To exploit larger amounts of instruction level parallelism, processors are being built with wider issue widths and larger numbers offunctional units. Instruction fetch rate must also be increased in order to effectively exploit the performance potential of such processors. Block-structured ISAs provide an effective means of increasing the instruction fetch rate. We define an optimization, calle...

Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

The present study was planned to investigate the efficiency of explicit teaching and adequacy of the L2 learners' exposure to L2 input in academic contexts in Iran. The case at hand was the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, as three different types of obligatory subjects in English. 96 Iranian EFL learners were selected from two universities in Isfahan. They were...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of input-based, meaning-based output (MO) and traditional instruction (TI) on EFL learners’ grammar learning. To this end, 120 junior high school students were selected from 4 intact classes. Each class was assigned to an instructional condition, that is, textual enhancement (TE), input flood (IF), MO, and TI. Before the treatment, a multiple-c...

In this article, a special type of orthogonalization is obtained to construct a multiple input transfer function model. By using this technique, construction of a transfer function model is divided to sequential construction of transfer function models with less input time series. Furthermore, based on real and simulated time series we provide an instruction to adequately perform the stages of ...

The problem of identification of a nonlinear dynamic system by using multiple-input and multiple-output flexible neural tree (MIMO-FNT) is presented in this paper. This work is an extension of our previously multiple-input and singleoutput FNT model. FNT is a tree-structured neural networks which allows input variables selection, over-layer connections and different activation functions for dif...

Statistical learning is a rapid and robust mechanism that enables adults and infants to extract patterns embedded in both language and visual domains. Statistical learning operates implicitly, without instruction, through mere exposure to a set of input stimuli. However, much of what learners must acquire about a structured domain consists of principles or rules that can be applied to novel inp...

A program development system has been Written based on Jackson's structured programming methodol~ ogy. It accepts input'and otitput data structures and gener~tes pseudo-code. Executable operations other tha:n computations can be generated automatically. The number of input and output data structures can be unlimited since they can be accepted in tum by the system. Backtracking is solved by acce...