Request for more computation power in the media computing domain has led to multimedia extensions in the instruction sets of modern processors. This has resulted in the implementation of new instructions which handle short data types and exploit subword parallelism for improving the performance. Compiler developments which aim at providing some degree of support to these instructions now emerge...

This study explored retention of idioms and novel (i.e. newly created or grammatically generated) expressions in English-speaking girls following exposure only once during a conversation. Our hypothesis was that idioms, because of their inherent holistic, nonliteral and social characteristics, are acquired differently and more rapidly than novel utterances. Two age groups of typically developin...

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this study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate efl learners’ idiom learning. the participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in zabansara language school in khorramabad based on their scores on a preliminary english test (pet) and an idiom test piloted in...

Template Method Pattern (see [5]) solves the problem of the existence of a generic algorithm for a family of classes that needs specialization in each and every concrete class. It does so by implementing the algorithm in the base class and by forwarding implementation details to (pure) virtual functions. In terms of [5] these forwarding functions are called primitive. In this paper we propose a...

Developers often use an idiom to implement a concern. When a fault is found in an idiom, developers have to find all source code fragments derived from the original. While code-clone detection tools can detect copy-andpasted code, such tools cannot detect code fragments modified after pasted. We are investigating a sequential pattern mining approach to capture idiom-based code that spread acros...