Calling NAG routines from Visual Basic or Excel can provide a convenient way quickly to develop graphical user interfaces and packages that use mathematical routines The aim of this report is to show how the complete range of NAG C DLL routines can be called directly from Visual Basic and thus allow programmers package builders maximum exibility when incorporating calls to NAG routines into the...

The paper describes visual routines based on models of color and shape, as well as crucial issues involving the scheduling of such routines. The visual routines are developed in a unique platform. The view from a car driving in a simulated world is fed into a Dat-acube pipeline video processor. The use of this simulation provides a exible environment from which to set crucial image processing p...

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. the importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that american...

OpenSHMEM is a library interface specification which has resulted from a unification effort among various vendors and users of SHMEM libraries. OpenSHMEM includes routines which aim to support a PGAS programming model, encompassing data management, onesided communication, atomics, synchronization, collectives, and mutual exclusion. In the work described in this paper, we investigated the usage ...

This study addresses the fragmentation in the technology management field by identifying and organizing the routines used by managers of technology. In a multi-method, iterative qualitative study done jointly between academics and technology managers from a number of large industrial firms, 27 technology management routines were identified. These 27 routines were organized into a framework cons...

This paper describes the design and implementation of three core factorization routines—LU, QR, and Cholesky—included in the out-of-core extension of ScaLAPACK. These routines allow the factorization and solution of a dense system that is too large to fit entirely in physical memory. The full matrix is stored on disk and the factorization routines transfer sub-matrice panels into memory. The ‘l...