Psychedelic microdosing, or taking small doses of psychedelic substances that do not induce intoxication altered states but rather subtle outcomes such as increased focus, has quickly become a mass media phenomenon. Many claim microdosing the new secret to enhancement in work contexts. Drawing from literature on technologies self, self-identity and sociology leisure, this study understands tech...

Due to their complexity, modern systems expose many configuration parameters which users must tune to maximize performance. Auto-tuning has emerged as an alternative in which a black-box optimizer iteratively evaluates configurations to find efficient ones. Unfortunately, for many systems, such as distributed systems, evaluating performance takes too long and the space of configurations is too ...

A worst-case tolerance synthesis problem for low-sidelobe sparse linear arrays is solved by using a novel self-adaptive hybrid differential evolution (SAHDE) algorithm. First, we establish a worstcase tolerance synthesis model for low-sidelobe sparse linear arrays, in which random position errors are considered and assumed to obey the Gaussian distributions. Through the random sampling, the ran...

The continuing evolution of Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has shown rapid performance increases over the years. But with each new hardware generation, the constraints for programming them efficiently have changed. Programs have to be tuned towards one specific hardware to unleash the full potential. This is time consuming and costly as vendors tend to release a new generation every 18 months....

Tune of words and music of sentences in the Holy Quran are not the same and they change in accordance with their meaning and intentions. Type of letters, combination of words in the verses and their increase and decrease have an important effect in tune of the verses. This musical reflection will affect readers‘thought and emotion and also sometimes it illustrates a live and dynamic image...