How to pass the DCH.

How to pass the DCH.

Having both failed and passed the DCH examination in the past 12 months, I feel able to offer a few words of advice to prospective candidates. It is useful to have a broad idea of the nature of the examination. It is not a test to be taken after a casual browse through a friend's textbook. It is a demanding diploma which, for that reason alone, may be rewarding for the well-prepared. There is a...

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

The DCH Hash Function

The DCH algorithm is a byte-oriented, endian-neutral, block-cipher-based hash function. It generally follows the Merkle-Damg̊ard structure [4] [11], and compression is performed via Miyaguchi-Preneel iteration [13] on successive message blocks. Each message block consists of 504 bits (63 bytes); the block is then preprocessed to form a 512-bit input to the compression function. The algorithm use...

Notes for the DCH.

How to Pass a Turing Test

I advocate a theory of "syntactic semantics" as a way of understanding how computers can think (and how the Chinese-Roam-Argument objection to the Turing Test can be overcome): (1) Semantics, considered as the study of relations between symbols and meanings, can be turned into syntax-a study of relations among symbols (including meanings)-and hence syntax (i.e., symbol manipulation) can suffice...