This paper presents solutions based on request based token control strategy for controlling the allocation of a single shared resource in logically interconnected networks such as single side wrap around mesh and regular mesh. In this strategy, a processor which is in need of the shared resource, sends a request to inform the token of the access request. Token, on receipt of a request, continue...

BACKGROUND Deep decompression stops are increasingly common in recreational technical diving. Concerns exist that they shift decompression stress back into slower tissues. A diver recorded an exceptional exposure dive, with deeps stops, on a commercially available dive computer. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using the R package SCUBA tissue inert gas pressures in 17 Bühlmann (ZH-L16A) compartments wer...

Commercial throughput workloads are very important and significantly different from SPECcpu benchmarks. We present our study on the simulation methodology for one such workload, SPECjbb2000. Our result shows that the CPI correlates well with transaction throughput, thus can be used as a valid performance metric in simulation. We investigate the applicability of SimPoint technique to SPECjbb2000...

Checkpointing is a basic mechanism for backward error-recovery in fault-tolerant systems. A checkpointed process stops execution and saves its states to files periodically. To reduce the file sizes, only data modified between two consecutive checkpoint times is saved. However, existing approaches do not consider operating system paging activities; which, if ignored may double the number of disk...

Voice onset times ~VOT! and burst frequencies of two aspirated ~i.e., /k /, /g/) and two unaspirated ~i.e., /k/, /g/! Gujarati velar stop consonants were investigated in an effort to provide characteristic acoustic information. Stop consonants in a monosyllabic vowel–consonant–vowel ~VCV! production were obtained from eight native speakers of Gujarati. Differences in mean VOT and burst frequenc...

While the state of glottis of voiceless aspirated stops has been well documented, the state of the glottis of voiceless unaspirated stops has not. We have therefore concentrated on the states of glottis of voiceless unaspirated stops including glottal stop. Breath and nil phonation are traditionally regarded as the phonation types of voicelessness. Catford has described both as having a wide op...

The present study examines phonetic characteristics of Korean L2 learners in their acquisition of English and Japanese stop voicing contrasts. Voice onset time (VOT) was measured on their Korean, English and Japanese utterances, and it was found that VOT is functional in distinguishing a three-way contrast of Korean stops, and that Korean L2 learners use their tense, unaspirated stops for voice...

This study reinvestigated the VOT values of the three Korean stops according to phonation type by taking factors such as age, place of articulation, syllable type, and speech rate into consideration. Specifically, Silva’s findings and implications (2006) were retested. Data were obtained from nine Seoul female speakers varying 20’, 40’s, and 50’s in terms of age. The results showed that there w...

The present paper examines phonetic characteristics of the initial stop consonants of English uttered by ESL learners whose native tongues are Korean, Thai, and Mandarin Chinese. It examines VOT (voice onset time) values of initial stops in the three languages and compares them with those of English stops produced by ESL learners of the three languages. From the acoustic analysis, it can be sai...

Voice onset time after voiceless unaspirated stops demonstrates a dependence on place of articulation, most reliably being shorter for labial and coronal than for velar stops. Some of the proposed explanations for this pattern suggest that a parallel dependence is not be expected for aspirated or ejective stops. However, similar patterns do occur with both aspirated and unaspirated stops. Cho a...