as the e-commerce sites are being more secure and reliable in recent years and the number of transactions is rising rapidly, parallelism can help us to reduce response time and increase throughput for e-commerce transactions. this paper will investigate parallelism in on-line transaction processing. it aims to specify those aspects of e-commerce transactions that would profit from parallel proc...

Characteristics of the familial and societal context were examined as predictors of Latino adolescents' (N = 323; 49.5% female) ethnic identity. Consistent with previous work, familial ethnic socialization significantly predicted future levels of ethnic identity exploration, resolution, and affirmation for both male adolescents and female adolescents, although the association was significantly ...

This study aims to expand our understanding of environmental performance by adopting exploration and exploitation concepts, which are key types of firm innovation. We reveal exploration and exploitation as two important antecedents of proactive and reactive environmental performance. We also identify the conditions under which the distinct effects of these two types of innovation are moderated....

In this work, the concentration gradient (CG) analysis of local-scale exploration for Porphyry-Cu deposits is applied in two zones using the G(Vz) index (CG(Zn*Pb)/CG(Cu*Mo)). The first zone is covered by a 1:2000 map of the Sungun and Astamal areas in NW Iran and the second one in the Inza area in British Columbia, Canada. The rock samples are taken from Sungun and Astamal and the soil samples...

Theory exploration is an automated reasoning technique for discovering and proving interesting properties about some set of given functions, constants and datatypes. In this note we describe ongoing work on integrating the HipSpec theory exploration system with the interactive prover Isabelle. We believe that such an integration would be beneficial for several reasons. In an interactive proof a...

Contemporary FPGA-based reconfigurable systems have been widely used to implement data dominated applications. In these applications data transfer and storage consume a large proportion of the system energy. Exploiting data reuse can introduce significant power savings, but also introduces the extra requirement for on-chip memory. To aid data reuse design exploration early during the design cyc...

We investigate a route exploration problem with N agents dropped randomly on the interval [0,b] and discuss the impact of using multiple agents to perform this task. We consider both a discrete and a continous description of the path to explore. Independantly, we study an exploration problem with probabilistic agents having limited autonomy. In both problems , multi-agent scenarios are discusse...

Exchanging gazes with a social partner in response to an event in the environment is considered an effective means to direct attention, share affective experiences, and highlight a target in the environment. This behavior appears during infancy and plays an important role in children's learning and in shaping their socio-emotional development. It has been suggested that cultural values of the c...

This work presents further enhancements to an environment for exploring coarse grained reconfigurable data-driven array architectures suitable to implement data-stream applications. The environment takes advantage of Java and XML technologies to enable architectural trade-off analysis. The flexibility of the approach to accommodate different topologies and interconnection patterns is shown by a...