The First Amendment's Purpose

The Advent of the First General-Purpose Computer in Iceland

This paper first tells the rather unusual story of the acquisition of the first scientific computer by the University of Iceland. It then goes on to describe the efforts by the staff of the University Computing Centre to introduce key persons to the use of computers and to teach selected groups of people programming and assist them in using the computer. Finally it lists several applications in...

SAGA: the first general-purpose on-line arithmetic co-processor

In this paper, we present a VLSI realisation of an on-line arithmetic co-processor that implements a novel algorithm known as BKM. The obtained circuit computes the complex exponential or logarithm functions. All basic mathematical operations can hence be computed. The obtained circuit might be considered as the first on-line arithmetic co-processor. The chip was designed using a specific CMOS ...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Proposed amendments to the medical devices Directives.

As 2005 came to a close, the European Commission issued its formal proposal for a Directive amending the medical devices Directives. This article discusses certain aspects of the proposed amendments and encourages readers to review them in their entirety.

Proposed Amendments to the AOA Constitution.