......................................................................................... II CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCING THE STUDY ............................................. 1 THE PERSONAL CONTEXT ........................................................................... 2 THE PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT ...................................................................... 5 THE REGISTERED PHARMACIST...

It is common to think of a "learner model" as a global description of a student's understanding of domain content. We propose a notion of learner model where the emphasis is on the modelling process rather than the global description. In this re-formulation there is no one single learner model in the traditional sense, but a virtual infinity of potential models, computed "just in time" about on...

The control policy affects performance of a manufacturing line and can be classified as push, pull, or combination of pull and push. A pull or just-in-time (JIT) production system is a philosophy or an approach of the manufacturing system in which order release occurs due to physical removal of finished inventory in response to the customer demand. In this paper, we review the behavior of a man...

Most modern languages are implemented using Virtual Machines (VMs). While the best VMs use Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers to achieve good performance, JITs are costly to implement, and few VMs therefore come with one. The RPython language allows tracing JIT VMs to be automatically created from an interpreter, changing the economics of VM implementation. In this paper, we explain, through two conc...