The paper begins by describing the evolving architecture of desktop PCs and the performance metrics of interest in evaluating them. It then describes some of the more interesting counters, references an earlier study using the counters, talks a little bit about the software to enable use of these counters, and describes typical values of instructions per cycle and other metrics of interest runn...

Students with disorders of intellectual development (ID) experience challenges in reading and writing, indicating the need for research-based interventions. This systematic review meta-analysis investigated effects writing interventions students aged 4–19 ID using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) quasi-experimental designs (QEDs). We conducted electronic searches relevant databases, backward...

As a part of pragmatics of language, Metadiscourse (MD) has been widely recognized as playing a pivotal role in the expression and comprehension of messages in academic writing. In view of its significance in effective communication, there have been a lot of attempts to categorize different MD devices within manageable models alongside some descriptive works to demonstrate the use of MD devices...

not take the place of a standardized logistic regression coefficient for valuating the strength of the influences of the independent variables on the dependent variable, relative to one another.” The strength of each independent variable cannot be judged based on the magnitude of the OR, so that a larger OR for one independent variable might not have a stronger association than a smaller OR for...

Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

Autonomous robot systems require complex control systems. Fuzzy Logic, a mathematical system developed by Professor Lotfi Zadeh, helps to reduce the complexity of modeling nonlinear problems. In the 1990s, Motorola developed the MC68HC12 microcontroller with native Fuzzy Logic instructions. This research determined the effectiveness of the MC68HC12’s Fuzzy Logic instructions for robotic control...

User-generated contents (UGC) such as online reviews are inherently incomplete since we do not capture the opinions of users who do not write a review. These silent users may have systematically different online experiences than those who speak up. These differences can be driven by users‟ differing sentiments towards their online experiences as well as their disposition to generate UGC. Indisc...