This paper introduces the concept of context-independent coding using frequency-based mapping schemes in order to reduce off-chip interconnect power consumption. State-of-the-art context-dependent, double-ended codes for processor-SDRAM off-chip interfaces require the transmitter and receiver (memory controller and SDRAM) to collaborate using current and previously transmitted values to encode ...

This paper investigates the role of a goal parameter in semantics. On the one hand, goals are necessary for a semantics of questions and answers. On the other hand, the eeect of underlying perlocutionary goals on information in context can be modelled as an issue or question-under-discussion. A logic, update semantics with questions (USQ), is presented that combines update semantics with a part...

BACKGROUND The intended meaning behind responses to standard questions posed in large-scale health surveys are not always well understood. Systematic follow-up studies, particularly those which pose a few repeated questions followed by open-ended discussions, are well positioned to gauge stability and consistency of data and to shed light on the intended meaning behind survey responses. Such fo...

This study offers an innovative and sustainable instructional model for an introductory undergraduate course. The model was gradually implemented during 3 yr in a research university in a large-lecture biology course that enrolled biology majors and nonmajors. It gives priority to sources not used enough to enhance active learning in higher education: technology and the students themselves. Mos...

The Dispatcher-Assisted first REsponder programme aims to equip the public with skills to perform hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and to use an automated external defibrillator (AED). By familiarising them with instructions given by a medical dispatcher during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest call, they will be prepared and empowered to react in an emergency. We aim to formalise...

In this paper, we propose the use of word sense disambiguation and latent semantic features to automatically identify a person’s perspective from his/her written text. We run an Amazon Mechanical Turk experiment where we ask Turkers to answer a set of constrained and open-ended political questions drawn from the American National Election Studies (ANES). We then extract the proposed features fr...

g : [0,∞)×X → X and g(t, x) = T (t)x, t ≥ 0, x ∈ X, then g is continuous. For many semigroups strong continuity implies joint continuity. A function gx as in (1) is called a trajectory of T . If T has domain all of R instead of just [0,∞) we refer to T as a ‘group’. In his Fifth Problem, Hilbert asked whether assumptions of differentiability that Sophus Lie made were actually a consequence of L...