The Homeric epics are among the greatest masterpieces of literature, but when they were produced is not known with certainty. Here we apply evolutionary-linguistic phylogenetic statistical methods to differences in Homeric, Modern Greek and ancient Hittite vocabulary items to estimate a date of approximately 710-760 BCE for these great works. Our analysis compared a common set of vocabulary ite...

The relational device database for the EPICS control system of the ISAC Radioactive Beam Facility at TRIUMF is at the centre of generating EPICS data bases, operator display panels, and verifying PLC interlocks against specifications. For historical reasons, this database is implemented using Paradox on PCs with shared access to a file server. Use of the database is thus limited to PC nodes wit...

This paper will discuss software engineering practices used to improve Control System reliability. We will begin with a brief discussion of the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM) which is a framework for evaluating and improving key practices used to enhance software development and maintenance capabilities. The software engineering processes developed and used by ...

The Assyrian epics reflect a number of topics, the foremost whichare achievements kings, their invasions, and wars for peace,the stabilization borders, strengthening armies, thepreservation trade routes. All these topics were very important in thedeveloping human spiritual thinking , because nature man Mesopotamia is concerned with origin existence, life, death, battles,immortality, justice, go...

A portion of software components of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS)[1] has been ported to a VME single board computer based on a PowerPC microprocessor. We have studied 1) the performance of a database scanning, 2) the Channel Access performance and 3) interrupt latency on the PowerPC based CPU board. The CPU load of the VME single board computer arising from the ...