This paper concentrates on the evaluation of reliability measures of a computer system by introducing the concept of priority of hardware repair over software up-gradation. The system operates with one more hardware in cold standby. The failure times of hardware and software are independent random variables which follow negative exponential distribution. The repair facility (called server) atte...

This paper concentrates on the evaluation of reliability measures of a computer system by introducing the concept of priority of hardware repair over software up-gradation. The system operates with one more hardware in cold standby. The failure times of hardware and software are independent random variables which follow negative exponential distribution. The repair facility (called server) atte...

This paper concentrates on the evaluation of reliability measures of a computer system by introducing the concept of priority of hardware repair over software up-gradation. The system operates with one more hardware in cold standby. The failure times of hardware and software are independent random variables which follow negative exponential distribution. The repair facility (called server) atte...

Pedagogically, CAPT systems can be improved by giving effective feedback based on the severity of pronunciation errors. We obtained perceptual gradation of L2 English mispronunciations through crowdsourcing, and conducted quality control utilizing the WorkerRank algorithm to refine the collected results and reach a reliable consensus on the ratings of word mispronunciations. This paper presents...

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Around 1632, while stationed in Shanxi Province (China), the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone published a pedagogical treatise entitled On Education of Children (Tongyou jiaoyu) on which he had worked for several years. The book achieves carefully crafted synthesis between Confucian educational principles, European Humanism, and pedagogy. This is achieved through various rhetorical devices, one t...

INTRODUCTION Historically, aggregate gradation has been controlled by specifications that call out envelopes for individual fractions, typically the coarse aggregate and the fine aggregate. The shortcoming of this approach is that the gradation of the overall system is not addressed. While it is sensible to stockpile coarse and fine fractions separately to prevent segregation, it is the combine...

because of using principles such as principality, unity, gradation of existence and concomitance between existence and unity, along with an exhaustive understanding of ibn sina's philosophical principle about our knowledge of unity and multiplicity, mulla sadra believed new philosophical-aesthetical principles such as principality, unity and gradation of beauty, though he didn't use t...

This paper provides empirical evidence of the relation between trade openness, capital openness and government expenditures in a cross-sectional time-series context. It is shown that capital openness is significantly and negatively related to government expenditures in line with the conventional wisdom that capital mobility may undermine the ability of governments to maintain larger public sect...