(1) THE SEASON'S HOPS

The Seasons of Life

Heaps and Hops

This dissertation is about the specification and verification of copyless message-passing programs, a particular kind of concurrent programs that communicate by message passing. Instead of copying messages over channels, processes exchange pointers into a shared memory where the actual contents of messages are stored. Channels are themselves objects in the heap that can be communicated, thus ac...

Cost of Growing Hops in the Northeast

Introduction: As demand grows for hops in the Northeast, many farmers and entrepreneurs are thinking about the possibility of growing hops. Since this crop has been absent from the region for over a century, information is not readily available about the costs of hop production. This document is intended to help prospective hop growers consider the financial side of hop production. It complemen...

The Redefinition of Taiwan seasons

It is usually thought that a year consists of four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Taiwan basically follows the rule. Taiwan climate is mainly governed by monsoons. Therefore, the beginning of summer (winter) can be interpreted as the inward movement of summer (winter) monsoons. Considering the important role of mei-yu period, Chen (2000) pointed out that mei-yu should be added as a...

The Term Graph Programming System HOPS

Wolfram Kahl Universit at der Bundeswehr M unchen, D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany 1 Motivation Programmers of Haskell or ML know that once their programs are syntactically correct and get past the type checker, the probability that they are correct is usually already pretty high. But while the parser or the type checker still complain, it is not always easy to spot the real problem, which may be ...