An Address ENTITLED THE QUICKENING SPIRIT

Inline Caching Meets Quickening

Inline caches effectively eliminate the overhead implied by dynamic typing. Yet, inline caching is mostly used in code generated by just-in-time compilers. We present efficient implementation techniques for using inline caches without dynamic translation, thus enabling future interpreter implementers to use this important optimization technique— we report speedups of up to a factor of 1.71—with...

The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Rural Women: An Example from Iran

This study aimed to investigate the personality characteristics related to entrepreneurial spirit of rural women. The statistical population of the study included rural women in the central district of Nimrooz County in Sistan and Baluchistan Province (N=406). Krejcie and Morgan Table was used to determine the sample size. To this end, 186 participants were selected through stratified random sa...

On the Extension and Increase of the Scientific Spirit in Medicine. President's Inaugural Address, Session XXXIII

The medical profession is called a brotherhood, and although the relationship of its members thus implied is not exactly true, yet I know no word which so fitly expresses the bond which there is among us. It is a very strong union, which begins to be formed in the dissecting-room, and grows closer as life advances. Among practitioners in large towns it shows itself in the formation of medical s...

An Address

Let me first give expression to my very deep sense of the honour you have done me, in making me a Doctor of Laws of this great University, now in the hundredth year of its activity for higher education and research in Northern Ireland. You may be assured that I value very highly indeed the distinction which you have thus conferred. You have honoured me further by asking me, as my first act as h...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad