diabetes mellitus is accompanied with disturbances in learning, memory, and cognitive skills in the human society and experimental animals. therefore, this research study was conducted to evaluate time-dependent changes in passive avoidance and y-maze performance in male diabetic rats. for this purpose, male wistar rats were randomly divided into control and diabetic groups. for induction of di...

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

Image registration is the process of aligning two or more images of the same scene taken at different times; from different viewpoints; and/or by different sensors. This research focuses on developing a practical method for automatic image registration for agricultural systems that use multimodal sensory systems and operate in natural environments. While not limited to any particular modalities...

The static deployment of tasks onto the components of a networked system is a design-time activity. Given a set of tasks it is desirable to distribute them across the network elements such that an intended system functionality is achieved while application specified criteria — such as power consumption or execution time — are optimized. However, it is common that assumptions taken for the stati...

In the design of embedded systems, it is very important to reduce energy consumption and thus prolong battery life in everywhere existed battery-powered embedded systems. Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) processors, which support many operating voltages and speeds, can efficiently reduce energy consumption by making appropriate decisions on the processor speed/voltage during the scheduling of real...

We have previously found that context-dependent DNN models for automatic speech recognition can be improved with the use of monophone targets as a secondary task for the network. This paper asks whether the improvements derive from the regularising effect of having a much small number of monophone outputs – compared to the typical number of tied states – or from the use of targets that are not ...

Recent advances in wireless energy transfer technology propels the developments of renewable sensor networks. To sustain the operation of a sensor network, a mobile charger is used to recharge each node. Consider each node’s recharge request as a task with a soft due time, the mobile charger needs to dynamically schedule these tasks. This scheduling problem is very challenging, since both the n...

OpenMP is widely used for shared memory parallel programming and is especially useful for the parallelisation of loops. When it comes to task parallelism, however, OpenMP is less powerful and the sections construct lacks support for dependences and fine grained tasks. This paper proposes a new work-sharing construct, tasks, which is a generalisation of sections. It goes beyond sections by allow...

In automotive embedded real-time systems, such as the engine control unit, there are tasks that are activated whenever the crankshaft arrives at a specific angular position. As a consequence the frequency of activation changes with the crankshaft’s angular speed (i.e., engine rpm). Additionally, execution times and deadlines may also depend on angular speeds and positions. This paper provides a...

Current neuropsychological models propose that some age-related cognitive changes are due to frontal-lobe deterioration. However, these models have not considered the possible subdivision of the frontal lobes into the dorsolateral and ventromedial regions. This study assessed the age effects on 3 tasks of executive function and working memory, tasks dependent on dorsolateral prefrontal dysfunct...