autosegmental-metrical (am) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. the present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the persian speech of persian speakers who are fluent in english as a second language (english instructors). language interference has often been dealt with as the effect of firs lang...

The trend has been well established [Asanovic09]: parallel processors will dominate most if not every niche of computing. This move to parallelism was not a triumphant march forward to celebrate our success in creating productive and efficient software environments for parallel microprocessors. Instead it was a sudden retreat from the immediate danger of building powerinefficient microprocessor...

Currently negotiation covers a huge and unstructured domain of negotiationand coordination protocols1 and associated strategies. Researchers and practitioners like system engineers have almost no support in discussing protocol solutions to frequently occurring negotiation problems and in designing and implementing successful protocols and associated negotiation media. Negotiation engineering re...