In dichotic listening, a right ear advantage for linguistic tasks reflects left hemisphere specialization, and a left ear advantage for prosodic tasks reflects right hemisphere specialization. Three experiments used a response hand manipulation with a dichotic listening task to distinguish between direct access (relative specialization) and callosal relay (absolute specialization) explanations ...

Code specialization is an approach that can be used to improve the sequence of optimizations to be performed by the compiler. The performance of code after specialization may vary, depending upon the structure of the application. For FFT libraries, the specialization of code with different parameters may cause an increase in code size, thereby impacting overall behavior of applications executin...

The platform neutrality of Java programs allows them to run on heterogeneous computers. In a distributed environment, however, Java programs often cause performance problems because they are not implemented for specific clients, so their implementation conflicts with their usage patterns at the client side. In this paper, we present a mechanism to address this problem by optimizing Java program...

Specialization is observable in many complex adaptive systems and is thought by many to be a fundamental mechanism for achieving optimal efficiency within organizations operating within complex adaptive systems. This chapter presents a survey and critique of collective behavior systems designed using biologically inspired principles. Specifically, we are interested in collective behavior system...

Individual foraging specialization describes the phenomenon where conspecifics within a population of generalists exhibit differences in foraging behavior, each specializing on different prey types. Individual specialization is widespread in animals, yet is understudied in invertebrates, despite potential impacts to food web and population dynamics. Sceliphron caementarium (Hymenoptera: Sphecid...

Specialization is an automatic approach to customizing a program with respect to con guration values. In this paper, we present a survey of Tempo, a specializer for the C language. Tempo o ers specialization at both compile time and run time, and both program and data specialization. To control the specialization process, Tempo provides the program developer with a declarative language to descr...

OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis that there is differential hemispheric functioning in women with eating disorders as compared to controls. METHOD A divided visual field paradigm, with a language task [for which we assume left hemisphere (LH) specialization] and a spatial task [for which we assume right hemisphere (RH) specialization]. The participants were 20 healthy women, 17 women with ...

The object-oriented style of programming facilitates program adaptation and enhances program genericness, but at the expense of efficiency. Automatic program specialization can be used to generate specialized, efficient implementations for specific scenarios, but requires the program to be structured appropriately for specialization and is yet another new concept for the programmer to understan...

conclusions the job specialization intervention can improve nurses’ satisfaction and relieve the crowdedness of the eds. results there was a significant difference between the two groups of patients concerning the length of their stay in the ed (p < 0.001). moreover, compared with the pretest readings, nurses had greater job satisfaction after the study (p < 0.001). patients and methods this be...

Specialization into practice areas within occupational therapy has been a controversial issue for the last decade; in fact, it was the theme of the 1978 AOTA Annual Conference. Specialization may well serve as one ingredient in the "professionalization" of occupational therapy (I). However, if specialization will be a significant factor in the continued development of the profession, da ta are ...