This paper can be considered as an addendum to the previous paper entitled "P algorithm, a dramatic enhancement of the waterfall transformation" [1]. In this former document, some suggestions have been made here and there, some ideas have emerged. These suggestions and ideas have unfortunately not be developped due to some lack of time and also because the authors did not wish to complicate the...

Experimental methods for the measurement of intrinsic interactions between moving dislocations and the crystal lattice are considered. It is emphasized that the stress pulse method is applicable at stress levels greater than about twice the static flow stress, while internal friction experiments may be used to explore the interaction at very low stress levels and small dislocation velocities. R...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a popular methodology for group decision making. Individual judgments can be aggregated in several ways, with the most effective approach being the aggregation of individual judgments (AIJ) and Individual priorities (AIP). When the judgments are aggregated, regardless of whether AIJ or AIP are used, arithmetic and geometric means are selected by decision ...

TALKING ABOUT MENTAL STATES McCarthy gives reasons why we shall need to describe intelligent robots in mentalistic terms, and why such a robot will need some degree of self consciousness, and he has made suggestions regarding the notation that we and the robot might use to describe its states. This talk extends that work by focusing on the underlying “high level” architectures required to justi...

Grid computing is the computing infrastructure of the next century where unlimited hardware and software resources are delivered to user‟s fingertips. Much of the power delivered by grid computing is realized through application software made readily available to its users. The process of application deployment and deliverance to the end-users though is perplexed with options and requirements n...

Easy access to the World Wide Web has raised concerns about copyright issues and plagiarism. It is easy to copy someone else’s work and submit it as someone’s own. This problem has been targeted by many systems, which use very similar approaches. These approaches are compared in this paper and suggestions are made when different strategies are more applicable than others. Some alternative appro...

the major aim of this study was to examine and analyze english language teaching in kindergartens. to this end, 22 kindergartens were selected in mashhad. they were observed and teachers were interviewed. the results demonstrate that these kindergartens lack sufficient room and facilities to meet learners needs, they lack any comprehensive teaching curriculum. teachers are not highly qualified,...