FIFO Queues have over the years been the subject of significant research. Such queues are used as buffers both in a variety of applications, and in recent years as a key tool in buffering data in high speed communication networks. Overall, the most popular dynamic-memory lock-free FIFO queue algorithm in the literature remains the MS-queue algorithm of Michael and Scott. Unfortunately, this alg...

The recent developments in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has resulted in a major paradigm shift in pedagogy and teaching learning. No longer restricted to the four walls of a classroom, ubiquitous learning is the current trend and universities are gearing up for larger intakes. In the wake of such an upsurge in volume, automatic evaluation of student answers is the...

Methods Recruitment will comprise two phases. In the primary phase, individuals identified through a systematic review of the literature of yoga for musculoskeletal conditions will be invited to participate. In the secondary phase, a snowball technique will allow primary phase participants to recommend other researchers to contribute to the Delphi process. Inclusion criteria are involvement in ...

Pathways' Housing First represents a radical departure from traditional programs that serve individuals experiencing homelessness and co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders. This paper considered two federally funded comparison studies of Pathways' Housing First and traditional programs to examine whether differences were reflected in the perspectives of frontline providers. Both ...

In this paper we describe a double-ended (i.e. reference-based or intrusive) approach to objective quality estimation of synthetic speech that uses a linear regression model whose parameters can easily be interpreted. The model was trained and evaluated on English data from the 2008 to 2013 Blizzard Challenges (BC) [1], which is the largest publically available resource of listener-evaluated sy...

This study aimed to investigate the use of YouTube videos as a supplementary resource for EFL students. It uses descriptive qualitative research method. The sample in this was ten students senior high school who had experienced learning through speaking fluency. data collection instrument is google form questionnaire with open-ended and close-ended questions. According findings, using classes p...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be utilized in the education sector. Education includes online, distance, part-time education. ICT is an important component improving effectiveness innovativeness teaching. There are various ways to effectively conduct teaching-learning process through judicious use of ICT. The objectives this research paper: 1) To study need importance teachi...

God has gifted human beings with six major power of senses, if any one of these is absent or damaged in such a way that it is unable to perform its function, the person became handicapped. A cross sectional study of 120 mentally retarded children of age 6-18 years was conducted in Faisalabad and Islamabad districts by using convenient sampling technique. The purpose was to study the socio-psych...

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to assess organizational and personnel structure in Iranian Agriculture Extension System (IAES). The research instrument was a structural questionnaire including close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and Cranach’s alpha test, respectively. The statistical population of this research included all public ...

soil management (sm) is critical to human well-being that it is more important now because of meeting the high demands for food production and satisfying the needs of an increasing world population. therefore, the purpose of this descriptivecorrelation study was to investigate the effective factors on wheat farmers’ adoption of farming methods of soil management (fmsm). the research instrument ...