is technical information involved, the latter if a more general description of conditions were made

GaryG
Local time: 23:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 124

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrei B: Can you give an example?
1 hr
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
initial assumptions


Explanation:
Mathematical modelling of infectious disease - Wikipedia, the free ...
If a model makes predictions which are out of line with observed results and the mathematics is correct, we must go back and change our initial assumptions ...
en.wikipedia.org/.../Mathematical_modelling_of_infectious_disease -

Objectives in the Teaching of College Mathematics
by FS Nowlan - 1950 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
Mathematics consists in the logical deduction of the necessary consequences of the initial assumptions. It may happen that the assumptions clash, ...
www.jstor.org/stable/2304990

About Mathematics and Real World Mathematics Applications: More ...
15 Apr 2011 ... Axioms is just a FANCY word for initial assumptions, truths you are dealing with, inside any field (not only math) where logic is used. ...
explainingmath.blogspot.com/.../more-tweets-about-math-math-education.html

Jack Doughty
Local time: 04:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 462

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agree  kamilw
13 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  GaryG
14 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Oleg Osipov
51 mins
  -> Thank you.
disagree  Andrei B: Your examples do not match the description given by the asker
1 hr
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
background


Explanation:
 

rns
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 27

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  NNG
6 mins
  -> Спасибо.
disagree  Andrei B: Не соответствует пояснению от Аскера: background = история вопроса (обзор предшествующих исследований, начиная с пионерских работ)// Он сказал, чтО там есть + см. http://www.nec-labs.com/~ravik/RESEARCH/contour.pdf
1 hr
  -> "Аскер", как это Вы называете, таких пояснений не давал. // С "тем, что он сказал" противоречий нет; по поводу ссылки — см. комментарий к Вашему ответу.
disagree  Jive: Раздел "Background" научных статей - это нечто иное: http://www.google.ch/search?q="research+paper"+"background+section" // В разделе"Background" обязательно есть обзор литературы/состояния проблемы. Стандартное название не стоит использовать для другого.
5 hrs
  -> В вопросе сказано, что в этом разделе закладываются основы последующих рассуждений — "исходные предположения", в котором нет предположений — едва ли типичный случай, к которому относятся ссылки, выдаваемые по приведенному Вами запросу.
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Model


Explanation:
Зависит, конечно, от конкретного содержания (неизвестно ведь, о каких науках идет речь). Еще варианты - approach, method, formalism.

Victoria Lubashenko
Ukraine
Local time: 06:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrei B: Точнее: approach, formalism = раздел, где с. к., обозначения; после него model = постановка задачи (запись ур-ий конкр. модели); затем method. Типично для ф.-м. наук; другие с контекстом (ур-ия, с.к.) = ?/ Please filter out non-US/UK authors/ See rule 3.5
41 mins
  -> Значит, редакторов англоязычных Вам недостаточно? А сами Вы US или UK будете?
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
foundations


Explanation:
Basic foundations - what it's based on. In this sense, it's not talking about assumptions yet (that will come later on) but rather about the general field and settings for the problem under review.

Kiwiland Bear
New Zealand
Local time: 15:56
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrei B: Can you give an example?
15 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Basic Concepts


Explanation:
Такое название соответствует описанию (обозначения, формулы, на основании которых... и т.п.)

В статьях по математике, физике - обычно второй раздел, после
1. Introduction
Реже - третий, после
2. [Historical] Background / State of the Art / Examples / и т .п.

Примеры - в ссылках
См. также
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigroup


    Reference: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.48....
    Reference: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/937110-h4h90U/
Andrei B
Local time: 07:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 52
Grading comment
Всем огромное спасибо!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  rns: "Basic Concepts" is never used as a bare heading, only as "Basic Concepts in ..." or "...: basic concepts" — http://goo.gl/IKi4T /Ok, let's change "never" to AFAIK and disagree to neutral, but I still think that "basic concepts" is, well, a bit too basic.
40 mins
  -> Never? See my second example + reference added after your reply. Your examples are paper titles, not section headings. Googling adequate examples is kind of art, too :-)// Thank you!
agree  cyhul
1 day12 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
starting premises


Explanation:
It means the same thing as most of the other answers, but I may as well throw it into the hopper.

Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 23:56
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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1 day17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(starting) premises


Explanation:
Yeah, I think this time I got it!

Michael Korovkin
Local time: 05:56
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 24
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